Joran Van Der Sloot pleaded guilty Wednesday to trying to extort money from Natalee Holloway’s mother in exchange for revealing the location of her daughter’s body.
Natalee Holloway’s mother finally has justice, saying Joran van der Sloot admitted to killing her daughter in 2005. Beth Holloway made this statement outside a courthouse in Birmingham, Alabama. She says after 18 years, she finally has the answers she's been looking for.
Van der Sloot, now 36, pleaded guilty to the extortion and fraud charges in exchange for a 20-year sentence. That prison term will run concurrently with a 28-year sentence he's serving in Peru for killing Stephany Flores in 2010."You have brutally murdered — in separate instances years apart — two young women who refused your sexual advances," she said.Shackled and wearing an orange jail uniform, van der Sloot told the crowded courtroom he hoped the confession provides closure.
After the hearing, Beth Holloway told reporters she was "absolutely confident" that they finally got the truth from van der Sloot after years of lies. Frightened and unsure what to do, he said he dragged her body until he was knee-deep in the waves, then pushed her out to sea. Five years after the killing, an FBI sting recorded the extortion attempt in which van der Sloot asked for $250,000 from Beth Holloway to reveal the location of her daughter’s remains. He agreed to accept $25,000 to disclose the location, and asked for the other $225,000 once the remains were recovered.
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