Courtroom data filed Friday point out Joran van der Sloot, the chief suspect in Natalee Holloway’s 2005 disappearance, intends to plead responsible in a federal case accusing him of making an attempt to extort cash from the lacking teen’s mom.
A federal decide set an Oct. 18 plea and sentencing listening to for van der Sloot in Birmingham, Alabama. He had beforehand entered a plea of not responsible within the case.
Emails despatched to van der Sloot’s lawyer and a spokeswoman for federal prosecutors weren’t instantly returned Friday night
Van der Sloot was extradited to Alabama from Peru, the place he’s serving a 28-year sentence after confessing to killing a Peruvian girl in 2010.
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Holloway went lacking throughout a highschool commencement journey with classmates to Aruba. The Alabama teen was final seen leaving a bar with van der Sloot, a pupil at a global faculty on the island. The mysterious disappearance sparked years of reports protection and numerous true-crime podcasts. Van der Sloot was recognized as a foremost suspect and was detained for questioning however no fees had been filed within the case.
A decide declared Holloway lifeless however her physique has by no means been discovered.
U.S. prosecutors say that in 2010, van der Sloot sought cash from Beth Holloway to reveal the situation of her daughter’s physique. A grand jury indicted him that yr.
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