Paul van der Sloot died all of the sudden of a coronary heart assault in February 2010, leaving his son adrift. In line with Holloway household lawyer John Kelly, a determined Joran emailed him that March, writing, as Kelly advised Dateline, “‘I wish to come clear. My father’s useless now. I’ve nothing to cover. I wish to assist Natalee’s household, however at a value, you recognize, for 1 / 4 million {dollars}…I’ll inform you what occurred to Natalee, the place she is now so you may assist Beth carry her house.'”
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 to be able to catch him committing wire fraud, which might a minimum of 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 seaside with Natalee, he wished to go, she resisted, after which he “obtained indignant and truly threw her. He truly made the gesture within the automobile, on video, displaying me how he threw her in anger, as a result of she would not depart at that time. And in accordance with him, she hit the again of her head, a lot of blood and she or he was useless.”
John stated he was skeptical of Joran’s general story, which was that he first hid Natalee’s physique on the seaside together with his father’s assist, after which the following day they buried her. However he nonetheless hoped they’d shaken one thing free.
“Once I obtained on the airplane Could 11 [2010], I assumed it was a executed deal,” John stated. “And he was going to be arrested sooner or later. That he’d be speaking sooner or later, and we would get some closure sooner or later.”
However the home Joran pointed to hadn’t been beneath development in 2010, in accordance with the authorities who stated they did not discover his story credible sufficient to make an arrest. He wasn’t even arrested for wire fraud.
John stated that Joran remained in contact with him up till Could 25, claiming he would flip himself in. As a substitute, he flew to Peru.