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Natalee Holloway Suspect Wanted in Peru
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NEW YORK (CBS) Joran van der Sloot, the Dutch national who has been detained several times in the Natalee Holloway case, has now been named the prime suspect in the murder of a Peruvian girl, according to local reports.

Crimesider has been told that an Aruban prosecutor described van der Sloot as being on the run, but we have been unable to independently confirm it.

Early Wednesday morning, Stephany Flores Ramirez, 21, was found dead in a hotel room in Peru located on the avenue Miraflores district of Lima, Peruvian newspaper El Comercio reports. According to police reports, the girl was brutally stabbed and was found wrapped in a blanket in a pool of blood.

Ramirez was the daughter of racecar driver and well-known businessman Ricardo Flores.

According to Peruvian police, she was last seen with van der Sloot, who has not been located.

According to the Peruvian newspaper, the hotel room where Ramirez's body was found was registered under van der Sloot's name. Hotel employees also told police that they saw him with the girl over the weekend.

Five years ago, in May 2005, Alabama high school student Natalee Holloway disappeared during a senior class trip to Aruba. She was 18 when she was last seen leaving a bar with Joran van der Sloot, who was 17 at the time. He was detained in the case several times but Aruban authorities have said they don't have enough evidence to charge him.

UPDATE: BNO News is reporting the Prosecutor's Office in Aruba has confirmed that Joran Van Der Sloot is a suspect in the death of a Peruvian woman. Interpol has reportedly issued an international arrest warrant.

UPDATE

: A police news conference is expected in Peru within the hour to confirm or clarify reports concerning Joran Van Der Sloot's alleged involvement in this murder case. CBS42 will update the story as soon as that information comes in.   

An international news agency is reporting Joran Van Der Sloot is a suspect in the murder of a 21 year old woman in Peru. Van Der Sloot was the prime suspect in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway in Aruba five years ago.  According to BNO News the victim in this new case is Stephany Tatiana Flores Ramirez who was found dead this morning after disappearing Friday. Her family says she was last seen leaving a casino with Van Der Sloot.]

CBS 42 News will continue to follow this developing story.

http://www.cbs42.com/content/localnews/story/Natalee-Holloway-Suspect-Wanted-in-Peru/aX4VxsGyFkiLkrg1pW-65g.cspx

Jun 2, 2010 1:50 pm US/Central
Holloway Suspect Wanted In Peruvian Murder Case

LIMA, Peru (CBS) ― The man considered the prime suspect in the disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway is wanted in Peru for the suspicion of murder, according to police officials.

Peruvian police say a young Dutchman twice arrested in the 2005 disappearance of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway is now a suspect in the slaying of a Peruvian woman.

Chief of detectives Col. Miguel Canlla says police are seeking Joran van der Sloot in the Sunday killing of 21-year-old Stephany Flores Ramirez in a Lima hotel.

Van der Sloot left Peru on Monday, immigration authorities told the AP, though they did not disclose his destination though Flores said it was Chile.

Canlla said that Peru was asking authorities in neighboring Chile for help in the case. He did not elaborate.

He also said police were seeking to confirm Van Der Sloot's identity with the Dutch Embassy. The embassy's head of consular affairs, Angela Lowe, said she could not comment on the case for privacy reasons.

The girl's father, Ricardo Flores, says van der Sloot appears with her in video taken at a Lima casino early Sunday. Ricardo Flores, a race car driver and well-known businessman, says his daughter was found around 8 a.m. Sunday in a hotel room splattered with blood, indicating a struggle.

CBS News' Crimesider has been told that an Aruban prosecutor described van der Sloot as being on the run, but that information has not been independently confirmed.

Early Wednesday morning, Ramirez was found dead in a hotel room located on the avenue Miraflores district of Lima, Peruvian newspaper El Comercio reports. According to police reports, the girl was brutally stabbed and was found wrapped in a blanket in a pool of blood.

According to Peruvian police, she was last seen with van der Sloot.

According to the Peruvian newspaper, the hotel room where Ramirez's body was found was registered under van der Sloot's name. Hotel employees also told police that they saw him with the girl over the weekend.

Five years ago, in May 2005, Alabama high school student Natalee Holloway disappeared during a senior class trip to Aruba. She was 18 when she was last seen leaving a bar with Joran van der Sloot, who was 17 at the time. He was detained in the case several times but Aruban authorities have said they don't have enough evidence to charge him.

http://cbs11tv.com/national/joran.van.der.2.1728648.html

Report: Former Natalee Holloway Suspect Sought in Murder in Peru
Published June 02, 2010

The Dutch man who was the main suspect in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway is being sought in the murder of a woman in Peru, Thaindian News reported Wednesday.

Joran van der Sloot, 22, is suspected of murdering Stephany Tatiana Flores Ramirez, in Peru. Ramirez's body was found with multiple stab wounds on May 26.

According to Ramirez's friends, the 21-year-old was reportedly last seen leaving a Lima, Peru, casino with van der Sloot at 5:16 a.m. local time.

SLIDESHOW: Missing in Paradise

Authorities reportedly found Ramirez's body in van der Sloot's Lima hotel room.

“I can confirm that [van der Sloot] is a suspect in the death of a Peruvian woman,” Ann Angela, a spokeswoman for Aruba's Prosecutor's Office said, according to the paper. “Also that he was placed on the list of the Interpol.”

Angela said that Interpol issued an international arrest warrant in connection with the murder of Ramirez, the paper reported.

Van der Sloot is believed to be in Chile, according to police.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/06/02/report-natalee-holloway-suspect-sought-murder-peru/

Holloway suspect sought in Peru slaying
Joran van der Sloot, 22, is wanted for questioning after woman stabbed
updated 33 minutes ago

A Dutch man who was questioned in the disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway on the Carribean island of Aruba is a suspect in the slaying of a 21-year-old Peruvian woman, Peruvian police said Wednesday.

Chief of detectives Col. Miguel Canlla said police are seeking Joran van der Sloot, 22, in the Sunday killing of 21-year-old Stephany Tatiana Flores in a Lima hotel.

El Comercio newspaper in Lima reported that the girl was stabbed, according to police. She is the daughter of a businessman and race car driver, Ricardo Flores.

The girl's father, Ricardo Flores, said van der Sloot appears with her in video taken at a Lima casino early Sunday.

Police say they are seeking to confirm van der Sloot's identity with the Dutch Embassy.

Police told El Comercio that she had been seen going out in recent days with van der Sloot. He reportedly arrived in Peru on May 14 from Colombia and left the country on Monday bound for Chile, according to RPP.com in Peru, citing immigration officials. Interpol has been notified to assist in the search. Canlla says Peru is asking Chilean authorities for help in the case.

