Joran Van Der Sloot Confesses To Killing Natalee Holloway & Disposing Of Her Body

Joran van der Sloot, the man suspected to be involved in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway in 2005, has confessed to her murder, a federal judge said on Tuesday.

Van der Sloot said in his plea agreement that he kicked Holloway in the face after she resisted his advances when they met in 2005 in Aruba, where he lived and she was visiting. He then crushed her head with a cinder block and threw her body into the ocean.

Van der Sloot was one of the last people to be seen with the then-18-year-old from Alabama before she went missing. He was indicted in 2010 on federal charges of extortion and wire fraud that were connected with a plan to sell information about Holloway to her mother, Beth Holloway, in exchange for $250,000.

According to the indictment, Beth wired $15,000 to van der Sloot’s bank account in the Netherlands and gave him another $10,000 in person. Van der Sloot then showed the family’s attorney where Holloway’s body was allegedly hidden but later admitted in an email that the information was “worthless.”

Van Der Sloot’s plea agreement on the federal charges required him to answer questions about how Holloway died and was disposed of.

“There won’t be any further investigation or search… for Natalee’s remains,” said Holloway family attorney John Kelly on Today.

Holloway was last seen 18 years ago with van der Sloot and two other men at a nightclub in Aruba. No one was ever charged with her murder and her body has never been found. In 2010, an Alabama judge declared Holloway legally dead.