On video, Joran van der Sloot says he “didn’t lose a minute of sleep” over knowing Natalee Holloway’s motionless body had been taken out to sea and dumped.
Joran van der Sloot awaits transfer from the Netherlands to Aruba in November. He later was released.
In the video that aired Sunday on Dutch television, van der Sloot, a suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Holloway, told a man he was with the Alabama teen on an Aruban beach when she apparently died and that a friend of his with a boat disposed of Holloway’s body.

“He went out to sea and then he threw her out, like an old rag,” van der Sloot told Aruban businessman Patrick van der Eem January 16.

Van der Eem recorded their conversations on hidden cameras installed in the Range Rover he was driving, according to the Dutch TV report. Video Watch van der Sloot on hidden camera »

On the tapes, van der Sloot also says that he wasn’t certain Holloway was dead before his friend dumped her body in the ocean.

“No, but it didn’t look good,” he said, when van der Eem asked him if he checked her pulse or other vital signs. “I wasn’t [expletive] sure, but from the time it happened to the time he came, she wasn’t doing anything any more.”

Aruba’s chief prosecutor, Hans Mos, called the account that aired “very impressive” and announced he was reopening the investigation.

Van der Sloot later said the statements were lies, and on Monday his attorney said the video contains “no admission of a crime.”

In the video, van der Sloot says Holloway and her friends begged him to go out with them the night of May 29, 2005.

The Dutch student said he and two friends — brothers Deepak and Satish Kalpoe — met the women at a bar in Oranjestad.

When they arrived, he said, the women appeared to have been drinking heavily and some were using cocaine.

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