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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Suspect Killer of American High Schooler, Natalee Holloway, Heads to US Soil for Trial

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

News, True Crime

4.28.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

It's been nearly two decades since Alabama teen Natalee Holloway disappeared in Aruba.

Now, the man last seen with Holloway and also the man suspected of killing her will be extradited to the US. Joran van der Sloot will not be on trial for Holloway's murder however, but for extortion of money from her mother, Beth Holloway.

Beth Holloway says van der Sloot reached out to an attorney promising to explain what happened to Natalee and lead authorities to the remains. He asked for $250,000, which was $25,000 wired to him as part of an FBI sting.

This is the basis of the current wire fraud and extortion charges against him. Van der Sloot fled Aruba to Peru where he was arrested for the murder of 21-year-old Stephany Flores. She died five years, to the day, of Natalee’s disappearance. Joran van der Sloot was convicted and has been serving a 28-year prison sentence.  

An extradition treaty with Peru is making temporary extradition possible. 

Joining Nancy Grace today: 

  • Dale Carson - High Profile Criminal Defense Attorney (Jacksonville), Former FBI Agent, and Former Police Officer (Miami-Dade County); Author: "Arrest-Proof Yourself;" Twitter: @DaleCarsonLaw 
  • Caryn Stark - Psychologist- Trauma and Crime Expert; Twitter: @carnpsych
  • Sheryl McCollum - Cold Case Investigative Research Institute Founder and Host of the new podcast: "Zone 7;", Twitter: @149Zone7  
  • Irv Brandt - Senior Inspector, US Marshals Service- International Investigations Branch; Chief Inspector, DOJ Office of International Affairs; Author: “SOLO SHOT: CURSE OF THE BLUE STONE” (available on Amazon); Also: "FLYING SOLO: Top of the World;" Twitter: @JackSoloAuthor 
  •  Joseph Scott Morgan - Professor of Forensics: Jacksonville State University, Author, "Blood Beneath My Feet;" Host: "Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan;" Twitter: @medcolegaldeath 
  • Art Harris -Two-time Emmy-Winning Investigative Journalist

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Transcript

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0:00.0

I don't want to jinx it, but is it really happening?

0:18.9

Is your van der Schlut set to make his way handcuffed and in the Leck shackles of course?

0:26.8

From Peru to the US specifically a federal court in Birmingham, Alabama, this after years

0:36.7

have passed since he murdered American sweetheart Natalie Holloway is it really happening?

0:46.4

What if anything could throw a wrench in the works?

0:51.1

I mean is he great?

0:52.1

This is Crime Stories.

0:53.3

Thanks for being with us here at Fox Nation and serious XM 111.

0:58.3

How did it all start and how do we end up right here?

1:04.3

Take a listen, I will cut 21.

1:06.6

When I first got the call that Natalie was missing I was returning from, gosh it was

1:12.2

Memorial Day weekend, I was returning from my family's late home and got the call that

1:19.0

is the dreaded phone call that no parent ever expects to receive and then traveling somewhere

1:27.0

outside of Mississippi between hot springs and coming into Birmingham and the caller said

1:34.0

that Natalie was missing and that no one had seen her and that she missed her flight.

1:40.0

And in that instant I knew instantly if something was terribly wrong because it was just so

1:48.0

out of character for Natalie.

1:49.6

She's just not going to over sleep, she's not going to be you know lost somewhere in

1:55.4

another room.

1:56.7

So I knew instantly that she was a being held against her will or something even more tragic

2:04.4

had happened to her.

2:05.4

A mother's intuition turns out to be true yet again you are hearing our friend Beth Holloway

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