$25,000, a Hidden FBI Sting, and a Killer Who Walked Free | Record Rewind
Today on Greta Wire:
- Newly obtained documents reveal that Birmingham FBI agents record Van der Sloot accepting $25,000 during a 2010 extortion sting but enter the operation with no planned arrest.
- Van der Sloot leaves Aruba with the money and murders 21-year-old Stephanie Flores in Peru two weeks later.
- Former U.S. Attorney Jay Town says investigators fail to bring the necessary criminal complaint, allowing a straightforward wire-fraud and extortion case to collapse.
- The FBI and U.S. Attorney’s Office allegedly conceal the operation’s failures from the Holloway family while refusing…
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