oct 18, 2023 - Joran van der Sloot Confesses in Court

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Joran van der Sloot admitted that he brutally attacked the American teenager on a beach in Aruba, bringing a close to a case that had fascinated the American public since she vanished in 2005.

On Wednesday, the man long suspected of killing her, Joran van der Sloot, finally admitted his brutal crime in a statement presented to a federal judge in Birmingham, Ala. It had taken 18 years, as long as her short life.

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