Authorities are using boats to patrol the Gulf of Mexico and warning swimmers about sharks in the Destin, Florida, area, where a woman and two teenage girls were hurt in two separate shark attacks on Friday.
Joran van der Sloot, who recently admitted to killing Mountain Brook student Natalee Holloway in Aruba in 2005, is being sent back this week from the U.S. to Peru where he will serve out a sentence for the killing of a Peruvian woman.
Authorities in Aruba have requested documents from the U.S. Department of Justice in the extortion case against Joran van der Sloot, including his description of killing Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway on the island nearly 20 years ago.
Court records indicate Joran van der Sloot, the chief suspect in Natalee Holloway’s 2005 disappearance, intends to plead guilty in a federal case accusing him of trying to extort money from the missing teen’s mother.
The main suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Mountain Brook student Natalee Holloway was expected to be handed over to U.S. officials in Peru and flown to the United States.
The prime suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Mountain Brook teenager Natalee Holloway in Aruba is now facing extradition to the United States. Here is a timeline of events in the case.
