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Joran van der Sloot pleads guilty to charges of extortion and wire fraud and confessed to killing Natalee Holloway as part of a plea deal.

RELATEDNatalee Holloway suspect Joran van der Sloot to be extradited to US

Joran van der Sloot, the prime suspect in the unsolved disappearance of Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway in 2005, has confessed to killing her and disposing of her remains before trying to extort the girl's grieving family, court documents state.

The initial revelation came via U.S. Judge Anna Manasco Wednesday during a sentencing hearing in U.S. federal court where van der Sloot, 36, agreed to plead guilty to charges accusing him of extortion and wire fraud.

Federal prosecutors accused van der Sloot in a 2010 indictment of hatching a plot to sell information about the whereabouts of Holloway’s remains to her grieving family in exchange for $250,000. The Dutch national, who had been serving a 28-year prison sentence in South America for the murder of a Peruvian businesswoman in 2010, was extradited to the U.S. in June to stand trial in the Northern District of Alabama.

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