The prime suspect in the 2005 case of Natalee Holloway, a high school student who disappeared on a high school graduation trip to Aruba, is being extradited from Peru to the U.S. to face charges from 2010 that he extorted the missing woman’s family.
, “We hope that this action will enable a process that will help to bring peace to Mrs. Holloway and to her family, who are grieving in the same way that the Flores family in Peru is grieving for the loss of their daughter, Stephany.” on Wednesday, where she thanked multiple agencies for working to get van der Sloot extradited. “I was blessed to have had Natalee in my life for 18 years, and as of this month, I have been without her for exactly 18 years,” the statement read in part.
Since 2012, Van der Sloot has been in jail for the murder of 21-year-old Stephany Flores, who was found dead in his hotel room in 2010. It is unclear what prompted van der Sloot’s extradition now, since it wasHolloway disappeared on May 30, 2005, while she was on a trip to Aruba with more than 100 members of her Alabama high school class. Earlier, on the evening of the May 29, she and some classmates had been out at a bar in Oranjestad . According to the FBI, she was last seen around 1:30 a.m.
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