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Joran van der Sloot Update: Aruba Police Want to Talk About Natalee Holloway

Joran van der Sloot (AP/Aliosha Marquez) (AP Photo/Aliosha Marquez)


ORANJESTAD, Aruba (CBS/AP) Prosecutors in Aruba said they want to take Joran van der Sloot up on his offer to discuss the unsolved disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway.

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Van der Sloot told his jailers he is ready to talk, but there's a catch.

The Dutch national, who is the only suspect in Holloway's 2005 disappearance, will only talk to Aruba authorities in Aruba.

Van der Sloot has said he fears for his life in the Peruvian prison, where he is awaiting trial in the slaying of 21-year-old Stephany Flores in his Lima hotel room.

Judicial authorities in Peru said they are willing to arrange a conversation between island police and Van der Sloot, but it's unlikely he would be brought to the Caribbean island before completing any sentence if convicted in the South American country, said Peter Blanken, the island's chief prosecutor

"I think it's out of question," Blanken told The Associated Press. "The case in Peru is a very severe case and the Peruvian authorities have said they do not want to do that."

Blanken said an Aruba policeman and a prosecutor could possibly travel to Peru as early as August.

Dave Holloway, the missing teen's father, met with Aruba police Tuesday, Blanken said. Authorities did not have any new information in the case to discuss.

Natalee Holloway, an 18-year-old from Mountain Brook, Alabama, was last seen leaving a bar with Van der Sloot on May 30, 2005, the final night of a high school graduation trip to Aruba.

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