Van der Sloot 'confesses' to Holloway Death

Jeroen van der Sloot 'confesses' to false confession

by Jamila Baaziz*

02-02-2008

Joran van der Sloot says that he has lied once again about the disappearance on the island of Aruba of US high school student Natalee Holloway. Earlier this week, it was revealed that Dutch crime reporter Peter R. de Vries has video footage in his possession - recorded secretly - on which Joran van der Sloot can be heard telling a friend that he dumped the body of the missing young woman. Interviewed on Dutch public television on Friday evening, he said that this claim on his part was a lie.
  

Joran van der Sloot - who has been questioned on several occasions by the police on the Caribbean island of Aruba where Natalee Holloway went missing at the end of her holiday there - now says that he told the friend in question ‘what he wanted to hear'. 

He told his friend that he had sex with the young American woman, and that she became ill afterwards and then died. He then phoned an anonymous friend who then helped him get rid of her body from a boat.

Speaking by telephone on Dutch television's popular late-evening Pauw en Witteman talk show, Joran van der Sloot said he was retrospectively kicking himself for having said this: "It's so dumb, so dumb. It's really dumb. I said something; something I shouldn't have said." However, he also added that "It is also easy to prove that what I said is not true," although he appeared not to know how this could be done.

No arrests
Joran van der Sloot's videoed 'confession' is part of the material Peter R. de Vries has put together on the unsolved mystery of Natalee Holloway's disappearance on the island of Aruba (an autonomous state within the Kingdom of the Netherlands).

A well-known crime reporter in the Netherlands, Mr de Vries will be presenting this material in a special two-hour programme to be broadcast on one of the Netherlands commercial TV stations on Sunday, 3 February.

Earlier this week, he announced that, thanks to his own investigations, the Holloway case is now more or less solved, and that all will be revealed during his television programme. He has already notified the Public Prosecutor's Office in Aruba and also asked Natalee's mother, Beth Twitty, to come to the Netherlands so that he could present his findings to her in person in advance of the broadcast.

The Aruban Public Prosecutor's Office has since reopened the investigation into the disappearance on the basis of the new material, although there has been no word so far of any new arrests being made in connection with it.

Leak
The Peter R. de Vries programme containing this ‘new information' is being looked forward to on Aruba itself with understandably great anticipation. A local newspaper has already published part of a leaked conversation between the crime reporter and Aruba's Public Prosecution chief Hans Mos, in which Mr Mos talks of Joran van der Sloot ‘coming out'. It's not yet exactly clear what Mr Mos meant by this, although he was talking at the time about the video material of Joran van der Sloot's ‘confession' to a friend.

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