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ON. HELLO, JOHN. HEY, MAGDALA. HOW ARE YOU DOING? YES, THE HEARING LASTED ABOUT OH, I’D SAY ABOUT AN HOUR TOTAL. THE JUDGE BASICALLY THREW THE BOOK AT VAN DER SLOOT AS PART OF A PLEA BARGAIN, RECEIVED 20 TOTAL YEARS IN PRISON THAT HE WILL ACTUALLY SERVE IN THE PERUVIAN PRISON WHERE HE STILL SERVING A SENTENCE FOR A MURDER THAT HE COMMITTED BACK IN 2010. BASICALLY, IN THE END OF THINGS, HE WILL NOT EVER COME BACK TO THE UNITED STATES TO SERVE TIME HERE UNLESS HE’S RELEASED EARLY ON THE PRISON SENTENCE IN PERU. SO THAT WAS THE ULTIMATE SENTENCE. HE PLED GUILTY. A LOT OF THE DETAILS THAT YOU MAY HAVE REPORTED ALREADY, I’M NOT REALLY SURE, ARE WHAT HE REVEALED TO TO THE FBI THROUGH A POLYGRAPH EXAMINATION ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED. NATALEE HOLLOWAY IN MAY OF 2005. BASICALLY, HE BLUDGEONED HER TO DEATH BECAUSE SHE REFUSED HIS SEXUAL ADVANCES AND THEN DESTROYED HER REMAINS. AND THAT’S WHAT WAS REVEALED TO THE FBI, WHICH WAS THEN THEN TURNED THAT THE VIDEO OF THAT CONFESSION WAS PLAYED AT SOME POINT FOR THE HOLLOWAY FAMILY DURING THE HEARING TODAY, OBVIOUSLY, WE HAD A STATEMENT THAT WAS READ BY BETH HOLLOWAY. SHE STOOD IN FRONT OF THE COURT. I’VE GOT SEVERAL NOTES HERE. I DON’T KNOW HOW MUCH OF THIS YOU’VE ALREADY GONE OVER, BUT SEVERAL, SEVERAL DIFFERENT THINGS THAT THAT SHE SAID TO HIM. BASICALLY. EXCUSE ME. I’M JUST I’M KIND OF GETTING ALL MY BEARINGS HERE. AND I DON’T HAVE SEEN ON TWITTER PATSY SAYING THAT SHE CALLED HIM A KILLER. SHE CALLED HIM A KILLER. BASICALLY, SHE NATALIE, YOUR DAUGHTER GOT HOME, BASICALLY ACCUSED HER OF KILLING HER AND THEN GOING HOME AND GETTING OFF ON -- RIGHT AFTER HE KILLED HER DAUGHTER, BASICALLY. AND THEN SHE TURNED AND LOOKED DIRECTLY AT JORAN VAN DER SLOOT IN THE COURTROOM AND SAID, YOU LOOK LIKE HELL. YOU’RE ON. I DON’T KNOW HOW YOU’RE GOING TO MAKE IT. OBVIOUSLY, IN PRISON FOR THE REST OF HIS SENTENCE, HIS PRISON SENTENCE IN PERU IS IT RUNS UNTIL 2045. AND SO THIS THIS SENTENCE THAT HE RECEIVED TODAY WOULD EXPIRE IN 2043. SO HE WOULD NOT SERVE ANY OF THE SENTENCE IN THE UNITED STATES UNLESS HE WAS TO BE RELEASED EARLY IN PERU. SO THAT’S THAT’S BASICALLY THE OUTCOME OF THE SENTENCE ITSELF. NOW, HE DID MAKE A STATEMENT HIMSELF TO THE AND I’M SO SORRY, I HAVE SO MANY NOTES HERE, WE UNDERSTAND. YES. APOLOGIZING DOES SAY YES. I WOULD LIKE TO TAKE THIS CHANCE TO APOLOGIZE TO THE HOLLOWAY FAMILY AND MY OWN FAMILY. I HOPE MY STATEMENT PROVIDES SOME SENSE OF CLOSURE. I AM NOT THE PERSON I WAS BACK IN 2005. AND THEN HE WENT ON TO SAY THAT HE HAD GIVEN HIS HEART TO JESUS CHRIST. SO THAT WAS THE SHORT STATEMENT THAT HE MADE IN