Suspect in Natalee Holloway case invents a new lie

Published on February 23, 2010 at 3:22 PM

holloway - van der Sloot[HMG] – In the latest twist on the story that must make her parents feel they’re being turned on a spit, Joran van der Sloot, the chief suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Natalee Holloway has presented yet another version of how their teen died.

Arrested shortly after the Alabama-born teen disappeared on a graduation trip from Mountain Brook High School to the island of Aruba, van der Sloot initially claimed that Natalee died accidentally.

Three years later he was taped boasting that she died of a seizure and he’d dumped her at sea. But he was stoned at the time and the story was false.

Later he told Greta van Sustren he’d traded Natalee into white slavery and ‘sold her to a man on a boat for $10,000.’ However, van der Sloot later insisted to Police he’d also made up that story.

This time, the blame-shirking 22-year old Dutch honors student claims he dumped Natalee’s body in a swamp on the Caribbean island, soon after he and his two friends, brothers Deepak and Satish Kalpoe had their fun.

Not surprisingly, no-one believes him.

“The locations, names and times he gave just did not make sense,” Aruba’s chief prosecutor Peter Blanken told MSNBC,  adding that this latest story was “held together by lies and fantasy, and very unbelievable.”

Natalee was last seen getting into a car with van der Sloot and his buddies outside the popular club, ‘Carlos and Charlie’s at around 1.30am on May 30th of 2005. Her body has still not been found.

The three men have been repeatedly questioned by Aruba police since that night, but no-one has so far been charged. Police reopened the case when they heard of a new ‘confession,’ but no further action is planned as van der Sloot is so unreliable…


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