Main suspect in 2005 disappearance of Natalee Holloway arrives in US from Peru to face charges

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Source: Associated Press, via WTOP

Main suspect in 2005 disappearance of Natalee Holloway arrives in US from Peru to face charges

The Associated Press

June 8, 2023, 4:37 PM

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Joran van der Sloot, the chief suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Natalee Holloway, arrived in the United States from Peru on Thursday to face charges that he attempted to extort money from the missing woman’s mother. (1)

An FBI-operated plane carrying van der Sloot landed at Birmingham’s Shuttlesworth Airport about 2:30 p.m. — just hours after Peruvian authorities handed him over temporarily to U.S. custody — and the suspect was escorted down the steps into a black SUV, which brought him to a local jail. Van der Sloot will appear in federal court later to face the charges.

The suspect has been serving a 28-year sentence in Peru after confessing to killing a Peruvian woman. He is wanted in the U.S. on one count each of extortion and wire fraud — the only charges to have ever linked the Dutch citizen to Holloway’s disappearance on the Caribbean island of Aruba. He was handed over to the U.S. roughly a month after both countries agreed on his extradition.

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This story has been edited to correct that van der Sloot was taken to a jail, not a courthouse.


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Garcia Cano reported from Mexico City. Associated Press journalist Mauricio Muñoz in Lima, Peru, contributed to this report.

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[2naSalit]

1. So...

When he's done with the one life sentence he can start another.

[former9thward]

2. No. He is not facing murder charges in the U.S.

He is facing extortion charges in the U.S. If he is found guilty he may get 5-10 years at the most and would serve them the same time as the Peru sentence.

[barbtries]

3. nope.

he won't get life for what he's charged with. Maybe they get a confession while he's here and they can get him for the murder. I'm thinking that may depend on how bad Peruvian prisons are.

what a piece of shit he is.

[2naSalit]

4. I agree.

I wasn't following the details, I can stand cringing long enough to read about it.

[ShazzieB]

5. I followed the Holloway case closely as well as the story of the murder he committed in Peru.

I was very happy when he was convicted of the latter crime, because there's no doubt in my mind that he would have continued killing if he wasn't locked up. He's a stone cold psychopath, no question about it.

In addition to being just plain evil, the murder in Peru was a really stupid move on his part. In a foreign country, where he didn't know anybody, there was no one around to sheld him from the consequences of his actions like his daddy did back home in Aruba when Natalee Holloway disappeared after last being seen alive in his company.

If this could somehow lead to a confession about what happened to Natalee, I know it would mean a lot to her parents to have that closure. He'd better be ready to back it up with some kind of evidence, thoough, because I don't think anyone is going to take his word for anything. He lies at the drop of a hat, just like a certain orange politician!