Birmingham, Al (WIAT) Joran van der Sloot says he promised information about Natalee Holloway to get back at her parents.
That’s one of the revelations in an interview appearing tonight on the Dutch television channel RTL and previewed in the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf.
"I wanted to get back at Natalee's family - her parents have been making my life tough for five years," the paper quoted him as saying from prison in Peru. "When they offered to pay for the girl's location, I thought: 'Why not'?"
Van der Sloot is the prime suspect in Natalee Holloway’s disappearance on the island of Aruba. The Mountain Brook teen was on a graduation trip and was last seen leaving a nightclub with van der Sloot. He has been questioned many times by Aruban police but never charged in her disappearance.
He is under indictment here in Birmingham on federal charges of wire fraud and extortion. Federal officials say that in the sting earlier this year, Natalee's mother sent $10,000 in cash to Van der Sloot through an FBI witness, and a wire transfer of $15,000 to Van der Sloot's bank account in the Netherlands. He took the money and flew to Latin America.

He was interviewed for de Telegraaf and RTL in his cell in Peru’s Castro Castro prison where he’s being held pending charged he killed Stephany Flores, a 21 year old student found dead in his Lima hotel room. Peruvian police say van der Sloot confessed to killing Flores when she found material relating to Natalee on his laptop.

Van der Sloot is awaiting word on his second appeal to get that confession thrown out. He claims he was coerced, misled and didn’t have an adequate translator. A Peruvian judge dismissed his first appeal.