COURT. EVERY EVERY TURN THAT HE WAS ASKED TO QUESTION, HE WAS VERY RESPECTFUL, DIDN’T SEEM SNARKY OR TRITE OR CONTRITE AT ALL IN THE COURTROOM. HE WAS WEARING, AS WE ALL KNOW, AN ORANGE JUMPSUIT THAT HE HAS BEEN DONNING IN THE SHELBY COUNTY JAIL. HE’LL BE IMMEDIATELY RETURNED TO PERU BY THE US MARSHAL SERVICE IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS. OF COURSE, THE JUDGE SAID THAT WOULD BE THE EARLIEST CONVENIENCE. I DON’T BELIEVE IT WILL BE TODAY, BUT I’M SURE IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS, AS SOON AS THEY CAN SECURE THE PROPER PAPERWORK TO RETURN HIM TO PERU AFTER THE SENTENCING TODAY, I WANT TO ASK YOU, YOU’VE BEEN COVERING THIS. YOU KNOW, 18 YEARS. A LOT OF PEOPLE IN THE BIRMINGHAM METRO AREA HAVE BEEN WANTING TO KNOW, OR AT LEAST GET AN END TO THIS. FOR YOU PERSONALLY, JUST SITTING IN THERE AND WATCHING THE EMOTIONS AND HEARING WHAT YOU’RE AND VAN DER SLOOT HAD TO SAY AND WHAT BETH HOLLOWAY HAD TO SAY, CAN YOU KIND OF JUST HELP US UNDERSTAND THE EMOTIONS THAT HAPPEN IN THAT COURTROOM? WELL, THE COURTROOM WAS PACKED, AS YOU CAN IMAGINE. I, I ESTIMATED ABOUT 120 PEOPLE WERE IN THE COURTROOM. I DON’T KNOW IF THERE WERE ANY EMPTY SEATS. THAT IS THE BIGGEST COURTROOM IN THE HUGO BLACK FEDERAL COURTHOUSE IS ON THE EIGHTH FLOOR. IN FACT, THE HOLLOWAY FAMILY, DAVE, I BELIEVE IT’S MATT IS THE IS THE THE SON AND AND BETH WERE ALL SITTING AT THE PROSECUTION TABLE. A NUMBER OF OTHER PEOPLE WERE ALSO THERE THAT I RECOGNIZE DIFFERENT ATTORNEYS AND SUCH A LOT OF COMMUNITY MEMBERS WERE HERE THAT THAT KNEW BETH AND STILL KNOW BETH THAT, YOU KNOW, SHE THEY LIVED IN MOUNTAIN BROOK AT THE TIME, 18 YEARS AGO. IN FACT, I REMEMBER FIRST HEARING ABOUT THIS CASE, 18 YEARS AGO. I WAS ACTUALLY AT THIS COURTHOUSE COVERING A DIFFERENT TRIAL. AND NOT REALIZING HOW LONG THAT THE STORY WOULD WOULD NOT ONLY LAST, BUT HAUNT THE COMMUNITY. AND SO TODAY, A SENSE OF CLOSURE NOT ONLY FOR THE COMMUNITY, BUT THE HOLLOWAY FAMILY NOW KNOWING WHAT ULTIMATELY HAPPENED TO THEIR DAUGHTER, THAT WAS REMAINED A MYSTERY BECAUSE OF JORAN VAN DER SLOOT KEPT IT A SECRET. SO ULTIMATELY, WE NOW KNOW THAT HE MURDERED HER, BLUDGEONED HER TO DEATH. WE DON’T KNOW EXACTLY HOW THE BODY WAS DISPOSED OF, BUT BASICALLY, THE JUDGE IN WRAPPING UP HER SENTENCING COMMENTS, SAID THAT THAT HE DESTROYED HER REMAINS. WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO MAYBE GET SOME MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THAT, IF THERE ARE ANY MORE DETAILS THAT ARE RELEASED IN THE COURT FILINGS LATER TODAY, HOPEFULLY. OKAY. SO HOPEFULLY THEN WE WILL KNOW IF THERE’S A POSSIBILITY OF RECOVERING THOSE. I KNOW YOU’RE SAYING DESTROYED. I BELIEVE. NO, NO, I