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JORAN VAN DER SLOOT ADMITS FATAL BLUDGEONING OF NATALEE HOLLOWAY AS PART OF
GUILTY PLEA IN WIRE FRAUD CASE

“I have what I need,” said her mother, Beth Holloway. “Her case is solved.”
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By Juliette Arcodia, Sam Brock and David K. Li

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Joran van der Sloot bludgeoned Natalee Holloway to death on
an Aruban beach and pushed her body into the water, in a stunning admission that
solved this nearly two-decade mystery, court records showed Wednesday.

Holloway’s 2005 disappearance had long been linked to van der Sloot, who
appeared in federal court to plead guilty to extortion and wire fraud in
connection with the Alabama teen's case.




Van der Sloot had previously pleaded not guilty to all charges before
Wednesday's legal about-face.

“I have considered the factual statements about extortion and wire fraud but
also considered your confession to the brutal murder of Natalee Holloway,” U.S.
District Judge Anna Manasco said before sentencing him to 20 years in prison.

In his plea agreement, van der Sloot said he was on a beach in Aruba when
Holloway rebuffed his sexual advances.

Holloway kneed him in the crotch before he kicked her "extremely hard" in the
face, he told prosecutors. She was unconscious when he found a cinderblock
nearby and used it to "smash her head in with it completely," van der Sloot
admitted.



He then took her body to water, got in knee-deep, and pushed the teen's body out
into the ocean.

"After that, I, I get out," he said. "I walk home."

Joran Van der Sloot at a hearing at the Lurigancho prison in Lima, Peru, on Jan.
13, 2012.STR / AFP via Getty Images file

The teen's mother, Beth Holloway, said she's satisfied with that confession.

"A far as I'm concerned it's over, it's over," Holloway told reporters outside
court. "Joran van der Sloot is no longer the suspect in my daughter's murder. He
is the killer."

Van der Sloot's confession was backed up by his polygraph test, according to the
mother.


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"Even with this confession, though, he can't be tried here for Natalee's
murder," Holloway said. "But I am satisfied knowing that he did it, he did it
alone and he disposed of her alone."


'WE GOT JUSTICE FOR NATALEE': BETH HOLLOWAY REACTS TO CONFESSION FROM HER
DAUGHTER'S KILLER

Oct. 18, 202302:40


Van der Sloot's term is to run concurrently with his time in Peru, where he's
serving time for the murder 21-year-old college student Stephany Flores.



If van der Sloot's 28-year prison sentence in Peru ends early, he'd be returned
to the U.S. to complete the extortion and wire fraud convictions here, the judge
said.

“I have what I need," Holloway said. "Her case is solved.”

After Manasco declared his guilt, van der Sloot told the court he's embraced
Christianity and said he's a different person than he was nearly two decades
ago.

“I would like to apologize to the Holloway family," said van der Sloot, wearing
an orange jail jumpsuit over a white T-shirt. "I am no longer that person back
then than I am today. I gave my heart to Jesus Christ, he helped me through all
of this."

The apology didn't move Beth Holloway.



"You are a killer and I want you to remember that every time that jail cell door
slams," Holloway said from the courtroom lectern.

Holloway rhetorically asked van der Sloot how he’d feel if the victim were his
daughter, bludgeoned to death by a killer who then had simply gone “home and
gotten off on a porn site.”

Court documents describing van der Sloot’s actions that night did not include
what he did after the crime.

In an interview later Wednesday, Holloway said she was allowed to witness the
prosecution's interview with van der Sloot, in which he admitted to watching
pornography and checking soccer scores shortly after having killed Natalee
Holloway.

"OK, how could he have murdered her and then he goes home and checks the soccer
scores, gets on a porn site and gets up and takes a shower and goes to school?"
she asked.

Toward the end of her courtroom remarks, Beth Holloway turned to face van der
Sloot, who appears to have gained weight since he arrived in the U.S. in June,
and addressed him directly.



"You look like hell, Joran," she said. "I don't see how you're going to make
it."

