Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Joran van der Sloot to reveal how Natalee Holloway died in court
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- 0:05Speaker 1: Crime stories with Nancy Grease, are we on.
- 0:14Speaker 2: The cusp of learning the truth about what happened to
- 0:20Speaker 2: American beauty teen girl Natalie Holloway. Natalie Holloway and all
- 0:26Speaker 2: a student set to head off to college and pre
- 0:29Speaker 2: med her life cut short when she goes on a
- 0:32Speaker 2: senior trip to Aruba, class sponsored. She's never seen alive again. Many,
- 0:40Speaker 2: including myself, believe that she was murdered by a judge's.
- 0:45Speaker 1: Son in Aruba.
- 0:46Speaker 2: Yorn e Van der Sloot, It's such a long and
- 0:50Speaker 2: sortied story Natalie Holloway except a ride, very uncharacteristic. I
- 0:58Speaker 2: believe that she had been given a Ruthie in her
- 1:01Speaker 2: drink at a casino that night in Aruba. We have
- 1:05Speaker 2: now learned, after traveling to Aruba and investigating, that that
- 1:11Speaker 2: was the modus operandi method of operation of the judge's son,
- 1:15Speaker 2: Jorn vander Slute, to give tourist girls Ruthie's and then
- 1:21Speaker 2: rape them. Long story short, I believe that's what happened
- 1:26Speaker 2: to Natalie that night. She left very uncharacteristically, left her
- 1:31Speaker 2: friends behind, gets in the car with this guy out
- 1:34Speaker 2: of it. This girl was never seen again. Orn vander
- 1:40Speaker 2: Slute holds the answers to her death, and now, after
- 1:45Speaker 2: trying to bribe Natalie's mother by promising to tell the truth,
- 1:51Speaker 2: he's facing federal charges for extortion and wire fraud. As
- 1:57Speaker 2: part of a plea deal, he says he'll reveal what
- 2:01Speaker 2: happened to Natalie. Is it true? I'm Nancy Grace. This
- 2:06Speaker 2: is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us here
- 2:09Speaker 2: on series six, sem one eleven. Listen to this.
- 2:13Speaker 3: It looks like you're in.
- 2:14Speaker 4: Vander Sloade's going to plead guilty in his federal extortion case.
- 2:18Speaker 4: Core Record show. He has a plea and sentencing hearing
- 2:21Speaker 4: set for Wednesday morning at the Federal courthouse in Birmingham.
- 2:24Speaker 5: This is in the case where he allegedly told Natalie
- 2:27Speaker 5: Holloway's parents that he would tell them where her body
- 2:30Speaker 5: was in exchange for thousands of dollars.
- 2:32Speaker 6: For the last eighteen years, Natalie Holloway's family and her
- 2:35Speaker 6: community have endured the pain of the unknown. Now, family
- 2:39Speaker 6: attorney John Kelly tells us you're Ron Vanderslote is revealing
- 2:42Speaker 6: details about Holloway's death in Aruba. The confession is part
- 2:46Speaker 6: of a plea bargain and a federal wirefraud case link
- 2:48Speaker 6: to Holloway's disappearance.
- 2:50Speaker 7: They're opity further, you know, investigation or search or anything
- 2:53Speaker 7: like that.
- 2:54Speaker 3: If that's what you're asking for Natalie's remains, What.
- 2:56Speaker 2: Are we actually taking his words for it? I can't
- 3:02Speaker 2: believe that's happening. So he tried to basically extort a
- 3:09Speaker 2: grieving mother for thousands and thousands of dollars to tell
- 3:14Speaker 2: her where now he's remains. We her, He gets the
- 3:17Speaker 2: money and then lies, and now he's doing it again.
- 3:21Speaker 2: He's getting a plea deal in exchange for telling us
- 3:24Speaker 2: renale he's remains are Seriously, anybody's going to believe him?
- 3:30Speaker 2: With me in All Star panel to make sense of
- 3:31Speaker 2: what we know Right now, you were just hearing our
- 3:34Speaker 2: friends at WVTM. Now take a listen to our friends
- 3:39Speaker 2: at the Today Show.
- 3:40Speaker 4: Joran vander Slouth will appear in an Alabama courtroom once
- 3:44Speaker 4: again the prime suspect and not Onie Holloway's disappearance for years.
- 3:48Speaker 4: Vanders Slute has never been charged with her murder, but
- 3:52Speaker 4: he was extra douted to the US months ago, accused
- 3:55Speaker 4: of attempting to extort the Holloway family. Vandersloot pleaded not guilty,
- 4:00Speaker 4: but according to the Holloway family attorney, the court will
- 4:02Speaker 4: consider a plea deal this week with the major contingency.
- 4:06Speaker 7: It was conditioned upon mister vandersleuth through billing details of
- 4:12Speaker 7: how Natalie died and our body was disposed.
- 4:15Speaker 2: Of seriously, and we're gonna just give him a plea deal.
- 4:19Speaker 2: Is it a sweet plea deal for another sack of lies?
- 4:24Speaker 2: What a piece of crap. There's no other way to
- 4:27Speaker 2: put it. He is leading everybody down the garden path
- 4:31Speaker 2: with me an all star panel to make sense of
- 4:33Speaker 2: what we know. But first I'm going to go straight
- 4:34Speaker 2: out to Carol Robinson, senior investigative reporter for Alalabama dot com. Carol,
- 4:41Speaker 2: is somebody actually believing him?
- 4:43Speaker 8: Nancy, I'm a little bit surprised by all of it, honestly. Again,
- 4:48Speaker 8: you know, we know that this is the condition of
- 4:52Speaker 8: the plea, but we don't know how you prove what
- 4:56Speaker 8: he's told them.
- 4:57Speaker 2: I'm just telling you, okay. Cheryl McCollum joining me right
- 4:59Speaker 2: now now, Director to Cold Case Research Institute, forensic expert.
