Joran van der Sloot pleads not guilty to extortion charges in Natalee Holloway case.

Joran van der Sloot, the chief suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Natalee Holloway, pleaded not guilty to federal charges of extortion and wire fraud. He is accused of trying to extort money from the missing teen’s mother in exchange for revealing the location of her body. Van der Sloot was extradited to the United States from Peru, where he is serving a 28-year prison sentence after confessing to killing a Peruvian woman. He was arraigned in Birmingham, not far from the suburb where Holloway grew up, in his first court appearance in the case.