
“I thought, ‘What the f- is he doin' in Peru? Why isn't he arrested?’” Beth Holloway said.

Within days, van der Sloot had slipped away to Peru. Kelly says Joran then took him to a nearby home and claimed that his father, who had since died, had buried Natalee in the house’s foundation.Īfter that exchange and they parted ways, Kelly says van der Sloot emailed him and told him that story was all a lie - a message which Kelly forwarded to the FBI.īut van der Sloot already had the $25,000 from Beth Holloway. He said when he did, her head hit a rock and she was killed instantly by the impact. He now claimed that he had picked her up but that she had demanded to be put down, so he threw her to the ground. Kelly says van der Sloot then took him to a location away from the hotel and changed his story again about the night he had been with Natalee Holloway. The story was dominating headlines around the world and Beth Holloway said at the time, she did a dozen interviews a day. He knew,” she added.īeth Holloway continued making media appearances to keep the pressure on authorities to solve the case. But there's also the suspicion that someone who's perspiring like that knows something.”Ībout that exchange, Beth Holloway said she thought Paulus van der Sloot was “the most pathetic human being I’ve ever seen.” “I assume that there are medical reasons people perspire like that. “Paulus, who was sitting next to me, was perspiring like something I have never seen in my life,” Van Susteren continued. “Anita, Joran's mother, was crying, sobbing.”

“Beth was stern and direct,” Van Susteren said. “I wanted to make him feel in some way how I was feeling.” “I wanted to be that close to Paulus van der Sloot,” Holloway said. Holloway said van der Sloot's father, Paulus van der Sloot, invited them in. In the following weeks, Beth Holloway joined journalist Greta Van Susteren, who was reporting on the case from the island, for an interview without cameras with van der Sloot’s parents at their home.
