Holloway Suspect: I Sold Her

Suspect says he dumped her body

(NEWSER) - The young Dutchman who has been arrested twice in connection with the disappearance of Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway in Aruba in 2005 is on tape confessing to dumping her body—but the prosecutor doesn’t believe him. Joran van der Sloot’s claim that he disposed of her body “in a swamp on the north end of the island” is “unbelievable,” the prosecutor tells CNN . “He was very unspecific.” More»

Her parents had made his life really difficult

(NEWSER) - When the family of Natalee Holloway offered Joran Van der Sloot cash for the location of her body, he figured who was he to turn them down? The murder suspect tells Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf today that he took $25,000 from Natalee's mother, then flew to Latin America—where he was shortly charged in the murder of Stephany Flores. More»

Dutchman says he's ready to talk about Natalee Holloway disappearance

(NEWSER) - Joran Van der Sloot may have offered to tell Aruba cops where Natalee Holloway is buried as a ploy to get out of Peruvian jail, but Aruba appears to be taking him seriously. Island authorities plan to send a cop and a prosecutor to quiz Van der Sloot in Peru this summer over the American teenager's disappearance, the AP reports. Van der Sloot, currently awaiting trial for murder in Lima, has long been the only suspect in the Holloway case. More»

But confessed killer won't spill to anyone but Aruba cops

(NEWSER) - We've heard this song before, but Joran Van der Sloot is singing it again: The confessed murderer claims he knows where Natalee Holloway's body is buried—but says he won't give details to anyone but the cops in Aruba, reports the New York Daily News . Police sources told NBC News that he admitted to knowing the location last night. More»

More details emerge in the Flores murder

(NEWSER) - Joran Van der Sloot has confessed —to one killing. But as more details in the Stephany Flores Ramirez case leak, new information regarding Natalee Holloway's disappearance may have come to light: Investigators in Aruba are searching near a bird sanctuary. More from the Daily Beast and the Telegraph :

• Van der Sloot may have bankrolled his trip to Peru using money he extorted from the Holloway family.
• Van der Sloot said he met Flores at a poker table; she was up, he was down.
• He discovered her using his computer after going out to get coffee in the early morning; according to a leaked police report, she was looking at a file filled with Holloway-related press clippings and legal documents.