Listen to Joran van der Sloot’s Confession to Natalee Holloway’s Murder

Pilar Melendez

October 18, 2023 at 2:15 p.m.

In court documents released on Wednesday, Joran van der Sloot finally detailed how he murdered Alabama teen Natalee Holloway on an Aruba beach in May 2005 after she rebuffed his sexual advances.

Read and listen to the Oct. 3, 2023 proffer confession below that marks the end of a decades-long true crime mystery.

Audio supplied by U.S. District Court Northern District of Alabama, Southern Division.

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