Birmingham, Al (WIAT) A new book titled Joran's Murder Mysteries promises "The complete story about the true role of Joran van der Sloot in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway and the killing of Stephany Flores."
Other breathless prose and promises in an ad in the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf's website include:
• Filled with countless previously unpublished material from secret police files.
• Latest new facts and witness statements.
• Unique and revealing images.
• The facts behind the disappearance of Natalie Holloway.
• The secret conspiracy behind the murder of Stephanie Flores.
• The dubious role of the FBI in both cases.
• Exclusive pictures of Castro Castro prison in Joran.
The book, due out October 19, was co-written by Bert Huisjes and John van den Heuvel, the reporter who recently interviewed van der Sloot in his Castro Castro prison cell in Lima, Peru. That interview which appeared in De Telegraaf as well as on Dutch television contained little about the Natalee Holloway case beyond van der Sloot's admission that he scammed Natalee's family out of $25,000.
"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 still awaiting results of an appeal to throw out his confession to murdering 21 year old student Stephany Flores, reportedly because she found matrial relating to Natalee Holloway on his laptop. Flores was found dead in van der Sloot's Lima hotel room five years to the day of Holloway's disappearance on Aruba. The Mountain Brook, Alabama teen was on a graduation trip to the island and was last seen with van der Sloot.
The Dutch national also faces U.S. charges of wire fraud and extortion relating to the money for information scam he pulled on Natalee's family....the extortion he confessed to in van den Heuvel's jailhouse interview.
