"I KILLED NATALEE" Joran van de Sloot Confession

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 18 October 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

An Alabama judge accepted Joran van der Sloot's plea deal, meaning today, after almost two decades, the Dutch national admitted that he killed Alabama teen Natalee Holloway. In his proffer, a document in which the defendant offers information about a crime, he reportedly told the court that Holloway rejected his sexual advances, so he hit her, kicked her in the face, then bludgeoned her dead. He then put her body in the ocean.

The confession was part of van der Sloot's plea deal on extortion charges. He was accused of trying to sell information to Beth Holloway on the location of her daughter's body for $250,000.

With his guilty plea, van der Sloot was sentenced to 20 years on the federal charges, which will run concurrently with his current sentence for the murder of Stephany Flores in Peru.

Joining Nancy Grace today:

Ginger Strickland - Beth Holloway friend
Sheryl McCollum- Cold Case Investigative Research Institute Founder, ColdCaseCrimes.org, Host of new podcast: Zone 7, Twitter: @ColdCaseTips
Joe Scott Morgan – Professor of Forensics: Jacksonville State University, Author, "Blood Beneath My Feet", Host: "Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan", Twitter: @JoScottForensic

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0:55.2	on Fox Nation. Goodbye friend.
1:03.7	Crime stories with Nancy Grace.
1:10.2	We are here outside the Hugo Black Federal Courthouse in Birmingham. Right behind us,
1:16.4	a plea deal has just gone down a day we thought would never come with the Arubin Judgeson
1:22.1	Yourne Van der Slood, who we have long believed murdered Natalie Holloway in today. We find out
1:29.4	that's exactly what happened. I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime stories. Thank you for being with us.
1:35.5	Not only here at the Hugo Black Courthouse, but on crime stories in series XM 111 with me,
1:43.3	just got Morgan, Professor Forensic, Jacksonville State University, author of Blood Beneath My Feet
1:48.7	on Amazon and Star of Hit series. Body-backed with just got Morgan, my longtime friend and colleague,
1:55.5	and also my longtime friend and colleague Cheryl McCallum. She's the founder and the director of
2:02.0	the Col case Research Institute, and she's a star of a hit series Zone 7 podcast. We've been
2:09.2	in the courtroom from the beginning and have just come out and what a day in the courtroom.
2:15.6	Today, I can tell you with certainty that after 18 years, Natalie's case is solved.
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