Van Der Sloot Plea May Lead Judge To Declare Natalee Holloway Dead. Van der Sloot has accepted the Peruvian murder charges against him Wednesday, which may allow a judge to declare Alabama Natalee Holloway dead based on the trial of Van der Sloot, the only suspect in her murder.A judge holds a hearing Thursday on whether to sign a court order saying Natalee Holloway died more than six years after his disappearance in Aruba. The hearing comes a day after questioning a suspect in her disappearance, Joran van der Sloot, pleaded guilty to the murder of a woman in Peru.
Jefferson County Probate Judge Alan King is the hearing of an application by the father of Natalee Holloway to be declared dead. His mother originally opposed, but will not challenge a decision on Thursday, said his lawyer.
The king ruled in September that Dave Holloway had met the legal presumption of death of his daughter and he was someone to prove that she did not die during a trip to school. He set a hearing Thursday to allow anyone to approach.
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The father's lawyer, Mark White, said no new evidence has emerged, and he will ask the judge to decide dead.
"We intend to highlight the fact that the person we believe is responsible for this tragedy is now considered a killer," White said Wednesday.
Van der Sloot, 24, pleaded guilty Wednesday to murder in 2010 of a 21 year old woman he met in a casino Lima. Stephany Flores was killed five years to the day after Natalee Holloway, an 18-year-old from the Birmingham suburb of Mountain Brook, disappeared. She was last seen leaving a bar withvan der Sloot.
Shortly after the death of Flores, 30 May 2010, van der Sloot has told police he killed the woman in Peru in a fit of rage after discovering on his laptop of its connection to the disappearance of Holloway. Police forensic experts have disputed the claim.
Lawyers for Holloway's family said the parents of Natalee Holloway plan to be in the hall of Birmingham on Thursday.
Beth Holloway attorney John Q. Kelly said: "Our thoughts and prayers are with the family during these procedures Flores extraordinarily painful and public. We hope they find some measure of privacy, peace and inner strength as time goes on."
Kelly said that once van der Sloot was sentenced Friday he expected the U.S. authorities to try to get them to Alabama to face federal charges pending, accusing him of extorting $ 25 000 to Beth Holloway to reveal the location of the body of his daughter's body in Aruba. Kelly went to Aruba for the revelation, but van der Sloot has not delivered.
Natalee Holloway's parents divorced in 1993. She was raised by his mother in Mountain Brook, but he spent a weekend with his father, an insurance agent in Meridian, Mississippi
At a hearing in September, Beth Holloway sent a lawyer to oppose the efforts of her husband for their daughter declared dead.
The lawyer, Charlie DeBardelaben said Wednesday that she no longer objects and includes the reasons for her ex-husband wants a decision. "She's ready to end this chapter," he said.
At this hearing, counsel for Dave Holloway said a court order declaring his father dead would use her college fund of $ 2,000 for his younger brother and to allow the father to stop paying for hospital insurance it.
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