Joran van der Sloot, the prime suspect in the unsolved 2005 disappearance of Natalee Holloway, and her father chartered the boat and “managed everything,” he claimed in a newly obtained email sent two days after the teenager disappeared.
Days after the Alabama teenager disappeared during a class trip to Aruba, van der Sloot wrote to someone named “David G,” claiming, “My dad got the boat two days later,” The Messenger reported Saturday.
“We go for a walk and take care of things. That’s all I’ll say,” the email read.
Van der Sloot was extradited to the US in June to face fraud and extortion charges linked to the disappearance of Holloway, 18. He was last seen leaving a bar with 17, who was identified as a suspect in her disappearance but never charged in connection with her death.
Van der Sloot, now 35, has been in prison in Peru for more than a decade after pleading guilty to the May 2010 murder of student Stephany Flores, 21, whom he strangled in a casino in Lima exactly five years after Holloway disappeared.
Holloway was 18 when she was last seen leaving a bar in the Caribbean country with van der Sloot, then 17, who was never charged in her disappearance.
In the 18 years since Holloway’s disappearance, officials in Aruba have investigated van der Sloot’s claims that he dumped the teenager’s body overboard several times, an investigator told The Messanger.
“He was most likely taken out on a boat,” an unidentified Aruban investigator told the outlet. “But the key is figuring out who’s going to take it there to do it. He and his father have no boat of their own.”
Although officials have yet to confirm the theory, van der Sloot himself previously claimed to have dumped Holloway’s body into the sea.
Van der Sloot has not been charged in connection with Holloway’s disappearance.AP
During a hidden camera interview with Dutch journalists Peter De Vries and Patrick van der Eem in 2008, van der Sloot said that Holloway had a seizure while they were having sex on the beach and died.
He later claimed to have called a friend called Daury who helped him load him into a boat and throw his body overboard – although in the years since that interview, van der Sloot has claimed to have lied to journalists.
Since her disappearance, van der Sloot has provided a wide variety of conflicting stories to explain what happened to the missing teenager.
Van der Sloot has served 28 years for killing Stephany Flores.AP
In May 2010, van der Sloot allegedly promised to reveal the location of Holloway’s body in exchange for $250,000. He then took lawyer Beth Holloway to the site where he claimed the body was hidden after receiving a $25,000 advance but later backed off on the bizarre story.
In an email sent from the same address, van der Sloot later admitted he had made up the entire story.
Holloway, whose body was never found, was declared legally dead in January 2012. RELATED NEWS
He now faces federal charges in the US for allegedly lying about Holloway’s whereabouts and extorting money from his parents.
The time spent by van der Sloot in the US “will be extended until the end of the criminal proceedings,” including the appeal process, if any, according to a resolution published in Peru’s federal register.
Van der Sloot was extradited to the US from Peru earlier this summer. AP
The resolution also stated that US authorities agreed to return van der Sloot to Peruvian custody thereafter.
Holloway, whose body was never found, was declared legally dead in January 2012.
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