- 5:03Speaker 2: You can find her at Coldcasecrimes dot org and she's
- 5:06Speaker 2: a star of the new podcast Zone seven. Cheryl, please
- 5:10Speaker 2: just let me do a lightning round with you, if
- 5:13Speaker 2: that's even possible. With Cheryl McCollum, this is yes. No,
- 5:16Speaker 2: that's what that means. Yes, no answers, No, Cheryl. Isn't
- 5:20Speaker 2: it true that you and I and Natalie's mother just
- 5:23Speaker 2: got back from going to a room of where we
- 5:25Speaker 2: almost got arrested? Yes, trying to find the truth. Isn't
- 5:29Speaker 2: that true?
- 5:30Speaker 7: Yes?
- 5:31Speaker 9: Absolutely so, we're.
- 5:32Speaker 2: Traveling across the world to try to find out what
- 5:35Speaker 2: happened to n Aalie Holloway. And it's because your in
- 5:39Speaker 2: Vanderschlut has never told the truth, nor has his father.
- 5:43Speaker 2: The judge who I say, your in Vanderschlute gave him
- 5:46Speaker 2: a heart attack and he died, but I think the
- 5:50Speaker 2: judge his father was in on disposing of her body
- 5:52Speaker 2: as well. The whole reason you and I had to
- 5:55Speaker 2: go there is because we want an answer, is to
- 5:57Speaker 2: try to help Beth the mother, and we couldn't get
- 6:01Speaker 2: them because your Vanderslut has been lying since day.
- 6:05Speaker 3: One, Nancy.
- 6:06Speaker 9: Beth told us he had changed.
- 6:08Speaker 2: I knew, I knew you could not do it. Yes, no,
- 6:10Speaker 2: but that's okay, go ahead.
- 6:11Speaker 9: Beth told us there he had changed it, and.
- 6:14Speaker 2: That was you running away while I was getting arrested.
- 6:18Speaker 2: That was you nothing but elbows and tailhold. That's all
- 6:22Speaker 2: I could see.
- 6:23Speaker 9: Gosh, I was saving myself.
- 6:26Speaker 7: Honey.
- 6:26Speaker 2: Yes, somebody had to be the scribed. Somebody had to
- 6:30Speaker 2: tell the world right why Nancy Grace was arrested? Go ahead?
- 6:33Speaker 9: But she told us there he had changed his story
- 6:36Speaker 9: like seventy times.
- 6:37Speaker 2: Why wait, wait, wait, wait wait wait wait, actually seventy
- 6:40Speaker 2: are you exaggerating?
- 6:41Speaker 9: I'm exaggerating. But the point is she told us every
- 6:45Speaker 9: single time.
- 6:46Speaker 7: We know for a fact.
- 6:48Speaker 9: In twenty sixteen, he says, she's buried in a house.
- 6:51Speaker 9: Then she's with dog bones.
- 6:53Speaker 2: What what house? Dog bones? Out to see? Wait? Wait
- 6:58Speaker 2: wait wait? The fisher huts.
- 7:01Speaker 9: Yep, sex traffic. You know, buried under the hotel. He
- 7:05Speaker 9: had dropped d off of the hotel. He left her
- 7:07Speaker 9: on the beach. I mean he changes his story every.
- 7:10Speaker 2: Time he talked, left one out. I couldn't write that
- 7:12Speaker 2: fast house with his dog was with dog bones, the
- 7:16Speaker 2: fisherman hut, buried under the hotel out to see beach up?
- 7:21Speaker 2: That was it? Sex traffic. All of these stories have
- 7:24Speaker 2: come from your Vandersloep.
- 7:25Speaker 9: Okay, go ahead, and we've all seen him confess multiple
- 7:29Speaker 9: times on tape and then you know he extorts Beth.
- 7:33Speaker 2: I guess the one when you said on the beach
- 7:36Speaker 2: was the one where he was caught on tape and
- 7:38Speaker 2: he was saying that she vomited and choked on her
- 7:41Speaker 2: own vomit and died. Right, yeah, okay, go ahead.
- 7:43Speaker 9: So you know it's tomorrow morning going to be any
- 7:46Speaker 9: big revelation for everybody, most probably not. He's never told
- 7:52Speaker 9: the complete truth. He's thrown people under the bus, including
- 7:55Speaker 9: his own father. He's allowed friends to tell, you know,
- 7:59Speaker 9: their version of what occurred. But here's what I think.
- 8:02Speaker 9: I think whatever he tells Tomara Aruba should get some
- 8:06Speaker 9: warrants ready for him and the Kalpo brothers.
- 8:09Speaker 2: Absolutely, guys, in less than twenty four hours, your vander Sloot,
- 8:14Speaker 2: the judge's son that murdered Natalie Holloway. Yeah, I'll say it.
- 8:18Speaker 2: Come on, come after me, Vandersloot, Come after me, man,
- 8:22Speaker 2: because you know what, when you follow a civil lawsuit,
- 8:24Speaker 2: that means you will take the stand. Because I would
- 8:28Speaker 2: call him and put him on the stand as my
- 8:30Speaker 2: first witness in a civil lawsuit and grill him like
- 8:35Speaker 2: a hot dog about what happened the night that Natalie
- 8:40Speaker 2: was killed, and all of his different stories and all
- 8:44Speaker 2: of his similar transactions, all the times that we learned
- 8:48Speaker 2: Cheryl McCollum while we were in Aruba. You know what
- 8:51Speaker 2: you tell it. I don't want a Q and A
- 8:53Speaker 2: with myself, Cheryl McCollum about his MO about slipping drugs
- 8:58Speaker 2: into drinks and girls. Everybody the old casino knew that
- 9:01Speaker 2: was what he was doing.
