How Joran van der Sloot evaded justice and killed again 5 years later
Joran van der Sloot managed to evade justice after killing Natalee Holloway - and went on to kill another woman five years later. Joran van der Sloot, a Dutch citizen who was sentenced to 20 years in prison for the murder of 18-year-old Alabama teen Natalee Holloway, managed to evade justice for nearly 20 years before confessing to the murder five years later. He admitted to extorting $250,000 from Holloway's mother in exchange for information about her disappearance. Despite being the prime suspect for nearly two decades, her body was never found and Aruba police were unable to charge him with murder. He was extradited from Peru in June to face extortion and wire fraud charges in Birmingham. Despite numerous attempts to frame him for the killing, he will not face murder charges in the case.
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Joran van der Sloot managed to evade justice after killing Natalee Holloway for nearly 20 years and went on to kill another woman five years later - before he finally confessed to the Alabama teen's murder on Wednesday.
The Dutch citizen, 36, was sentenced to 20 years in prison after he admitted to killing the 18-year-old in Aruba, where she was celebrating her high school graduation in 2005. Van der Sloot confessed under a deal that saw him plead guilty to trying to extort $250,000 from Natalee's grieving mother Beth in exchange for information about the disappearance.
He will not face murder charges, as the Dutch Caribbean island of Aruba has a 12-year statute of limitations on murder, and the deal with U.S. prosecutors pledged he would not be charged in the killing.
The killer was extradited from Peru in June to face extortion and wire fraud charges in Birmingham. He had been serving a 28-year sentence for the murder of Peruvian business student Stephany Flores, 21.
While van der Sloot was the last person seen with Natalee, and remained the prime suspect for nearly 20 years, her body was never found, and Aruba police were never able to find enough evidence to charge him for the murder.
Classmates said they had seen Natalee outside a nightclub in a car with van der Sloot, then 17 years old, and two other local residents — Surinamese brothers Deepak and Satish Kalpoe.
All three were repeatedly detained but freed over a lack of evidence of a crime. The Kalpoes, who were security guards at a hotel near the one where Holloway was staying, were taken into custody in June and held for nearly a month. Van der Sloot was held for an additional 60 days.
Throughout the years, he gave several accounts about the night of Natalee's murder, including that he left her at the beach drunk and that he had dropped her off at her hotel.
Years after being released, Van der Sloot confessed to killing Flores in his Lima hotel room on May 30, 2010 - five years to the day that Holloway vanished - after the two met while playing poker in a casino.
He claimed he killed Flores after she went on his laptop in his hotel room and found a message that connected him to Holloway's murder and realized he was a suspect in the case.
According to Van der Sloot's confession, Stephany then hit him on the head with her fist before he brutally attacked her - it's a similar story to the one he told about Holloway's murder, as he claimed to have killed her after she kicked him in the crotch.
'I hit her hard with my right elbow and I think her head went back and hit the wall, then she begins to bleed, immediately I get on top of her and with both hands I begin to strangle her, keeping her that way for a minute,' Van der sloot told Peruvian police.
'After that, I throw her to the floor but she keeps breathing. At that moment I take off my shirt and put it on her face, pressing on it. I don’t remember for how long but she stops breathing, in this way I think I caused her death.'
After killing Stephany, van der Sloot stole her poker winnings and left the hotel, instructing staff not to bother 'his girl' in the room and quickly leaving the country.
A maid eventually found Stephany's body and van der Sloot was arrested in Chile and extradited back to Peru, where he pleaded guilty in 2012.
When asked about a motive, the double-murderer replied: 'I lost control of my actions, I didn’t know what I was doing. I remember what I was doing but not the motive. It was an impulsive act after receiving a blow to the head.'
Just two months before van der Sloot killed Stephany, he contacted a Holloway family lawyer to offer information about Natalee's murder in exchange for money.
Wednesday's confession came after van der Sloot put Natalee's parents through torment by sending them chilling emails offering to tell them the whereabouts of their daughter's body in exchange for $250,000.
'She asked to go back to her hotel but I was just trying to get dropped off a little bit further away from her hotel so we could walk back and I might still get a chance to be with her. 'I'm with Natalee, walking along the beach. I find a space before we get to the Marriott Hotel, where I lay her down, we lay down together in the sand and we start kissing each other. 'I start feeling her up again and she tells me no. She tells me doesn't want me to feel her up. I insist. I keep feeling her up either way. She ends up kneeing in the crotch. When she hits me in the crotch, I get up and I kick her extremely hard in the face. 'She's laying down unconscious, possibly even dead, but definitely unconscious. And I see right next to her there's a huge cinderblock laying on the beach. 'I take this and I smash her head in with it completely. Her face basically collapses in. Afterwards, I'm scared. I don't know what to do. I decide to put her into the ocean. So I grab her and I half pull and half walk with her into the ocean. I push her off. I walk up to about my knees into the ocean and I push her off into the sea. After that, I get out. I walk home.
Van der Sloot told detectives he and Natalee were kissing at the beach after meeting at a bar when he tried to take things further and she refused. He claimed that when he insisted, she kicked him in the crotch. He then stood up and kicked her 'extremely hard' in the face, knocking her out.
The killer then grabbed a nearby cinder block and 'smashed her head in with it completely,' before carrying her body into the water, walking in until he was knee-deep, and pushing her out to be carried away by the waves.
Addressing her daughter's killer in court, Natalee's mother Beth looked him in the eyes and said: 'You look like hell, Joran. I do not see how you're gonna make it ... You are a killer and I want you to remember that every time that jail door slams.'
District Judge Anna M. Manasco told the killer: 'You have brutally murdered two women who refused your sexual advances ... You knew the information you were selling was an absolute lie.'
Working with the FBI in a sting operation, Holloway's parents wired a portion of the demanded money to van der Sloot in 2010, but he then provided false information about where Holloway's remains were buried.
During his sentencing, Natelee's mother Beth told the court that van der Sloot murdered her daughter when she refused his sexual advances and then went home where he watched pornography.
Addressing van der Sloot in court, Beth said: 'You terminated her dreams, her potential, her possibilities, when you bludgeoned her to death in 2005.
'You didn't get what you wanted from Natalee, your sexual satisfaction, so you brutally killed her.
'I paid my daughter's killer money. That's shocking. I don't think anyone can really wrap their mind around what that means... I have no doubt she would have made all her dreams come true. She really would have.'
She added: 'By the way you look like hell, Joran. I do not see how you're gonna make it ... You are a killer and I want you to remember that every time that jail door slams.'
Van der Sloot, wearing an orange jumpsuit, addressed the court before his sentencing and apologized to the family.
'I would like to take this chance to apologize to the Holloway family, to apologize to my own family, to say I hope the statement I provided brings some kind of closure to everyone involved,' the killer said in court. 'I am no longer that person I was back then, I've given my heart to Jesus Christ.'
The judge called van der Sloot's crimes 'heinous,' telling him: 'You have brutally murdered two women who refused your sexual advances... You knew the information you were selling was an absolute lie.'
Beth and her son Matt Holloway spoke to the press outside the courthouse after the hearing, saying that van der Sloot said he acted alone.
'I still miss her every day, we finally got the answers we've been searching for.' Beth said. 'Finally today we get justice for Natalee.'