Joran van der Sloot’s extradition to the United States to stand trial on charges he attempted extort the mother of missing Mountain Brook teen Natalee Holloway is possibly underway, according to multiple news reports.

ABC News on Friday was first to report that the extradition could happen Saturday, citing unnamed sources.

Journalist Greta Van Susteren, who was the first to share the news of Natalee’s disappearance with a national TV audience while at Fox News in 2005, tweeted Friday that ABC News’ report was inaccurate.

Here is a timeline of the Natalee Holloway case

“This is what is wrong w/overuse of anonymous sources…why is ABC News publishing this?” she tweeted.

CNN and Fox News have since also reported that the extradition is likely underway.

Efforts by AL.com to independently confirm the reports were not immediately successful

“Col. Carlos López Aeda, the chief of Interpol in Lima, Peru told Fox News Digital on Friday evening that officials will begin taking van der Sloot from Challapalca Prison to a maximum security prison in Lima at midnight,” Fox News reported.

Fox News reported that van der Sloot could be back in the U.S. by Sunday.

Attorney Maximo Altez this past week said van der Sloot was in the Peruvian prison’s medical aisle after being “severely beaten” in a gang dispute inside the Callapalca Prison.

In May, it was announced that van der Sloot would be extradited from Peru, where he was convicted of the 2010 murder of Lima college student Stephany Flores. Flores was killed five years to the day of Natalee’s disappearance in Aruba.

A federal grand jury in Birmingham indicted van der Sloot in 2010 on charges of extortion and wire fraud after Beth Holloway paid him a $25,000 down payment to lead her to Natalee’s remains.

It turned out that he lied about the location of the body.

Holloway would now be 36 years old. This past Sunday was the 18th anniversary of her disappearance while on a graduation trip.