- 9:02Speaker 9: Everybody knew it. Everybody knew him the night the day
- 9:06Speaker 9: she went missing. Beth landed that night, went straight to
- 9:09Speaker 9: the hotel, then went to Carlos and Charlie's. They told
- 9:12Speaker 9: her your hand Vandersloot they named him. He was seventeen
- 9:17Speaker 9: years old. She went to the house. He stood in
- 9:22Speaker 9: front of the stepfather, her father, her mother and described,
- 9:27Speaker 9: oh yeah, I was touching her and her underwear had
- 9:29Speaker 9: flowers and bordered on it. Not only did every bartender
- 9:33Speaker 9: know his MO was to slip roe hipnol to a
- 9:37Speaker 9: tourist that he knew was leaving the next day, because
- 9:41Speaker 9: what are the odds that somebody's going to stay behind
- 9:44Speaker 9: miss their flight? Have to pay hundreds of dollars to
- 9:47Speaker 9: get on a new flight to make a police report.
- 9:51Speaker 9: He knew that the likelihood was almost kneel that somebody
- 9:55Speaker 9: would do that.
- 9:56Speaker 2: You know, joining me in addition to senior investigative reporter
- 9:59Speaker 2: for al dot Com, Carol Robinson and Cheryl mccollumb. Also
- 10:17Speaker 2: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, Joseph Scott Morgan with me,
- 10:23Speaker 2: Professor Forensics, Jacksonville State University, author of Blood Beneath My Feet,
- 10:28Speaker 2: host of a new hit series Body Bags with Joe
- 10:31Speaker 2: Scott Morgan. Joe Scott Just for people that don't know
- 10:35Speaker 2: what a roof is or GHB Georgia homeboy, explain what
- 10:41Speaker 2: that does if that slipped in a woman's drink.
- 10:43Speaker 10: Yeah, it's a precursor. The drug itself or hibbenol, is
- 10:47Speaker 10: actually a precursor. Just so that people understand this as
- 10:50Speaker 10: a precursor for anesthesia. So if that's how powerful it is.
- 10:54Speaker 10: So if you go to get surgery, for instance, before
- 10:57Speaker 10: they actually put you under, there's that kind of drug
- 11:02Speaker 10: that they will administer to you. It gives you got
- 11:04Speaker 10: kind of warm, milky like floating feeling you don't have.
- 11:07Speaker 10: You can't defend yourself you're not going to be able
- 11:09Speaker 10: to move your arms. You react very slowly. It puts
- 11:12Speaker 10: you into almost like a dream state. And actually this
- 11:15Speaker 10: particular drug as it applies to GHB, has almost an
- 11:20Speaker 10: amnesia effect like to it, so you can't remember things.
- 11:23Speaker 10: That's why it's been referred to as a date break
- 11:26Speaker 10: drug because people can be attacked after having it been
- 11:30Speaker 10: administered to them and they'll wake up they have no
- 11:33Speaker 10: idea where they are. But you know the thing about this,
- 11:37Speaker 10: if he Vandersloot does in fact have this history of
- 11:40Speaker 10: utilizing this drug, he understands what the potential is with
- 11:44Speaker 10: the drug because he can manipulate, he can guide. Once
- 11:48Speaker 10: once you have this drug in somebody's system, Nancy, you
- 11:51Speaker 10: can guide and direct them to do whatever and the
- 11:53Speaker 10: hell it is you want them to do, even if
- 11:55Speaker 10: it leads to a homicide.
- 11:57Speaker 2: Which leads us to today right now. Can you imagine
- 12:02Speaker 2: what is going through Beth's mind. She has had a
- 12:07Speaker 2: quest for justice since Natalie went missing, way back when
- 12:13Speaker 2: she's done everything possible. She's spent all her time, all
- 12:18Speaker 2: of her money, her hopes, her dreams, her plans dashed
- 12:22Speaker 2: in one night in Aruba when she let her daughter
- 12:26Speaker 2: go on a trip heavily chaperoned, nobody did. It's not
- 12:32Speaker 2: the school's fault. It's not the chaperone's fault. It's not
- 12:34Speaker 2: the mom's fault. It's your Vanderslute's fault. It's like saying,
- 12:40Speaker 2: whose fault is it? When a jackal sneaks up to
- 12:44Speaker 2: the watering hole in the serengetti and then attacks and
- 12:49Speaker 2: tears the throat out of a young gazelle. Whose fault
- 12:52Speaker 2: is that? It's the jackal's fault. Your Vanderslute is the
- 12:57Speaker 2: jackal in this scenario? Will we find out anything tomorrow morning?
- 13:03Speaker 2: Take a listen to Sam brought with NBC.
- 13:05Speaker 4: Kelly expects vander Slute's detailed narrative of how Natalie died
- 13:09Speaker 4: to be revealed after court this week, but much remains
- 13:12Speaker 4: under wraps. Back in twenty ten, federal prosecutors accused vander
- 13:16Speaker 4: Slut of attempting to extort a quarter of a million
- 13:19Speaker 4: dollars from Holloway's mother, Beth for information about how her
- 13:22Speaker 4: daughter died. Kelly says the Dutch national later agreed to
- 13:25Speaker 4: reveal the location of Natalie's remains in Aruba in exchange
- 13:29Speaker 4: for a twenty five thousand dollars payment the information proved false.
- 13:33Speaker 2: I mean joining me Doctor John Deleatory, licensed psychologist mediator.
- 13:38Speaker 2: He specializes in forensic criminal psychology. Oh and you can
- 13:45Speaker 2: find him at resolution fcs dot com. Doctor Delatory, thank
- 13:50Speaker 2: you for being with us. I'm just thinking about what
- 13:54Speaker 2: is going to happen tomorrow. You know, when you don't
- 13:57Speaker 2: know a horse. Look at his track wreck. This guy's
- 14:01Speaker 2: done nothing but lie since he murdered Natalie Holloway. Why
- 14:07Speaker 2: do we expect him to tell the truth tomorrow morning.
- 14:11Speaker 2: He's just going to say what he thinks people want
- 14:14Speaker 2: him to say to get a play deal. That's all
- 14:16Speaker 2: it's going to happen.
- 14:17Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, this is simply a matter of procedure. No
- 14:20Speaker 3: one who is in their right mind is going to
- 14:23Speaker 3: believe anything, Vandersloot says. Everybody knows that it's going to
- 14:27Speaker 3: be another concoction that he has because he enjoys the concoction.