The charges he's admitted to are only indirectly tied to Holloway’s
disappearance and slaying. A federal grand jury indicted van der Sloot in
2010 on single counts of wire fraud and extortion.

He was extradited to the U.S. in June to face allegations that he demanded
$250,000 from Holloway’s family in exchange for information about what happened
to the 18-year-old from Mountain Brook, Alabama, who was set to attend the
University of Alabama on scholarship.

Van der Sloot made an initial deal for Beth Holloway to pay $25,000 to learn the
body’s location before the remaining $225,000 would be settled once remains were
found.

Van der Sloot told the mother and her lawyer that Natalee Holloway’s “body was
placed under the foundation of a building near the Aruba Racquet Club” that had
been under construction at the time of her disappearance, according to the plea
agreement. 

But building records and satellite images of that neighborhood showed there was
no construction happening at that time, the court document said. Van der Sloot
later confirmed that the information he provided was “worthless.”



"Natalee's family suffered a loss no family should ever have to endure," said
NBC News legal analyst and former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance, who initiated this
case against Van der Sloot back in 2010.

"Nothing can change that, but I hope these proceedings help them feel like
they've received a measure of justice for her murder."

U.S. Attorney Prim Escalona praised Beth Holloway and her family for pressing
the case for all these years since her disappearance.

"I cannot imagine the heartache, the sleepless nights and the tears that Beth
and her family must have shed, wondering what happened to Natalee?" she said.

"Despite their grief, the Holloway family kept fighting for justice for Natalee.
Their love for their daughter and sister is what brought us to this day."

The missing teen had dreams of being a doctor, Beth Holloway said.



"Natalee would be 36 years old. I think of the doctor she would be," her mother
told the court. "You terminated her potential, her dream, you terminated that
when you bludgeoned her to death."

Beth Holloway choked back tears and said: "She would have made all her dreams
come true.”

Van der Sloot’s lawyers left the courthouse Wednesday without speaking to
reporters. His lead attorney did not immediately respond to messages seeking his
comment.

Natalee Holloway disappeared in Aruba during a vacation with classmates,
celebrating their high school graduation.

She was last seen on May 30, 2005, at about 1:30 a.m. as she left Carlos 'N
Charlie's Nightclub in Oranjestad with three young men, van der Sloot, Deepak
Kalpoe and Satish Kalpoe, the FBI has said.

A probate judge declared Holloway dead in 2012 and no one was ever tried for her
presumed slaying.



The statute of limitations for homicide is 12 years in Aruba, so any admission
of guilt in Holloway's death could not lead to local prosecution.

Deepak Kalpoe and Satish Kalpoe were not with Holloway and van der Sloot when
she was attacked and had no involvement in the slaying, the defendant said in
his plea bargain agreement.

Before van der Sloot arrived in Alabama this past summer, he had been locked up
in Peru for the Flores murder.

Flores was killed in his hotel room in Lima on May 30, 2010, after she allegedly
looked at his laptop computer and found out he was connected to Holloway’s
disappearance.

A Peruvian court sentenced him to 28 years behind bars for Flores’ slaying.

With time served, that sentence could, in theory, keep him locked up until 2038.
But he's eligible for parole after having done half his sentenced time, in
addition to other good behavior credits.



Beth Holloway said she wants to celebrate her daughter's life through time spent
with Natalee's brother and his children.

"I think now it becomes easier for me to appreciate her life through my son's
life and through children's lives, and I really hadn't been" able to do that,
she said. "I've been a little distracted."

Choking back tears, Beth Holloway added: "Now I can focus on that."

Sam Brock and Juliette Arcodia reported from Birmingham and David K. Li from New
York City.

CORRECTION: (OCT. 18, 2023, 1:09 p.m. ET): A previous version of this article
misspelled van der Sloot’s first name. He is Joran, not Jordan.

Juliette Arcodia

Sam Brock

Sam Brock is an NBC News correspondent.


David K. Li

David K. Li is a senior breaking news reporter for NBC News Digital.



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