Hidden camera footage broadcast on television in the Netherlands showed a Dutch student saying he was with the American teenager Natalee Holloway when she died on a beach in the Caribbean island of Aruba.

Joran van der Sloot is shown in the early hours of Feb. 1 at a night club in Arnhem, central Netherlands.
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Joran Van der Sloot said he believed she was dead and asked a friend to dispose the body of the 18-year-old from Alabama at sea.

In the recordings, Van der Sloot told a man who he thought was a friend that Holloway was drunk and that she began shaking and slumped down on the beach as the pair were making out.

"Suddenly she started shaking and then she didn't say anything," Van der Sloot said, adding that he did not kill her.

"I would never murder a girl," he said.

But last week Van der Sloot said he was lying when he made those comments during what he thought was a private conversation with a friend.

He denied that he had anything to do with Holloway's 2005 disappearance.

The exchange was recorded in a vehicle that had been rigged with three hidden cameras by Peter R. de Vries, a Dutch television crime reporter.

De Vries claimed the footage solves the mystery surrounding Holloway's disappearance, which has received national and international coverage.

Holloway vanished in May 2005 just before she was due to fly home after her high school graduation trip to the Caribbean island.