(AP) — Peru’s government will allow the extradition to the U.S. of the prime suspect in the unsolved 2005 disappearance of American student Natalee Holloway on the Island of Aruba.
Dutch citizen Joran van der Sloot will face trial for alleged extortion & wire fraud, charges stemming from the Holloway case.
Holloway, Birmingham, AL, was 18 when she was last seen during a trip with classmates to Aruba. Her mysterious disappearance after a night with friends at a nightclub sparked years of news coverage.
Holloway’s body was never found & no charges were filed against van der Sloot in the case. A judge later declared Holloway dead.
A grand jury in Alabama in 2010 indicted van der Sloot on wire fraud & extortion charges, accusing him of trying to extort $250,000 from Holloway’s mother in exchange for information on where her daughter was buried.
An FBI agent wrote in an affidavit that van der Sloot reached out to Holloway’s mother & wanted to be paid $25,000 to disclose the location & then another $225,000 when the remains were recovered. During a recorded sting operation, van der Sloot pointed to a house where he said Holloway was buried but in later emails admitted to lying about the location.
Van der Sloot is in Peru because he is serving 28 years in prison there after being convicted of murdering 21-year-old Peruvian student Stephany Flores who he met in a Lima casino in 2010.
The slaying occurred 5 years to the day after Holloway disappeared in Aruba, where van der Sloot lived. She was last seen leaving a bar with him.
Van der Sloot pleaded guilty in January 2012 to murder.
Prosecutors accused him of killing Flores, a business student from a prominent family, to rob her after learning she had won money at the casino where the 2 met. They said he killed her with “ferocity” & “cruelty,” beating then strangling her in his hotel room.
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