Natalee Holloway's Suspected Killer in U.S. Court Pleads Not Guilty
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 26 August 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Joran van der Sloot's appearance in an American federal courtroom was short.
It took the convicted killer less than five minutes to enter a not-guilty plea on charges that he extorted money from Natalee Holliway's mother. The Dutch national was one of the last people to see the Alabama teen alive during her senior trip to Aruba in 2005, and many have theorized that van der Sloot raped and murdered her.
During the Holloway investigation, van der Sloot told mother Beth Twitty that he would tell her where her daughter's body was for $250,000; $15,000 was wired to a Netherlands bank account and van der Sloot was given another $10,000 through an attorney.
Van de Sloot offered a location but later admitted the information was “worthless.”
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| 0:00.0 | The name Natalie Holloway will never be forgotten. |
| 0:20.7 | The American beauty, all a student, set to go to college, goes on her high school senior |
| 0:28.3 | trip and is never seen alive again in the last days, a development in the state's case |
| 0:36.4 | against your VanderSloot. |
| 0:39.5 | I miss you Grace. |
| 0:40.5 | This is Crime Stories. |
| 0:41.5 | Thank you for being with us here at Fox Nation in Series XI-111. |
| 0:46.4 | In the last days, your VanderSloot, the judge's son, the main suspect in the disappearance |
| 0:52.6 | and murder of Natalie Holloway pleads not guilty to federal charges. |
| 0:59.5 | The charges he's facing right now after his highly contentious and complicated extradition |
| 1:06.3 | to the U.S., VanderSloot has pled not guilty to one count of extortion and one count of |
| 1:12.6 | wire fraud against Natalie's mother, Beth Holloway. |
| 1:17.7 | The arraignment took place at 11 a.m. at Hugo L. Blatt, U.S. courthouse in Alabama. |
| 1:23.8 | VanderSloot arrived just before 8 a.m. for his arraignment. |
| 1:28.0 | The Dutch native, the judge's son was escorted wearing handcuffs, a white Michael Jordan |
| 1:34.2 | T-shirt and jeans. |
| 1:36.1 | Why is he not in a prison jumpsuit? |
| 1:40.7 | Take a listen to our friends at NBC. |
| 1:43.1 | More in VanderSloot, the chief suspect in Natalie Holloway's disappearance in a T-shirt, |
| 1:47.3 | jeans and handcuffs, pleading not guilty to extortion and wire fraud charges. |
| 1:52.0 | Each charge carrying a 20-year sentence if he's convicted. |
| 1:55.3 | The family showing up in court to see VanderSloot face-to-face. |
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