By REBECCA MOWLING
Dutch teenager Joran van der Sloot has admitted watching the violent death of Alabama student Natalee Holloway.
Sources say that, after more than 22 discrepancies were found in his statements about the night Natalee disappeared, his latest testimony has convinced Aruban investigators that he was present when she died and saw what happened to her.
Recently seen documents claim Joran, 18, told police interrogators that his friend Deepak Kalpoe, 21, raped, murdered and buried Natalee. But an investigation insider said his story contains such detail that the authorities believe Joran must have been there himself.
“From the small details and the graphic descriptions given by Joran it is clear to investigators that he was at the scene when Natalee died,” said the source.
The National Enquirer has been at the forefront of the investigation since Natalee disappeared on a high school graduation trip on May 30. For more than 11 weeks, our reporters have shared the hopes and disappointments endured by her family and the police.
Time and again Joran’s evidence has led us all to believe we were on the verge of a breakthrough — only to have those expectations cruelly dashed when yet another of his stories was exposed as flawed.
Now The National Enquirer appeals to Joran to show some respect to Natalee and some mercy for her distraught family. We ask just one thing — that he finally tells the truth so this mystery can be solved and a beautiful teenager can be laid to rest as she deserves. According to the investigation insider, official documents state that Joran admitted to having sex with Natalee. He claimed it was consensual but her family insist she was a virgin and that would never be the case.
Natalee, 18, was last seen by classmates from Alabama’s Mountain Brook High School leaving the popular night-spot Carlos ‘n Charlies and getting into a car with Joran, Deepak and his brother Satish Kalpoe, 18. The insider said: “Natalee thought she was getting a ride back to her hotel with Joran but instead I believe she was walking into a set-up with the Kalpoe brothers already in the car.”
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