The victim's body was found in a hotel room in the República de Panamá Avenue in the Miraflores district.

Holloway, 18, of Mountain Brook, Ala., was last seen in public leaving a bar on the Carribean island of Aruba with van der Sloot and two Surinamese brothers — Deepak and Satish Kalpoe — hours before she was due to board a flight home from a school trip. No trace of her has ever been found and no one has been charged with the crime.

Earlier this year, it was reported that van der Sloot confessed to dumping Holloway's body in a sit-down interview with a television journalist, according to a Dutch tabloid newspaper and Aruba's chief prosecutor.

However, the chief prosecutor Peter Blanken told NBC News in February that the suspect's story was "very unbelievable," and no charges followed the confession.

"The locations, names and times he gave just did not make sense," Blanken told NBC News.

De Telegraaf quoted Blanken as saying that van der Sloot's statement was "held together by lies and fantasy."

The interview was not aired by German broadcaster RTL because of doubts about whether van der Sloot was telling the truth, Blanken added.

Van der Sloot claimed that Holloway had died accidentally and insisted that he did not kill her, Blanken said.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37470839/ns/world_news-americas

Natalee Holloway Suspect Joran Van Der Sloot Sought in Peru Murder
Dutch National Last to Be Seen with Murdered Woman, on the Lam in South America
June 2, 2010

Joran van der Sloot, the 22-year-old Dutch playboy twice arrested in the mysterious disappearance of American Natalee Holloway, has been named the prime suspect in the death of a young Peruvian woman found dead in a Lima hotel today, five days after she disappeared.

Stephany Tatiana Flores Ramirez, 21, disappeared Friday and was found dead this morning at the Miraflores Hotel Tac in Lima, Peru. Flores was last seen with van der Sloot, the Dutch national who was twice arrested and released in connection with the disappearance of Holloway , an 18-year-old American student who went missing in Aruba five years ago this week.

Flores was found beaten and stabbed to death in a room booked in van der Sloot's name, according to Dutch media reports.

Authorities believe van der Sloot has fled Peru, passing through customs into Chile, and is on his way to Argentina. Peruvian officials are in the process of putting together an international warrant, Dutch foreign ministry officials told ABC News.

Van Der Sloot reportedly entered Peru on May 14 and left on May 31

Flores left a friend's home Wednesday morning and was last seen that evening leaving a casino with Van der Sloot, according local media quoting to the woman's father, Ricardo Flores, a Peruvian businessman and racecar driver. Surveillance cameras caught the pair leaving the casino together.

Holloway similarly disappeared after being last seen with Van der Sloot outside an Aruban night club on May 30, 2005. Van der Sloot was initially arrested in Holloway's disappearance in June of that year. He was released and arrested again in 2007, when he was detained for questioning but never charged.

In 2008, Dutch journalist Peter de Vries claimed he solved the case when Van der Sloot confessed to an undercover reporter to being with Holloway when she died and dumping her body in the Caribbean Sea.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/TheLaw/joran-van-der-sloot-prime-suspect-natalee-holloway/story?id=10807407

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Natalee Holloway Suspect Joran Van Der Sloot Sought in Peru Murder
Dutch National Last to Be Seen with Murdered Woman, on the Lam in South America
June 2, 2010

In February 2010, a Dutch tabloid published a supposed confession by Van Der Sloot in which he said Halloway got drunk and fell from a balcony.

The Justice Department in Aruba was quick to dismiss the details of van der Sloot's latest alleged confession, telling ABC News, "We have been aware of the existence of this interview since August of last year. We investigated the claims made. The Aruban police investigated, with help from specialists with the Dutch police.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/TheLaw/joran-van-der-sloot-prime-suspect-natalee-holloway/story?id=10807407&page=2

 

June 2, 2010 3:58 PM
Joran van der Sloot Peru Murder? Natalee Holloway Prosecutor Shocked

NEW YORK (CBS) Aruban prosecutor Peter Blanken, who has been part of the investigation into the disappearance of Natalee Holloway, has learned that Joran van der Sloot is now a suspect in a new murder, that of a 21-year-old woman whose body was found in a hotel room in Lima, Peru. The prosecutor told CBS News that the allegation was a remarkable development and says that he is personally shocked by it.

Early Wednesday morning, Stephany Flores Ramirez was found dead, Peruvian newspaper El Comercio reports, in a hotel room registered under van der Sloot's name. According to police reports, Ramirez had been brutally stabbed and was found wrapped in a blanket in a pool of blood.

Chief of detectives Col. Miguel Canlla says that Stephany was murdered on Sunday, and the girl's father, Ricardo Flores, says van der Sloot appears with his daughter in video taken at a Lima casino early Sunday.

Aruban Prosecutor Peter Blanken said that an Interpol international arrest warrant has been issued for van der Sloot, who may, according to some reports, be on the run from police. The Dutch Foreign Affairs Department in the Netherlands has notified their people in Chile to be aware that Joran may be in Chile.

Five years ago, in May 2005, Alabama high school student Natalee Holloway disappeared during a senior class trip to Aruba. She was last seen leaving a bar with Joran van der Sloot. Van der Sloot has been detained several times, but never charged.

According to Blanken, he is examining the new details but does not expect it to affect the Holloway case or provide new evidence. He says that they will be contacting the Peruvian authorities later today to see if they can offer assistance.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20006616-504083.html

June 2, 2010 2:38 PM
Joran van der Sloot, Natalee Holloway Suspect, Sought for Stephany Flores Ramirez Murder

NEW YORK (CBS/AP) Joran van der Sloot, the Dutch national who is the prime suspect in the Natalee Holloway case, has now been named as the prime suspect in a recent murder: that of young Peruvian woman Stephany Flores Ramirez.

Early Wednesday morning, the 21-year-old was found dead in a hotel room located in the avenue Miraflores district of Lima, Peruvian newspaper El Comercio reports. According to police reports, Ramirez was brutally stabbed and was found wrapped in a blanket in a pool of blood.

Chief of detectives Col. Miguel Canlla says that Stephany was murdered on Sunday, and the girl's father, Ricardo Flores, says van der Sloot appears with his daughter in video taken at a Lima casino early Sunday. Hotel employees also told police that they saw van der Sloot with Stephany over the weekend. The hotel room where Ramirez's body was found was registered under van der Sloot's name, says the paper.

According to Peruvian immigration officials, van der Sloot departed Peru on Monday. Canlla says Peru is asking Chilean authorities for help in the case. Crimesider has been told that an Aruban prosecutor described van der Sloot as being on the run, but we have been unable to independently confirm it.

