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CONVICTED killer Joran van der Sloot has once again been allegedly linked to the disappearance of Natalee Holloway in a newly released email.
The shocking development came as the Netherlands native awaits a court appearance where he is reportedly expected to reveal what happened after he disappeared in the night with the teen in 2005.
Holloway, then 18, met van der Sloot during a school trip in Aruba and was last seen by her classmates leaving a bar with him and two others.
Her body has never been found, and a judge declared her legally dead in 2012.
Van der Sloot has remained the prime suspect but did not face charges until he was accused of extorting Holloway’s family for money in June.
Prosecutors claim that van der Sloot approached the teen’s family and asked for money in exchange for information on her whereabouts.
He allegedly expected a total payout of $250,000 to lead them to the body, according to a representative for the family.
Van der Sloot was extradited from Peru where he was serving an unrelated murder sentence and is expected to plead guilty to federal extortion and fraud on Wednesday after previously denying any wrongdoing.
Throughout the years, he has been caught giving conflicting stories. but in a recently released email, he said that he and his father “took care of things” two days after her disappearance, The Messenger reports.
In a 2010 email obtained by federal prosecutors, the suspect told someone named David G that they rented a boat for the dubious ending, but ended the note with, “That’s all I’m going to say.”
Van der Sloot has also previously said that Holloway died of a seizure while the two were having sex on a beach and that he dumped her body with the help of two friends, a video interview released by Dutch journalists in 2008 revealed.
But he later told officials that he had been lying to impress one of the journalists who he suspected could have been a drug dealer.
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In 2008, yet another interview aired on Fox News revealed that the suspect said that he had sold Holloway into sexual slavery with the help of his father, but he also later retracted the statements.
The twisted narrative is expected to come to a close at his sentencing Wednesday, as the Holloways’ family attorney John Q. Kelly said that an expected plea deal will force him to reveal details on how the victim died and what happened to her body, Fox News reports.
According to Kelly, the search for the teen’s body is over.
HAUNTING HISTORY
Holloway and 124 of her classmates spent four days partying on the island before their final night out at Carlos’ n Charlie’s bar in Oranjestad, investigators determined.
The 18-year-old was last seen on May 29, 2005, getting into the back of a car with three men.
An extensive search of the island was launched after Holloway failed to board her return flight home.
Hundreds of volunteers from Aruba and the States offered to help – with the island’s government even giving workers the day off to assist.
Dutch authorities even sent 50 of its own marines and three Air Force F-16s with infrared sensors to aid the search of the shoreline, and $20,000 was raised to help fund the desperate search.
The mother Beth was housed in not just the same hotel but the very room that her daughter had stayed in during the ill-fated trip.
Natalee was not picked up on the hotel lobby’s cameras that night, but Police Commissioner Jan Van der Straaten said that the student would not have needed to enter the reception to return to her room.
All three men who were with the teen were arrested but were eventually released because of a lack of evidence.
Van der Sloot has been in a Peruvian prison since 2012 for the murder of college student Stephany Flores Ramírez in Lima, Peru – five years after Holloway’s disappearance.
He beat the Peruvian woman unconscious before smothering her with his bloodied shirt in a hotel room in what he said was an “impulsive act.”
Van der Sloot pleaded guilty to Ramirez’s murder and was sentenced to 28 years.
His plea and sentencing hearing is scheduled for 9.30 in a Birmingham, Alabama, federal courtroom.