Evil  best  deserves  to  suffer  for what  evil  does

 

On May 30, 2005, an American student, Natalee Holloway, 19, from Alabama vanished on a high school graduation trip to Aruba, a Caribbean country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

 

Holloway, who had been scheduled to fly home later on May 30, did not appear for her return flight, and her packed luggage and passport were found in her Holiday Inn room.

 

She had previously been seen by her American classmates leaving the Aruban bar and night club Carlos'n Charlie's around 1:30 am on May 30. Holloway actually left with 17-year-old Joran van der Sloot, a Dutch honors student living in Aruba and attending the Aruba International School, and his two Surinamese friends, 21-year-old Deepak Kalpoe and 18-year-old Satish Kalpoe, in Deepak Kalpoe's car. The four suspects were subsequently arrested.

 

On July 25, 2005, the reward for Holloway's safe return was increased from $200,000 to $1,000,000, with a $100,000 reward for information leading to the location of her remains. Following Holloway's disappearance, a reward of $50,000 had been established for her return. In August 2005, the reward for information as to her remains was increased from $100,000 to $250,000.

 

With the help of hundreds of volunteers, Aruban investigators conducted an extensive search for Holloway. Special Agents from the FBI, fifty Dutch soldiers and three specially equipped Dutch Air Force F-16 aircraft participated in the search. In addition to the ground search, divers examined the ocean floor for evidence of Holloway's body. The searches were unsuccessful; Holloway's body was never found.

 

Van der Sloot admitted seeing her by telling the authorities several different scenarios, including leaving her drunk on the beach and selling her into the sex trade. He was twice arrested but never formally charged for any crime relating to the case in Aruba.

 

On September 3, 2005, all four of the detained suspects were released by a judge despite the attempts of the prosecution to keep them in custody, on the condition that they remain available to police. Subsequently, on September 14, all restrictions on them were removed by the Combined Appeals Court of the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba.

 

On December 18, 2007, Aruban prosecutors announced that the case would be closed without any charges being brought against him and three of his friends who were with him the night she disappeared. The Aruban prosecutor's office reopened the case on February 1, 2008, after receiving video footage of van der Sloot, under the influence of marijuana, making statements that Holloway died on the morning of May 30, 2005, and that he disposed of her body. Van der Sloot later denied that what he said was true.

 

A broadcast aired on February 3, 2008, included excerpts from footage recorded from hidden cameras and microphones in the vehicle of Patrick van der Eem, a Dutch businessman and ex-convict, who gained Van der Sloot's confidence. Van der Sloot was seen smoking marijuana and stating that he was with Holloway when she began convulsively shaking, then she became unresponsive. Van der Sloot stated that he attempted to revive her, without success. He said that he called a friend, who told Van der Sloot to go home and that the friend disposed of the body. An individual reputed to be this friend, identified in the broadcast as Daury, subsequently denied Van der Sloot's account, indicating that he was then at school in Rotterdam.

 

In 2010, van der Sloot was charged with attempting to extort $250,000 from Beth Holloway, (Natalee’s mother) in exchange for the exact location and details of her daughter’s death. Holloway had given him $25,000 as a down payment, but he took the money and traveled to Peru to play in a poker tournament using Mrs. Hathaway’s money.

 

While he was in Lima, Peru, he met college student, Stephany Flores and talked her into going with him into his Lima hotel room. He later killed her when he realized that she had found incriminating materials in his computer connecting him to the murder of Natalee Holloway. Van der Sloot admitted to killing Flores, but blamed post-traumatic stress disorder for being accused of Holloway’s disappearance which he claimed made him kill the Peruvian girl. Flores was murdered five years to the day that Holloway disappeared.

 

The 26-year-old murderer was sentenced to 28 years, in a Peruvian prison for two years short of the maximum sentence of 30 years. When I was in Lima in 1980 as a speaker at a UN crime conference, I was invited by the Peruvian justice minister to visit one of the Peruvian prisons. Believe me when I tell you that that country’s prisons are not what you will ever want to serve time in. Van der Sloot was also ordered to pay the Flores family $75,000 in damages. He also faces 25 years in the American extortion case.

 

In 2010, Beth Holloway was able to sneak into the Peruvian jail to question van der Sloot about her daughter’s disappearance. Holloway was accompanied by Dutch investigative journalist Peter de Vries, who captured the visit on camera. Holloway was able to get van der Sloot to admit to the extortion, but not to the truth about what happened to her daughter.             

 

In May 2012, , an agreement was reached last year between the United States and Peru, that van der Sloot would be extradited to the US to face charges in the United States on the basis that while he was in Peru, he was a foreign national. The extradition stalled after van der Sloot’s lawyer was able to negotiate an eleventh-hour deal to keep the Dutchman in Peru. By marrying a local Peruvian, he could automatically apply for Peruvian citizenship, which would hinder America’s chances of extraditing him.  

 

Leydi Figueroa Uced, a 22-year-old Peruvian woman regularly visited van der Sloot in Piedras Gordas prison. His lawyer, Máximo Altez, confirmed the impending nuptials, was to take place in prison in sometime in June, 2013. Last October van der Sloot told the Dutch daily De Telegraaf that his bride-to-be was pregnant with his child, but no reports of the baby’s birth have since been released. Conjugal visits are allowed in Peruvian prisons if couples register as common-law partners, as these two lovebirds were and still are. 

 

The now 26-year-old Dutchman’s new bride sanity may be questionable for her taste in men. I am forced to ask myself what prompted this woman to want to marry a man who is suspected of murdering one woman and who has been convicted of murdering another woman. I believe such women are losers and because they feel superior to other losers who are murders and sentenced to long terms of imprisonment, they choose to marry them. While no one can know for sure whether van der Sloot and Figueroa Uced are truly in love, this murderer by marrying a Peruvian woman and fathering her child may save him from being extradited to the United States to face a trial for extortion.

 

I believe that van der Sloop murdered Natalee Holoway also and I hope he remains in the Peruvian prison for the entire length of his sentence before he is released. As the title of this article says, evil best deserves to suffer for what evil does.