Paul van der Sloot died immediately of a coronary heart assault in February 2010, leaving his son adrift. In accordance with Holloway household legal professional John Kelly, a determined Joran emailed him that March, writing, as Kelly advised Dateline, “‘I need to come clear. My father’s {dead} now. I’ve nothing to cover. I need to assist Natalee’s household, however at a worth, , for 1 / 4 million {dollars}…I’ll inform you what occurred to Natalee, the place she is now so you possibly can assist Beth carry her residence.'”
With Beth’s permission, John Kelly met with Joran in Aruba, promising to start out with $25,000. The younger man mentioned he knew the place the physique was; John requested what would occur in the event that they did not pay him. Joran allegedly replied, “‘Beth can wait one other 5 years.'” The household then turned to the FBI, which helped orchestrate a plan to make Joran suppose he’d be getting paid with the intention to catch him committing wire fraud, which might at the very least be one thing to carry him on.
John and Joran met once more, and this time John wired him a complete of $25,000. In flip, Joran led John to a home close to the Aruba Racquet Membership, the place he claimed he had stashed Natalee’s stays in what was then a freshly poured basis, earlier than the home was constructed. John said on Dateline that Joran claimed he had been on the seashore with Natalee, he needed to go, she resisted, after which he “obtained offended and truly threw her. He really made the gesture within the automobile, on video, displaying me how he threw her in anger, as a result of she would not depart at that time. And in line with him, she hit the again of her head, a lot of blood and he or she was {dead}.”
John mentioned he was skeptical of Joran’s general story, which was that he first hid Natalee’s physique on the seashore together with his father’s assist, after which the subsequent day they buried her. However he nonetheless hoped that they had shaken one thing unfastened.
“Once I obtained on the airplane Could 11 [2010], I assumed it was a performed deal,” John mentioned. “And he was going to be arrested sooner or later. That he’d be speaking sooner or later, and we might get some closure sooner or later.”
However the home Joran pointed to hadn’t been below development in 2010, in line with the authorities who mentioned they did not discover his story credible sufficient to make an arrest.
John mentioned that Joran remained in contact with him up till Could 25, claiming he would flip himself in. As a substitute, he flew to Peru.
A federal grand jury indicted him on prices of wire fraud and extortion on June 30, 2010.