Five years ago, in May 2005, Alabama high school student Natalee Holloway disappeared during a senior class trip to Aruba. She was 18 when she was last seen leaving a bar with Joran van der Sloot, who was 17 at the time. He was detained in the case several times but Aruban authorities have said they don't have enough evidence to charge him

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20006594-504083.html?tag=contentMain;contentBody

Holloway suspect sought in Peru killing
Arrest warrant issued for van der Sloot after woman's death
updated 32 minutes ago

A young Dutchman previously arrested in the 2005 disappearance of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway is the prime suspect in a weekend murder of a Peruvian woman, police said Wednesday.

Joran van der Sloot is being sought in the Sunday killing of 21-year-old Stephany Flores in a Lima hotel, Criminal police chief Gen. Cesar Guardia told a news conference. He said the suspect fled the country the next day by land to Chile.

The Dutch government said Interpol has issued an international arrest warrant for Van der Sloot.

Guardia said the 22-year-old Dutchman, who was in the country for a poker tournament, appears with the young woman in a video taken at a Lima casino early Sunday.

The victim's father, Ricardo Flores, told reporters she was killed about 8 a.m. in a hotel room in the upscale Miraflores neighborhood that was splattered with blood, indicating a struggle.

El Comercio newspaper in Lima reported that Flores was stabbed. Her father is a businessman and race car driver.

The killing occurred exactly five years after the May 30, 2005, disappearance of Holloway in Aruba, a Dutch Caribbean island.

"We have an interview with a worker at the hotel who says she saw this foreigner with the victim enter his room," said Guardia.

Van der Sloot left Peru on Monday, Guardia said, according to an immigration registry. He had been staying at the hotel since May 14 and checked out on Sunday four hours after he arrived there with the victim, the police general added.

A document obtained by NBC News from Peru's Dirección General de Migraciones states that Van Der Sloot left Peru on Monday via land to Chile at 1:42 p.m. local time. The document also states he arrived in Peru via Colombia on an Avianca flight on May 14.

Interpol has issued an international arrest warrant for Van der Sloot, Dutch Foreign Ministry spokesman Bengt van Loosdrecht told The Associated Press in The Netherlands.

He cited as his sources Peruvian police and the Dutch Embassy in Lima. The embassy's head of consular affairs, Angela Lowe, told the AP she could not comment on the case.

An attorney for Van der Sloot in New York City, Joe Tacopina, said he did not know his client's whereabouts and has not been in touch with him since the Peru allegations emerged.

Tacopina cautioned against a rush to judgment.

"Joran van der Sloot has been falsely accused of murder once before. The fact is he wears a bull's-eye on his back now and he is a quote-unquote usual suspect when it comes to allegations of foul play," Tacopina said.

Van der Sloot was twice arrested but later released for lack of evidence in the 2005 disappearance of Holloway, who was on a high school graduation trip to the Caribbean island.

No trace of her has been found and van der Sloot remains the main suspect in the case, said Ann Angela, spokeswoman for the Aruba prosecutor's office.

"What's happening now is incredible," she said. "At this moment we don't have anything to do with it, but we are following the case with great interest and if Peruvian authorities would need us, we are here."

Van der Sloot's late father was a prominent judge in Aruba.

The mystery of Holloway's disappearance has garnered wide attention on television and in newspapers in Europe and the United States.

Holloway, 18, of Mountain Brook, Ala., was last seen in public leaving a bar on Aruba with van der Sloot and two Surinamese brothers — Deepak and Satish Kalpoe — hours before she was due to board a flight home from the school trip.

Two years ago, a Dutch television crime reporter captured hidden-camera footage of Van der Sloot saying he was with Holloway when she collapsed on a beach, drunk. He said believed she was dead and asked a friend to dump her body in the sea.

Judges subsequently refused to arrest van der Sloot on the basis of the tape.

However, the chief prosecutor Peter Blanken told NBC News in February that the suspect's story was "very unbelievable," and no charges followed the confession.

"The locations, names and times he gave just did not make sense," Blanken told NBC News.

The Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf quoted Blanken as saying that van der Sloot's statement was "held together by lies and fantasy."

The interview was not aired by German broadcaster RTL because of doubts about whether van der Sloot was telling the truth, Blanken added.

Van der Sloot claimed that Holloway had died accidentally and insisted that he did not kill her, Blanken said.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37470839/ns/world_news-americas?GT1=43001
 

Joran van der Sloot is chief suspect in Peruvian woman's murder
Wednesday 02 June 2010

Dutchman Joran van der Sloot, suspected of involvement in the disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway, is the chief suspect in the murder of a young Peruvian woman, the foreign affairs ministry confirmed on Wednesday evening, according to the Telegraaf.

An international arrest warrant has been issued for Van der Sloot, who is suspected of killing Stephany Tatiana Flores Ramirez, 21. She disappeared on Friday and was found dead on Wednesday morning at a hotel in Lima.

The woman was last seen in the company of Van der Sloot, who was arrested and released twice in connection with the Holloway vanishing, according to local media reports.

Five years

According to local police reports, Flores was found beaten and stabbed in a room booked in van der Sloot's name. ABC news said officials believe she was killed on on Monday. Holloway went missing five years ago on May 30.

Nos tv reports that Van der Sloot travelled to Peru via Colombia on May 14 and took part in a poker tournament last weekend. Van der Sloot is now thought to have been in Chile since Monday, the Telegraaf said.

Van der Sloot has made two alleged confessions about what happened to Holloway at the end of her holiday on the Caribbean island of Aruba where he lived. Earlier this year, he told a German tv show she fell over the balcony of a friend's home.

http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2010/06/joran_van_der_sloot_chief_susp.php

Former suspect in Natalee Holloway case wanted in Peruvian murder case
By the CNN Wire Staff
June 2, 2010 5:03 p.m. EDT
(CNN) -- Joran van der Sloot, the Dutch man once considered a suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway, is the suspect in the killing of a woman in Peru, Peruvian police officials said Wednesday.

There is "incriminating evidence" linking van der Sloot to the killing of 21-year-old Stephany Flores Ramirez, who was found dead in a Lima hotel room Wednesday, Cesar Guardia Vasquez, of the criminal investigations unit said at a news conference.

The hotel room where Flores was found was registered in van der Sloot's name, he said.

A hotel guest and an employee witnessed the pair entering the hotel room together at 5 a.m. on Sunday, Guardia said.

Police have video of the previous night, May 29, of van der Sloot and Flores together at the Atlantic City Casino in Lima, he said.

According to immigration officials, van der Sloot fled to Chile over land on Monday, Guardia said.

"We have all the evidence to show that the killer is this man," the victim's father, businessman and race-car driver Ricardo Flores told CNN en Español.

But van der Sloot's attorney, Josephm Tacopin, told CNN it was too early to make any conclusions.

