With Joran van der Sloot awaiting extradition to the United States to face extortion charges, the world’s attention returns to 2005 when Mountain Brook High School graduate Natalee Holloway went missing in Aruba.
to face extortion charges, the world’s attention returns to 2005 when Mountain Brook High School graduate Natalee Holloway went missing in Aruba.
“I just remember thinking, how horrific as a mother to go through trying to find your teen daughter,” she said. “You graduate high school. It’s a wonderful, happy time. Your kid goes on a trip. Thousands of kids do it every year after graduation, they go somewhere on a trip, but you never expect your child not to come home.”
On June 9, 2005, investigators arrested van der Sloot and the Kalpoe brothers, but on September 3, a judge ruled there wasn’t enough evidence to hold the three men and they were released. At the time, van der Sloot’s attorney said his client was going back to the Netherlands to lead a normal college student life.
According to the FBI, van der Sloot asked Beth Holloway for $25,000 up front and another $250,000 after her remains were recovered. In a sting operation, he gave them the location of a house where he said she was buried in the foundation, but later admitted to lying about the location. He was indicted by an Alabama grand jury in 2010 on the charges he will now face in a Birmingham courtroom.
On May 10, 2023, Peru agreed to extradite van der Sloot to the U.S. to face these federal charges on the condition he be returned to Peru to finish out his sentence there after any trial concludes here.
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