Joran van der Sloot, the longtime main suspect in the Natalie Holloway disappearance in Aruba in 2005, confessed earlier this month to the May 30 killing of Stefany Flores in Peru. Van der Sloot is now retracting his confession and says it was obtained under false pretenses. Specifically, van der Sloot claims he was “intimidated” and “tricked” into confessing to the murder by promises that he would be extradited to the Netherlands.
“I was in a blind panic and signed everything they put in front of me, I didn’t even know what was in those papers,” van der Sloot told a local Dutch newspaper.
“I was really scared during the interrogations, I was confused and just wanted it to end,” he added. “They kept telling me, ‘If you sign these papers you’ll be extradited to the Netherlands’.”
Obviously, van der Sloot’s arrest and confession to the murder of Stefany Flores makes it all the more likely that he was involved in the Natalie Holloway murder.
Hopefully the Peruvian court system will be able to prove van der Sloot’s guilt and place him behind bars for a long time. Although at the expense of another death, the Holloway family might finally be able to get some closure on the death of their daughter, and see redemption for her murder in the form of jail time for van der Sloot.
