Natalee Holloway Suspect ‘Took Care of Things’ After Disappearance

Dutch national Joran caravan der Sloot, the one-time fire hook participant and the undercoat suspect inward the disappearing of American Natalee Holloway, at one time made a startling “confession” to a friend, unexampled judicature filings show.

Two days after Holloway went missing on the island of Aruba in May 2005, van der Sloot and his male parent got take hold of a boat.

We went for a mount and took tutelage of things. That’s all I’m sledding to say,” he wrote in an email to someone called “David G” in 2010.

Holloway, of Mountain Brook, Ala., was 18 when she disappeared on a senior year trigger off to Aruba, and van der Sloot, also 18 then, was the finally someone to insure her alive.

Stephany Flores Murder

On May 30, 2010, V years to the twenty-four hour period after Holloway’s disappearance, van der Sloot bludgeoned Peruvian national Stephany Flores to dying after group meeting her at a scorecard tabularise at the Atlantic City Casino inward Lima.

The Dutchman has never been supercharged inward the Holloway case, and a organic structure has never been found. Holloway was stated dead past a U.S. justice inwards Jan 2012.

Also, inwards January 2012, a Peruvian justice sentenced caravan der Sloot to 28 years inward prison house for the Flores murder. He was extradited to the U.S. in May 2023 to reply federal extortion charges. Prosecutors in Birmingham, Ala. allege caravan der Sloot contacted Holloway’s mother, Beth Holloway, and offered to reveal the whereabouts of her daughter’s body inwards take back for an go on of $25K against a come of $250K.

The bring forward was paid, but van der Sloot provided sour information. He claimed the personify was inhumed inwards the foundations of a domiciliate inward Aruba, which authorities discovered did non subsist at the time of her disappearance.

The email to “David G.” which was world-class reported past The Messenger, was uncovered by federal prosecutors inwards Alabama.

Prior ‘Confessions’

Van der Sloot has appeared to admit to involvement inward Holloway’s disappearing on ii occasions to different undercover journalists. However, some details were contradictory, and these admissions are deemed inadmissible as evidence.

On i occasion, he said Holloway’s organic structure had been loaded onto a boat and dumped at sea. In another, he claimed it was interred on a twist site.

Van der Sloot and his father, who died recently, did non possess a boat, and investigators have been unable to discover who power feature loaned them one.

The Dutchman has pleaded non shamefaced to the extortion charges. His tryout is scheduled to bug out inwards November.