The top suspect in the disappearance of an American teenager seven years ago has just confessed to murdering a 21-year-old woman in Peru five years to the day after the disappearance of Natalee Holloway in Aruba.
Joran van der Sloot, the Dutch national who confessed to killing a 21-year-old Peruvian woman five years after the disappearance of Natalie Holloway he's suspected of killing, has received a 28-year prison sentence from a Peruvian court.
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