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Beth Holloway fights back tears as she participates in the launch of the Natalee Holloway Resource Center on June 8, 2010 in Washington, DC. The non profit resource center was founded by Holloway and the National Museum of Crime & Punishment and was created to assist families of missing persons. Beth Holloway's daughter Natalee is the Alabama teen who disappeared five years ago in Aruba. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Van der Sloot admits he killed Holloway

Tracy Clark-Flory

Van der Sloot won't talk to trial judge in Peru

Security camera footage of Joran Van der Sloot and Stephany Flores playing poker

Tracy Clark-Flory

**CORRECTS CAPITALIZATION IN NAME: V IS CAPITALIZED **FILE -- In a June 4, 2010 file photo Dutch citizen Joran Van der Sloot is escorted by police officers outside a Peruvian police station, near the border with Chile in Tacna, Peru. Peruvian police said Tuesday June 7, 2010 Dutchman Joran Van der Sloot has confessed to killing a young woman in his Lima hotel room last week. (AP Photo/Karel Navarro/file) (AP)

FBI paid van der Sloot at least $15,000 in sting

Pete Yost, Jay Reeves

Associated Press

Chile police detain Joran van der Sloot

Franklin Briceno

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