- 14:31Speaker 3: He enjoys having people as a worm on the fishook.
- 14:35Speaker 3: That's the part that he enjoys. No one's going to
- 14:37Speaker 3: believe him. But this is simply a matter of procedure,
- 14:40Speaker 3: something that has to get through for this what I'm
- 14:43Speaker 3: going to say, is a travesty of justice. This is
- 14:45Speaker 3: nowhere near the justice that Natalie Holloway deserves.
- 14:49Speaker 2: You know what, You just says something, and I'm going
- 14:50Speaker 2: to write this down. Everybody, guys on the panel, this
- 14:53Speaker 2: is this is really interesting. Everything you said, Delatory is interesting,
- 14:57Speaker 2: but he enjoys the concoc hold on. I go write
- 15:01Speaker 2: that down because it reminds me of something that happened.
- 15:04Speaker 2: I went to California for a victim's rights march, and
- 15:10Speaker 2: while I was there, a young girl came up to me,
- 15:14Speaker 2: like she's about seventeen, and she told me this horrible
- 15:17Speaker 2: story of attacks on her, an attack on her, how
- 15:22Speaker 2: she's been a crime victim, of sex abuse victim, and
- 15:24Speaker 2: she's trying to work through it, and she wanted to
- 15:26Speaker 2: talk to me. So I fly back to New York.
- 15:29Speaker 2: I gave her my email and phone number, and I
- 15:31Speaker 2: wanted to help her. For the next couple of years,
- 15:35Speaker 2: Doctor Delatory say three years, I would listen to her
- 15:39Speaker 2: on the phone, I would try to find her counselors.
- 15:43Speaker 2: I would just all sorts of time, and I paid
- 15:47Speaker 2: for some of the counselors to try to help her.
- 15:51Speaker 2: Wait for it. So the stories I didn't see it
- 15:55Speaker 2: at the time, became more elaborate. In the end. She
- 15:58Speaker 2: had said she had a job at Starbucks and the
- 16:01Speaker 2: Starbucks got robbed and she was further traumatized, and she
- 16:06Speaker 2: was victimized, and I went, well, you know, and the
- 16:09Speaker 2: people hadn't been caught. So I said, well, what do
- 16:12Speaker 2: police say? And she said, well, we and there wasn't
- 16:19Speaker 2: a clear answer. I said, well, let me get the
- 16:21Speaker 2: police report, and I'm going to help you go to
- 16:25Speaker 2: a victim specialist and we're gonna I'm gonna help on
- 16:29Speaker 2: the case. I'm gonna personally get involved and I will
- 16:32Speaker 2: come out there and help investigate the case to get
- 16:34Speaker 2: the robbers. It's very involved. Well, as it turned out,
- 16:37Speaker 2: there was no case, and I finally got a hold
- 16:40Speaker 2: of her aunt, who the little girl that turned out
- 16:44Speaker 2: had been impersonating her aunt and writing me about her condition.
- 16:49Speaker 2: The whole thing for like years was liese just to
- 16:53Speaker 2: get attention, I guess, and enjoying the concoction. And at
- 16:59Speaker 2: the end I didn't feel I just felt really bad
- 17:02Speaker 2: for this girl, This little girl, she couldn't have bet
- 17:05Speaker 2: that point been over twenty years old. But that is
- 17:09Speaker 2: very bizarre.
- 17:11Speaker 6: RV.
- 17:11Speaker 2: Brandt joining me Senior Inspector US Marshall Service, International Investigations Branch,
- 17:17Speaker 2: Chief Inspector, DOJ, Office of International Affairs. Author of Solo Shot,
- 17:22Speaker 2: Curse of the Bluestone, which is awesome, and Flying Solo
- 17:26Speaker 2: top of the World. Erv Brant. All of this is
- 17:29Speaker 2: happening here, but the murder case can never go forward
- 17:34Speaker 2: anywhere but in Aruba. So how do we take this
- 17:39Speaker 2: case here? The extortion case, get the statement he's going
- 17:46Speaker 2: to get, assuming there's no immunity deal, but the Fans
- 17:49Speaker 2: can't grant him immunity in Aruba and then get him
- 17:52Speaker 2: back to Aruba to be tried for murder.
- 17:54Speaker 7: Me and t Bell would be an action by the
- 17:56Speaker 7: ruined government. The United States wouldn't have a saying it.
- 18:01Speaker 7: Once Yourn pleads guilty or is found guilty, whichever happens,
- 18:08Speaker 7: he's going to be sentenced in the United States, then
- 18:11Speaker 7: he's going to be sent back to Peru. He's only
- 18:15Speaker 7: he was extradited only on the condition that he'd be
- 18:19Speaker 7: returned to Peru, so he's going to go back to Peru.
- 18:23Speaker 7: It would then be up to the Aruben government to
- 18:28Speaker 7: extradite him from Peru to Aruba. He couldn't go from
- 18:33Speaker 7: the United States back to Aruba.
- 18:36Speaker 2: Okay, I'm just trying to think through what you're saying.
- 18:39Speaker 2: And I also want to follow up on doctor John
- 18:41Speaker 2: Delatori's statement that he's enjoying the concoction. James shell nutt
- 18:47Speaker 2: is with me, high profile lawyer joining me from the
- 18:50Speaker 2: shell Nut Firm and you can find him at shell
- 18:52Speaker 2: nut law Firm dot com. Major case detective, former SWAT
- 18:57Speaker 2: twenty seven years on the force, James shell Knight, have
- 19:01Speaker 2: you ever seen anything like that where a person just
- 19:04Speaker 2: lies and lies and lies and they enjoy spinning the web.
- 19:09Speaker 2: That takes a lot of time and effort. I got
- 19:10Speaker 2: too much to do to engage in that type of
- 19:14Speaker 2: bizarre confab.
- 19:16Speaker 11: Well, it takes a lot of effort for me and you.
- 19:18Speaker 11: For him, he's enjoying it like he is relishing in this.
