HUNTER: Natalee Holloway killer's bizarre odyssey of murder and malice
From the time we first saw a photo of Joran van der Sloot back in 2005, we knew. Van der Sloot, a Dutchman who will never be tried for the murder of Natalee Holloway, has confessed to killing Holloway during a Caribbean holiday in 2005. He has been tormenting her family for 18 years, promising to tell them where her body was and what really happened. He then extorted them for $25,000 before admitting to the crime to be worthless. Despite this, he was convicted of the murder and sentenced to 28 years in the slammer. Holloway was declared dead in 2005 after breezing past the 12-year statute of limitations for homicide in Aruba. Van Der Sloot then fled to Peru where he met casino heiress Stephany Flores Ramirez, 21, who he met in Lima before discovering who he really was. If convicted, he would now face a date with the electric chair.
Publicerad : 2 år sedan förbi Brad Hunter i World General
Van der Sloot did nothing over the years to convince us otherwise. In fact, his sinister actions underscored the depths of his evil. The creepy Dutchman will effectively never be tried for the murder of Holloway but, in an Alabama courthouse on Wednesday, he finally copped to killing Holloway during her ill-fated Caribbean holiday. For 18 years, he has slithered and taunted Holloway’s heartbroken family. He extorted them, promising to tell the family where her body was and what really happened. It was just part of a sick game. On May 30, 2005, Natalee Holloway was on a boffo class trip to Aruba celebrating the end of their high school days. She would not return alive.
At a watering hole on the island, the 18-year-old fatefully met Joran van der Sloot, 17, the scion of one of the island’s most powerful lawyers who was on the cusp of becoming a judge. On the beach, she torpedoed his sexual advances. Joran van der Sloot did not like this. “I lay her down – we lay down together – in the sand and, uh, we start kissing each other,” van der Sloot, now 36, said in his recorded confession. “She tells me ‘no.’ She tells me she doesn’t want me to — to feel her up. Uh, I insist. I keep feeling her up either way.” Desperate to extricate herself from the situation, Holloway kneed the Dutchman in the crotch. He kicked her in the face, either killing Holloway or knocking her out. Then he used a nearby cinder block.
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tap here to see other videos from our team. Try refreshing your browser, or He confessed: “I take this and uh, yeah, I– I– I smash her head in with it completely. Uh, yeah, her face basically, you know, uh, collapses in.” Van der Sloot then dumped Holloway’s lifeless body into the warm tropical waters. Then, he walked home. She would be declared dead in 2005. He breezed past the 12-year statute of limitations for homicide in Aruba. When a Canadian or American citizen is murdered or disappear in the tropics, their families typically face a mountain of challenges: Corrupt and incompetent cops and officials who are disinterested. In the Holloway case, the smoking gun was an army of witnesses who last saw the pretty blond with van der Sloot. But on Aruba, his name meant something. His father was one of the wealthiest and most powerful lawyers on the island. A man with no small level of influence. That effectively put the investigation on ice.
But van der Sloot was not content to let things slide and in 2010 extorted the Holloway family for $25,000. Afterwards, he gleefully let the family know his information was “worthless.” Instead, he took the cash and fled to Peru. There, it would not take long for the homicidal maniac to kill again. He met casino heiress Stephany Flores Ramirez, 21, in Lima where they shared a hotel room together until she figured out who he really was. Ramirez would be methodically beaten to death. That was just a month after landing in Peru. Daddy was not in the frame this time and van der Sloot was convicted of the murder and sentenced to 28 years in the slammer. Of course, if van der Sloot had been convicted of the Holloway murder in Alabama, Ramirez would be alive and he would now be lined up for a date with the electric chair.
Ämnen: Crime, Murder