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Joran van der Sloot is expected to plead guilty to his involvement in an extortion plot connected to Natalee Holloway's disappearance, and her family's lawyer told NBC News the deal will require him to reveal how the Alabama teen died. “It was conditioned upon Mr. van der Sloot revealing details of how Natalee died and how her body was disposed of,” family lawyer John Q. Kelly told NBC News Sunday.
Van der Sloot, a Dutch national has long been considered a suspect in the teen's presumed slaying, and a federal grand jury indicted van der Sloot in 2010 on two counts of wire fraud and extortion. He was extradited to the United States in June to face allegations that he demanded $250,000 from her family in exchange for information about about her disappearance. Court records showed he was scheduled for a plea and sentencing hearing Wednesday before U.
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