Joran van der Sloot, the prime suspect in Natalee Holloway’s disappearance, is expected to take a plea deal after being charged in an extortion plot involving Holloway’s family.
Natalee Holloway was 18 years old when she took a senior trip to Aruba in May 2005 with Mountain Brook High School.
Natalee Holloway was last seen leaving the bar with van der Sloot, but she has never been found.
In January 2012, a judge legally declared Natalee Holloway dead after a request from her father.
Van der Sloot faces extortion and wire fraud charges in the US after allegedly trying to sell Beth Holloway, Natalee’s mother, information about the location of her daughter’s body.
Beth Holloway’s attorney, John Q. Kelly, now tells Fox News Digital that van der Sloot is expected to take a plea deal, which requires her to release details about how Natalee Holloway died and what happened to her body.
The attorney also told Fox News Digital that the search for Natalee Holloway’s body has ended.
Joran van der Sloot waits for his trial to begin in a courtroom at Lurigancho prison in Lima January 11, 2012. REUTERS
“It is [the plea agreement] was conditioned to Mr. van der Sloot revealing details about how Natalee died and how her body was disposed of,” Kelly first told “Today.”
A plea and sentencing hearing is scheduled for van der Sloot on Wednesday at 9:30 a.m. in a federal courtroom in Birmingham, Alabama.
According to federal prosecutors, van der Sloot tried to extort $250,000 from the family – $25,000 upfront for information and the rest to be paid once Natalee Holloway’s body is positively identified.
Natalee Holloway was 18 when she was last seen leaving a bar with Joran Van Der Sloot, although she has never been found. AP
However, van der Sloot lied to Beth Holloway about the location of her daughter’s body, according to US prosecutors.
The alleged extortion scheme took place between March 29, 2010 and May 17, 2010.
He pleaded not guilty to the charges after a June trial when he was temporarily transferred from Peru to the United States.
Beth Holloway, mother of Natalie Holloway, enters the Hugo L. Black U.S. Courthouse, on June 9, 2023, in Birmingham, Ala.AP
Beth Holloway is expected to make a statement after Wednesday’s hearing.
Van der Sloot then traveled to Peru and met Stephany Flores, 21, at her father’s Lima casino.
Van der Sloot admitted to killing Flores, saying he killed her on May 30, 2010, in a fit of rage after the 21-year-old learned he had something to do with Natalee Holloway’s disappearance.
Joran van der Sloot is escorted by police officers outside a Peruvian police station, near the border with Chile in Tacna, Peru on June 4, 2010. AP
The charges were filed by federal prosecutors in 2010, but Peruvian officials did not agree to release van der Sloot into American custody until May of this year.
He was originally sentenced to 28 years in prison for killing Flores, but more time was added because of a drug-trafficking scandal in which he was involved while in prison.
Once van der Sloot’s federal case is over, he will return to Peru to serve his sentence for killing Flores.
After completing his sentence in Peru, van der Sloot will then come to an American prison, if convicted.
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