Breaking Down Each Twist within the Natalee Holloway Case

Paul van der Sloot died immediately of a coronary heart assault in February 2010, leaving his son adrift. In response to Holloway household lawyer John Kelly, a determined Joran emailed him that March, writing, as Kelly advised Dateline, “‘I wish to come clear. My father’s useless now. I’ve nothing to cover. I wish to assist Natalee’s household, however at a worth, you realize, for 1 / 4 million {dollars}…I’ll inform you what occurred to Natalee, the place she is now so you possibly can assist Beth convey her dwelling.'”

With Beth’s permission, John Kelly met with Joran in Aruba, promising to start out with $25,000. The younger man stated he knew the place the physique was; John requested what would occur in the event that they did not pay him. Joran allegedly replied, “‘Beth can wait one other 5 years.'” The household then turned to the FBI, which helped orchestrate a plan to make Joran assume he’d be getting paid so as to catch him committing wire fraud, which might not less than be one thing to carry him on.

John and Joran met once more, and this time John wired him a complete of $25,000. In flip, Joran led John to a home close to the Aruba Racquet Membership, the place he claimed he had stashed Natalee’s stays in what was then a freshly poured basis, earlier than the home was constructed. John said on Dateline that Joran claimed he had been on the seaside with Natalee, he wished to go, she resisted, after which he “obtained offended and really threw her. He truly made the gesture within the automobile, on video, displaying me how he threw her in anger, as a result of she would not go away at that time. And in accordance with him, she hit the again of her head, plenty of blood and he or she was useless.”

John stated he was skeptical of Joran’s total story, which was that he first hid Natalee’s physique on the seaside along with his father’s assist, after which the following day they buried her. However he nonetheless hoped they’d shaken one thing unfastened.

“Once I obtained on the aircraft Might 11 [2010], I believed it was a accomplished deal,” John stated. “And he was going to be arrested sooner or later. That he’d be speaking sooner or later, and we would get some closure sooner or later.”

However the home Joran pointed to hadn’t been underneath development in 2010, in accordance with the authorities who stated they did not discover his story credible sufficient to make an arrest.

John stated that Joran remained in contact with him up till Might 25, claiming he would flip himself in. As an alternative, he flew to Peru.

A federal grand jury indicted him on fees of wire fraud and extortion on June 30, 2010.