Joran van der Sloot Admits to Killing Alabama Teen Natalee Holloway

Joran van der Sloot admitted to killing Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway in Aruba in 2005 in a confession that was revealed publicly Wednesday as he entered a plea deal with federal prosecutors in an extortion case stemming from the disappearance that received international attention.

“Joran van der Sloot is no longer the suspect in my daughter’s murder,” Holloway’s mother Beth Holloway told reporters outside the federal courthouse in Birmingham, Alabama, after a plea and sentencing hearing for the 36-year-old Dutchman. “He is the killer.”

Van der Sloot confessed that he killed Natalee Holloway while she was on a high school graduation trip to the Caribbean island nation in an interview that his attorney conducted. The interview was provided to U.S. authorities as part of a plea deal for federal charges that van der Sloot tried to extort a quarter-million dollars from Beth Holloway in exchange for information about her daughter’s death.

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