The suspect Natalee Holloway is extradited to the United States
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Eighteen years after 18-year-old Natalee Holloway disappeared while on a trip with classmates in Aruba, the prime suspect in the case is being extradited to the US to face charges of racketeering and wire fraud in connection with the case, the authorities said new York Just.
Holloway, who was from Alabama, was last seen in the early hours of May 30, 2005 leaving a club with Joran van der Sloot and two other men. A judge from Alabama she explained Officially dead in 2012, although no one has ever been charged in her disappearance. Van der Sloot, a Dutch citizen, has has served a 28-year sentence for the 2010 murder of Stephany Flores in Peru. The procedure for temporary extradition from Peru to the USA started this week, loud abc news.
A grand jury in Alabama indicted van der Sloot on racketeering and wire fraud related to the 2010 case Associated Press, an FBI agent wrote in legal documents that van der Sloot contacted Holloway’s mother and told him that he would reveal the location of Holloway’s body if the family paid him $25,000 in advance. (When the remains were found, he wanted an additional $225,000.) During an undercover operation, he pointed to a house where Holloway’s remains were said to be buried, but no remains were found, and he later admitted to have lied.
Flores, 21, was found dead in a Lima hotel room on May 30, 2010, five years to the day after Holloway’s disappearance. Prosecutors said van der Sloot killed Flores when he tried to rob her after finding out she had won money at a casino where he met her. VanderSloot confessed She murdered them and was sentenced to 28 years in prison in 2012.
Holloway’s disappearance became national news and has spawned several books, films, and podcasts over the years. On Wednesday, Holloway’s mother, Beth Holloway, said published an opinion She is grateful that van der Sloot will be extradited “to answer for his crimes”.
“She would be 36 now,” Holloway’s mother wrote. “It has been a very long and painful road, but the perseverance of many will pay off. Together we can finally get justice for Natalee.”
