Natalee Holloway’s mum shares ‘disturbing’ talk with Joran van der Sloot and angry prison calls

Beth Holloway, the mother of Natalee Holloway, has been giving interviews to the press after the Netflix documentary about her daughter’s disappearance. 

Earlier, she said: “I was determined by hope, and I was driven by love, and the love for my daughter, and to find out the answers to what happened to her, and I was acting on faith. And when you do those three things, you can accomplish a lot.”

Now, in a new interview with NewsNation’s Jesse Weber, Beth discussed interactions with the man connected to her daughter’s disappearance, Joran van der Sloot. 

After her first meeting with Joran, she recalled: “I’ve been a public school educator for many decades, so to see a young male who’s 17 years of age say the things that he was saying in front of all of these men from home who were fathers, who were uncles, and to be describing the activity that he engaged in with Natalee in the car, the sexual activity, placing himself with her, it’s very alarming and disturbing to have a young male doing that.”

We saw it in Taken: Natalee Holloway as well, with Joran detailing his intimate relations with Natalee right in front of her mother. 

“That’s pretty brazen and revealing of his character,” Beth Holloway added. “Here I am sitting there thinking, ‘You’re telling this to the mother of the daughter that you were the last known man to be seen with her alive and getting into her car?’ So I knew it was definitely a behaviour that, for a 17-year-old boy, that’s not typical.”

Joran van der Sloot later called Beth Holloway from prison 

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After Joran’s 2023 confession about what actually happened to Natalee Holloway, her mother reacted with a gut-wrenching impact statement in court. In it, she talked about Joran’s own daughter, asking him to imagine what she’d gone through over the past 20 years. 

“You are a murderer. Remember that every time that jail door slams shut. You are a killer,” she also said. 

In fact, her statement was so brutal that Joran proceeded to call her from inside his prison cell in Peru. Specifically, he took issue with the mention of his daughter, and with Beth saying he looked like “hell”.

“I know some things that I said that impacted Natalee’s killer, and it’s kind of a universal language that I noticed when I touched upon his daughter that really struck a chord with him,” she said in the new interview. “I also noticed when I told him that he looks like hell. Do you know he obsessed over that when he got back to prison? Because I have all these jail cell calls that I got from him.”

Despite the 2023 confession, Joran van der Sloot has never been convicted of killing Natalee. He is currently serving a 28-year prison sentence for the murder of Stephany Flores. 

Taken: Natalee Holloway is available on Netflix now. For all the latest Netflix news and drops, like The Holy Church of Netflix on Facebook. 

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