- 19:22Speaker 11: You know, if you look at the if you look
- 19:24Speaker 11: at the news broadcast where they showed him coming into
- 19:26Speaker 11: Alabama being transported in the car. Yeah, and one of
- 19:29Speaker 11: them he has a smile on his face. This is
- 19:32Speaker 11: his limelight. This is what he obsesses about, is what
- 19:35Speaker 11: he thinks. Well, super Bowl, Absolutely he's getting his wish
- 19:40Speaker 11: right here, and he's loving every second of it.
- 19:42Speaker 2: I'm just wondering back to you, Sheryl McCollum, does he
- 19:44Speaker 2: want to go back to Peru? In the Peruvian jail,
- 19:47Speaker 2: He's got it so good. He has unlimited conjugal visits.
- 19:52Speaker 2: He's had I think either one or two babies. He's
- 19:55Speaker 2: gotten married, he's dumped that wife for a quote younger woman. Seriously,
- 20:01Speaker 2: this is real. He gets drugs, he gets alcohol in
- 20:04Speaker 2: the Perusium prison.
- 20:05Speaker 9: Why not go that exactly? And you and I talked
- 20:08Speaker 9: about when he first landed in Alabama, his world was
- 20:11Speaker 9: going to be so different. He thought, Oh, I'm going
- 20:13Speaker 9: to come here and make a big show. And suddenly
- 20:16Speaker 9: he realizes, I have no girlfriends here, I'm not getting
- 20:19Speaker 9: special treatment, I'm not able to gamble, I'm not having
- 20:22Speaker 9: conjugal visits. I can't, you know, have the guards at
- 20:25Speaker 9: my beck and call. So he wants to go ahead
- 20:28Speaker 9: and plead because remember he originally pled not guilty. He
- 20:31Speaker 9: wants this plea deal so he can go back, go
- 20:34Speaker 9: back to the life that he enjoyed.
- 20:36Speaker 2: Even the lawyer attached to the case says, their credibility problems. Boy,
- 20:40Speaker 2: that's one way of putting it. Okay, take a listen
- 20:43Speaker 2: to Sam Brought with NBC.
- 20:46Speaker 4: Mister Kelly, representing the family, said, there's no doubt there
- 20:48Speaker 4: are credibility issues here, especially since Vanderslude has changed his
- 20:52Speaker 4: story at least seven times over the course of the
- 20:54Speaker 4: last couple of decades. However, what mister Kelly told me
- 20:57Speaker 4: was that this deal is contingent upon the FAI corroborating
- 21:01Speaker 4: the information that vander Slope provided, which is to say
- 21:04Speaker 4: they think it is legitimate.
- 21:05Speaker 2: Now.
- 21:05Speaker 4: I did find it interesting that he also told me
- 21:07Speaker 4: they're no longer conducting a search for her remains what
- 21:10Speaker 4: was the point then of getting that information? Specifically, He
- 21:13Speaker 4: said that will all come to light after court, and
- 21:15Speaker 4: he is expecting Beth, her mother to speak following those proceedings.
- 21:19Speaker 2: To Carol Robinson, senior investigative reporter al dot com Alabama
- 21:24Speaker 2: dot com, do we know if there is some sort
- 21:28Speaker 2: of immunity deal in place, even including Aruba or Peru,
- 21:35Speaker 2: because we know after he murdered Natalie, he then went
- 21:39Speaker 2: on to murder Stephanie Tasciana Flores, who he also met
- 21:44Speaker 2: at a casino in Peru, and then we think had
- 21:49Speaker 2: sex with her and then killed her.
- 21:52Speaker 8: So according to my sources, there is no immunity as
- 21:58Speaker 8: part of the deal. And I've also been told and
- 22:01Speaker 8: I guess you won't really know until tomorrow, but I
- 22:04Speaker 8: don't know that he's going to stand up in court
- 22:08Speaker 8: and you know, tell what happened. I think it's going
- 22:13Speaker 8: to be something that may come out slowly in court filings.
- 22:17Speaker 8: But I don't expect and this can change, but I
- 22:21Speaker 8: don't expect him to stand up there in court tomorrow
- 22:24Speaker 8: and say this is what I did and how I
- 22:26Speaker 8: did it. I'd be very surprised if that happened, but
- 22:30Speaker 8: I've been surprised before. But as far as the community know,
- 22:33Speaker 8: according to my sources, Aruba could still charge him.
- 22:36Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it could have been devised that way.
- 22:40Speaker 2: James shelnot joining me Swatt major case turned lawyer. There
- 22:46Speaker 2: could be an agreement between US and Aruba, but you
- 22:52Speaker 2: can't get Aruba to do anything, so I doubt they've
- 22:55Speaker 2: entered into any type of an agreement for immunity. I
- 22:58Speaker 2: think that Carol Robinson is absolutely correct. So what that means,
- 23:02Speaker 2: let's just break it down very quickly. What that means
- 23:05Speaker 2: is his story that he's going to give tomorrow is
- 23:08Speaker 2: going to be carefully constructed so he avoids a murder
- 23:12Speaker 2: charge like she choked, she choked on a piece of
- 23:15Speaker 2: rip and died. It's going to be some story that
- 23:18Speaker 2: gets him off the hook.
- 23:20Speaker 11: Well, well partially I agree with that, but think about this.
- 23:24Speaker 11: You know, to be charged with a homicide in Aruba
- 23:27Speaker 11: or here, you don't have to have actually intended their death.
- 23:32Speaker 11: You can put them in a situation such as giving rehipnol,
- 23:35Speaker 11: which I think is likely what happened, but giving her
- 23:39Speaker 11: a hypnol and then her choking to death. Once you
- 23:42Speaker 11: put into play that course of action by giving her
- 23:46Speaker 11: a hypnol, if she died, if that is his story tomorrow,
- 23:50Speaker 11: in court or at some point after that, a Ruba
- 23:53Speaker 11: can still come back and charge him with Natalie's homicide.
- 23:56Speaker 2: Okay, SHERYLM. Collum, what do you think of that?
