Van der Sloot confessed that he saw Holloway convulse from a drug/alcohol overdose and die in the video, not that he killed her. He claims to have attempted to revive her and then panicked, calling a friend for help and his friend offers the idea to dispose of the body. But as with all of Van der Sloop's stories, it conflicts with the accounts and testimonies of everyone questioned and the details didn't match any of the evidence. For example, the implicated "friend" was living in Rotterdam at the time of the murder. Later the same year, Van der Sloot claimed to have sold Holloway into white slavery with the assistance of his father and others. In a phone interview during which the father reveals his knowledge of his son's activities, it was later determined the voice of the father was actually Joran trying to disguise his own voice and speaking for himself and his father.
When the majority of the collected evidence has been the wildly conflicting statements of Van der Sloot himself, it has been rather impossible to pin him down. There has been nothing the prosecutors have been able to firmly grip to definitively prove anything.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
Updated On: 6/3/10 at 02:12 PM