On the same day police nabbed Joran Van der Sloot in the murder of a 21-year-old Peruvian woman, the Dutch man was hit with extortion charges in connection with high-profile crime that first put his name in headlines - the disappearance of American teen Natalee Holloway.
The criminal complaint filed in federal court in Birmingham, Ala., Thursday accused Van der Sloot of promising to divulge the location of Holloway's body in return for $250,000 last month, the Associated Press reported.
The target of the alleged extortion plot was not named, but Holloway's family hails from Mountain Brook, Ala.
Van der Sloot, 22, was caught by Chilean police Thursday in a Santiago neighborhood, ending an international manhunt for the suspect in the murder of Stephany Flores.
The daughter of a famous Peruvian racecar driver, Flores was killed in a Lima, Peru hotel room May 30 – five years to the day after Holloway disappeared in Aruba in 2005 while on a trip to celebrate her high school graduation.
Both women were last seen alive with Van der Sloot.
Holloway, then 18, met Van der Sloot at a nightclub.
Her body was never recovered, and Van der Sloot was never charged in the disappearance, despite being taken into custody twice during the investigation and confessing to her murder.
Van der Sloot slipped out of Peru to Chile Monday before Flores' battered body was discovered in the hotel room two days later.
Beth Twitty, Holloway's mother, released a statement Thursday stating that she "extends her deepest sympathy to the family of Stephany Flores Ramirez and prays for swift and sure justice."
The criminal complaint filed in federal court in Birmingham, Ala., Thursday accused Van der Sloot of promising to divulge the location of Holloway's body in return for $250,000 last month, the Associated Press reported.
The target of the alleged extortion plot was not named, but Holloway's family hails from Mountain Brook, Ala.
Van der Sloot, 22, was caught by Chilean police Thursday in a Santiago neighborhood, ending an international manhunt for the suspect in the murder of Stephany Flores.
The daughter of a famous Peruvian racecar driver, Flores was killed in a Lima, Peru hotel room May 30 – five years to the day after Holloway disappeared in Aruba in 2005 while on a trip to celebrate her high school graduation.
Both women were last seen alive with Van der Sloot.
Holloway, then 18, met Van der Sloot at a nightclub.
Her body was never recovered, and Van der Sloot was never charged in the disappearance, despite being taken into custody twice during the investigation and confessing to her murder.
Van der Sloot slipped out of Peru to Chile Monday before Flores' battered body was discovered in the hotel room two days later.
Beth Twitty, Holloway's mother, released a statement Thursday stating that she "extends her deepest sympathy to the family of Stephany Flores Ramirez and prays for swift and sure justice."
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