Natalee Holloway's confessed killer caught trying to extort $250K from grieving mother in FBI sting video
The Netflix true crime docuseries "Taken: Natalee Holloway," co-directed by Dani Sloane and Matthew Galkin, features video of the 2010 sting operation showing the Dutch national attempting to extort money from Holloway's family.
Key points
- Nearly five years after Holloway's disappearance, van der Sloot emailed Kelly, an attorney for Holloway's mother, Beth Holloway, the film revealed.
- He feels really cavalier and he's just casual about the whole thing." SERIAL KILLER SURVIVOR WHO ESCAPED 18-HOUR CAPTIVITY REVEALS INSTINCT SHE WISHES SHE NEVER IGNORED "It’s pretty haunting to see," Sloane added.
- GET BREAKING NEWS BY EMAIL Before the meeting, Kelly had contacted the FBI, which worked with police in Aruba to secretly record the exchange in hopes of building a criminal case against van der Sloot.
Now, previously unseen video from an FBI sting reveals just how far he was willing to go to exploit a grieving mother's desperate search for answers.
Additional details
- Joran van der Sloot spent years tormenting Natalee Holloway's family with a tangled web of lies.
- I've been doing this for a really long time, but I personally have never seen anything like this where it's very clear who did this." "He is so masterful at evading law enforcement and evading consequences by just outright lying," Sloane added.
- According to the film, Beth agreed to give van der Sloot $25,000 because she believed it was her chance to finally learn what happened to her daughter from the man she had long suspected of killing her.
- "He's having a casual conversation while he's extorting the mother of his victim for money, for information that only he knows.
- We did our own approximations and it's a pretty staggering number of different stories he told, even just small details he changed within the storytelling about what happened that night.
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