"If history teaches us any lesson from van der Sloot/Holloway case, it's that there have been way too many false facts that have been leaked and rumors that have been proven untrue," Tacopin said. "We need to take a step back. I have not been contacted and the family has not been contacted. Joran has not been asked by anyone to surrender."

Ricardo Flores said that police found his daughter's car about 50 blocks from the hotel, and that inside, they found pills like those used in date rape cases.

Similar to the Holloway case, van der Sloot allegedly met at a night spot, in this case, a casino. Ricardo Flores said he did not believe that his daughter knew the Dutch citizen from before.

Both of them speak English, and at the casino they struck up conversation, he said.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/06/02/peru.murder.case/index.html?hpt=T1

Peru police hunt Dutchman linked to U.S. girl crime

LIMA
Wed Jun 2, 2010 6:03pm EDT

Joran Van der Sloot was arrested after student Natalee Holloway went missing during a high school graduation trip in the Dutch Caribbean island, a case that attracted a lot of attention in the United States. He was not charged due to insufficient evidence.

"Homicide personnel are convinced, due to the incriminating evidence we've found, that this Dutch citizen is the person responsible for killing Stephany Flores," said Cesar Guardia, head of the Peruvian police crimes unit.

Flores, 21, a Peruvian woman, was found dead on Monday in a hotel in Lima.

Guardia told local radio Van der Sloot, who is in his early 20s, had fled Peru headed for neighboring Chile. "We have information that he's in Chile (and) we'll make use of international treaties to catch him," he said.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6516O920100602

Joran Van Der alleged of twin murder case: Peru girl and Holloway murder
Thu, Jun 03, 2010 03:33:11 IST

JORAN VAN Der Sloot, who has been the prime suspect in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway is now wanted for the murder of another woman, Stephany Flores Ramirez. Police said, the body of the Stephany Ramirez Flores, 21, was found Tuesday May 30, in a hotel Miraflores district in Lima, Peru.

Joran Van Der Sloot and Ms Ramírez were reported to visit a casino before the murder, and security camera images reputedly showed the couple leaving it together. The police have found Van der Sloot’s footprints from the hotel. According to Peruvian immigration officials, Van der Sloot entered Peru on May 14 from Colombia and left the country Monday at the border crossing with Chile.

The 22-year-old man, Joran Van Der Sloot, the Dutch national who was twice arrested and released in connection with the disappearance of an 18-year-old American student Holloway, who went missing in Aruba five years ago this week.

A spokeswoman for the office of the prosecutor in Aruba, confirmed that an Interpol international arrest warrant issued against Joran Van Der Sloot in connection with the murder of 21-year-old Peru girl. The victim, Stephany Flores, was the daughter of a local businessman and race car driver named Ricardo Flores.

http://www.merinews.com/article/joran-van-der-alleged-of-twin-murder-case-peru-girl-and-holloway-murder/15819993.shtml

 

http://dailyworldtrends.com/joran-van-der-sloot-update-joran-van-der-sloot-found-dead-near-peru-border-after-committing-suicide/1720

Joran van der Sloot Found Dead Near Peru Border After Committing Suicide

So, this is false?

http://wireupdate.com/wires/5955/holloway-suspect-attempting-to-contact-his-attorney-after-peru-murder/

Holloway suspect attempting to contact his attorney after Peru murder

Atlanta Investigator Hopes for New Leads in Holloway Case
Updated: Wednesday, 02 Jun 2010, 11:17 PM EDT
Published : Wednesday, 02 Jun 2010, 11:01 PM EDT

This weekend marked the five year anniversary of the disappearance of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway. The Atlanta private investigator hired by Holloway's family to help find the truth said Wednesday that he hopes this latest case involving Joran van der Sloot will take them in the right direction.

Peruvian police said the young Dutchman who was twice arrested in the 2005 disappearance of Holloway is now a suspect in the slaying of a Peruvian woman.

Chief of detectives Col. Miguel Canlla said police are seeking van der Sloot in the Sunday killing of 21-year-old Stephany Flores in a Lima hotel.

The girl’s father, Ricardo Flores, says van der Sloot appeared with his daughter in video taken at a Lima casino early Sunday.

Police say they are seeking to confirm van der Sloot’s identity with the Dutch Embassy.

Peruvian immigration officials said van der Sloot departed Peru on Monday.

Private investigator TJ Ward said he hoped the Peru case will shed more light on the Holloway case. Ward said that if van der Sloot is involved in the new murder, he may have nothing to lose by telling the truth about what happened to Holloway.

Ward said he talked to the Holloway family and is reaching out to the Peru victim's family.

A spokeswoman for Holloway's mother, Beth Twitty, said the family is aware of the latest developments but have no comment.

http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/dpp/news/atlanta-investigator-hopes-for-new-leads-in-holloway-case-060210

Holloway suspect attempting to contact his attorney after Peru murder
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

LIMA, PERU (BNO NEWS) — A Dutch man who is the prime suspect in the disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway and that is being sought in connection with the murder of a young woman in Peru, is attempting to contact his attorney, local media reported on Wednesday.

Joran van der Sloot’s attorney Josephine Tacopina told Peruvian radio network RPP that he received an “e-mail that appears to be from a third person who told me that van der Sloot is attempting to contact me to get legal advice,” he said

Tacopina noted that it will be “difficult” to defend van der Sloot because he don’t known the Peruvian laws.

Police in Lima said Van der Sloot, 22, is the main suspect in the murder of 21-year-old Stephany Tatiana Flores Ramirez, whose body was found in the Miraflores District of Lima in the early morning hours on Wednesday.

Authorities said the body of Ramirez was found covered in blood in the hotel room of Van der Sloot, at the Tac Hotel in Lima. She is believed to have died from multiple stab wounds.

Friends of Flores said she had left them around 2.45 a.m. local time, and then went to visit a casino in Lima. Several hours later, at 5.16 a.m., Flores was seen leaving the casino while in the company of Van der Sloot. Her car was later found in another part of the city.

Van der Sloot arrived in Peru from Argentina on May 13, according to police, who said he left Peru by road on Monday afternoon. He is believed to have traveled to Chile.

The victim’s father, Ricardo Flores, urged authorities to arrest him. “This is not his first murder. In 2005 he killed another girl,” Ricardo said, referring to Natalee Holloway. “But because the body was not found, he was released.”

Ricardo said he appealed to Interpol to help apprehend Van der Sloot. ” I don’t want to see more people suffering,” he said. “I want to avoid that this man continues to kill.”

A spokeswoman for Aruba’s Prosecutor’s Office, Ann Angela, said her office had been updated on the Peruvian investigation and confirmed that Interpol has issued an international arrest warrant in connection with the Peruvian murder. “I can confirm that he is a suspect in the death of a Peruvian woman,” Angela said. “Also that he was placed on the list of the Interpol.”

