FBI Sting Video Shows Van der Sloot Extorting Beth Holloway for $250,000
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Updated · Fox News · Nov 14
FBI Sting Video Shows Van der Sloot Extorting Beth Holloway for $250,000
3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Nov 14
Summary
$10,000 in newly shown FBI sting footage captures Joran van der Sloot taking an initial cash payment in Aruba as he sought $250,000 from Beth Holloway for details about Natalee Holloway's death and remains.
The 2010 meeting was arranged with Beth Holloway's lawyer after van der Sloot emailed an offer, and the FBI worked with Aruban police to secretly record the exchange while building an extortion case.
The information he sold was false: van der Sloot led the lawyer to a house and claimed Natalee Holloway's body was buried in its foundation, but investigators found no evidence to support it.
Van der Sloot later fled to Peru, where he murdered Stephany Flores Ramírez that same month; in 2023 he pleaded guilty in the U.S. extortion case, received a 20-year sentence and confessed to killing Natalee Holloway in 2005.