Thaindian News

June 12, 2010 (Pen Men at Work): Dutch national, Joran van der Sloot, who was arrested and later released over lack of evidence in link with the disappearance of Natalee Holloway, had offered to give information about her to her family. He approached the lawyer of Holloway’s mother in March last year and offered to provide information about the whereabouts of her remains but in exchange for cash.

Sloot contacted Holloway’s representative John Q. Kelly by email and asked for $25000 in exchange for giving information about Natalee’s death as well as the location of her remains. Kelly met him in an Aruban hotel and handed him $10,000 from the Holloway family. But Kelly had informed the Aruban law enforcement to record the exchange with van der Sloot for in order to be able to provide evidence for future prosecution.

The information provided by Sloot said that Natalee had knocked her head on a rock and died after an attempt to get away. He confessed that he had pushed her to the ground. He said that her remains were disposed by his father Paulus van der Sloot, in the gravel under the foundation of a single story home.

Reports say that Slooth used the money to travel to Peru from Aruba, where he has been charged for the murder of the business student Stephany Flores Ramirez.

Natalee Holloway simply got lost during the graduation trip with her high school friends to Aruba five years ago. She was last seen with Joran van der Sloot together with two of his friends in a car.