Birmingham, Ala (WIAT)  It's a murder mystery.  It's a sad reality show.  It's a true life story of grief stricken families.

If you thought the six and a half year saga of Joran van der Sloot was going away when he was sentenced for killing Peruvian student Stephany Flores, guess again.

Even with van der Sloot in prison for 28 years, the prime suspect in the disappearance of Mountain Brook teen Natalee Holloway on a graduation trip to Aruba, is still making news worldwide.

The latest installment?  The Daily Beast is reporting that Mary Hamer, his self proclaimed "guardian angel", wants her money back.

Hamer is a Lake City, Florida radiologist who used to practice here in Alabama. She has been bankrolling van der Sloot's defense claiming he was an innocent victim of a worldwide conspiracy.

But apparently his guilty plea to killing Flores after the Peruvian student found information about Natalee Holloway on his laptop has jolted Hamer a bit closer to reality.

According to The Daily Beast, Hamer has demanded that van der Sloot and his Lima attorney, Jose Jimenez, return $75,000 she sent them.

Hamer says the money was to be used for bail. Jimenez says he never discussed bail, which was impossible in a murder case. He says he and Hamer discussed a habeus corpus claim and living expenses for van der Sloot if they won that claim. It was denied by the Peruvian Courts.

Jimenez is pretty clearly fed up with Hamer and claims he has returned her money. “She proclaims his innocence through incoherent arguments and has discredited me in the process,” said Jimenez.