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<h6 class="headline head1"><span style="color: #0a0000;">John Christopher Ludwick, the m<strong>an who claimed he cremated Natalee Holloway was killed today in North Port Florida, while attempting to kidnap a woman</strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="headline head1"><span style="color: #0a0000;"><strong>Ludwick, 32, claimed Joran van der Sloot paid him $1,500 to dig up Natalee Holloway&#8217;s body in 2010</strong> </span></h6>
<h6 class="headline head1"><span style="color: #0a0000;">Investigators say Ludwick attacked the unidentified woman in her driveway and was stabbed in the ensuing struggle, authorities said Ludwick and his would-be victim knew each other</span></h6>
<h6 class="headline head1"><span style="color: #0a0000;">He died at a local hospital in Aruba after 7 am Thursday</span></h6>
<h6 class="headline head1"><span style="color: #0a0000;">18-year-old Natalee Holloway went missing while on Spring Break in Aruba in 2005, a judge declared her dead in 2012 </span></h6>
<h6 class="headline head1"><span style="color: #0a0000;">No one has ever been charged in connection with her disappearance., but the suspected killer, Van der Sloot is currently serving a 28-year sentence in a Peruvian prison for the unrelated 2010 murder of a young woman in his Lima hotel room</span></h6>
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<h6><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-290730" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/John-Ludwick-1.jpg" alt="John Ludwick 1" width="931" height="524" /><b>John Ludwick [photo], who claimed murder suspect Joran van der Sloot paid him $1,500 to dig up Natalee Holloway&#8217;s body in 2010, was killed early Thursday while attempting to kidnap a female acquaintance, cops said </b></h6>
<p>Authorities in southwestern Florida said Wednesday that a man who claimed he disposed of missing teenager Natalee Holloway&#8217;s remains in Aruba, by way of cremation was fatally stabbed by a woman he was trying to kidnap.</p>
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<p class="speakable">Police in North Port, approximately 60 miles south of Tampa, said 32-year-old John Christopher Ludwick was pronounced dead at a local hospital after 7 a.m. on Thursday.<br />
Investigators say Ludwick attacked the unidentified woman in her driveway and was stabbed in the ensuing struggle. The kidnapper and his would-be victim knew each other, police said.</p>
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<h6><img class="alignnone wp-image-290729" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Natalee-Holloway-1.jpg" alt="Natalee Holloway 1.jpg" width="676" height="380" /><strong>Natalee Holloway was declared legally dead in 2012, seven years after her disappearance.<br />
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<p>Last year, Ludwick claimed that Joran van der Sloot, the prime suspect in Holloway&#8217;s disappearance, paid him $1,500 to dig up her body in 2010, five years after the clooege bound teen vanished on the Dutch Caribbean island.<br />
&#8220;The idea was to crush everything to the point where it wasn’t recognizable as her bones or skull or anything like that,&#8221; Ludwick said at the time. He added that Holloway&#8217;s skull was burned to eliminate any remaining hair fibers, saying: &#8220;It was doused in gasoline in a fire pit in a cave.&#8221;<br />
Ludwick&#8217;s story was featured in &#8220;The Disappearance of Natalee Holloway,&#8221; a miniseries that aired this past September on the Oxygen network which was designed to shed light on the fate of 18-year-old Holloway who went missing in Aruba in 2005</p>
<p><strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-290728" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Joran-van-der-Sloot-1.jpg" alt="Joran van der Sloot 1.jpg" width="664" height="373" />Joran van der Sloot has long been considered a suspect in Natalee Holloway’s disappearance.</strong><br />
&#8220;We are aware of Mr. Ludwick’s history and comments surrounding the disappearance of Natalee Ann Holloway in Aruba during May of 2005,” North Point Police spokesman Josh Taylor stated.<br />
“The correct authorities who are working that case have been notified.<br />
American student Natalee Holloway vanished thirteen years ago, on May 30, 2005 while on a high school graduation trip to the Dutch Island of Aruba. A judge declared her legally dead in 2012.<br />
No one has ever been charged in connection with her disappearance. However, Joran Van der Sloot, a Dutch national, has long been considered a suspect in the case.<br />
Van der Sloot is currently in a Peruvian prison serving a 28-year sentence for killing business student Stephany Flores, in his hotel room in Lima. Flores was killed just five years after Natalee Holloway vanished.</p>
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John Ludwick who claimed Joran van der Sloot paid him to dig up and cremate Natalee Holloway’s body, killed while attempting kidnapping
