CLOSURE IN '05 NATALEE VANISH CASE
Van der Sloot admits he killed teen in Aruba
Joran van der Sloot has finally admitted to killing Alabama teen Natalee Holloway 18 years ago — bludgeoning her to death on a darkened beach with a cinder block after she fought off his sexual advances.
The shocking admission was revealed by prosecutors Wednesday in an Alabama courtroom where van der Sloot pleaded guilty to extorting money from the missing teen’s mother, Beth Holloway.
The admission brings to a close 18 years of anguish and uncertainty for the family, who had never previously been able to get closure as to how exactly their daughter met her fate on a beach in the Caribbean island of Aruba.
Dutch citizen van der Sloot, 36, had long been the prime suspect in the 18-year-old’s disappearance, after the blond-haired beauty was last seen leaving a bar with him on May 30, 2005.
In van der Sloot’s confession prior to the sentencing, he detailed how after a date he took her to the beach and started kissing her, according to federal court documents obtained by The Post.
“I start feeling her up again and she tells me no. She tells me she doesn’t want me to,” he told his attorney, according to the docs.
“Uh, I insist. I keep feeling her up either way.”
The American teen kneed him in the crotch — enraging the killer, who said he knocked her out by kicking her “extremely hard” in the face.
Van der Sloot then grabbed a nearby cinder block, he said— reportedly confessing: “I smash her head in with it completely.” He then carried her battered body knee-deep into the surf and let her float out into the sea, he said.
Van der Sloot had already been arrested in Aruba twice on suspicion of Holloway’s murder but ultimately released for lack of evidence. Holloway’s body was never found, but a judge declared her dead. He will not be charged in her murder because the statute of limitations in Aruba — one of the four countries that make up the Kingdom of the Netherlands — is 12 years.
Outside of the court, Holloway’s shattered mom also revealed that shameless van der Sloot confessed going home and watching porn after taking her daughter’s life. “As far as I’m concerned, it’s over,” Beth Holloway told reporters outside the federal courthouse in Alabama.
“Joran van der Sloot is no longer the suspect in my daughter’s murder. He is the killer.”
Van der Sloot was required to give his confession as one of the conditions of a plea deal over extortion and wire fraud. The charges relate to an incident in 2010 when he asked Holloway’s family in the US for $250,000 to reveal the location of her body.
After they paid him $25,000 of the money, he made a sworn statement to the FBI claiming the body was buried under gravel behind a house near the Aruba Racquet Club — but he later admitted that was a lie.
He fled Aruba to Peru before authorities could arrest him for extortion.
Later that year — on the fifth anniversary of Holloway’s death — van der Sloot killed another young woman, Stephany Flores, after she also rejected his sexual advances.
He was convicted of that murder and is currently serving 28 years behind bars. The 20year sentence he received in Alabama Wednesday will run concurrently with his other sentence and will be served in Peru. Holloway’s younger sister, Kaitlyn Holloway, told The Post she had sat with her family in the court audience about 20 feet from van der Sloot as he was sentenced.
As part of the proceedings, van der Sloot issued an apology and said he was a born-again Christian, but the family is not buying it.
“He is a monster and even laying eyes on him made me feel sick inside,” Kaitlyn said.
“He did apologize and he said something along the lines that he gave himself to God and that he’s a Christian — that he’s a changed man. I really don’t think that’s true.
“I don’t think it was a sincere apology, considering all the damage he has done. I think it was some BS.”
Holloway’s father, David, also provided a victim-impact statement, saying: “Despite everything he has done to us, he is not sorry for what he did.
“He expressed no remorse, regret, or even compassion . . . He is evil personified.”