DON’T BELIEVE THERE’S GOING TO BE ANY RECOVERY OF THE REMAINS AND THERE’S NOT GOING TO BE ANY ADDITIONAL INVESTIGATION. HE WILL NOT BE PROSECUTED FOR HER MURDER. THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS IN IN ARUBA IS ACTUALLY 12 YEARS. SO THOSE EXPIRED SIX YEARS AGO. THAT EXPIRED SIX YEARS AGO. SO HE’S NOT GOING TO BE PROSECUTED FOR ANY FOR THIS ANY FURTHER INTERESTING TO POINT OUT IS THE SENTENCING GUIDELINES FOR WIRE FRAUD AND AND EXTORTION UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF THIS CASE. THE JUDGE SAID WAS ABOUT 3 TO 4 YEARS. SO THE AS A PART OF THE PLEA DEAL, THE VAN DER SLOOT VAN DER SLOOT AND THE PROSECUTION AGREED TO UP THAT TO 240 MONTHS, WHICH IS A 20 YEARS. AND THE JUDGE ACTUALLY SAID SHE WEIGHED MAKING THE SENTENCE CONSECUTIVE, NOT CONCURRENT, CONCURRENT MEANS WHEN YOU RUN A SENTENCE AT THE SAME TIME AS ANOTHER SENTENCE, SHE ACTUALLY CONSIDERED RUNNING IT CONSECUTIVELY. SO WHEN HE GETS OUT OF HIS FINISHED SERVING HIS PERUVIAN SENTENCE, HE WOULD THEN HAVE TO SERVE AN ADDITIONAL 20 YEARS IN A US FEDERAL PRISON. BUT SHE DECIDED TO GO WITH THE 20 YEARS. BUT THE UPWARD DEPARTURE FROM THE SENTENCING GUIDELINES FROM 3 TO 4 YEARS TO 20 YEARS WAS EXTREME. AND SHE SAID, BASED ON THE FACTS OF THE CASE AND HIS CONFESSION, THAT THAT WAS THE LEAST SHE COULD DO, SHE WISH SHE COULD DO MORE. SO, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY YOU’LL PROBABLY GET THESE ANSWERED FROM THE FEDERAL PROSECUTORS, BUT, YOU KNOW, WE’RE WORKING WITH THE PERUVIAN GOVERNMENT, YOU KNOW, TO GET HIM HERE TO FACE THESE ALABAMA CHARGES IS HOW’S IT LOOKING IN YOUR EXPERTISE WITH GETTING HIM BACK TO SERVING THAT, YOU KNOW, IS IT GOING TO BE EASY? IT WILL BE. I MEAN, IT’S JUST A MATTER IT’S A DIPLOMATIC PAPERWORK, I WOULD GUESS. I MEAN, THEY KNEW THIS WAS COMING. THEY GAVE THE TREATY AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE PERUVIAN GOVERNMENT AND THE UNITED STATES. GOVERNMENT WAS FOR ONE YEAR. THEY HAD ONE YEAR TO PROSECUTE HIM FOR THESE FOR THESE CRIMES. AND IF THE CASE HAD NOT BEEN ADJUDICATED IN THAT ONE YEAR, THEY WOULD HAVE TO FILE AN EXTENSION. SO IT’S ONLY A MATTER OF AND THEY PROBABLY ALREADY BEEN IN CONTACT WITH THE DIFFERENT AUTHORITIES IN PERU. AND I WOULD ASSUME HE WOULD NOT STILL BE IN THE UNITED STATES BY BY THE END OF THE WEEKEND. THAT’S JUST MY ASSUMPTION. I HAVE NOT BEEN TOLD THAT. BUT THE JUDGE DID SAY, AS SOON AS POSSIBLE HE WILL BE REMOVED FROM JEFFERSON COUNTY, FROM FROM ALABAMA AND TAKE HIM BACK TO TO THE PERUVIAN PERUVIAN PRISON WHERE HE WILL SERVE THE REST OF HIS MURDER SENTENCE THERE FOR ALSO, I UNDERSTAND, TODAY FOR KILLING A WOMAN. THIS IS WHAT THE JUDGE SAID FOR