- 23:58Speaker 9: I think that's likely, and that's what I'm saying. I
- 24:00Speaker 9: think that Capoe brothers are on the hook. I think
- 24:03Speaker 9: he's on the hook. Whatever is said tomorrow that is
- 24:07Speaker 9: in play. They should immediately take action in a Ruba
- 24:11Speaker 9: because they have not. But now it's not just well
- 24:14Speaker 9: he was smoking pot so we can't take his word
- 24:17Speaker 9: for it. Well, he was in a car with somebody
- 24:19Speaker 9: we don't know. We can't take his word for it.
- 24:21Speaker 9: This is in a court of law. It's been accepted
- 24:24Speaker 9: and verified by the FBI. So Aruba needs to take action, period.
- 24:29Speaker 2: So let me ask you this, Carol Robinson, regardless of
- 24:31Speaker 2: how it comes out tomorrow, what do you believe the
- 24:36Speaker 2: story is going to be? Because I don't see your
- 24:38Speaker 2: Vanderslout ever telling the truth because number one, he never
- 24:44Speaker 2: has told the truth, and number two, telling the truth
- 24:48Speaker 2: what open him up to a murder charge in Ruba.
- 24:50Speaker 8: I still think he's gonna I think one of the
- 24:53Speaker 8: stories he's told along the way was that, you know,
- 24:56Speaker 8: she fell and hit her head. And I still believe
- 24:59Speaker 8: that that's going to be what he says happened, if
- 25:02Speaker 8: he doesn't just blame the whole thing on his dad,
- 25:05Speaker 8: because his dad is not here to defend himself.
- 25:08Speaker 2: But how could he blame it all on his dad?
- 25:10Speaker 2: I'm trying to figure that out. You know what, Joe Scott,
- 25:12Speaker 2: You've been from the get go. How could he blame
- 25:15Speaker 2: his dad for the death.
- 25:16Speaker 10: Well, he's already thrown his dad under the bus. With
- 25:18Speaker 10: you know the story. You know, I was reading the
- 25:23Speaker 10: supplement report, the affidavit that the FBI agent had written,
- 25:27Speaker 10: and you know, he says, well, yeah, dad, Dad took
- 25:31Speaker 10: her remains to this house and essentially buried her within
- 25:35Speaker 10: the house in that location. So he you know, he's
- 25:39Speaker 10: already he's already, you know, cross the rubicon. I guess
- 25:43Speaker 10: with that, we know that he's a scumback, all right,
- 25:46Speaker 10: he's willing to say anything about his dad. But here's
- 25:49Speaker 10: another perspective on this, I think, Nancy I find interesting.
- 25:53Speaker 10: As you know, it's very frustrating, you know, firsthand, going
- 25:57Speaker 10: down there to that place to try to get anything done.
- 26:01Speaker 10: Aruba is going to step into the spotlight tomorrow, more
- 26:05Speaker 10: so than ever before. I think It's one thing to
- 26:08Speaker 10: have FBI agent showing up down there, having to deal
- 26:11Speaker 10: with the consulate and all those sorts of things that
- 26:13Speaker 10: come along with an investigation, But now they're entering onto
- 26:17Speaker 10: the stage and they are going to come under intent scrutiny,
- 26:21Speaker 10: I think for really the first time, because this is
- 26:25Speaker 10: going this is entering into a US federal court. And
- 26:29Speaker 10: the one thing that does talk down there are tourist dollars.
- 26:33Speaker 2: You know, what. You're actually making my teeth hurt because
- 26:35Speaker 2: we went through all of this when she was first
- 26:37Speaker 2: kidnapped and murdered. In fact, tourism in Aruba went up
- 26:42Speaker 2: from the US. Did you know that, Joe Scott, I
- 26:46Speaker 2: screamed on air every night, I'm never going to Aruba.
- 26:50Speaker 2: I'm never going to Aruba, explained why they were all
- 26:54Speaker 2: kinds of protests, and tourism went up, Joe Scott, it
- 26:58Speaker 2: actually went up. I hate to dash your dreams.
- 27:02Speaker 10: Oh there's nothing dashed, but I have to say that
- 27:05Speaker 10: they're entering onto a big stage here.
- 27:08Speaker 2: You mean the Federal Court, And yes, I do. I
- 27:11Speaker 2: hope you're right. Cheryl McCollum. I don't think he's right.
- 27:15Speaker 2: I don't think that anyone is gonna not go to
- 27:17Speaker 2: a rub but just because we're not the only reason
- 27:19Speaker 2: I put one toe on Aruba with you and with
- 27:23Speaker 2: Beth is because I thought I could help Beth Holloway.
- 27:27Speaker 2: I thought I could help her, and I think we
- 27:29Speaker 2: did help her to a certain extent with some answers.
- 27:33Speaker 2: But you know, speaking of blaming him, blaming the father
- 27:36Speaker 2: who is now dead because he gave him a heart attack,
- 27:39Speaker 2: Cheryl isn't it true that we learned when we were
- 27:42Speaker 2: in Aruba just recently that the judge, Judge Vandersloot, your
- 27:49Speaker 2: Vanderslut's father was at the casino with him the night
- 27:53Speaker 2: he met Natalie.
- 27:54Speaker 9: He was He's sitting diagonal from Natalie while they're sitting
- 27:58Speaker 9: there gambling. You can see your in Natalie, but he's
- 28:01Speaker 9: right across the table. Not only did he know his son,
- 28:06Speaker 9: he knew what he was doing. He was bankrolling a
- 28:08Speaker 9: lot of this gambling. And keep in mind, he was
- 28:12Speaker 9: seventeen and he would go to bars, he would go
- 28:15Speaker 9: to the casinos, and everybody at every hotel, every bartender
- 28:20Speaker 9: that we met, knew him. They knew his routine, they
- 28:23Speaker 9: knew his mo But I will say one thing, and
- 28:27Speaker 9: this was something when we were there and the police
- 28:29Speaker 9: showed up trying to arrest us, you said to that officer,
- 28:34Speaker 9: it has taken seventeen years and you've done nothing for Natalie,
- 28:40Speaker 9: but in seventeen minutes you want to arrest her mother.
