Exactly when Joran van der Sloot will be released from jail, after three separate sentences

Joran van der Sloot, the man who confessed to Natalee Holloway’s murder in 2023, is currently behind bars in Peru for killing another woman, and he’s already served half of his sentence. 

After decades as a suspect, Van der Sloot confessed to killing her with a cinder block on the beach and dumping her body in the ocean in 2023, 18 years after Natalee disappeared. The confession was part of a plea deal in a separate extortion and wire fraud case, and Van der Sloot has never been given any charges in relation to Holloway.

Holloway was only 18 when she went missing on the final night of a high school graduation trip in Aruba, on 30th May, 2005. She was last seen leaving the nightclub Carlos ‘n Charlie’s with Joran and two brothers, Satish and Deepak Kalpoe. 

Here’s when van der Sloot is due to be released from jail.

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When Joran van der Sloot will be released from prison

Van der Sloot is due to be a free man in January 2045, which means he has 19 years in jail remaining.

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He was sentenced to 28 years at Challapalca prison on 13th January, 2012, a maximum-security jail in Peru, for killing 21-year-old business student Stephany Flores Ramírez on 30th May, 2010. 

This would have taken him to the year 2040, but an additional 18 years were added to his sentence in January 2023 for trafficking cocaine while in prison. He was convicted of smuggling cocaine by hiding it inside sugar beets to sell inside the jail and abroad. 

That should have taken his sentence to 2058, but Peruvian law has a maximum prison sentence cap of 35 years. That means the maximum sentence an inmate can face is 35 years no matter what crime they have committed, unless they are sentenced to life imprisonment, which is reserved for the most severe offences.

Van der Sloot was also sentenced to 20 years behind bars for wire fraud and extortion in Alabama, USA, on 18th October 2023 after pleading guilty to his role in a scheme to obtain $250,000 from Natalee Holloway’s mother. 

This sentence runs concurrently with his jail time in Peru, so he won’t spend any extra time behind bars in America. 

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