American teenager Natalee Holloway went missing on May 30, 2005 during a high school graduation trip to Aruba. The case received international media attention, but her body was never found.

Van der Sloot remains the prime suspect in her disappearance, and made several ‘confessions’ during interviews with hidden cameras. Real evidence, however, was never found.

http://wireupdate.com/wires/5955/holloway-suspect-attempting-to-contact-his-attorney-after-peru-murder/
 

Murder suspect Joran van der Sloot spotted in northern Chilean city
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

ARICA, CHILE (BNO NEWS) -- A Dutch man who is the prime suspect in the disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway and is being sought in connection with the murder of a young woman in Peru was spotted in a northern Chilean city on Wednesday, police said.

Douglas Rodriguez, a top police officer with the Chilean Investigation Police said Joran van der Sloot was spotted on Wednesday in Arica city, which lies adjacent to the Peruvian city of Tacna

Rodriguez told reporters that police are looking for Van der Sloot in overnight accommodations. He said the suspect arrived in Chile from Peru in a taxi accompanied by two Peruvian men on May 31. The two Peruvians traveled back to Tacna on the same day.

Rodriguez said van der Sloot entered the country on a tourist visa.

Also on Wednesday, Van der Sloot's attorney Joseph Tacopina told Peruvian radio network RPP that he received an "e-mail that appears to be from a third person who told me that Van der Sloot is attempting to contact me to get legal advice," he said.

Tacopina noted that it would be "difficult" to defend Van der Sloot because he doesn't know Peruvian laws.

Police in Lima said Van der Sloot, 22, is the main suspect in the murder of 21-year-old Stephany Tatiana Flores Ramirez, whose body was found in the Miraflores District of Lima in the early morning hours on Wednesday.

The victim's father, Ricardo Flores, urged authorities to arrest him. "This is not his first murder. In 2005 he killed another girl," Ricardo said, referring to Natalee Holloway. "But because the body was not found, he was released."

Ricardo said he appealed to Interpol to help apprehend Van der Sloot. " I don't want to see more people suffering," he said. "I want to avoid that this man continues to kill."

http://wireupdate.com/wires/5958/murder-suspect-joran-van-der-sloot-spotted-in-northern-chilean-city-2/

Holloway Suspect Eyed in Peru Murder
Updated: Wednesday, 02 Jun 2010, 10:23 PM CDT
Published : Wednesday, 02 Jun 2010, 10:23 PM CDT

HOUSTON - There's a manhunt for the main suspect in Natalee Holloway's disappearance. Joran Van der Sloot is now wanted for murder in a different case.

Exactly five years to the day Holloway went missing, a young woman has been found murdered in Peru.

Reports say Stephany Flores, 21, was stabbed to death in a hotel room registered under Van der Sloot's name. The Dutchman was in Peru for a poker tournament.

He apparently can be seen with Flores in a video taken at a Lima casino early Sunday hours before her body was found.

Tim Miller, the founder of Texas EquuSearch, says he's not entirely surprised Van der Sloot is a suspect.

Miller talked to Van der Sloot while his volunteers were in Aruba searching for Holloway.

"Joran was very, very arrogant. He was a sociopath. He controlled his entire family. If Joran Van der Sloot would have been in prison where he deserved to be, we would not have another murdered girl," said Miller.

Miller hasn't given up hope Holloway's body will be found. He wants to raise enough money to go back to Aruba with a remote underwater vehicle.

"I think we've always known and always felt as though Natalee has been put in a container taken out to sea and dumped in the sea," said Miller.

Miller says he's disgusted with Aruban authorities for not arresting Van der Sloot sooner, and for the first time is supporting a boycott of the country.

It's believed Van der Sloot is on the run in Chile. His attorney cautioned Van der Sloot has been "falsely accused of murder before" and urged the public not to rush to judgment.

http://www.myfoxhouston.com/dpp/news/local/100602-holloway-suspect-eyed-in-peru-murder

Holloway suspect now sought in Peru murder
Wednesday, June 2, 2010.

LIMA, Peru — A young Dutchman previously arrested in the 2005 disappearance of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway is the prime suspect in the weekend murder of a Peruvian woman, police said Wednesday. Joran van der Sloot is being sought for Sunday's killing of 21-year-old Stephany Flores in a Lima hotel, police chief Gen. Cesar Guardia told a news conference. He said the suspect crossed into Chile the next day by bus.

The Dutch government said Interpol has issued an international arrest warrant for van der Sloot.

Guardia said the 22-year-old Dutchman, in Peru for a poker tournament, appears with the young woman in a video taken at a Lima casino early Sunday and the two were later seen entering the hotel by one of its employees.

The victim's father, circus empresario and former race car driver Ricardo Flores, says his daughter dropped off some girlfriends at 2:35 a.m. then apparently returned to the casino. She and van der Sloot were seen entering the hotel room about 5 a.m., said Guardia, and the Dutchman departed alone about four hours later.

"We have an interview with a worker at the hotel who says she saw this foreigner with the victim enter his room," said Guardia.

Stephany Flores' body was found face down on the hotel room floor on Wednesday, abrasions on her face and body, and signs of trauma, the police general said. He said she was clothed.

Asked if she had been asphyxiated, Guardia said he was awaiting autopsy results for the exact cause of death.

The killing occurred exactly five years after the May 30, 2005, disappearance of Holloway in Aruba, a Dutch Caribbean island.

Van der Sloot left Peru on Monday by land, Guardia said, his exit registered at the Santa Rosa border crossing. He had been staying at the hotel since May 14, having entered on a flight from Colombia, the police general added.

The victim's father is a 48-year-old former president of the Peruvian Automobile Club who won the "Caminos del Inca" rally in 1991 and brings circuses and foreign entertainers to Peru. He ran for vice president in 2001 and for president five years later on fringe tickets.

Interpol has issued an international arrest warrant for van der Sloot, Dutch Foreign Ministry spokesman Bengt van Loosdrecht told The Associated Press in The Netherlands.

He cited as his sources Peruvian police and the Dutch Embassy in Lima. The embassy's head of consular affairs, Angela Lowe, told the AP she could not comment on the case.

An attorney for van der Sloot in New York City, Joe Tacopina, said he did not know his client's whereabouts and has not been in touch with him since the Peru allegations emerged.

Tacopina cautioned against a rush to judgment.

"Joran van der Sloot has been falsely accused of murder once before. The fact is he wears a bull's-eye on his back now and he is a quote-unquote usual suspect when it comes to allegations of foul play," Tacopina said.

Van der Sloot was twice arrested but later released for lack of evidence in the 2005 disappearance of Holloway, who was on a high school graduation trip to the Caribbean island.

No trace of her has been found and van der Sloot remains the main suspect in the case, said Ann Angela, spokeswoman for the Aruba prosecutor's office.

