Natalee Holloway Suspect Lands in US to Face Charges of Extorting Missing Woman’s Mother
A one-time pro salamander participant who is the chief surmise inward the off of American adult female Natalee Holloway arrived on US soil Thursday to human face humbug charges.
Joran van der Sloot was handed to US authorities at Jorge Cesar Estrada Chavez International Airport inward Callao in Peru, where he was serving a 28-year prison doom for the off of another woman, Stephany Flores.
His woodworking plane touched shoot down at Shuttlesworth Airport in Birmingham, Al. at around 2:30pm. The Dutch national testament follow arraigned in a federal court of justice inward Pittsburgh of the South Fri for extorting $25,000 from Holloway’s mother.
Holloway was 18 when she went missing on a senior form misstep in Aruba in May 2005. Van der Sloot, the son of a local judge, met her inward a bar on the island. She was last seen leaving inward a car with him and ii other men.
Her disappearance has mystified authorities inwards Aruba and the US. She was stated deadened past a try inwards Jan 2012.
Extortion Scam
In 2010, caravan der Sloot contacted Holloway’s mother, Beth Holloway, and offered to reveal the whereabouts of her daughter’s organic structure inward coming back for an go on of $25K against a tote up of $250K, federal prosecutors allege.
The move on was paid, but the information he provided proven to be false. Van der Sloot told her the organic structure was interred inwards the foundations of a house inwards Aruba, but authorities discovered the belongings had been built sometime after her daughter’s disappearance.
For o'er 18 years, Beth Holloway has been hoping, praying, and fighting for this daylight — a twenty-four hours that is a monumental milestone inward her relentless seeking for seeking justice for Natalee,” a interpreter for the Holloway home said. “She is proud of(p) that Joran caravan der Sloot has been extradited to the United States and testament eventually answer for his heinous crimes against her darling daughter.”
Arrested, Not Charged
Van der Sloot was arrested and questioned twice on suspiciousness of kill Holloway but was never supercharged due to want of evidence. Without a body, it was hard for prosecutors to establish a case.
But the 35-year-old Dutchman appeared to admit to involvement inward her disappearance on two disunite occasions to different undercover journalists. These “confessions” feature been deemed inadmissible as evidence.
Flores Murder
In 2010, caravan der Sloot met Flores, a educatee who came from a prominent Peruvian family, while playing fire hook at the Atlantic City Casino inwards Lima.
Later that evening, he bludgeoned her to last in her hotel room. It was exactly quintuplet years to the twenty-four hour period of Holloway’s disappearance.