Authorities have released a chilling audio recording of Joran van der Sloot’s confession in the brutal murder of Mountain Brook teen Natalee Holloway 18 years ago.

Van der Sloot sounded matter of fact in the three-minute recording made public following his guilty plea Wednesday to extorting Natalee’s mother, Beth.

As part of his plea agreement, van der Sloot was required to tell the truth about what happened to Natalee in 2005. The interview was done by his public defender, Kevin Butler, and verified through a polygraph.

“She asked to go back to her hotel but I was just trying to get dropped off a little bit further away from her hotel so we could, uh, walk back to her hotel and I might still get a chance to be with her,’’ van der Sloot said. “That’s what I was hoping for.”

Van der Sloot said he kicked Natalee in the face and then bludgeoned her with a cinderblock when she refused his sexual advances.

“I start feeling her up again and she tells me no. She tells me she doesn’t want me to feel her up.”

“Uh, I insist. I keep feeling her up either way,’’ van der Sloot said. “Uhm, and uh, she knees me uh, she ends up kneeing me in the crotch.”

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“Uh, when she knees me in the crotch, uh, I get up, uh, on the beach and I kick her extremely hard in the face,’’ he said. “Uhm, yeah, she’s laying down unconscious, possibly even dead, but definitely unconscious.”

Van der Sloot said he then saw a “huge” cinderblock on the beach.

“I take this and uh, yeah, I-I-I smash her head in with it completely,’’ he said. “Uh yeah, her face basically collapses in. Even though it’s dark, I can see her face is collapsed in.”

He then “half-pulled, half-walked,” her into the “sea” where he disposed of her body.

“Even with this confession, he can’t be tried here for Natalee’s murder but I’m satisfied knowing he did it, he did it alone and he disposed of her alone,” Beth Holloway said after the plea hearing.

“Joran van der Sloot’s confession means we’ve finally reached the end of our never ending nightmare….Being over is better than closure,” she added. “We got justice for Natalee.”