Does Joran Van Der Sloot’s Alleged Same Sex Lover Hold The Key To What Happened To Natalee Holloway?

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Man Who Broke New Leads In Natalee Holloway Had Sexual Relationship With Joran Van Der Sloot

Just when we thought the stories about Joran Van Der Sloot couldn’t get any MORE strange… The Oxygen series “The Disappearance of Natalee Holloway” is shed new light on the case of Holloway, who disappeared after a class trip to Aruba in 2005, during the latest episode Saturday. The third part of a six-part series told how Holloway’s dug up remains were mixed with dog bones to help camouflage that they were human, then taken to a crematory to be turned to ash for $200 and scattered off the coast of Aruba.

Via People Magazine:

Joran van der Sloot, the longtime suspect in Natalee’s disappearance, allegedly had sexual relations with the man who says he allegedly accepted $1,500 from Van der Sloot to dig up Natalee’s remains, according to that man’s account during a recorded undercover sting operation in the case, the episode reveals.

That February 2016 sting was set up by Natalee’s father Dave Holloway and his private investigator, T.J. Ward. It relied on an informant named Gabriel, who told Holloway and Ward he knew the man who claimed to have carried out Van der Sloot’s request to move Natalee’s buried remains in a moment of panic.

Natalee, 18, vanished May 30, 2005, after leaving a bar in Aruba on the final night of a high school graduation trip. Gabriel said the man revealed to him that Van der Sloot — who is serving time in Peru on an unrelated murder — gave Natalee the date-rape drug GHB, and that she later choked on her own vomit.

Super sad. We can still remember this tragedy like it happened yesterday.

The sting — recorded in a New Orleans hotel room by Ward’s team using hidden cameras and audio — involved Gabriel talking with the man, who is shown discussing his friendship in Aruba with Van der Sloot, a Dutch national.

“Yeah, I was a little obsessed with him,” says the man. “We used to hook up with girls all the time and go out partying and gambling and stuff, and then one night we were having a threesome …. The problem was, the girl finished before us and passed the f— out, cause we were all drunk as s—.”

“So then he’s like, um, ‘Don’t worry, just turn off the lights, this is how we do it in Europe.’ I’m like, ‘This ain’t no Brokeback Mountain s— going down.’ He’s like, ‘Just shut up, it’ll all be over soon.’ After that there wasn’t no hesitation. We were all team players after that, getting each other off.”

Yeah that Van der Sloot is a wild boy… That’s for sure.

The man alleges Joran ultimately offered $1500 for him to dig up Holloway’s remains after narrowing down the exact location. This allegedly happened in the spring of 2010, around the time Van der Sloot sent emails to John Q. Kelly, the lawyer for Natalee’s mother Beth asking for money in exchange for information about Natalee. Joran ultimately took $25K before telling Kelly he had no information. He was hit with federal extortion charges in the US which remain pending until after he completes his 28-year sentence in a Peruvian jail for killing Stephany Flores in 2010, just five years to the day after Natalee’s disappearance.