FILE - Dutch citizen Joran van der Sloot, left, is driven in a police vehicle from a maximum-security prison to an airport to be extradited to the U.S., on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, Thursday, June 8, 2023. Court records filed Friday, Oct.
The chief suspect in Natalee Holloway's 2005 disappearance in Aruba admitted he killed the Alabama teen and disposed of her remains. He has agreed to plead guilty to charges he tried to extort money from the teen's mother years later, a U.S. judge said Wednesday.The Associated PressJoran van der Sloot, left, is shown in Lima, Peru, on June 8 en route to extradition to the U.S.
Van der Sloot is not charged in Holloway's death. The Dutch citizen was sentenced Wednesday to 20 years in prison for extortion and wire fraud, but as part of his plea agreement, that sentence will run concurrently with his sentence in Peru, where he's serving a 28-year prison sentence for killing Stephany Flores in 2010.
Beth Holloway speaks at a 2010 event in Washington, D.C., in front of a picture of her daughter. The Alabama native has been seeking justice for Natalee for 18 years.
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