Joran van der Sloot Confesses to Natalee Holloway’s Murder
Joran van der Sloot has finally confessed to killing Natalee Holloway in a proffer eighteen years after her murder.
He pled guilty earlier this week to trying to extort $250,000 dollars from Natalee’s mother, Beth Holloway. Be warned, his confession while brief, confesses the bare minimum, and is stone-cold chilling. He lacks any normal emotions and clearly has no remorse or regret: classic behavior of a psychopath.
You can listen to his confession here.
I never believed Joran van der Sloot from day one, and shared the boatloads of clues he left in his interviews.
I’ll provide links to those analysis below.
Were you following me when I wrote about Joran?
Van der Sloot’s confession is missing a lot of detail, if you ask me, but it likely alludes to the basic truth: a violent attack due to rebuffed sexual advances. You don’t tell a psychopath no.
Van der Sloot also killed Stephanie Flores for rebuffed sexual advances as well in Peru. He admitted to choking Flores, and I suspect that occurred with Holloway, too, sadly. I suspect he used it as a tool to get compliance for his needs, as horrific as that is to think about before killing these women.
He also creepily paints Natalee as an aggressor to his advances in his–what I would call–an edited confession. I don’t believe for a minute that she got violent with him first by kicking him in the groin for making sexual advances, as he says. He likely choked her first, if she kicked him at all and it was likely a last ditched effort to get away–realizing she was in life-threatening trouble, sadly. The truth can be so dark and painful to think about.
Do I think he only went into the water up to his knees? I question it: Would that carry a body away with certainty? That seems questionable to me just on logic, but maybe the Aruba sea has deep drop offs in that location. I don’t know.
We don’t have the whole story here, and never will sadly. Not with a psychopath like Joran.
So this confession? In my eyes, it’s a whitewashed version and told in a way that still protects Joran. He doesn’t want you to see all of him, still. But he at least owns it for Beth Holloway. I think she needed that to move on.
Looking back at what I wrote over a decade ago is also very chilling to read it now knowing his confession.
You can read my analysis from the Chris Cuomo interview in 2006 here. Or you can browse through all the posts I did over the years on this case by clicking here and here.
My heart goes out to the Holloway family to have to endure this psychopath for so long. Hopefully, they can move on with the lovely memories of Natalee, and find some healing, if that is possible.
