How did Natalee Holloway die? The latest information on her tragic murder.

Natalee Holloway the murder was finally solved. More than 15 years after the 18-year-old disappeared from an Aruba bar, Joran van der Sloot He confessed to his murder on Wednesday, Oct. 18, as part of a plea deal for a federal trial on racketeering and wire fraud charges. Now the details have finally been revealed. Here’s everything you need to know about Natalee’s death.

The disappearance of Natalee Holloway in 2005

Natalee was one of more than 100 Mountain Brook High School students who participated in an unofficial graduation trip to Aruba. She was last seen leaving a nightclub on May 30. Joran, then 17, was one of three other men seen getting into the car with her. Since she didn’t fly the next day, an investigation was launched and Joran was one of the suspects. Joran was arrested in June as a suspect, but was never charged.

Natalee was declared dead in 2012

Almost six years after his death, Natalee’s father David, filed a petition to have her declared legally dead in Alabama. Her mother, Beth, He contested the request, but a judge approved the request in January 2012.

Joran van der Sloot admits to the murder

Joran, now 36, was found guilty of the 2010 murder. Stephany Tatiana Flores Ramírez. He was convicted in 2012 and sentenced to 28 years in prison in Peru. Before fleeing to Peru, Joran offered Natalee’s family information about the whereabouts of his body in exchange for $15,000. The family transferred money to him, but the information he provided turned out to be false. He was tried in the United States on charges of extortion and wire fraud. As part of a plea deal, he was asked to confess to Natalee’s murder. “For 19 years you denied killing Natalee Holloway. “Your lies have caused unnoticeable pain,” Natalee’s mother said in a victim impact statement CNN. “I hope that some semblance of justice can finally be achieved, even if no act of justice heals the pain we suffer.”

As part of the plea deal, Joran had to confess to what happened to Natalee the night she was killed. Beth Holloway’s attorney shared what happened to her daughter in a statement to People. He said Natalee denied the sexual advances Joran made towards her. She said the two lay down and kissed. “She tells me ‘no.’ She tells me she doesn’t want me to hear her. Oh, I insist. “I still feel it anyway,” she said in a taped confession, via People.

He said that after he continued to touch her, she kicked him “very hard” in the groin. Then she kicked him in the face. She said that after he kicked her she was unconscious and possibly dead, and then he hit her with a concrete block. “I’ll completely smash his head. Uh, yeah, her face basically, you know, faints,” she said. Then she said he pushed her body into the ocean.

After his conviction, he will be extradited to Peru to continue serving his sentence. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison in the United States on extortion charges.