There was an article in the Dutch press from the ghost writer of his book which has been translated by Hannie. The part I've bolded is extremely telling IMO. He was telling as close to the truth on the van der Eem/de Vries tape as there has been revealed so far. Couple that with the fact that the police asked the family if Natalee had a history of epilepsy with what you see him do on the tape. If this has already been posted...sorry.
The magazine is REVU
Mijn jaar me Joran
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Van der Sloot Biographer Zvezdana Vukojevic looks back at a chaotic year
THE MADNESS OF JORAN
In 2006 New Revu's Zvezdana Vukojevic drew up the story of Joran van der Sloot. In this story her memories which didn't make the book. Van der Sloot: The American tabloid National Enquirer offered me $ 1 million if I would confess to murdering Natalee. I seriously considered that offer.
April 2007. With a big smile Willeke Alberti writes on her just released DVD Box ( on the tv progam; De Wereld Draait Door); Dear Joran, wish you and your family much love and strenght, Willeke Alberti.
Van der Sloot puts a scribble in his book for Willeke. Quick, how do you write her name? He whispered. Van der Sloot was in the same broadcast because of the book De zaak Natalee Holloway - Mijn eigen verhaal. It's the result of interviews I had with Van der Sloot, fragments of a diary and statements out of the criminal file.
When we were backstage eating something with the Dutch diva, Van der Sloot asked why she was on the program. Alberti: 'I have a new DVD box released'. 'Van der Sloot: 'What is it that you are doing exactly'? Amused Alberti tells him she's a singer. Van der Sloot says he's been suspected of having something to do with the disappearance of the American Natalee Holloway on Aruba, 2 years ago.: 'I left her at the beach alone. That's something I have to live with for the rest of my life'.
I wrote a book to show people that that can happen to everybody.'Alberti nods in agreement: You remind me a bit of my son. He was also always very busy with girls. I often worried about him.'
Van der Sloot: 'Sorry that I didn't know who you were, but I didn't grow up in the Netherlands. I come from Aruba.
After the interview with Van Nieuwkerk ( host of the program), he wants to go quickly to his hotel with the bottle of wine he got as a present ('I'm giving this to my grandmother'). He forgets the DVD Box from Willeke Alberti. He's busy text messaging the whole evening. He 'arranged a chickie' who's coming to visit him that night. We barely dropped him of at his hotel, or he runs out the door again. With the bottle of wine in his hand.
Groupie
Mid 2006.Van der Sloot is studying International business and Management at the hogeschool in Arnhem, lives there in a house with a couple of other students and is playing poker in his spare time. He also has a girlfriend who he met on the internet. 'A groupie,'he jokes. He wants to leave his past behind him, he says, although he still is a suspect in Natalee Holloway's disappearance.
That's why a book about his experiences is a logical step for him.'If I'm old and have grandchildren,I want to look back with pride at this book.' A statement which sounds pretty 'oldish' out of his mouth. I smile. Van der Sloot: 'Don't you believe me?'
The first few months he fully cooperated. He seems relaxed and makes jokes. If Hula Kilicaslan is photographing him for the cover, he talks about 'playen' and scoring as much girls as possible.
The photographer noticed that he's very at ease during the posing. Van der Sloot: 'I'm good with women.' He says that's because of his mother's influence: 'I have learned to always respect women.'
Obsessed with poker
September 2006. His interest for the formation of the book changes if we travel to Aruba together. In the plane it shows how obsessed he is with poker. He insists on teaching me:'I also teached it to all my cellmates, housemates, and friends. Now we play 'Texas Hold 'Em' every night.
On Aruba an introduction and conversation follows with his parents. Paul and Anita van der Sloot say that they rather would have written a book together with Joran, they are disappointed that he wants to do it alone. Soon we are talking about the case. The introvert Paul van der Sloot asks his son repeatedly why he lied so much during the interrogations:'That's why it's very difficult to still believe you. I just don't get it. Why do you state that Deepak came with dogs and raped and killed Natalee while that isn't true? I don't get the logic of that. 'Joran: Well, they are also lying about me and that girl. Then I will also lie about them. 'Paul notes that he doesn't call Natalee with her name: 'Why do you call her 'that girl'? Joran is silent. His father starts for the umpteenth time about the many lies: 'That isn't very wise, isn't is?
