'Even as hard as it is to hear, it still not as torturous as the not knowing. It was time for me to know,' Natalee Holloway's mother said of hearing the details of Joran van der Sloot's confession.
Natalee Holloway’s mother finally has justice, saying Joran van der Sloot admitted to killing her daughter in 2005. Beth Holloway made this statement outside a courthouse in Birmingham, Alabama. She says after 18 years, she finally has the answers she's been looking for.Beth Holloway was after one thing for 18 years: answers about what happened to her missing daughter.
FILE - Beth Holloway participates in the launch of the Natalee Holloway Resource Center on June 8, 2010, in Washington, D.C. The non profit resource center was founded by Holloway and the National Museum of Crime & Punishment and was created to aNatalee Holloway, 18, went missing during a high school graduation trip to Aruba with classmates.
"I smash her head in with it completely," van der Sloot said, according to an Oct. 3 transcript of the meeting."It’s just blistering to your soul, and it hurts so deeply," Beth Holloway said of hearing the details. "But you know that you’re there in a functionality role because this is the moment where I’ve been searching for for 18 years. Even as hard as it is to hear, it still not as torturous as the not knowing. It was time for me to know.
"While it may not be in a court of law, I believe their judgment is still to come," Dave Holloway said. "We are living every parent’s nightmare. Today and every day, please hug your children in honor and loving memory of our daughter, Natalee Ann Holloway."
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