Paul van der Sloot died immediately of a coronary heart assault in February 2010, leaving his son adrift. In line with Holloway household legal professional John Kelly, a determined Joran emailed him that March, writing, as Kelly informed Dateline, “‘I wish to come clear. My father’s lifeless now. I’ve nothing to cover. I wish to assist Natalee’s household, however at a worth, you understand, for 1 / 4 million {dollars}…I’ll let you know what occurred to Natalee, the place she is now so you’ll be able to assist Beth deliver her residence.’”

With Beth’s permission, John Kelly met with Joran in Aruba, promising to begin with $25,000. The younger man stated he knew the place the physique was; John requested what would occur in the event that they did not pay him. Joran allegedly replied, “‘Beth can wait one other 5 years.’” The household then turned to the FBI, which helped orchestrate a plan to make Joran suppose he’d be getting paid as a way to catch him committing wire fraud, which might at the least be one thing to carry him on.

John and Joran met once more, and this time John wired him a complete of $25,000. In flip, Joran led John to a home close to the Aruba Racquet Membership, the place he claimed he had stashed Natalee’s stays in what was then a freshly poured basis, earlier than the home was constructed. John said on Dateline that Joran claimed he had been on the seashore with Natalee, he needed to go, she resisted, after which he “received indignant and really threw her. He really made the gesture within the automotive, on video, exhibiting me how he threw her in anger, as a result of she would not depart at that time. And in keeping with him, she hit the again of her head, a number of blood and he or she was lifeless.”

John stated he was skeptical of Joran’s total story, which was that he first hid Natalee’s physique on the seashore along with his father’s assist, after which the subsequent day they buried her. However he nonetheless hoped that they had shaken one thing free.

“After I received on the aircraft Could 11 [2010], I believed it was a accomplished deal,” John stated. “And he was going to be arrested in some unspecified time in the future. That he’d be speaking in some unspecified time in the future, and we might get some closure in some unspecified time in the future.”

However the home Joran pointed to hadn’t been underneath building in 2010, in keeping with the authorities who stated they did not discover his story credible sufficient to make an arrest.

John stated that Joran remained in contact with him up till Could 25, claiming he would flip himself in. As an alternative, he flew to Peru.

A federal grand jury indicted him on expenses of wire fraud and extortion on June 30, 2010.