Peru has agreed to extradite Joran to the U.S. to face federal charges of extortion and wire fraud in Alabama when he finishes his sentence in Peru. The sentence is officially up in 2038, but Joran has been accepted to a long distance learning university, through which he can earn substantial time off his sentence.

He would ordinarily be eligible for release after serving 1/3 of his sentence (9 years). With prison benefits, he could get a few more years shaved off. He also served a year and a half in pre-trial detention, which comes off the 28 years. It's possible he could be finished with his sentence in another 5 to 6 years. According to his lawyer, he won't fight extradition to the U.S. when his Peruvian sentence is finished.

The Alabama charges arose out of a sting, during which Natalee Holloway's mother and lawyer agreed to pay Joran $250,000. in exchange for information about Natalee's remains. The FBI was in on the deal and monitored events -- conducting surveillance and videotaping the money transfer. Joran fell for the Holloway scam, accepted a down payment of $25,000. in two installments, the first of which was brought by the lawyer and hand delivered to him in Aruba in cash. (The FBI says it was Holloway's money, not their money, as had been