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Joran van der Sloot confesses to killing Natalee Holloway: ‘You terminated her dreams,’ mother says
https://www.al.com ^ | Published: Oct. 18, 2023, 6:00 a.m. | By Carol Robinson

Posted on 10/18/2023 9:31:27 AM PDT by Red Badger

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1 posted on 10/18/2023 9:31:27 AM PDT by Red Badger
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Worthless confession. I suppose Stephany Flores’ death was an accident too?


2 posted on 10/18/2023 9:40:03 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: Red Badger

My sympathies to the her mother and that family.
This may provide some closure, but then with Van Der Sloot, one never knows how much of what he’s saying are nothing but lies. He knows he will be locked up for the foreseeable future, and may feel he has nothing to lose by weaving one last fable, just to put the story past him, as if that would ever be possible.


3 posted on 10/18/2023 9:41:06 AM PDT by lee martell
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I have read that life in a Peruvian prison makes life in a US one look pretty sweet.


4 posted on 10/18/2023 9:44:38 AM PDT by gloryblaze
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Wow, what a creep. BLANKET PARTY!!! Except instead of a bar of soap, I’ll bring a 5-pound shot put.


5 posted on 10/18/2023 9:44:48 AM PDT by Scarlett156
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Did he confess to where he hid her body? If not- the confession to killing her isn’t nearly as meaningful

He’s either genuinely sorry- or trying to pull off another con- Hard to tell which- Had he told what he did with hte body, the confession of the murder would have been more believable and allowed more closure for Beth-


6 posted on 10/18/2023 9:47:27 AM PDT by Bob434
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it’s pretty sick that Jan 6 peaceful protestors got over 20 years in prison for doing nothing but protesting- and joran only got 20 years for a murder


7 posted on 10/18/2023 9:49:47 AM PDT by Bob434
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I’ve heard the same thing, but even under those conditions, Joran gets a few privileges. He’s had at least 5 different local girls to declare themselves his ‘girlfriend’, and leading to conjugal visits. One of his girlfriends had their baby in 2014, a daughter. They have since divorced, and mother said she has changed the daughters last name to protect her privacy. At least one other girlfriend was accused of smuggling him drugs.


8 posted on 10/18/2023 9:52:59 AM PDT by lee martell
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We know the extortion story was crap, and now he’s confessed, but where did he dump the body? Who writes this crap?


9 posted on 10/18/2023 9:59:56 AM PDT by shotgun
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I have read every article on the internet regarding this in the last hour. There does not seem to be anything new on what he did with her body in the confession.

This was from an old article. Allegedly from an email he sent to someone not involve in the case. So, it MAY be truthful.

“My dad got a boat two days later,” he wrote to David G. “We went for a ride and took care of things. That’s all I’m going to say.”

Based on the fact that they had searched the two construction sites(the house and the Marriott) where he supposedly buried her and found nothing, it would seem that she ended up in very deep water. Offshore to the east of Aruba the ocean drops off to several thousand feet deep relatively close to shore.


11 posted on 10/18/2023 10:04:56 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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Sorry flame me if you want. I blame a LOT of it on her parents that let a HIGH SCHOOL girl go to a Caribbean party animals Island without them.

I would bet every dollar in my bank account he’ll would have froze before my wife would have allowed that with any of our 3.


12 posted on 10/18/2023 10:06:58 AM PDT by Phoenix8
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*At least one other girlfriend was accused of smuggling him drugs.*

Let him have them. Could be lethal. Prison guards could take a page from Brian Epstein.


13 posted on 10/18/2023 10:10:43 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (e allowed )
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OMG, I had missed that funny business. HE divorced the vending lady wife FOR A YOUNGER CHICK ... all while in prison ...

https://nypost.com/2023/05/17/natalee-holloway-suspect-joran-van-der-sloot-ditches-wife-lawyer/


14 posted on 10/18/2023 10:11:07 AM PDT by gloryblaze
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concurrent sentences are a crock of crap. They’re done to give everyone a win; the judge clears the docket, the prosecutor gets a W, and the defense beats the actual “justice served” sentence. Just as bad as plea bargains. The judicial system is a rigged sham purely in favor of the three main players.


15 posted on 10/18/2023 10:12:35 AM PDT by DPMD (ua)
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Fox News has the transcript of his confession:

As he recounted the incident in an Oct. 3 interview, he revealed he grew angry with her resistance, grabbed the block and said, “I smash her head in with it completely.”

“Her face basically, you know, collapses in,” he added. “Even though it’s dark, I can see her face is collapsed in.”

After that, he said he dragged her in until he was about knees deep and pushed her off into the sea. Then, he said, he walked home.


16 posted on 10/18/2023 10:13:44 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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it would seem that she ended up in very deep water.

Yes. They made a big deal of it at the time that his friend captained one of those tourist dinner party boats. They likely used that boat in the early hours of the morning to dump the body at sea.

-PJ

17 posted on 10/18/2023 10:15:53 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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Here is a link to the Fox News article with a copy of the transcript in fine print:

https://www.foxnews.com/us/judge-says-joran-van-der-sloot-confessed-killing-natalee-holloway

Basically, he got pissed because she would not have sex with him on the beach, so he took a nearby cinder block and bashed her head in with it. Then he dragged her into the ocean.


18 posted on 10/18/2023 10:17:56 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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Rope and a tree.


19 posted on 10/18/2023 10:21:08 AM PDT by chopperk
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Van der Sloot was extradited to Alabama on June 8, 2023, and booked into the Shelby County Jail.

Birmingham is in Jefferson County.   I wonder why was he was booked into the Shelby County Jail?

20 posted on 10/18/2023 10:24:06 AM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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