In January , he was sentenced to 28 years behind bars after being convicted of murdering Stephany Flores in Flores was 21 when van der Sloot strangled and beat her to death in his hotel room only days after meeting her in Lima, according to prosecutors. They said during the trial he was upset because Flores had asked him about his alleged involvement in Natalee Holloway's disappearance. Holloway declared legally dead. Van der Sloot is scheduled to be released on June 10, ; but his attorney says the year sentence can be reduced considerably "for good behavior.
The inmate has long been considered the prime suspect in the disappearance of Holloway, an year-old from Alabama. She was last seen in the early hours of May 30, , leaving a nightclub on the Caribbean island of Aruba with van der Sloot and two other men.
Van der Sloot was arrested twice in Aruba in connection with Holloway's disappearance, but was never charged. He has denied responsibility for her disappearance. American authorities accuse him of extorting money from Holloway's mother by offering bogus information about her daughter's disappearance. Holloway, an year-old from Alabama, was last seen in the early hours of May 30, , leaving a nightclub in Aruba with van der Sloot and two other men.
She'd gone to the Caribbean island with classmates to celebrate their graduation from Mountain Brook High School in suburban Birmingham, Alabama. Holloway's body has never been found, and she was declared legally dead in She is also working on getting a permit to videotape and photograph the ceremony.
There will be no reception at the prison. But Peru media reports that van der Sloot has two close friends in Peidras Gordas. They are "Crazy David" Sanchez and "El Cholo" Payet, two soccer hooligans each serving 35 years for a homicide during a soccer game in A Dutch newspaper reported in February that van der Sloot recently claimed he'd seen a bright white light in his cell and that it was the image of Dutch TV medium Robbert van den Broeke.
So if the van der Sloot-Figueroa wedding should morph from curious to paranormal perhaps no one should be surprised. Joran van der Sloot has served four years of his 28 year sentence for the murder of Stephany Flores. When he is released from prison in Peru he will be extradited to the United States where he faces federal extortion charges in Alabama in connection to the Natalee Holloway case. That night, Twitty, her husband Jug Holloway's step-father and family friends arrive in Aruba on a rented jet.
Their questioning takes them from the Holiday Inn to Carlos 'n Charlie's and eventually to the van der Sloot home in Noord. Van der Sloot admits he left the bar with Holloway and the Kalpoe brothers and drove to a lighthouse, before dropping her off at the Holiday Inn. He leads the group to the hotel, promising to point out the security guard who allegedly helped her inside, but is unable to find the guard.
With Holloway not officially determined to be "missing" yet, a group of approximately tourists and various locals starts combing the area. In the coming weeks, the search expands to include a volunteer team from Texas, Aruban police, Dutch Marines and three F fighter planes from the Netherlands, though none are able to locate any sign of Holloway.
The first suspects detained in the case are former security guards of a hotel closed for renovation, though they are released eight days later. Authorities would also soon arrest and release van der Sloot's father Paulus and a party-boat DJ. Under pressure from the Twittys and government officials, deputy police chief Gerold Dompig arrests the three young men who were last spotted with Holloway.
The suspects now change their story, with the Kalpoe brothers claiming they had dropped their friend and Holloway off at a beach near the Holiday Inn, and van der Sloot insisting he had left her there to walk home.
It is also announced that van der Sloot will be held for another 60 days. No reason is given for the judge's decision. The strands are found stuck to a piece of duct tape on Aruba's northeast coast and sent to the FBI crime lab in Quantico, Virginia, which returns the news of a negative match to Holloway on July Acting on a tip from a gardener, who claimed to have seen van der Sloot and the Kalpoes digging next to the nearby Mariott Hotel, authorities start draining the pond across from the Mariott.
They abandon the effort on July One week after the Kalpoes are re-arrested, the brothers and van der Sloot are released from prison on the condition that they remain available to the police.
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