"What's happening now is incredible," she said. "At this moment we don't have anything to do with it, but we are following the case with great interest and if Peruvian authorities would need us, we are here."

Van der Sloot's late father was a prominent judge in Aruba.

The mystery of Holloway's disappearance has garnered wide attention on television and in newspapers in Europe and the United States.

Two years ago, a Dutch television crime reporter captured hidden-camera footage of van der Sloot saying he was with Holloway when she collapsed on a beach, drunk.

He said he believed she was dead and asked a friend to dump her body in the sea.

Judges subsequently refused to arrest van der Sloot on the basis of the tape.

http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/World/20100602/holloway-suspect-peru-100602/

Police: Former Natalee Holloway Suspect Sought in Murder in Peru
Published June 02, 2010

LIMA, Peru -- A young Dutchman previously arrested in the 2005 disappearance of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway is the prime suspect in the weekend murder of a Peruvian woman, police said Wednesday.

Joran van der Sloot is being sought for Sunday's killing of 21-year-old Stephany Flores in a Lima hotel, police chief Gen. Cesar Guardia told a news conference. He said the suspect crossed into Chile the next day by bus.

Authorities in Chile confirmed that van der Sloot entered their country on May 31 and there is no record of him leaving. Police inspector Douglas Rodriguez in Arica told The Associated Press that police are searching hotels and residences in northern Chile for the suspect.

The Dutch government said Interpol has issued an international arrest warrant for van der Sloot.

Guardia said the 22-year-old Dutchman, in Peru for a poker tournament, appears with the young woman in a video taken at a Lima casino early Sunday and the two were later seen entering the hotel by one of its employees.

The victim's father, circus empresario and former race car driver Ricardo Flores, says his daughter dropped off some girlfriends at 2:35 a.m. then apparently returned to the casino. She and van der Sloot were seen entering the hotel room about 5 a.m., said Guardia, and the Dutchman departed alone about four hours later.

"We have an interview with a worker at the hotel who says she saw this foreigner with the victim enter his room," said Guardia.

Stephany Flores' body was found face down on the hotel room floor on Wednesday, abrasions on her face and body, and signs of trauma, the police general said. He said she was clothed.

Asked if she had been asphyxiated, Guardia said he was awaiting autopsy results for the exact cause of death.

The killing occurred exactly five years after the May 30, 2005, disappearance of Holloway in Aruba, a Dutch Caribbean island.

Van der Sloot left Peru on Monday by land, Guardia said, his exit registered at the Santa Rosa border crossing. He had been staying at the hotel since May 14, having entered on a flight from Colombia, the police general added.

The victim's father is a 48-year-old former president of the Peruvian Automobile Club who won the "Caminos del Inca" rally in 1991 and brings circuses and foreign entertainers to Peru. He ran for vice president in 2001 and for president five years later on fringe tickets.

Interpol has issued an international arrest warrant for van der Sloot, Dutch Foreign Ministry spokesman Bengt van Loosdrecht told The Associated Press in The Netherlands.

He cited as his sources Peruvian police and the Dutch Embassy in Lima. The embassy's head of consular affairs, Angela Lowe, told the AP she could not comment on the case.

But Rodriguez, the Chilean police inspector, said authorities there had so far only received an order to locate his whereabouts, not an arrest warrant.

An attorney for van der Sloot in New York City, Joe Tacopina, said he did not know his client's whereabouts and has not been in touch with him since the Peru allegations emerged.

Tacopina cautioned against a rush to judgment.

"Joran van der Sloot has been falsely accused of murder once before. The fact is he wears a bull's-eye on his back now and he is a quote-unquote usual suspect when it comes to allegations of foul play," Tacopina said.

Van der Sloot was twice arrested but later released for lack of evidence in the 2005 disappearance of Holloway, who was on a high school graduation trip to the Caribbean island.

No trace of her has been found and van der Sloot remains the main suspect in the case, said Ann Angela, spokeswoman for the Aruba prosecutor's office.

"What's happening now is incredible," she said. "At this moment we don't have anything to do with it, but we are following the case with great interest and if Peruvian authorities would need us, we are here."

Van der Sloot's late father was a prominent judge in Aruba.

The mystery of Holloway's disappearance has garnered wide attention on television and in newspapers in Europe and the United States.

Two years ago, a Dutch television crime reporter captured hidden-camera footage of van der Sloot saying he was with Holloway when she collapsed on a beach, drunk.

He said believed she was dead and asked a friend to dump her body in the sea.

Judges subsequently refused to arrest van der Sloot on the basis of the tape.

A spokeswoman for Holloway's mother, Beth Twitty of Mountain Brook, Alabama, told the AP the family was aware of the development in Peru but would have no comment.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/06/02/report-natalee-holloway-suspect-sought-murder-peru/

Aruba Lied and another Girl Died … Joran Van der Sloot Suspect in the Murder of Stephany Tatiana Flores Ramirez in Peru … Joran on the Run
Posted June 2, 2010 by Scared Monkeys

viet vet on June 3rd, 2010 9:14 am
 
Joran has to watch his back from former friends as well as his many enemies. There is a house of cards in Aruba, everyone was in on the coverup, Police, Government, Prosecuter, and many locals. They would hate for Joran to tell what he knows, it will expose them and ruin there lives and probably Aruba. Sad thing is there are some good innocent people in Aruba who have been taken for a ride. I went down there 3 times to help search for Natalee. The coverup was from the very beginning, and yes, a lot of those liars are now going to pay. Joran would be safer in Peru right now than anywhere else, at least there he knows what to expect. I feel certain a lot of people want him dead today. Get smart Joran, GIVE UP.

http://scaredmonkeys.com/2010/06/02/aruba-lied-and-another-girl-died-joran-van-der-sloot-suspect-in-the-murder-of-stephany-tatiana-flores-ramirez-in-peru-joran-on-the-run/

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Joran van der Sloot accused of murder in Peru!
Posted June 2, 2010 by Klaasend

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Aruba Lied and another Girl Died … Joran Van der Sloot Suspect in the Murder of Stephany Tatiana Flores Ramirez in Peru … Joran on the Run
Posted June 2, 2010 by Scared Monkeys

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Attorney Joe Tacopina & Julia Renfro Still Making Excuses for Murderer Joran Van der Sloot & Aruba
Posted June 3, 2010 by Scared Monkeys

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SM Exclusive: Jossy Mansur of Diario Aruba Comments on Joran Van der Sloot Murder Allegations & Suspect in Death of Stephany Flores Ramirez/Natalee Holloway
Posted June 3, 2010 by Scared Monkeys

http://scaredmonkeys.com/2010/06/03/sm-exclusive-jossy-mansur-of-diario-aruba-comments-on-joran-van-der-sloot-murder-allegations-suspect-in-death-of-stephany-flores-ramireznatalee-holloway/