'Joran ends the conversation with:'You don't get it.'
His mother gives a tour through the house. On a closet there's a framed picture of Natalee with a burning candle in front of it.
When Paul gives me a ride to my hotel that night he says: 'If I knew that Joran did something to Natalee, I would have turned him in.'
In the morning I get a text message from Joran's mother Anita: Joran didn't come home last night. Is he with you? Suddenly I remember a text message from an ex girlfriend which he showed me yesterday. He thought it wasn't a good idea to react on that, because he already had a girlfriend. Still he invited me some hours later to have diner with him and this ex girlfriend. I turned the invitation down. I'm looking at the beach and in the casinos. Nothing.
Just towards the evening he surfaced. I mentioned that he stayed the night with that girl. Van der Sloot: 'Yes but I didn't cheat.' I don't care but you are too late for our interview appointment.'
'You don't believe me? I really didn't cheat.'
Van der Sloot is worn out, and that night not much work can be done. Also during other interview sessions later that week his hands are shaking. He showed me spots on his back. Later he says he has had Pfeiffer's disease. Regularly I see worried glances from bystanders if they see me in his company. Arubans and tourists probably think I'm a new conquest and don't know who he is.
One night we drink something on a terrace at the beach. Joran's eyes are wandering to a group of girls in mini skirts who are shaking their hips on Shakira's 'Hips Don't Lie' and says: 'How can you as a man don't look at this? There also six of them. Then he suggests to go diving: 'It's a waste if you are on Aruba and don't go diving.''No thanks I'm really not going to dive with you,'I say half serious and half joking. 'Hehe, imagine you would also disappear. Where is Zvedana now..'
That week Van der Sloot again stays away from home a couple of times his parents say. I'm not going to search anymore.
Panic
October 2006. Once back in Holland I regularly stand at his front door in the neighborhood Presikhaaf in Arnhem, but often there is no response. And when one of his housemates does open the door, Van der Sloot is still asleep. I wait for hours until he wakes up, has showered and is approachable. In the studentlike living room there are poker chips and cards on a garden table which serves as a eating/playtable.. The house smells like stale beer and weed. According to Van der Sloot we have exactly one hour for an interview 'because we are going to barbecue later on.''I decide at that moment to do the interviews at my workplace in the future, without destractions. This works for awhile. But soon he lapse into his old behavior. Calling off by phone, or just stay away with an obvious excuse like: My phone did fall in the bathtub.'Or: I fell from the stairs at the station and thought I had broken my leg, so I had to go to the hospital.'Or: I didn't have enough credits on my phone.'
One day he called me in a panic: 'They are after me! I have to tell you something...'
Click, disconnected. A couple of minutes later he calls back. 'I thought that they wanted to do something to me. People came out of a car and ran after me. It seems they were camera guys of Peter R. de Vries. I have shaken them off. I ask: 'But what did you want to tell me?'
Van der Sloot: 'Oh, I don't remember.'
Did he wanted to confess to me something about the Holloway case in his panic?
Pathological Liar
Late 2006. He complains that he has to travel so much to Amsterdam. When I talk to Paul van der Sloot by phone because I'm looking for a document, he asks how the book is progressing. I sigh: 'Difficult. 'He knows exactly what I mean: 'Joran has to learn to take responsibility or otherwise he will become an annoying man later.'
He thinks it will be a good idea for Joran to go to Africa for awhile to do some volunteer work. So that he realizes that having everything isn't a given.
Paul van der Sloot also realizes gradually that his son is playing way too much poker. And money to play poker is his first necessity.
That's obvious as one day van der Sloot says he seriously thought about an offer from the National Enquirer. 'They offered me 1 million dollar if I confessed that I had killed Natalee Holloway. I seriously considered that. After it would have been published I could have said: 'But it is theNnational Enquirer. A tabloid. Of course it's nonsense what I told them.
'If they were so stupid to believe that, well.. Ultimately his American attorney Joe Tacopina found the risk too big.
Not long after this the interview sessions are basically over. Van der Sloot is skipping more often and seems to be a serious gamble addict. He's awake at night and sleeps during the day.
