Natalee Holloway's suspected killer, Joran van der Sloot, filmed a selfie video from a Peruvian prison where he was recently transferred after allegedly threatening to kill a prison guard where he was previously being held.
"I am making this video for my own security," he says in the translation,
People magazine reported. "Because the director gave me this phone. I don't know why."
Van der Sloot, 27, is reported to have been transferred last month from Piedras Gordas prison in Lima to Challapalca Maximum Security Prison, a remote facility located in the Andes mountains at 15,700 feet.
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He is serving a nearly 30-year sentence for the 2010 strangling murder of Stephany Flores, a 21-year-old Peruvian business student.
He is also the lead suspect in the disappearance of Alabama teen Natalie Holloway, who went missing in 2005 on a class trip to Aruba. She was last seen leaving a nightclub with then-17-year-old Van der Sloot, a Dutch national studying in Aruba.
Van der Sloot married a woman named Leidy Figueroa in July, and she is said to be carrying his child. The couple met in prison, where Figueroa sells candy and cigarettes to inmates.
NBC News reported that the convicted murderer went on hunger strike at the new prison to protest conditions.
A judge also announced in March that Van der Sloot could be extradited to the U.S. to face charges for extorting $25,000 from Holloway's mother, Beth, but not until finishing his 28-year sentence in Peru. In the U.S. he stands accused of extorting the money in exchange for false information about the location of Holloway's body, which has never been found.
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