KILLING ANOTHER WOMAN THAT REFUSED HIS SEXUAL ADVANCES ON THE ACTUAL ANNIVERSARY OF NATALEE HOLLOWAY’S DEATH. SO HE KILLED ANOTHER WOMAN IN PERU ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF NATALEE HOLLOWAY’S DEATH FOR REFUSING HIS SEXUAL ADVANCES, THE SAME MOTIVE THAT THAT WAS REVEALED TODAY IN COURT FOR WHY HE KILLED NATALEE HOLLOWAY BACK IN MAY OF 2005. WAS THERE ANY EYE CONTACT? DID HE LOOK AT THE FAMILY? WAS THERE ANY REMORSE THAT YOU CAN SEE? I MEAN, WE WERE I WAS SITTING DIRECTLY BEHIND HIM. I WAS ON THE FOURTH ROW. HE WALKED IN, GLANCED OVER AT A MYRIAD OF PEOPLE, BUT DIDN’T MAKE DIRECT EYE CONTACT. AND I COULD SORT OF SEE WHERE BETH WAS SITTING. SHE WAS SITTING AT THE PROSECUTION TABLE, WHICH IF YOU’RE LOOKING AT THE JUDGE, WHICH IS TO THE LEFT, LIKE I SAID, AT THE VERY END OF HER STATEMENT, SHE PAUSED AND TURNED AND LOOKED DIRECTLY AT HIM AND SAID, YOU LOOK LIKE HELL. YOU’RE ON. I DON’T THINK YOU’RE GOING TO MAKE IT IN PRISON, BASICALLY. AND THEN TURN BACK AND WRAPPED UP HER HER STATEMENT TO THE JUDGE. SO VERY POWERFUL STATEMENT FROM HER. AND OTHER THAN THAT, I MEAN, ON HIS PART, YOU KNOW, LIKE I SAID, HE WAS WEARING AN ORANGE JUMPSUIT THAT HE WEARS IN THE SHELBY COUNTY JAIL. HE WAS IN SHACKLES, YOU KNOW, ANKLE SHACKLES AND AND HANDCUFFS. HE YOU KNOW, HE WAS VERY RESPECTFUL, YOU KNOW, AND YES, MA’AM, NO, MA’AM. AND BEYOND THAT, I REALLY CAN’T SAY ANYTHING MORE ABOUT HIS APPEARANCE AND HIS DEMEANOR IN THE COURTROOM. AND I WANTED TO ASK THIS. I MEAN, YOU SING OBVIOUSLY. YES, MA’AM. NO, MA’AM. BUT NO TRANSLATOR WAS NEEDED. NO, NO. HE SPEAKS VERY GOOD ENGLISH AND HE MADE THAT VERY CLEAR AT HIS ARRAIGNMENT BACK IN JUNE. THEY OFFERED HIM A TRANSLATOR BECAUSE HE’S DUTCH. THEY BASICALLY, YOU KNOW, AND HE TURNED THAT DOWN. HE GOES, NO, NO, MY MY ENGLISH IS VERY GOOD. AND IT WAS AND, YOU KNOW, A FEW BIOGRAPHICAL THINGS. AND HE HE WAS ASKED TO STATE HIS NAME AND HE GAVE HIS DATE OF BIRTH IN 1987, FINISHED HIGH SCHOOL, ACTUALLY HAS A DAUGHTER HIMSELF. NOW, THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT THE JUDGE AND NO, ACTUALLY THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT BETH HOLLOWAY HIGHLIGHTED. AND, YOU KNOW, ONE THING THEY DO HAVE IN COMMON IS THAT THEY BOTH HAVE DAUGHTERS. AND OBVIOUSLY, BETH WAS YOU KNOW, HER DAUGHTER IS GONE AND HE TOOK HER LIFE. HE HAS ADMITTED TO THAT. HE’S CONFESSED TO THAT AS PART OF THIS PLEA DEAL. BUT HE HE HAS A DAUGHTER HIMSELF. SHE WOULD NOT NAME THE DAUGHTER, OBVIOUSLY, OUT OF RESPECT FOR HER AND JUST WANTED WANTED HIM TO THINK ABOUT WHAT HE WOULD DO IN HER SITUATION, HOW HOW HE WOULD FEEL ABOUT SOMEBODY THAT THAT WOULD MURDER SOMEBODY FOR REFUSING HIS SEXUAL THEIR SEXU