Dutch national Joran van der Sloot admitted killing Alabama teen Natalee Holloway in 2005 in an interview with his attorney, part of the plea deal he reached with federal prosecutors to plead guilty to charges that he extorted money from Holloway’s mother.
Beth Holloway told reporters after the hearing that van der Sloot admitted killing her daughter on the beach in Aruba, where she was on a class trip, as CrimeOnline has reported.
“He said that after killing her on the beach in Aruba, he put her into the water and that was the last that he ever saw her,” Holloway said. “I’m satisfied knowing that he did it, he did it alone, and he disposed of her alone.”
Van Der Sloot and His Attorney Interview Transcript by kc wildmoon on Scribd
In the confession, he says that he was with Holloway and two friends, and the friends left, leaving him alone with Holloway. They walked along the beach and then lay down in the sand.
“We start kissing each other,” van der Sloot says. “And, uh, I start feeling her up again and she tells me no. She tells me she doesn’t want me to — to feel her up. Uh, I insist. I keep feeling her up either way. Uhm, and uh she knees me uh, she ends up kneeing me in the crotch. Uh, when she knees me in the crotch, uh, I get up, uh on the beach and I kick her ex — extremely hard in — in the face.”
Holloway was unconscious, he said, maybe “even dead.”
“And uhm, I see uh, right next to her there’s a — there’s a huge uh cinderblock on the beach,” he says. ” … Uh, I take this and uh, yeah, I — I — I smash her head in with it completely.”
Van der Sloot says the girl’s “face is collapsed in.”
“I’m — I’m scared. I don’t know what to do. Uh, and I uh, I decided to — to take her and uh — uh to put her into the ocean. “So I grab her and I — I half uh, half pull and half walk with her into the ocean. Uhm, I uh I push her off. Uh, I walk up uh, up to about my knees into the ocean and I push her off into — into the — into the — into the sea. Uhm and uhm, yeah, after that I — I get out. I — walk home.”
Holloway’s remains were never found.
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[Featured image: Joran van der Sloot/Shelby County Jail and Natalee Holloway/FBI]
