“His hold over me is gone,” Beth Holloway said of Joran van der Sloot, the longtime suspect, who confessed to killing her daughter after she resisted his advances on a beach in Aruba in 2005.
A federal judge said that Joran van der Sloot confessed to killing Ms. Holloway in a hearing in which he was given a 20-year sentence on extortion and wire fraud charges, The Associated Press reported.
A lawyer for Beth Holloway, the mother of the Alabama teenager whose 2005 disappearance remains unsolved, said the suspect, Joran van der Sloot, had accepted a plea deal.