Posted on 05/16/2023 3:20:38 AM PDT by texas booster
Dutchman Joran van der Sloot, a suspect in the 2005 disappearance of an American teenager, will be extradited from Peru to face criminal charges in the US, according to media reports.
He is currently in Peru serving 28 years in prison for killing a 21-year-old Peruvian woman named Stephany Flores.
American Natalee Holloway, 18, went missing during a school trip in Aruba.
Van der Sloot faces federal wire fraud and extortion charges in the US.
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In the US, Van der Sloot is accused of taking $25,000 from Beth Holloway, Natalee's mother, in exchange for information regarding the whereabouts of the 18-year-old's body.
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Natalee Holloway's body was never found. She was officially declared dead in 2012 by an Alabama judge.
She was in Aruba on a high school graduation trip in May 2005 when she vanished. She was last seen leaving a bar with Van der Sloot.
Van der Sloot was arrested but never charged in connection with Holloway's disappearance.
"It has been a very long and painful journey, but the persistence of many is going to pay off. ..." Beth Holloway said in a statement on Wednesday. ...
Gustavo Meza-Cuadra, Peru's ambassador to the US, said in a statement that "we hope that this action will enable a process that will help to bring peace to Mrs Holloway and to her family, who are grieving in the same way that the Flores family in Peru".
Peruvian officials said that Van der Sloot will be temporarily handed over to the US for prosecution and will return to Peru following the proceedings, according to CBS News, the BBC's US partner.
A 2001 treaty between Peru and the US allows a suspect to be extradited for a trial but requires the prisoner be returned once judicial proceedings have concluded.
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To live out his life in luxury
He is the face of evil.
I hope he’s someones bitch in whatever prison he’s in. The guy is lower then spit.
I forgot about this case. What a scumbag. So many scumbags.
Somehow, I suspect that even US prisons are somehow better than Peruvian prisons.
But understand the sentiment.
I still wonder why this has been advertised in the media as a “school trip”.
Will need to see if g**g has erased all traces but I seem to remember than the school was peripheral to the organization of the trip.
Our town can barely get permission slips from parents for a band trip to the Thanksgiving Day parade in NYC.
Something about reciprocal CCH rights ...
No doubt about that, but about the only punishment they get, is from each other.
Leave him down there to twist and spin.
Yup....this one needs killing.
He’s going back. But, these places are often just hotels for the rich. My preference would be for him to do a stretch in Kirkland superMax where they don’t look kindly on white rapist murderers. I think that would be a lot rougher.
“Will need to see if g**g has erased all traces”
What’s “g**g”?
Don’t worry. After the US trial he will go back to Peru to serve out that sentence first.
I’ll never forget how his mother couldn’t stop crying when Greta Van Susteren was interviewing his parents. She knew he guilty.
The article does not say if he is convicted in the U.S.
will he then serve that time AFTER he serves his 29 years in Peru.
If I had their kind of money I would pay to make sure he got the ‘sons of anarchy’ treatment they gave to that one guy in prison...
is there any upside for him to talk about Natalie’s death and her body location? Should/could anything be offered him to disclose this? To give the poor family closure?
I suspect that between sharks, fish and crabs there won’t be much left to check for DNA.
G**g is short for goog.
Which is short for google.
The NSA’s favorite internet vacuum bot.
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