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The mystery over Natalee Holloway<\/strong>‘s famous disappearance was cleared up once and for all — because the prime suspect just admitted he killed her and attempted to defraud her family.<\/p>\n Joran van der Sloot <\/strong>appeared in an Alabama court Wednesday, where prosecutors told the court van der Sloot had confessed to Holloway’s parents that he’d taken her life … apparently, he bludgeoned her to death after she refused his sexual advances — this according to Holloway’s mother, Beth<\/strong>, who also spoke.<\/p>\n She said, “You didn’t get what you wanted from Natalee, your sexual satisfaction, so you brutally killed her” — adding that he “terminated her dreams, her potential, her possibilities.”<\/p>\n Beth says van der Sloot admitted to killing Natalee on the beach and putting her body in water.<\/p>\n Van der Sloot entered a guilty plea to charges of wire fraud and extortion that he was facing here in the U.S. case — while indirectly tied to Holloway’s death — was inextricably linked to her disappearance.<\/p>\n Interestingly enough, van der Sloot expressed remorse for the killing, saying he’d become a born-again Christian — but Holloway’s mother, as she told him that he’d always be a killer … no matter what.<\/p>\n While van der Sloot might’ve copped to killing Holloway — that’s not what he’ll be punished for here in the U.S. The case is somewhat convoluted — especially since she first vanished almost 20 years ago on the island of Aruba — but basically … officials in America ended up charging him for attempting to sell information to Holloway’s family about where her remains are … which Beth says she actually paid for out of desperation.<\/p>\n As part of this plea deal he struck with the prosecution, van der Sloot was forced to finally clear up the details of Holloway’s disappearance in 2005 … and now he has.<\/p>\n Holloway — who was 18 — was on a high school graduation trip in the Dutch territory … and witnesses say they saw her leaving a bar with van der Sloot and two other men, who have long been suspected to have been involved in whatever it is that happened to her.<\/p>\n The 3 men were arrested a couple different times over the years in connection to Holloway’s disappearance — but they were also cut loose over a lack of evidence. Van der Sloot, however, is the one who’s fallen into the crosshairs of the U.S. … as they indicted him in 2010, alleging he’d tried extorting and defrauding the Holloway family.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/imagez.tmz.com\/image\/6a\/4by3\/2023\/05\/11\/6ab98292fad44a8d9723966b62551e4b_md.jpg\")
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