U.S. District Judge Karen Bowdre on Wednesday successfully sought a recusal from the Joran van der Sloot extortion case, court records show. A reason for the request was not disclosed. The case has been reassigned to U.S. District Judge Anna Manasco.
The 35-year-old van der Sloot has long been suspected in the disappearance and death of the Mountain Brook High School graduate visiting Aruba in 2005.Instead, he will be tried in Birmingham’s federal court on charges that he told Natalee’s mother, Beth Holloway, that he would lead her to Natalee’s body in exchange for $250,000.
Holloway paid van der Sloot a $25,000 down payment only to find out that he lied about the location of Natalee’s remains. A federal grand jury in Birmingham indicted van der Sloot in 2010 on charges of extortion and wire fraud. Van der Sloot, a Dutch national from Aruba, is currently serving a 28-year prison sentence in Peru for the 2010 murder of Lima college student Stephany Flores.Van der Sloot will not fight extradition on the extortion charge, Peruvian attorney Maximo AltezIn the Alabama case, van der Sloot is represented by Kevin Butler of the federal public defender for Alabama’s Northern District Court.
Altez also told the news site that van der Sloot plans to divorce his current wife and marry “prettier and younger” Eva Pacohuanaco, a 24-year-old woman accused of helping van der Sloot smuggle almost 300 grams of cocaine and 140 grams of marijuana into a Peruvian jail.If you purchase a product or register for an account through one of the links on our site, we may receive compensation.
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