Natalee Holloway Joran van der Sloot Case Impacted by New Treaty

The Natalee Holloway Joran van der Sloot case got yet another twist this week with news of a new treaty that could send van der Sloot back to Holland. While the Natalee Holloway disappearance has yet to be solved, a new extradition treaty signed this week between the Netherlands and Peru could send Van Der Sloot back to Holland if he is found guilty of the murder of Stephany Flores Ramirez.
In advance of her new Lifetime TV series, Beth Holloway told news that the Stephany Flores Ramirez murder changed her mind about her daughter’s case. Beth Holloway now believes her daughter is dead.
Maximo Altez, Van der Sloot’s Peruvian lawyer, tells news that Van der Sloot known about the new treaty. Van der Sloot remains in jail at the Miguel Castro prison awaiting trial.
Holland’s foreign ministry in a news statement this weekend explained “Peruvians who are in prison anywhere in the (Netherlands) are also entitled to invoke the treaty.”
Flores is the daughter of race car driver Ricardo Flores.
In March, news reports indicated that Joran van der Sloot will plead guilty by reason of temporary insanity in the Stephany Flores Ramirez murder case. A guilty plea by reason of temporary insanity could send Van der Sloot to jail for as little as three to five years instead of fifteen to thirty-five years if convicted.
“Beth accepts the forensic conclusions, is emotionally exhausted from the inexplicably long wait, and deeply disappointed in the time and manner in which she learned of the results,” her attorney John Q. Kelly said in a news statement earlier this year about Arubian prosecutors. “Apparently Aruban prosecutors were more sensitive to media concerns than the painful vigil of a mother.”