Attorney says Natalee Holloway’s mother confronted suspect Van der Sloot in Peruvian jail

By AP
Friday, September 17, 2010

Lawyer: Holloway’s mom confronted suspect in jail

NEW YORK — The mother of an Alabama teen who vanished in Aruba in 2005 entered a Peruvian jail and talked directly with the Dutchman suspected in her daughter’s disappearance, her attorney said Friday.

In an interview on NBC’s “Today,” lawyer John Q. Kelly said Natalee Holloway’s mother Beth Twitty entered the jail “without violating any laws or breaking any regulations” and spoke with Joran van der Sloot.

The jailed man is charged with killing a woman in Peru on May 30, five years to the day after Holloway, then 18, disappeared while on a high school graduation trip to the Caribbean island.

NBC said Twitty entered the jail with a Dutch TV news crew.

Kelly said Twitty didn’t expect to get answers about Natalee’s disappearance, but wanted Van der Sloot to know “she hasn’t gone away, she’s determined to get answers and you know, she wants to bring Natalee home.”

Kelly did not immediately respond to a phone message left at his office by The Associated Press.

In Peru, a spokesman for the national penal authority said Twitty’s name did not appear in the visitor registry of Castro Castro prison, where the 22-year-old Van der Sloot is being held.

“That woman did not enter the prison,” the spokesman, Bruno Guzman, told the AP.

He did acknowledge that a group of Dutch journalists visited the prison and interviewed Van der Sloot in early September.

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