Joran van der Sloot, the Dutch national suspected in the unsolved 2005 disappearance of Alabama student Natalee Holloway in Aruba, is getting divorced.
The deal will temporarily place him in American custody, and after his trial, he'll be returned to Peru to finish his prison sentence. His term is up in 2038. After that, he would be sent to the U.S. again to serve a sentence if he is convicted.As the last person seen with Holloway, van der Sloot has been the prime suspect in her disappearance and presumed death. Exactly five years after she vanished, van der Sloot killed Flores and fled to Chile.
While serving his sentence he was accused of trafficking drugs in prison in a plot in which a different girlfriend was accused of smuggling contraband inside. He was convicted, and a judge tacked on seven years to his sentence.on a trip to celebrate high school graduation with a large group of friends from Mountain Brook, Alabama, and vanished after she left a night club with van der Sloot and two of his pals, Satish and Deepak Kalpoe, on the night before she was supposed to fly home.
Van der Sloot is not charged in Holloway's death, but is accused of trying to extort her mother for $250,000. A shaman spits on a poster of Joran van der Sloot, right, outside San Pedro prison in Peru, Jan. 6, 2012. On the left is a poster of Stephany Flores, a 21-year-old business student who he met in a casino in May 2010 and beat to death in his hotel room the next morning.
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