The grieving mother of Natalee Holloway lashed out at Joran van der Sloot in an Alabama courtroom on Wednesday, as the Dutch killer finally admitted that he bludgeoned the teenager to death on a beach in Aruba nearly two decades ago.
“You’re a murderer!” Beth Holloway told van der Sloot during her victim impact statement in federal court.
“Remember every time the prison door is closed. You are a killer. You don’t get what you want from Natalee — sexual satisfaction — so you brutally kill her.
“Joran, while you live your life in prison until you are an old man, I will live the rest of my life with fond memories of a beautiful young woman who has her whole life ahead of her,” he said. . “Natalee will always be 18 in my heart.”
He then returns to the killer who has complicated his family’s life and hindered their quest for answers during the last years of digging.
“By the way, you look like hell Joran,” he said. “I don’t see how you’re going to make it.”
Van der Sloot, 36, eventually admitted he crushed the chubby teenager with a flint in 2005 after she rejected his sexual advances and kneed him in the crotch on an Aruba beach — then went home to watch porn, according to family and court records.
Natalee Holloway’s mother, Beth, told van der Sloot, “Remember that every time the prison door is closed. You are a killer. You didn’t get what you wanted from Natalee — sexual satisfaction — so you brutally killed her.”AP
The Dutch national has long been a prime suspect in Holloway’s disappearance but has only now admitted as part of a plea to US federal charges that he extorted money from her family, which was paid to him on the condition that he would lead them to Natalee’s body.
He led them to a dead end and fled to Peru, where he killed Stephany Flores – another young woman who evaded his actions – and is now serving 28 years in the case in a Peruvian prison.
Natalee Holloway disappeared during a high school class trip to Aruba in 2005.
He was last seen leaving a local bar with van der Sloot before he disappeared.
Joran van der Sloot, long the prime suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Natalee Holloway, has finally admitted that he beat the teenager to death on a beach in Aruba after she rejected his sexual advances. AFP via Getty Images
In her federal plea, she said the two began kissing on the beach but she pushed him away when he began fondling her.
When he persisted she kneed him and he first kicked her in the head, then hit her with a flint.
He said he carried her body into the waves and released it into the sea.
Despite the confession, van der Sloot was not charged for his brutal murder because the statute of limitations for murder in Aruba, one of the four countries that make up the Kingdom of the Netherlands, is 12 years.
However, he was sentenced to 20 years for extortion convictions in the US.
Natalee Holloway disappeared while on a college graduation trip to Aruba in 2005.
He will now be extradited back to Peru to continue his sentence there.
His time in prison there will also contribute to his sentence in the US.
In court, Beth Holloway said her daughter would have turned 36 today and had dreams of becoming a doctor.
“I thought about what kind of doctor he would be,” she said. “He is getting married. Have my grandchildren. But you destroyed all this. You ended his potential, his dreams and his possibilities when you beat him to death in 2005.
“You snatched my daughter’s sister. You changed the course of our lives and turned them around.”
Dave Holloway, the slain teenager’s father, asked the judge to throw the book at van der Sloot.
Beth Holloway has long sought answers to the 2005 disappearance of her daughter, whose case has made headlines around the world.AP
“Please punish this man in full accordance with the law,” he said in his statement. “Today marks some legal accountability, but we are confident that a higher power will pass final judgment on this defendant and anyone who helped him prevent us from bringing Natalee home.”
As Natalee’s parents left the courtroom, Beth Hollaway turned to reporters.
“As far as I’m concerned, it’s over,” he said. “Joran van der Sloot is no longer a suspect in my daughter’s murder. He is the killer.”
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