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HUNT FOR A KILLER: JORAN VAN DER SLOOT SUSPECT IN SECOND MURDER WANTED INTERPOL FUGITIVE
Posted by Blink
Thursday 3 June 2010 8:03 am

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Joran Van Der Sloot Wanted For Murder In Peru, Argentina
Posted by Blink
Wednesday 2 June 2010 2:17 pm

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ISSUES WITH JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL
Van Der Sloot Wanted for Murder
Aired June 2, 2010 - 19:00:00   ET

Guests:

T.J. WARD, PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR
JOE TACOPINA, ATTORNEY FOR VAN DER
JULIA RENFRO, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, "ARUBA TODAY"

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1006/02/ijvm.01.html



 

Police in Chile on Joran van der Sloot's trail
Thursday 03 June 2010

Police in Chile are said to be closing in on Dutch national Joran van der Sloot who is wanted in connection with the murder of a Peruvian woman earlier this week.

According to Peruvian media reports, Van der Sloot is hiding out in the town of Arica, after paying two brothers to take him over the border.

Dutch media reported earlier that an international arrest warrant has been issued for Van der Sloot, who is suspected of killing Stephany Tatiana Flores, 21.

Hotel

However, local police chief Douglas Rodríguez has told the international media that there is still no international warrant for Van der Sloot´s arrest.

Flores disappeared on Friday and was found dead on Wednesday morning at a hotel in Lima.

She was last seen in the company of Van der Sloot and the hotel room where she was found was in Van der Sloot's name, according to local media reports.

Holloway

Her murder comes almost exactly five years after American teenager Natalee Holloway disappeared on the Caribbean island of Aruba. She was last seen in the company of Van der Sloot, who was 17 at the time.

International criminal law expert Geert-Jans Knoops told the Telegraaf on Thursday Van der Sloot would not get any special legal protection as a Dutch national in Peru. Nor is it likely the Netherlands will ask for him to be extradited to the Netherlands.

In addition, Van der Sloot would have to serve any jail term in Peru because there is no prisoner exchange treaty between the two countries, he said.

Van der Sloot's Dutch lawyer Bert der Rooij said he had emailed his client to ask if he can be of any assistance. 'I have not had an answer,' he told news agency ANP.

http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2010/06/police_in_chile_on_joran_van_d.php

Joren van der Sloot Prime Suspect Again
June 3, 2010 - 12:54 PM | by: Phil Keating

Police across South America are on the lookout for a 22 year old Dutch murder suspect that many Americans will find very familiar. Joren van der Sloot, the prime suspect in the disappearance and presumed death of Alabama high school graduate Natalee Holloway, now suspected of stabbing to death a 21 year old Peruvian woman and the subject of a hemisphere-wide manhunt.

On Sunday, Stephany Flores was found dead and face down inside a small, hostelesque hotel room in Lima's Miraflores district. Room 309 of the Hotel Tac had been registered to van der Sloot for 2 weeks. That's where Flores was found, where a hotel worker says she saw them enter together and from a hotel that the worker tells police she saw Joren van der Sloot leave alone on Sunday. By Monday, he'd paid 2 drivers to get him out of Lima, driving south for about 20 hours to the border crossing with Chile.

Those drivers say the entire drive, van der Sloot seemed nervous and chain smoked. Chilean authorities say he entered their Pacific Coast country Monday afternoon shortly after 1pm. And they have no record of van der Sloot exiting Chile, say, to Argentina, from any of their other checkpoints. So now, Chilean authorities are combing the hotels in the dry, sparsely-populated north. Meanwhile in Lima, Stephany Flores' family is burying her this afternoon.

At the wake last night, Peru's Minister of Defense, the Mayor and other politicians were in attendance, a testament to the well-connected friends her father, Ricardo Flores, has, as he is a former race car driver and twice-failed candidate for President. He says the hotel room where his daughter was discovered had a lot of blood, indicating a struggle. For investigators, they suddenly have a very, high profile dragnet underway to arrest a young man for murder, 5 years to the week after Aruban investigators endured the same pressure, but failed for lack of evidence.

http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/06/03/joren-van-der-sloot-prime-suspect-again/

Chile Police Hunt Van der Sloot in Peru Murder
Published June 03, 2010

LIMA, Peru -- Police in neighboring Chile are checking hotels for a young Dutchman long suspected in the 2005 disappearance of U.S. teen Natalee Holloway who is now being sought in the killing of a woman in Peru.

After Peruvian officials announced Wednesday that Joran van der Sloot is the prime suspect in the death of 21-year-old Stephany Flores in a Lima hotel, Chilean police confirmed he had entered their country two days earlier.

Chilean Police Inspector Douglas Rodriguez in Arica told The Associated Press there was no record of van der Sloot leaving Chile and authorities were searching the country's dry, sparsely populated northern provinces for him.

In Lima, police Gen. Cesar Guardia said at a news conference that the slain woman was found Wednesday in a room at a hotel where van der Sloot had been staying and that she had been seen with the suspect early Sunday, when she was killed.

The killing occurred exactly five years after the May 30, 2005, disappearance of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway during a high school trip in Aruba, a Dutch Caribbean island where van der Sloot's late father was a prominent judge.

Prosecutors said van der Sloot is still their main suspect in the case even though he was never charged.

The Dutch government said Interpol issued an international arrest warrant for van der Sloot in the Peru killing. But Rodriguez, the Chilean police official, said authorities there had received only a request to locate the suspect, not an arrest warrant.

Guardia, the Peruvian police general, said the 22-year-old Dutchman was in Peru for a poker tournament and appears with the dead woman in a video taken at a Lima casino early Sunday. The two were later seen entering the hotel by one of its employees about 5 a.m. and the Dutchman departed alone about four hours later, he said.

"We have an interview with a worker at the hotel who says she saw this foreigner with the victim enter his room," said Guardia.

The woman's body was found face down on the hotel room floor Wednesday, abrasions on her face and body, and signs of trauma, Guardia said. He said she was clothed.

Asked if she had been asphyxiated, Guardia said he was waiting for autopsy results on the cause of death.

The victim's father, Ricardo Flores, 48, is a former president of the Peruvian Automobile Club who won the "Caminos del Inca" rally in 1991 and brings circuses and foreign entertainers to Peru. He ran for vice president in 2001 and for president five years later on fringe tickets.

A lawyer for van der Sloot in New York, Joe Tacopina, said he did not know his client's whereabouts and had not been in touch with him since the Peru allegations emerged.

Tacopina cautioned against a rush to judgment.

