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Natalee Holloway Killer Joran van der Sloot Attacked in a Peruvian Jail: ‘A Lot of People Want Him Dead’
 
04/10/2024 12:18:41 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 14 replies
New York Post ^ | April 10, 2024 | Steve Helling
Natalee Holloway killer Joran van der Sloot was injured in a violent brawl inside a Peruvian prison where he is serving a 28-year sentence for murder. The 36-year-old was attacked by two inmates while in a common area of notorious Challapalca Prison, where the country’s most dangerous inmates are held, last week. When other inmates joined the fracas, guards stepped in and separated the men.
 

Natalee Holloway killer Joran van der Sloot having sex with three different women while serving life in prison
 
02/27/2024 2:35:24 PM PST · by george76 · 26 replies
New York Post ^ | Feb. 25, 2024 | Steve Helling
Natalee Holloway killer Joran van der Sloot is having sex with three different women, despite serving a 28-year sentence in a Peruvian prison for murder. ... The news comes as no surprise to people who know the 36-year-old van der Sloot, who last year finally confessed to the brutal 2005 murder of 18-year-old high school senior Natalee Holloway in Aruba. “He’s a player, and has always been a player,” his childhood friend, Cas Arends, told the Post. “Women have always been attracted to him for some reason.” ... After escaping authorities investigating Holloway’s death in the Netherlands territory and the...
 

Joran van der Sloot admits to killing Natalee Holloway in extortion plea deal, judge says
 
10/18/2023 6:07:01 PM PDT · by DeathBeforeDishonor1 · 40 replies
ABC7 CHICAGO ^ | 10/18/23 | Kim Chandler
Natalee Holloway was beaten to death on a beach in Aruba and her body pushed out to sea after refusing the advances of the chief suspect in the 2005 killing, who admitted to the murder before pleading guilty Wednesday to extorting money from the missing teen's mother. Although Joran van der Sloot isn't charged in Holloway's death, his confession may finally resolve a case that has captivated the public's attention for nearly two decades, spawning extensive news coverage, books, movies and podcasts. "As far as I'm concerned, it's over," Beth Holloway, Natalee's mother, told reporters outside the federal courthouse in...
 

Joran van der Sloot confesses to killing Natalee Holloway: ‘You terminated her dreams,’ mother says
 
10/18/2023 9:31:27 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 50 replies
https://www.al.com ^ | Published: Oct. 18, 2023, 6:00 a.m. | By Carol Robinson
In an emotionally charged hearing in Birmingham’s federal court Wednesday morning, it was revealed Joran van der Sloot had confessed to killing Mountain Brook teen Natalee Holloway in Aruba in 2005. The Dutch national from Aruba was long suspected in the disappearance and death and pleaded guilty today to the extortion of Natalee’s mother, Beth. He waived his right to appeal. Van der Sloot, 36, received a 20-year sentence on each of the two convictions. Those sentences will be served concurrently with each other and also concurrently with his sentence in Peru. “You have finally admitted that, in fact, you...
 

Joran van der Sloot to Reveal Details of Natalee Holloway’s Death: Lawyer
 
10/18/2023 12:04:19 AM PDT · by nickcarraway · 34 replies
New York Post ^ | Oct. 18, 2023 | Michael Ruiz
Joran van der Sloot, the prime suspect in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway, is expected to take a plea deal after being charged in an extortion plot involving the Holloway family. Natalee Holloway was 18 years old when she took a senior trip to Aruba in May 2005 with Mountain Brook High School. Natalee Holloway was last seen leaving a bar with van der Sloot, but she was never found. In January 2012, a judge legally declared Natalee Holloway dead after a request from her father.
 

Natalee Holloway Murder Suspect Joran van der Sloot Ditches Wife for ‘Prettier’ Girlfriend: Lawyer
 
05/17/2023 4:25:58 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 17 replies
New York Post ^ | May 17, 2023 | Olivia Land
The prime suspect in the disappearance of American teen Natalee Holloway is abandoning the wife he married while in prison for murder in favor of a “prettier and younger” girlfriend suspected of smuggling him drugs behind bars, his lawyer said this week. Joran van der Sloot, 35, asked his wife, Leidy Figueroa, for a divorce about a year ago, his lawyer Maximo Altez told the Daily Mail. The Dutch native is now in a relationship with Eva Pacohuanaco, a “prettier and younger” girlfriend who was once accused of smuggling him drugs, the attorney explained to the outlet. Van der Sloot...
 

