Date: September 26, 2023, Time: 08:58h.
Last updated on: September 26, 2023, Time: 08:58h.
Joran van der Sloot, Former Poker Player and Suspect in Natalee Holloway Case, Reveals Shocking “Confession”
In a recent court filing, it has been revealed that Dutch national Joran van der Sloot, a former poker player and the main suspect in the Natalee Holloway disappearance case, made a shocking “confession” to a friend.
According to the filing, two days after Holloway went missing on the island of Aruba in May 2005, van der Sloot and his father obtained a boat.
“We went for a ride and took care of things. That’s all I’m going to say,” he wrote in an email to someone called “David G” in 2010.
Natalee Holloway, a young woman from Mountain Brook, Alabama, vanished during a senior class trip to Aruba. Van der Sloot, who was also 18 at the time, was reportedly the last person to see her alive.
Stephany Flores Murder
On May 30, 2010, exactly five years after Holloway’s disappearance, van der Sloot brutally murdered Peruvian national Stephany Flores after meeting her at a card table in the Atlantic City Casino in Lima.
The Dutchman has never been officially charged in the Holloway case, and her body has never been found. In January 2012, a US judge declared Holloway dead.
In January 2012, a Peruvian judge sentenced van der Sloot to 28 years in prison for the Flores murder. However, he was extradited to the US in May of this year to face federal extortion charges.
Prosecutors in Birmingham, Alabama, allege that van der Sloot contacted Holloway’s mother, Beth Holloway, and offered to disclose the location of her daughter’s body in exchange for a $25,000 advance payment, with a total payment of $250,000.
The advance was given, but van der Sloot provided false information. He claimed that the body was buried in the foundations of a house in Aruba, which was discovered to not exist at the time of Holloway’s disappearance.
The email to “David G.,” which was initially reported by The Messenger, was uncovered by federal prosecutors in Alabama.
Prior “Confessions”
Van der Sloot seemingly admitted involvement in Holloway’s disappearance on two separate occasions to undercover journalists. However, the details provided were contradictory, and these admissions have been deemed inadmissible as evidence.
On one occasion, he stated that Holloway’s body was loaded onto a boat and dumped at sea. On another occasion, he claimed it was buried on a construction site.
Van der Sloot and his late father did not own a boat, and investigators have been unable to determine who may have loaned them one.
The Dutchman has pleaded not guilty to the extortion charges, and his trial is scheduled to begin in November.