After all the pushing and pulling I ask myself if the role Joran plays in the process of the making of the book is the right one. For a moment I consider to pull the plug out of the project. But I'm almost halfway and the pressure to get on with it is big. But I decide to use the documents, the criminal file and Van der Sloot's diary only to finish the book.
Eventually the book The Case Of Natalee Holloway is published in april 2007. In it Joran van der Sloot claims he hasn't got to do anything with the disappearance of Natalee Holloway. At the same time he says multiple times in the book that he's a pathological liar.
All Bull****
January 31st 2008. Peter R. de Vries announces that in a couple of days in a broadcast of his show, he will come with the solution in the Natalee Holloway case. Van der Sloot reacts stoic in a text message to me. 'It doesn't matter to me all I think.. Soon it leaks out that someone cheated Van der Sloot undercover into a confession.I call him and ask if he maybe has a new friend or girlfriend who wanted to know everything about the Natalee Holloway case. There's a long silence. 'I only told it to one person, he says.'
'What exactly did you tell to one person?!' Van der Sloot says: 'No,
that one would never......no, that isn't possible.'
I'm asking again, but to no avail. Van der Sloot keeps his mouth shut. Like he did before during dozens of interrogations with Aruban, American and FBI agents. He's already busy in his mind with his next phonecall: his new best friend, Patrick van der Eem.
Death threats
Saturday Februari 2nd 2008. With the kitchen door open he smokes his first cigarette. It's 2.30 pm, he's sitting on the couch, is just awake and his hair is all messed up. 'Give me some time to wake up, ok' . Last night he was out again. 'The police still didn't come right? he jokes.
I've told that Patrick a bs story. Just watch, nothing is true about my story, and that's
verifiable.
His grandfather makes him a cheese sandwich and coffee, Then van der Sloot suddenly says that the coming evening he wants to go to Maastricht to celebrate carnival. Grandpa doesn't agree. Van der Sloot:'I don't give a about what people think and say about me.' Grandpa: 'He's only busy with partying. Life consist of more than parties. That boy doesn't have any sense of responsibility.'
Then Van der Sloot claims that he is warned through judicial sources that there are death threats against him and that he should hide. But still he wants to go out. His mobile phone and the house phone are ringing constantly. Lawyers call, his parents call. Should he be brought with the car to the new safehouse? Van der Sloot just as easy wants to go by train.
He doesn't know exactly what will be showed by De Vries on tv. But the best defense is a good offense according to him, he would love to tell all about 'that coke addict Patrick'.
He also says: 'I just was bullsh*tting and told to a couple of people that I did it. And I also told before how that could have happened. Why I did that? Maybe to act tough, to give people what they want to hear.'
Father Paul calls and wants to talk to me: 'Joran threatened to jump before the train. We have to wait for the broadcast before he reacts to the media.
His father strongly discouraged him to do an extended interview.
Van der Sloot does give me the telephone # of Daury, the guy who's name he mentioned on the broadcast 'because Patrick kept nagging about a name'. If we talk to Daury it's clear that he studied in the Netherlands at the time of Natalee's disappearance. He can prove that. Van der Sloot indeed named the wrong name in the Peter R. de Vries show.
You don't believe me
Februari 4th 2008. The day after the broadcast Van der Sloot says through the phone: 'You know. Everything is . The shaking of Natalee I made up, because I once saw a friend who has epilepsy doing that. When I told Patrick that story, I was worried that it was an undercover agent, so I wrote a story on my computer that I told an undercover agent a nonsense story...'
I interrupt him: 'Ah, but Joran, you did this after the fact, so that doesn't prove a thing.
Most likely you took precautions after that.
Then he says: 'Maybe I shouldn't talk to you anymore, because you don't believe me anyway.'
That was our last contact.
I'm not near as schooled as some fine sleuthers on this forum that have followed the case from the beginning. They remind me of events that I'd long forgotten over the years. While it's true that I fairly diligently followed the case five years ago, I haven't kept up these past five years while justice for Natalee laid dormant, except to follow some of JVS's various shenanigans throughout those years. It's only now, since JVS has committed his latest crime, that my memory is being refreshed as to all that went down and was speculated on back then.