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Joran van der Sloot Confesses to Natalee Holloway’s Murder

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Joran van der Sloot has finally confessed to killing Natalee Holloway in a proffer eighteen years after her murder.

He pled guilty earlier this week to trying to extort $250,000 dollars from Natalee’s mother, Beth Holloway.  Be warned, his confession while brief, confesses the bare minimum, and is stone-cold chilling. He lacks any normal emotions and clearly has no remorse or regret: classic behavior of a psychopath.

You can listen to his confession here.

I never believed Joran van der Sloot from day one, and shared the boatloads of clues he left in his interviews.

I’ll provide links to those analysis below.

Were you following me when I wrote about Joran?

Van der Sloot’s confession is missing a lot of detail, if you ask me, but it likely alludes to the basic truth: a violent attack due to rebuffed sexual advances.  You don’t tell a psychopath no.

Van der Sloot also killed Stephanie Flores for rebuffed sexual advances as well in Peru.  He admitted to choking Flores, and I suspect that occurred with Holloway, too, sadly. I suspect he used it as a tool to get compliance for his needs, as horrific as that is to think about before killing these women.

He also creepily paints Natalee as an aggressor to his advances in his–what I would call–an edited confession.  I don’t believe for a minute that she got violent with him first by kicking him in the groin for making sexual advances, as he says. He likely choked her first, if she kicked him at all and it was likely a last ditched effort to get away–realizing she was in life-threatening trouble, sadly.  The truth can be so dark and painful to think about.

Do I think he only went into the water up to his knees? I question it: Would that carry a body away with certainty?  That seems questionable to me just on logic, but maybe the Aruba sea has deep drop offs in that location. I don’t know.

We don’t have the whole story here, and never will sadly. Not with a psychopath like Joran.

So this confession?  In my eyes, it’s a whitewashed version and told in a way that still protects Joran. He doesn’t want you to see all of him, still. But he at least owns it for Beth Holloway. I think she needed that to move on.

Looking back at what I wrote over a decade ago is also very chilling to read it now knowing his confession.

You can read my analysis from the Chris Cuomo interview in 2006 here. Or you can browse through all the posts I did over the years on this case by clicking here and here.

My heart goes out to the Holloway family to have to endure this psychopath for so long. Hopefully, they can move on with the lovely memories of Natalee, and find some healing, if that is possible.

Beth Holloway Meets Joran in Peru

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This is a fascinating video sent to me by Steve Kardian. In it, we see Beth Holloway meet with Joran van der Sloot in the Peruvian prison in hopes of getting answers as to what happened to her daughter, Natalee. Peter de Vries from the Netherlands appears to have arranged this for his television show.

When Joran first comes in, you can see he is extremely nervous. He is ghost-white nervous. He is so nervous, he can’t take his eyes off of Beth Twitty. Once Joran hears what she is talking about, he calms down some.

Joran tells us it is hard for him to talk to Beth and says it is not easy. I believe him here. He struggles to get the words out. Then he relaxes more as he realizes he has the upper hand in the situation and he takes control. He compliments Beth and I believe he truly means it. He DOES know Beth has a good heart. Psychopaths can sniff that stuff out a mile away. That’s how they find their victims. And then Joran tests Beth by saying he hopes he can have time to think about what he wants to say.

When Beth doesn’t give an ultimatum, Joran wins, again. He escapes the hot seat.

At that moment, my heart sunk.

Beth should have been coached to say, “Listen Joran. You don’t have time. The prosecutors have said you can have this deal today and only today. Either you confess the truth now or its over. If you lie again, you won’t get a second chance –instead you will face harsher consequences. I can give you 5 minutes to put your thoughts together. You CAN get a deal, Joran. This is in your best interest and my best interest. You have to do this. Save both us. Too many others have been died because of this. Today is the day to end it all and get closure — for you and for me. I hope you’ll take it — this is what we are offering. The prosecutor is outside waiting. Let me know your decision. After 5 minutes, the deal is up.”

But Beth spoke as a mom in need of answers, as a truly caring and emotional individual who wants closure. She did talk from the heart and that heart didn’t soften Joran one iota! Joran wasn’t about to do it. He tells us he wants to write her. What he wants is to think about what is best for him. Joran won’t be put on the spot if he doesn’t have to be and he managed to get out of it.

At the end, Joran gets a kick out of the candy bar and about meeting Beth. He has a genuine grin on his face and he seemed to enjoy it as he talks to her when he leaves the room. He loves being deemed important to the point it is absolutely sickening. I think he will revel in meeting Beth, as sick as that is to write.

My heart goes out to Beth. She deserves answers, but Joran won’t give her anything unless he believes it is in HIS best interest, which at this point, he wasn’t convinced.