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Report: Joran van der Sloot confesses to Holloway murder

The Clarion-Ledger
This June 10, 2005, photo shows a missing poster for Natalee Holloway.

A man long suspected in the death of Natalee Holloway appeared to confess on video, according to RadarOnline.

Joran van der Sloot is in a Peru prison serving a 28-year sentence for the murder of Stephany Flores Ramirez. An operative working for RadarOnline and The ENQUIRER shot video Feb. 1 of a conversation in Dutch with van der Sloot and his wife inside the prison.

“I always lied to the police. I never told the truth,” van der Sloot said. “Also, when I was younger, I never told everything. The police just never knew what they had to ask me.”

Holloway was on a high school graduation trip when she vanished. The 18-year-old from Alabama, who once lived in Mississippi and attended elementary school in Clinton, was last seen leaving a bar with van der Sloot, a Dutchman raised in Aruba who is the chief suspect in her disappearance.

Van der Sloot later pleaded guilty to the 2010 murder of Ramirez in Peru killed five years to the day after Holloway disappeared.

Joran Van der Sloot