A Dutch man who recently confessed to killing American high school student Natalee Holloway in 2005 in Aruba was returned to Peru on Tuesday to serve the remainder of his prison sentence for killing a Peruvian woman.
Joran van der Sloot arrived in Lima in the custody of law enforcement.
The South American country’s government agreed in June to temporarily extradite him to the US to face trial on extortion and wire fraud charges.
Van der Sloot has long been a prime suspect in Holloway’s disappearance in Aruba, although authorities on the Dutch Caribbean island have never charged him.
Later in an interview with his lawyer conducted in the US after his extradition, he admitted to beating the young woman to death on the beach after she rejected his advances. He said he threw his body into the sea.
Van der Sloot, 36, is charged in the US with seeking a quarter of a million dollars to tell Holloway’s family the location of his body.
Joran van der Sloot returned to Peru on Oct. 31. 2023 after confessing to killing Natalee Holloway.PolicÃa Nacional del Perú/Mega
A plea deal in exchange for a 20-year sentence requires him to provide all the information he knows about Holloway’s disappearance, allow his parents to listen in real time to his conversations with law enforcement and take a polygraph test.
The blackmail sentence will run concurrently with the prison sentence he is serving for murder in Peru, where he pleaded guilty in 2012 to killing 21-year-old Stephany Flores, a business student from a prominent Peruvian family.
He was killed in 2010 five years to the day after Holloway’s disappearance.
Police show Joran Van Der Sloot (2-L) handed over to local authorities in Callao, upon his return to Peru on October 31, 2023.Policia Nacional del Peru/AFP via Getty Images
Van der Sloot was transferred to a Peruvian prison while serving a 28-year sentence in response to reports that he enjoyed privileges such as television, internet access and cellphones and allegations that he threatened to kill a warden.
Before he was extradited to the US, he was housed in a prison in a remote area in the Andes, called Challapalca, about 15,090 feet above sea level.
Holloway disappeared during a high school graduation trip.
Joran van der Sloot admitted this month to killing Natalee Holloway and disposing of her body.
He was last seen on 30 May 2005, leaving a bar with van der Sloot. A judge eventually pronounced him dead, but his body was never found.
Holloway’s family has long searched for answers about her disappearance, and van der Sloot has provided a moving account over the years. At one point, he said Holloway was buried in gravel under the foundation of a house but later admitted that was not true.
Five years after the murder, an FBI sting recorded an extortion attempt in which van der Sloot asked Beth Holloway to pay him $250,000 to tell him where to find her daughter’s body.
Joran van der Sloot is serving time for a murder he committed in Peru, where he pleaded guilty in 2012 to killing 21-year-old Stephany Flores (shown in this photo). Spark News
He agreed to accept $25,000 to reveal the location and asked for another $225,000 once the body was found.
Before he could be arrested for extortion, van der Sloot escaped by moving from Aruba to Peru.
After Holloway’s recent confession to murder became public, prosecutors in Aruba asked the US Department of Justice for documents to determine whether any action would be taken against van der Sloot.
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