CrimeOnline’s Nancy Grace doesn’t mince words speaking about Joran van der Sloot, the sole suspect in the 2005 disappearance and presumed murder of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway, who was on a graduation trip to Aruba when she vanished.
Van der Sloot, who is serving a 28-year sentence in Peru for the murder of 21-year-old Stephany Flores in 2010, is expected to be extradited to Alabama next week to face federal charges of wire fraud and extortion for demanding money from Beth Holloway, Natalee’s mother, for information about her daughter’s death.
“Five years to the day after he murdered an American sweetheart, Natalee Holloway, he then murdered another young woman he met in a casino — his MO, modus operandi, mode of operation,” Grace told Fox News. “He murdered her. Stephany Flores. He goes to jail in Peru where he’s living the high life. He’s got sex, drugs, alcohol, he’s even fathered a child behind bars. That’s what’s happening over there in Peru.”
“Now he’s coming to the U.S., not to answer charges for the murder of Natalee, but for extortion — it’s more than a scam,” she said. “He extorted Natalee’s mother. I spent time with her in Aruba, and she described literally falling on the ground at the foot of a cross on the side of a road … when it hit her that Natalee had been murdered and was dead. She was never coming back.”
“And then he had the gall to try to extort her for a quarter million dollars in exchange for what really happened to Natalee and to lead the mother to her remains. That POC tried to bleed money out of a murder victim’s mother, and he’s gonna rot in hell, but he’s gonna go through the U.S. system first.”
Grace also explained the extradition treaty between the United States and Peru, which allows for a defendant serving time in that South American country to be temporarily brought to the United States to stand trial on other charges and then be returned to Peru to complete a prison term.
And Grace took a moment to discuss the Idaho guilty verdict this week for so-called “cult mom” Lori Vallow Daybell, who was convicted on murder and conspiracy to murder charges in the deaths of two of her children, JJ Vallow and Tylee Ryan, and her husband’s first wife, Tammy Daybell.
“That was a long time coming,” she said. “I think all her sexting with ‘the prophet’ — her fifth husband, Chad Daybell — didn’t help her in court, because literally while two of her children were buried in husband number five’s pet cemetery on his property, the two of them were dancing on a beach and sexting each other. That did not go down very well with this jury.”
Vallow Daybell will now be extradited to Arizona, where she will stand trial for conspiracy in the murder of her fourth husband, Charles Vallow.
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