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Aruba investigators have questioned if the chilling confession made by Natalie Holloway's killer is true, stating there are some details which 'don't add up'.
Prosecutors said Joran Van der Sloot's admission about the 2005 murder of the high school senior contain contradictions which don't 'make sense'.
Van der Sloot, 36, confessed as part of a plea deal in which he pleaded guilty to charges of extortion and wire fraud after he tried to scam money out of Holloway's parents in exchange for intel on her remains.
The Dutch national told how he battered Holloway, 18, to death with a cinderblock and dumped her body in the ocean after she rebuffed his sexual advances.
But now, prosecutors have poked holes in his account, stating the geographic features of the Aruba beach where the killing took place typically would mean her body would have been washed back up.
Investigators into the disappearance of Natalee Holloway in Aruba have queried the confession made by her killer Joran Van der Sloot
Joran van der Sloot finally confessed to killing Natalee Holloway in 2005 after they met at a bar in Aruba as part of a plea deal for wire fraud and extortion after he tried to scam $250,000 from her family in exchange for intel on her whereabouts
'It's true that there's a reef that usually keeps things from washing out to sea,' the investigator told the Messenger.
'It's about 30 meters offshore. You have to go past it to be sure that things won't wash back up on the beach. But he says he didn't do that.'
Van der Sloot described with a sickening detachment how he caved in Holloway's face before wading up to his knees and pushing her body out to sea.
Police also never found the murder weapon or any remains despite an extensive search the day after Holloway went missing.
'We didn't see any block,' the investigator added. 'No blood, and nothing that led us to believe that she died like that there.'
Van der Sloot, who has admitted to receiving treatment for 'sociopathic tendencies' was compelled to disclose everything he knew about the murder as part of the plea deal.
US authorities also subjected him to a polygraph test which he passed 'with flying colors'.
But his testimony contradicts an account he gave to a friend over email in 2010, in which he claimed his father had rented a boat two days after the murder to 'take care of things', suggesting the body was hidden before being dumped further out to sea.
Investigators questioned the killer's account of how he battered Holloway to death and dumped her body in the sea as the murder weapon was never found and they would have expected the body to be washed up
Van der Sloot confessed to the killing while serving another 28 year sentence for the brutal murder of another student, 21-year-old Stephany Flores Ramirez, who he attacked in Peru five years after Holloway's murder
Beth Holloway said Van der Sloot's confession means the family have 'finally reached the end of this never-ending nightmare'
His confession brought some closure to the years of torment for the Holloway family who have strived for answers since her disappearance on May 30, 2005.
A judge declared her dead, but her body was never found.
The teen's mom Beth Holloway described the immense relief the family felt after Van der Sloot was handed a 20 year sentence at an Alabama court for his extortion crimes.
'This confession means we have finally reached the end of this never-ending nightmare,' she said outside the courthouse.
The killer was snared after trying to scam $250,000 from Holloway's mom Beth Holloway in exchange for information on her remains.
Van der Sloot was extradited from Peru for the hearing where he is already serving a 28 years for the murder of 21-year-old student Stephy Flores in 2010.
The murder of the Lima student took place five years exactly after that of Holloway's.
Van der Sloot will serve his second sentence at the same prison he is currently being held in, but technically does not face any time for the murder.
Despite doubts over the veracity of his confession, the murder has now passed the statue of limitations in Aruba for Van der Sloot to be charged again.
'There are some things that don't make sense,' the investigator said, 'It just doesn't add up.
'There's nothing more to be done, 'but I still will always wonder.'
Van der Sloot's full confession
She asked to go back to her hotel but I was just trying to get dropped off a little bit further away from her hotel so we could walk back and I might still get a chance to be with her.
That's what I was hoping for.
Deepak drops me off at another place, a little right of the Marriott Hotel known as The Fisherman's Huts. This place is not far from, you know, the next hotel is the Marriott, and the next hotel after that is another Marriott, which is a timeshare. And then it's the Holiday Inn. We walk along the beach.
Deepak and Satish leave. They go back to their home, assume they go back to their home. They get in their car and leave. I'm actually with Natalee, walking along the beach. I find a space before we get to the Marriott Hotel, where I lay her down, we lay down together in the sand and we start kissing each other. I get her to kiss me again and we start kissing each other.
I start feeling her up again and she tells me no. She tells me doesn't want me to feel her up. I insist. I keep feeling her up either way. She ends up kneeing me in the crotch. When she knees me in the crotch, I get up and I kick her extremely hard in the face.
She's lying down unconscious, possibly even dead, but definitely unconscious. And I see right next to her there's a huge cinderblock laying on the beach.
I take this and I smash her head in with it completely. Her face basically collapses in. Even though it's dark, I can see her face is collapsed in.
Afterwards, I don't exactly know, I'm scared. I don't know what to do. I decide to put her into the ocean. So I grab her and I half pull and half walk with her into the ocean. I push her off. I walk up to about my knees into the ocean and I push her off into the sea. After that, I get out. I walk home.
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