Van der Sloot was extradited to Alabama earlier this year from Peru. He's serving a 28-year sentence after confessing to killing a Peruvian woman.
Court records filed Friday indicate Joran van der Sloot, the chief suspect in Natalee Holloway's 2005 disappearance, intends to plead guilty in a federal case accusing him of trying to extort money from the missing teen’s mother.
A federal judge set an Oct. 18 plea and sentencing hearing for van der Sloot in Birmingham, Alabama. He had previously entered a plea of not guilty in the case. Emails sent to van der Sloot's attorney and a spokeswoman for federal prosecutors were not immediately returned Friday evening Van der Sloot was extradited to Alabama from Peru, where he’s serving a 28-year sentence after confessing to killing a Peruvian woman in 2010.Holloway went missing during a high school graduation trip with classmates to Aruba. The Alabama teen was last seen leaving a bar with van der Sloot, a student at an international school on the island. The mysterious disappearance sparked years of news coverage and countless true-crime podcasts.
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