Joran van der Sloot's the Dutchman linked to the 2005 disappearance of then 18-year old Natalee Holloway has claimed to Dutch station RTL-5 that he dumped the Alabama teenager’s body in a swamp on the north end of Aruba. The claim has been labeled "unbelievable," by Aruba prosecutor Peter Blanken..

Holloway disappeared while on a holiday junket to Aruba where van der Sloot and she met. The disappearance remains unsolved and raised questions about the competence and intentions of local investigators.

Van der Sloot, who appears to crave attention was reportedly paid for the interview. Holloway was last seen in the early hours of May 30, 2005, leaving an Oranjestad, Aruba, nightclub with van der Sloot and two other men, brothers Deepak and Satish Kalpoe.

She was visiting Aruba with about 100 classmates celebrating their graduation from Mountain Brook High School in suburban Birmingham, Alabama.

Van der Sloot and the Kalpoes were arrested and released in 2005 in connection with the case. In 2007, they were arrested a second time after Aruba's then-chief prosecutor, Hans Mos, said he had received new evidence in the case and was released again because a judge ruled the new evidence inconclusive. .

In 2008, prosecutors sought unsuccessfully to arrest van der Sloot a third time after a videotape surfaced on Dutch television. In it, van der Sloot tells a man he considered to be his friend that he had sex with Holloway on the beach after leaving the nightclub, then she "started shaking" and lost consciousness. He said he panicked when he could not resuscitate her and called a friend who had a boat. The two put Holloway's body in the boat, he said, and then he went home. The friend told him the next day that he had carried the body out and dumped it in the ocean.

"I didn't lose a minute of sleep over it," van der Sloot said on that tape. Now comes the latest “confession.”

"When [van der Sloot] really wants to tell the truth, [we hope] he will," said Blanken, who took over as chief prosecutor in September. "He didn't tell the truth [this time]."