Untangling Joran van der Sloot’s Lies About Natalee Holloway’s Murder

Joran Sends Blended Messages

In 2008, Joran was in Thailand when he supplied Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren an special job interview.

Investigative journalist Steph Watts, a producer and correspondent for On the Record for Greta Van Susteren at the time, described in the Peacock documentary that he was tasked with likely to Thailand to make the preparations, which would include spending Joran $25,000 to protected the unique on what transpired to Natalee.

But it was unlawful to deliver additional than $5,000 at the moment into the country, so Steph had to entertain the “agitated” youthful man just before they could wire much more money. He stated at one position Joran asked if the producer could just get him the dollars from his have personalized financial institution account.

At the similar time, Steph recalled, Joran was “extremely charming. I had to consistently remind myself of why I was there and who he was. He was cordial, he was amusing, but I recognized how very hazardous of a condition I was in. He could have snapped on me.” 

Joran explained to Greta that he organized to offer Natalee for $10,000 to a person from Venzuela interested in blond American ladies. He claimed that, right after conference Natalee, he arranged to provide her to the beach front for the exchange.

On the way to the airport right after the interview, Steph recalled, Greta bought a text from Joran reading through, “Every little thing I advised you was a lie. I just did it for the revenue.”

Fox News ran the job interview, disclosing Joran’s retraction and that he’d been paid. Greta mentioned it was unclear which model of his story, if any, was accurate.