Man suspected in 2005 Natalee Holloway disappearance to be extradited from Peru
 
05/11/2023 9:49:36 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 23 replies
UPI ^ | MAY 11, 2023 / 10:22 AM | By Doug Cunningham
Joran van der Sloot, a suspect in the 2005 Aruba disappearance of U.S. teen Natalie Holloway, will be extradited to the United States to face wire fraud and extortion charges connected to Holloway's disappearance. File Photo by Dinko Eichin/UPI | License Photo May 11 (UPI) -- Joran van der Sloot, the imprisoned Dutch man suspected in the Aruba disappearance of U.S. teen Natalee Holloway in 2005, will be temporarily extradited to the United States. The Peruvian government on Wednesday accepted a request to temporarily release van der Sloot, is serving a 28-year sentence in Peru for killing a 21-year-old Peruvian...
 

Journalist Peter R de Vries ‘injured in shooting in Amsterdam’ (journalist from Natalee Holloway case)
 
07/06/2021 2:14:44 PM PDT · by knighthawk · 4 replies
Dutch News ^ | July 06 2021
The victim of a gun attack in Amsterdam city centre on Tuesday evening has been named by Dutch media as crime journalist Peter R. de Vries. Police confirmed the shooting happened on the Lange Leidsedwarsstraat, which runs parallel to Prinsengracht, at 7.45pm, but did not name the victim. The Parool newspaper and shock blog GeenStijl both said within half an hour that the victim was 64-year-old De Vries, who made his name in the early 1980s writing about Amsterdam’s underworld and the kidnapping of Freddy Heineken. De Vries later fell out with crime boss Willem Holleeder after he collaborated on...
 

Man who claimed he burned Natalee Holloway’s remains fatally stabbed in Florida 
 
03/15/2018 6:01:10 AM PDT · by BenLurkin · 42 replies
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The man who claimed to have cremated Natalee Holloway’s remains was stabbed to death in western Florida. John Christopher Ludwick died Wednesday morning at a Sarasota County hospital after being knifed by a woman he knew, North Port police said in a Facebook post. The 32-year-old victim was trying to kidnap the woman as she got out of her car, cops said. Ludwick was stabbed during the ensuing scuffle and fled the woman’s driveway.
 

Comparing Two Natalee Holloway Documentaries – Connecting The Dots – Searching For The Truth
 
10/05/2017 7:18:25 AM PDT · by davikkm · 8 replies
IWB ^ | Ruby Henley
I have been trying to connect the dots for Natalee Holloway for years. In fact, I have researched her disappearance from the island of Aruba since that day she did not make her flight home. That horrific day was May 30, 2005, and it began one of the biggest investigations ever launched to find a missing person. Were there any gaps or clues that were missed from the time Natalee vanished in 2005 to now in 2017? below is an analysis of the 2008 documentary by Peter R. de Vries and the documentary ‘The Disappearance of Natalee Holloway” on the...
 

Natalee Holloway’s dad finds human remains in Aruba
 
08/16/2017 2:01:17 PM PDT · by conservative98 · 33 replies
NY Post ^ | August 16, 2017 | 3:06pm | Tamar Lapin
Authorities discovered human remains behind a house in Aruba, a grisly find that may finally crack the mystery surrounding a young woman’s disappearance 12 years ago. The remains, discovered following a renewed 18-month probe, are being tested to see if they’re a DNA match with Natalee Holloway, the Alabama teenager who went missing while on a graduation trip in 2005, her father, Dave Holloway, and investigator T.J. Ward revealed on “Today” on Wednesday.
 

Natalee Holloway mystery may be over as tip that she was drugged by Joran Van der Sloot...(trunc)
 
08/16/2017 1:08:03 PM PDT · by afraidfortherepublic · 32 replies
The Daily Mail ^ | 8-16-17 | Chris Spargo
A new tip in the 2005 disappearance of Natalee Holloway has led to the discovery of human remains in Aruba Those remains are now undergoing DNA testing with results expected in the next month Natalee's father Dave revealed on Wednesday The tip in the case came from a man named Gabriel, who lived with Joran van der Sloot's best friend John Gabriel claims van der Sloot told John that he gave a drink spiked with the date rape drug GHB to Natalee, 18, who choked on her own vomit Van der Sloot allegedly called his father Paulus at that point, who...
 

New clues, questions in Natalee Holloway case
 
05/28/2015 8:57:27 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 7 replies
CNN ^ | May 28, 2015 | Chris Boyette
(VIDEO-AT-LINK) Ten years after Natalee Holloway went missing, a Dutch citizen says he knows where to find her. Prosecutors, however, aren't buying it. Jurriën de Jong told CNN's Martin Savidge that the teen's body is buried in a crawl space at a Marriott vacation property in Aruba, and he believes he saw her in her final moments. De Jong says he was near Marriott's Aruba Surf Club, then under construction, on the night of May 30, 2005, when he saw a young man chase a young woman through the construction site. At first, he thought the two were being playful,...
 
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