Posted on 10/18/2023 10:08:26 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
This case is sort of like the OJ case in the sense that we all know exactly who did it even if the person responsible continues to deny it. But in the case of Joran van der Sloot, he finally did admit it in a court in Alabama today. The admission came as part of a plea deal in a related case in which van der Sloot had tried to extort money from Holloway’s family.
The charges stemmed from 2010 when Mr. Van der Sloot tried to demand a $250,000 payment from Beth Holloway, claiming to have knowledge of the location of her daughter’s remains, prosecutors said. He received only $25,100 from her after providing false information, according to prosecutors.
In exchange for a 20-year sentence for charges of extortion and wire fraud, Mr. van der Sloot had agreed to provide “full, complete, accurate, and truthful information” about the disappearance of Natalee Holloway.
So in exchange for a lighter sentence, he finally told his account of what happened.
He described wanting to be dropped off with Ms. Holloway a distance from the hotel where she was staying with more than 100 recent graduates of Mountain Brook High School in Alabama so he “might still get a chance to, to be with her.” He said they began kissing while lying on the beach, but she refused further sexual advances.
When he persisted, he said, she kneed him in the crotch, and he kicked her “extremely hard” in the face. At that point, he said, she was “possibly even, uh, even dead but definitely unconscious.”
Then, he said, he picked up a large cinder block and used it to “smash her head in with it completely.”
He then dragged her body into the surf and walked home.
In case it’s not clear by now, van der Sloot seems to be a complete psychopath. He murdered a girl for refusing to have sex with him and then five years later he murdered another woman, this time in Peru. He beat her to death with a tennis racket and after he was caught he tried to claim that trauma from being a suspect in Holloway’s death had somehow triggered him after the woman he was with discovered his connection to the case.
A three-judge panel sentenced him to 28 years in prison, discarding his claims of contrition in a killing his lawyer said was triggered by trauma from being the prime suspect in the unsolved 2005 disappearance of U.S. teen Natalee Holloway…
After killing the Lima woman, he took nearly $300 in cash from Flores as well as credit cards, and was captured four days later in Chile.
Van der Sloot told police he flew into a rage when she discovered his connection to Holloway while they were playing online poker in his hotel room. He had received an instant message from someone about the case.
Police forensic experts disputed that story, and the judges who sentenced him noted that Van der Sloot later recanted the confession, claiming it was exacted under duress and without an official translator. The victim’s family contends Van der Sloot killed Flores so he could rob her.
He still has many years left to serve for the Peru murder but while in prison he also started smuggling drugs. He was convicted for that and given another 18 year sentence.
Dutch national Joran van der Sloot (35), who is serving a 28 year sentence for the murder of Stephany Flores in a Peruvian jail has been sentenced to another 18 years for drug smuggling, the Telegraaf reports.
Van der Sloot was said to have played a ‘crucial role’ in selling cocaine smuggled into the Juliaca prison by a family member of a fellow prisoner and even sending it to addresses outside Peru.
The law in Peru limits sentences to a maximum of 35 years. His sentence in the extortion case will run concurrently with his murder sentence. So, barring some accident, Joran van der Sloot will be released in 2045 (he would be 58 years old). My own feeling is that’s not good enough. I have no doubt the moment he is free he will murder someone else.
As for Beth Holloway, she said she believed van der Sloot had finally told the truth and her daughter’s case is solved.
“It’s over. Joran van der Sloot is no longer the suspect in my daughter’s murder. He is the killer,” Beth Holloway said Wednesday.
“After 18 years, Natalee’s case is solved,” she said. “He gave a proffer in which he finally confessed to killing Natalee.”
Here’s Beth Holloway’s statement outside the courthouse today.
It was all a game and saw no need to confess, since he’s serving a near life sentence anyway. He only confessed if he was given something and not being punished for the crime was his bargaining chip.
Is it illegal for her parents to pay someone to have him put down in prison? I’m not sure what’s allowed anymore.
The deal, if you review how it was constructed...after this conviction is done...he is return to Peru and serve the sentence for the girl killed there (something like 28 years).
After that, he is supposed to be returned to the US and serve the remainder of his US sentence. It’s a complicated deal and likely to be challenged in a US court, and I have my doubts that he will return to Peru.
Consecutive means his other sentences would start in sequences as finishes his time on each sentence. But concurrent means at the same time.
Perhaps, he would serve of his sentence in America, if there was time left over after servicing his sentence in Peru.
What you would say would be true if he had time in his US sentence left over after serving his Peru sentence.
Why in the world dos the prosecution agree to a concurrent sentence?
It seems worthless.
For two reasons, I think.
1. To ensure the convicted is not overly punished for his crime. If he’s already serving a sentence that will take up most of his productive life, there is no sense in adding to it.
2. To get an easy conviction. Unfortunately, inmates have figured out that the system can’t punish them more than it does so it becomes a bargaining chip for him to trade admitting to a crime in exchange for consideration of sentencing.
The system only has so much money to investigate and prosecute a crime, so it can save some trouble by getting an inmate to admit to a crime if his sentence will be included in time that he’s already serving. It’s a money factor in that situation. Is it in the state’s best interest to spend millions of dollar on a case where the convicted is already serving a severe sentence for something?
Thanks for the answer.
On #1 he killed 2 women…I don’t see how anything could be excessive punishment. Including death.
On the rest yes that makes sense.
Psycho killer.
Unfortunately, at times, it has resulted in the prison getting an improved condition because he had that strong of a hand just so the state can close a case.
the other two guys with him that night has already been caught on tape admitting that all three had sex with her that night.
It is obvious to me that the three drugged raped and murdered this poor girl.
“Is it illegal for her parents to pay someone to have him put down in prison? I’m not sure what’s allowed anymore.”
9nly the government can hire killers to murder and not be prosecuted...or is it only democrats...
Now parade him out back and hang him. Don’t let him say another word. Just hang him!
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