Court releases chilling audio of Joran van der Sloot’s Natalee Holloway murder confession
A chilling new audio recording reveals Joran van der Sloot calmly describing to cops how he smashed Natalee Holloway’s head with a cinder block for rebuffing his sexual advances on a tropical beach nearly two decades ago.
The 3-minute, 45-second recording, released by federal prosecutors in Alabama as part of van der Sloot’s guilty plea in a related case, betrays the Dutch killer’s callousness over the gruesome 2005 slaying.
“She tells me she doesn’t want me to — to feel her up,” van der Sloot calmly told investigators on Oct. 3. “Uh, I insist. I keep feeling her up either way. And she, uh, knees me, she ends up kneeing me in the crotch.
“When she knees me in the crotch I get up on the beach and I kick her — extremely hard — in the face,” he said. “Yeah, she’s laying down unconscious, possibly even, even dead. And I see right next to her there’s a, there’s a huge cinder block laying on the beach.
“I smash her head in with it completely. Yeah, her face basically, you know, collapses in. Even though it’s dark I can see her face is collapsed.”
Van der Sloot’s measured and matter-of-fact tone makes the horrifying confession even more shocking.
The 36-year-old killer said he was trying to get Holloway back to her hotel room hoping “I might still get a chance to be with her” when they stopped and began kissing — until she rebuffed him.
He claimed he carried her battered body into the surf and released her into the sea — then went back home and watched porn, according to Holloway’s family, who have heard his full confession.
“How could he have murdered her, and then he goes home and checks the soccer scores, gets on a porn site, gets up, takes a shower and goes to school,” Beth Holloway, Natalee’s mother, told NBC News.
Natalee Holloway’s younger sister, Kaitlyn, told The Post her father David and ex-wife, Beth, actually listened to van der Sloot’s confession in real time.
“I don’t know how my dad and Beth sat through that, listening to him and watching him confess,” Kaitlyn said on Thursday.
Kaitlyn heard the confession herself after the court date yesterday and described it as “spine-chilling,” adding: “I just saw the guy who destroyed my family and Natalee, but hearing it from him and hearing his voice was just traumatizing.”
Kaitlyn said while believes the graphic details as to how van der Sloot killed her sister, she doesn’t believe his account of how he disposed of the body.
She added: “There is no way he went into that knee-deep, shallow water so close to the shore and Natalee’s body did not wash up. I do believe he possibly could’ve gotten help. He probably knew of a way to dispose of her body. I definitely have mixed beliefs on how he disposed of her body.”
Holloway, 18, was on a high school trip on the resort island in May 2005 when she met van der Sloot at a local bar. She was last seen leaving with him.
Van der Sloot was a prime suspect in the high-profile slaying but was previously not charged for lack of evidence.
He has also not been charged with her murder because the statute of limitations on Aruba is 12 years.
US prosecutors finally got him on a charge of extorting money from Holloway’s family to reveal where her body was dumped — which proved to be a ruse.
Van der Sloot fled to Peru, where he killed Stephany Flores, a co-ed who also rebuffed is advances in 2010. He is serving a 28-year prison sentence for that crime.
Peruvian authorities agreed to extradite him to the US to face the extortion charges. Van der Sloot was hit with a 20-year sentence in the Alabama case.
“You have brutally murdered, in separate incidents, years apart, two young women who refused your sexual advances,” Judge Anna Manasco told van der Sloot at his sentencing this week.
Manasco called the extortion and fraud charges “heinous” because the killer knew the information he was selling was a lie to make a profit.
However, as part of the deal, she said federal prosecutors have agreed not to use his confession against him for any other purposes.
The confessed killer told authorities he was now a changed man and had become born again — a claim the slain teen’s family scoffed at.
“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,” Holloway’s kid sister, Kaitlyn, said this week.
“I don’t think it was a sincere apology considering all the damage he has done,” she said. “I think it was some BS.”
Beth Holloway, who lashed out at van der Sloot in court Wednesday, had some parting words as she left the Birmingham courthouse.
“After 18 years, Natalee’s case has been solved,” Holloway’s mother told reporters outside the courthouse after the hearing. “Joran van der Sloot is the killer.”
1 comment:
I guess that means the people who said he didn't do it will now give out a "whoops." Or not.
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