- 28:43Speaker 9: I thought that was pretty impactful.
- 28:45Speaker 2: I was just trying to save you from getting arrested
- 28:47Speaker 2: because you were running from the scene. That said, I'm
- 28:52Speaker 2: never going to let you live that down. So what
- 28:54Speaker 2: do we think your van der Slout is going to say,
- 28:57Speaker 2: You might as well flip a coin because it's not
- 29:00Speaker 2: going to be the truth. But take a listen to
- 29:02Speaker 2: our friends at Fox Niece. This is what we think
- 29:05Speaker 2: he might say this time.
- 29:07Speaker 5: I've never before seen email sent by the prime suspect
- 29:10Speaker 5: in the unsolved two thousand and five disappearance of Natalie Holloway,
- 29:14Speaker 5: revealing a new piece of evidence in the case. Just
- 29:17Speaker 5: days two days after the disappearance, Jorm van der Slutt
- 29:21Speaker 5: wrote to a friend, quote, my dad got a boat
- 29:24Speaker 5: two days later. We went for a ride and took
- 29:26Speaker 5: care of things. That's all I'm going to say.
- 29:29Speaker 2: Well that's enough, so you know, bottom line, Cheryl, what
- 29:33Speaker 2: does that tell you again?
- 29:35Speaker 9: How many times does somebody get to confess to committee
- 29:39Speaker 9: murder and hiding a body. Even what Joe Scott was
- 29:43Speaker 9: saying a minute ago about him throwing his dad under
- 29:45Speaker 9: the bus, he did, but only after she was dead,
- 29:50Speaker 9: So again he only should be looked at for homicide.
- 29:54Speaker 9: And then the Capo brothers and his father by helping
- 29:57Speaker 9: him after the fact, they were with him.
- 30:00Speaker 2: We're learning a little bit more. Take a listener from
- 30:02Speaker 2: Callahan Waltz.
- 30:03Speaker 12: We have to understand that this was early on. We've
- 30:06Speaker 12: seen Jordan Vnislout change his story time and time again
- 30:09Speaker 12: over the course of many years, and even the claims
- 30:12Speaker 12: that he made and the reason why he's in America
- 30:14Speaker 12: right now for the extortion charges and claiming that he
- 30:16Speaker 12: was going to show the Holloway family where he had
- 30:18Speaker 12: buried her body. So this new evidence I hold a
- 30:22Speaker 12: lot of weight in this new letter to David g
- 30:24Speaker 12: this email that him and his father had dumped her
- 30:26Speaker 12: body at sea. But what's interesting is that Jordan Vannisluer
- 30:29Speaker 12: and his father didn't own a boat, so they would
- 30:31Speaker 12: have had to borrow a boat or rent one. And
- 30:34Speaker 12: if they can find that boat that they had borrowed
- 30:36Speaker 12: or rented, perhaps they can find more evidence to prove
- 30:39Speaker 12: that her body was dumped at sea and could eventually
- 30:41Speaker 12: lead to possibly the prosecution because again he's never been
- 30:44Speaker 12: charged with her murder.
- 30:45Speaker 2: No one has ever been charged.
- 31:00Speaker 1: Time stories with Nancy Grace.
- 31:06Speaker 2: Too, Doctor John Delatory joining me, renowned psychologist, Doctor Delatory.
- 31:11Speaker 2: I don't know how Natalie's mother does it. I really
- 31:13Speaker 2: I don't, because even now I have nightmares, flashbacks, you
- 31:20Speaker 2: name it, after the murder of my fiance just before
- 31:22Speaker 2: a wedding. But I know what happened to him. I
- 31:26Speaker 2: know who murdered him. She has no idea whether Natalie's
- 31:30Speaker 2: remains are buried somewhere. I think about that lighthouse where
- 31:35Speaker 2: Chryl and Beth and I went when we were just
- 31:38Speaker 2: in Ruba looking for clues, on the far end of
- 31:42Speaker 2: the island. There is nothing there, but you know, a
- 31:45Speaker 2: pack of wild dogs, all starved, begging for food. It
- 31:48Speaker 2: was desolate, the wind was blowing. It was just a horrible,
- 31:53Speaker 2: horrible thought to think Natalie's bones were somewhere buried there.
- 32:00Speaker 2: I don't know how she's gone on. I don't know
- 32:02Speaker 2: how she has managed to keep it together, doctor del Tory.
- 32:06Speaker 3: She does it because it's necessary. She does it because
- 32:08Speaker 3: she's her mother. And that's that's the gig. When you
- 32:11Speaker 3: sign up to be the mother or father of someone,
- 32:14Speaker 3: this is what you do, right This, this is this
- 32:18Speaker 3: is your entire reason for being and and and and
- 32:21Speaker 3: She's fueled by the love and the desire for justice
- 32:25Speaker 3: and the anger that she has for answer for questions
- 32:29Speaker 3: being unanswered. There's so much that's happening right that it's
- 32:32Speaker 3: that for her, it's necessary and and and I think
- 32:36Speaker 3: that's kind of where she needs to be in order
- 32:39Speaker 3: to keep going, because this would be exhausting and it
- 32:43Speaker 3: would be debilitating for anybody.
- 32:45Speaker 2: Oh and guys, if you could actually be around Beth,
- 32:49Speaker 2: she's so calm and methodical, and she'll tell you the story.
- 32:54Speaker 2: Remember Cheryl when she told us that she had been
- 32:57Speaker 2: just like out of her mind to get answers, running
- 33:01Speaker 2: all around the island, begging for help, not getting any
- 33:04Speaker 2: help from cops, from locals, from anybody's almost as if
- 33:07Speaker 2: they wanted to thwart her, not just refused to help her,
- 33:10Speaker 2: but actually hurt her. And then she got to the
- 33:13Speaker 2: story where she was actually going up to this little
- 33:17Speaker 2: vista where there was a tiny chapel about the size
- 33:19Speaker 2: of a kitchen, little bitty chapel on the top of
- 33:21Speaker 2: the hill. I think the name was Buena Vista Beautiful View,
- 33:24Speaker 2: and you could once you get to the top, you
- 33:26Speaker 2: look out through mountains it looks like onto the ocean.
