Joran van der Sloot: Dutch man who killed Natalee Holloway sent to Peru to serve sentence for another murder
LIMA, PERU: A man who admitted to killing high school student Natalee Holloway was sent back to Peru on Tuesday, October 30, to serve the remainder of his prison sentence for another murder.
Joran van der Sloot, the Dutch convict, arrived in Lima in the custody of law enforcement, Associated Press reports.
In June, the South American country’s government agreed to temporarily extradite him to the US to face trial on extortion and wire fraud charges.
#LoÚltimo🚨 | Agentes de la OCN Interpol Lima reciben al feminicida confeso Joran Van der Sloot, quien seguirá cumpliendo su condena en nuestro territorio, por el delito contra la vida, el cuerpo y la salud- Homicidio. Será internado en el Establecimiento Penitenciario Ancón I. pic.twitter.com/RMR0WlW6at
— Policía Nacional del Perú (@PoliciaPeru) October 31, 2023
Joran van der Sloot was not prosecuted before his shocking admission
Joran van der Sloot was the chief suspect in American high school student Holloway’s disappearance in Aruba in 2005, even though authorities in the Dutch Caribbean island never prosecuted him.
However, in an interview with his attorney conducted in the US after his extradition, the criminal admitted to beating the young woman to death on a beach after she refused his advances.
He also confessed to dumping the victim's body into the sea.
Jordan van der Sloot asked a quarter of a million dollars to reveal the location of the victim's remains
Jordan van der Sloot, 36, was charged in the US for seeking a quarter of a million dollars to tell Holloway’s family the location of her remains.
A plea deal in exchange for a 20-year sentence required him to provide all the information he knew about Holloway’s disappearance, allow her parents to hear in real-time his discussion with law enforcement, and take a polygraph test.
New videos show Joran van der Sloot in shackles
Video shared on social media by Peru’s National Police shows Joran van der Sloot, with his hands and feet shackled, walking on the tarmac while being surrounded by two Interpol agents, each grabbing one of his arms.
He wore a pink short-sleeved shirt, jeans, tennis shoes and a bulletproof vest that identified him as an Interpol detainee.
El holandés fue custodiado por agentes federales del U. S Marshal Service del Departamento de Justicia de los Estados Unidos de América. Asimismo, las unidades especializadas de la @PoliciaPeru han implementado dispositivos de seguridad con el fin de garantizar su traslado. pic.twitter.com/bmUK9uQY58
— Policía Nacional del Perú (@PoliciaPeru) October 31, 2023
The video also showed him doing paperwork at the airport where he also underwent a health exam.
Col Aldo Avila, head of Interpol in Peru, said Joran van der Sloot would be taken to a prison in the northern Lima, the capital.
Three patrol cars and three police motorcycles left the airport, about two hours after Van der Sloot's arrival, escorting a black vehicle with tinted windows.
Jordan van der Sloot killed a student from a prominent Peruvian family
His sentence for extortion will run concurrently with prison time he is serving for murder in Peru, where he pleaded guilty in 2012 to killing 21-year-old Stephany Flores, a business student from a prominent Peruvian family. She was killed in 2010 five years to the day after Holloway’s disappearance.
Before he was extradited to the US, he was housed in a prison in a remote area of the Andes, called Challapalca, at 4,600 meters (about 15,090 feet) above sea level.