Natalie Holloway was 18 when she vanished during a trip with classmates and was last seen leaving a bar with van der Sloot.
was handed over to U.S. custody and departed Peru on a flight to the United States on Thursday, roughly a month after both countries agreed on his extradition.
Video and photos released by Peruvian authorities Thursday show him wearing jeans and a black puffer jacket and gesturing contempt as officers adjusted his handcuffs and removed an Interpol-marked vest. Footage and images also show law enforcement officers from Peru, FBI and Interpol as well as one health care professional in a conference room with van der Sloot. for the murder of a Peruvian woman.
The federal charges filed in Alabama against van der Sloot stem from an accusation that he tried to extort the Holloway family in 2010, promising to lead them to her body in exchange for hundreds of thousands of dollars. A grand jury indicted him that year on one count each of wire fraud and extortion.
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