The mother ofNatalee HollowayconfrontedJoran van der Slootin court on Wednesday after van der Slootpleaded guilty to extortionand wire fraud charges — doing so after he admitted to Holloway’s mom and law enforcement that he killed her daughter, a lawyer for Natalee’s family tells PEOPLE.
“You have finally admitted that, in fact, you murdered her,” Beth Holloway said in her victim impact statement,AL.comandWBRCreport.
“You terminated her dreams, her potential, her possibilities, when you bludgeoned her to death in 2005," Beth added.
“You didn’t get what you wanted from Natalee, your sexual satisfaction, so you brutally killed her," she said, adding that if her daughter had lived, “I have no doubt she would have made all her dreams come true. She really would have."
According to Beth, van der Sloot admitted that after he killed Natalee, he went home and watched pornography. Beth later said at a press conference that he disposed of Natalee’s body in the water after the murder.
Despite admitting to killing Holloway, van der Sloot the statute of limitations for homicide in Aruba is 12 years, meaning he likely can’t be prosecuted locally.
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Referencing van der Sloot’s extortion of her, Beth said, “I paid my daughter’s killer money. That’s shocking. I don’t think anyone can really wrap their mind around what that means.”
Beth added: “By the way you look like hell Joran. I do not see how you’re gonna make it….You are a killer and I want you to remember that every time that jail door slams.”
Beth Holloway.Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP
Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP
Nataleedisappearedon a high school graduation trip in Aruba in 2005.
As part of Wednesday’s plea deal, van der Sloot, who pleaded guilty toone count of extortionandone count of wire fraudand was sentenced to 20 years for the crimes, agreed to finally give Natalee’s mother – and the public – some answers.
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The Birmingham, Ala. hearing shed new light on the nearlytwo-decades-long case.
Joran van der Sloot.Peruvian Mug Shot
Natalee was last seen leaving a bar with van der Sloot during a high school graduation trip to Aruba on May 30, 2005. Van der Sloot, then 17, was arrested several times in connection to the 18-year-old’s disappearance but never charged. Natalee waslegally declared deadin 2012, but her body was never found.
Until this June, van der Sloot had been in a Peruvian prison on a28-year murder sentencein the brutal 2010 killing ofStephany Flores Ramírez, a 21-year-old student, who, he laterreportedly told investigatorsdiscovered his identity as the person of interest in Natalee’s disappearance while sharing a hotel room together in Lima. The two fought, and van der Sloot, then 22, would later admit to beating, choking and smothering her to death– exactlyfive years to the dayof Natalee’s disappearance.
Peru granted the “temporary surrender” of van der Sloot to stand trial in Alabama before returning to Peru to finish his sentence,U.S. federal prosecutors said in a statement this summer. Van der Sloot’s sentence in the U.S. will run concurrently to his sentence in Peru, but if he is released from prison in Peru early, he would then serve the remainder of his 20-year sentence in the U.S.,AL.com reports.
Van der Sloot will be in prison until 2043, WBRC reports. He also must pay Beth Holloway $250,100 in restitution.
Attorneys for van der Sloot did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
source: people.com