- 33:29Speaker 2: And she couldn't take it one more minute. She asked
- 33:32Speaker 2: the cab driver to let her out at the foot
- 33:34Speaker 2: of this little mountain. She got out and she saw
- 33:38Speaker 2: a cross on the side of the road, and she
- 33:40Speaker 2: got out and knelt down in the dirt and started praying,
- 33:44Speaker 2: Please help me, God, I've got to find my daughter.
- 33:46Speaker 2: I've got to find my daughter. She saw another cross,
- 33:50Speaker 2: and she half crawled, half walked to the next cross
- 33:53Speaker 2: and the same thing. As it turned out, it was
- 33:56Speaker 2: one of these stations to the cross walks, and they
- 33:59Speaker 2: were like, I forgot that. She say, twelve or seventeen
- 34:01Speaker 2: crosses going up the side of the mountain, and she
- 34:04Speaker 2: would go to each one and throw herself on the
- 34:06Speaker 2: cross and beg and plead and cry and scream and
- 34:11Speaker 2: beat the earth. When she got to the top, she said,
- 34:16Speaker 2: this is Natalie's mother. She said. An overwhelming peace came
- 34:21Speaker 2: over her, and it felt like this was the first
- 34:26Speaker 2: grand soil on Aruba that was not evil. And she
- 34:32Speaker 2: knew at that moment that Natalie was dead. You remember that.
- 34:37Speaker 9: I remember that, and I'll tell you something else. You
- 34:40Speaker 9: and I sat with her in front of that chapel
- 34:43Speaker 9: for probably an hour, just not moving, not talking, just
- 34:47Speaker 9: being with her present.
- 34:48Speaker 7: In that moment.
- 34:50Speaker 9: And she turned to us at one point and she said,
- 34:52Speaker 9: I know y'all think I'm crazy, but I brought her
- 34:56Speaker 9: passport dustin case.
- 34:59Speaker 2: She said that for ten years after Natalie went missing,
- 35:04Speaker 2: she never left the house without Natalie's passport in case
- 35:11Speaker 2: she got the call anywhere in the world that Natalie
- 35:15Speaker 2: had been found. It's just been horrible, horrible thing for her,
- 35:24Speaker 2: and I hate to see her dashed tomorrow in court
- 35:30Speaker 2: when Vandersloute lies again listening our friends at WVTMI Cut
- 35:37Speaker 2: one eighteen.
- 35:38Speaker 6: Of course, vanderslow It has claimed to know where Holloway's
- 35:41Speaker 6: body was hidden before. He offered similar intel to Halloway's
- 35:44Speaker 6: mother in twenty ten in exchange for a quarter of
- 35:47Speaker 6: a million dollars. Ultimately, though his tips proved false and
- 35:51Speaker 6: he was charged with wirefraud. Former US attorney Jay Town
- 35:54Speaker 6: believes this new offer should come with more credibility. I
- 35:58Speaker 6: think those would be personal conversations with Holloway family where they.
- 36:03Speaker 3: Can at least understand why the Bureau and the prosecutors
- 36:09Speaker 3: believed this particular admission.
- 36:11Speaker 2: Carol Robinson, what are the particulars of tomorrow morning? How's
- 36:15Speaker 2: it going to go down?
- 36:16Speaker 8: Well, we don't really know all the details yet. We
- 36:20Speaker 8: just know that he will appear with his public defenders,
- 36:23Speaker 8: you know, in court at nine point thirty. We expect him, obviously,
- 36:29Speaker 8: to stand up and issue a guilty plea and be sentenced,
- 36:33Speaker 8: and I do not have any information on what that
- 36:36Speaker 8: sentence may.
- 36:36Speaker 2: Be, So everything is still shrouded in mystery. Irv Brandt,
- 36:40Speaker 2: let me just ask you this, RVF. You've been around
- 36:42Speaker 2: the world hunting down felons. Do you think there's any
- 36:48Speaker 2: hope that Aruba after tomorrow will prosecute him for Natalie's murder?
- 36:55Speaker 7: None?
- 36:57Speaker 8: Agreed?
- 36:57Speaker 7: What it's what Joe Scott saying earlier about putting the
- 37:02Speaker 7: pressure on Aruba. Aruba doesn't want pressure. If they bring
- 37:09Speaker 7: charges extra item, it's just going to keep it in
- 37:12Speaker 7: the news. They won't do it. There's no way they're
- 37:17Speaker 7: going to do it.
- 37:17Speaker 2: I thought maybe, or Brent, you might throw me a
- 37:20Speaker 2: bone here and let me think there's a chance he'll
- 37:24Speaker 2: get prosecuted for murder. But you're saying, no, it's never
- 37:27Speaker 2: going to happen, right, Is that what you're telling me?
- 37:29Speaker 7: That's that's exactly what I'm saying. He's going to be sentenced,
- 37:32Speaker 7: He's going to go back to Peru, and Ruba's going
- 37:35Speaker 7: to hope that he dies in prison in Peru and
- 37:37Speaker 7: then that's going to be the end of it.
- 37:39Speaker 2: We'll see about that. We'll see in court tomorrow morning. Goodbye.
- 37:48Speaker 2: It's not very often in my line of business that
- 37:51Speaker 2: I get to announce happy news. But I have happy news.
- 37:56Speaker 2: A happy first birthday to wonderful, brilliant, sweet baby Charlie,
- 38:06Speaker 2: the joy of his mom and dad's life, Kate and
- 38:09Speaker 2: Zach Abrams. In this world where we report, investigate, follow
- 38:17Speaker 2: criminal cases every day, I love this photo and I
- 38:23Speaker 2: love being able to say Happy first birthday, Baby Charlie.
- 38:30Speaker 2: You are so loved. Happy birthday.