"Joran van der Sloot has been falsely accused of murder once before. The fact is he wears a bull's-eye on his back now and he is a quote-unquote usual suspect when it comes to allegations of foul play," Tacopina said.

Van der Sloot was twice arrested but later released for lack of evidence in the 2005 disappearance of Holloway in Aruba.

No trace of her has been found and van der Sloot remains the main suspect in the case, Ann Angela, spokeswoman for the Aruba prosecutor's office, said Wednesday.

"What's happening now is incredible," she said. "At this moment we don't have anything to do with it, but we are following the case with great interest and if Peruvian authorities would need us, we are here."

The mystery of Holloway's disappearance garnered wide attention on television and in newspapers in Europe and the United States.

Two years ago, a Dutch television crime reporter captured hidden-camera footage of van der Sloot saying he was with Holloway when she collapsed on a beach from being drunk. He said he believed she was dead and asked a friend to dump her body in the sea.

Judges subsequently refused to arrest van der Sloot on the basis of the tape.

A spokeswoman for Holloway's mother, Beth Twitty of Mountain Brook, Alabama, told the AP the family was aware of the development in Peru but would have no comment.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/06/02/report-natalee-holloway-suspect-sought-murder-peru/
 

Van der Sloot arrested in Chile, police say
By the CNN Wire Staff
June 3, 2010 1:54 p.m. EDT

(CNN) -- Joran van der Sloot, the suspect in a young woman's slaying this week in Peru and previously considered a suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway in Aruba, was captured Thursday in Santiago, Chile, authorities said.

Peruvian authorities investigating the slaying were working with officials from Interpol, Chile, Argentina and Colombia in the search for van der Sloot, the Peruvian justice minister said Thursday.

Van der Sloot, who is Dutch, is the main suspect in this week's slaying of 21-year-old Stephany Flores Ramirez, who was found Wednesday in a Lima, Peru, hotel room that had been rented by van der Sloot. Chilean police told CNN that paperwork showed van der Sloot entered Chile on Wednesday.

Peruvian Justice Minister Octavio Salazar Miranda said Thursday that Peru had made the arrangements with Interpol to extradite van der Sloot once captured.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/06/03/peru.murder.case/index.html?hpt=T2

Chilean Police Detain Van der Sloot in Peru Murder
Published June 03, 2010

Chilean police have detained Joran van der Sloot, the longtime suspect in the disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway, as the chief suspect in the murder of a Peruvian woman who was found dead in his hotel room in Lima.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/06/02/report-natalee-holloway-suspect-sought-murder-peru/

Holloway suspect detained in Peru killing
Woman slain exactly 5 years after U.S. teen's disappearance in Aruba

breaking news
NBC News and news services
updated 17 minutes ago

SANTIAGO, Chile - A Dutchman questioned in the 2005 disappearance of U.S. teen Natalee Holloway has been taken into custody in Chile for investigation in the killing of a woman in Peru, Chilean police said.

Police announced Thursday that Joran van der Sloot, 23, was in custody in Santiago.

The El Comercio newspaper in Peru reported that van der Sloot was in a taxi headed to Vina del Mar, a coastal city in central Chile, when he was taken into custody. He was brought back to Santiago, the newspaper said.

Van der Sloot is the prime suspect in the death of 21-year-old Stephany Flores in a Lima hotel. Chilean police said he had entered Chile earlier this week.

In Lima, police Gen. Cesar Guardia said the slain woman was found Wednesday in a room at a hotel where van der Sloot had been staying and that she had been seen with the suspect early Sunday, when she was killed.

The killing occurred exactly five years after the May 30, 2005, disappearance of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway during a high school trip in Aruba, a Dutch Caribbean island where van der Sloot's late father was a prominent judge.

Prosecutors in Aruba have said van der Sloot is their main suspect in the case even though he has never been charged.

Guardia said the van der Sloot was in Peru for a poker tournament and appears with the dead woman in a video taken at a Lima casino early Sunday.

The two were later seen entering the hotel by one of its employees about 5 a.m. and the Dutchman departed alone about four hours later, he said.

We have an interview with a worker at the hotel who says she saw this foreigner with the victim enter his room," said Guardia.

The woman's body was found face down on the hotel room floor, abrasions on her face and body, and signs of trauma, Guardia said. He said she was clothed.

Guardia said he was waiting for autopsy results on the cause of death.

The victim's father, Ricardo Flores, 48, is a former president of the Peruvian Automobile Club who won the "Caminos del Inca" rally in 1991 and brings circuses and foreign entertainers to Peru. He ran for vice president in 2001 and for president five years later on fringe tickets.

Twice arrested over American's disappearance
Van der Sloot was twice arrested but later released for lack of evidence in the 2005 disappearance of Holloway in Aruba.

No trace of her has been found and van der Sloot remains the main suspect in the case, Ann Angela, spokeswoman for the Aruba prosecutor's office, said Wednesday.

"What's happening now is incredible," she said. "At this moment we don't have anything to do with it, but we are following the case with great interest and if Peruvian authorities would need us, we are here."

The mystery of Holloway's disappearance garnered wide attention on television and in newspapers in Europe and the United States.

Two years ago, a Dutch television crime reporter captured hidden-camera footage of van der Sloot saying he was with Holloway when she collapsed on a beach from being drunk. He said he believed she was dead and asked a friend to dump her body in the sea.

Judges refused to arrest van der Sloot on the basis of the tape.

Chief prosecutor Peter Blanken told NBC News in February that the suspect's story was "very unbelievable," and no charges followed the alleged confession.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37492667/ns/world_news-americas/

BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

GENERAL CESAR GUARDIA, PERUVIAN CRIMINAL POLICE CHIEF (through translator): Joran Andres Petros Van Der Sloot, 21 years of age, is the perpetrator of the homicide of the young woman, Stephany Tatiana Flores Ramirez. We have much incriminating evidence, a deposition with a hotel employee who saw this (UNINTELLIGIBLE) with the victim, entering her room, Room 309, on May 30 at 5 in the morning. After four hours, he left the hotel.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

RICARDO FLORES, FATHER (through translator): They left in her car, and they found some wrappings of pills they use to drug people. We will have samples of this man`s skin underneath the nails of my daughter. So, once he is captured, we will be able to show that he is the killer, and he won`t be able to walk away like he did in Aruba.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

U.S. Attorney Schedules News Conference on Joran Van Der Slootupdated 06/03/10 4:48 pm
Birmingham, AL - At 5p.m., the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama Joyce White Vance will speak to the media regarding Joran van der Sloot at the United States Attorney’s Office.

http://www.abc3340.com/news/stories/0610/742538.html

Joran Van der Sloot accused of extortion
Posted: Jun 03, 2010 2:16 PM PDT
Updated: Jun 03, 2010 2:27 PM PDT

BIRMINGHAM, AL (WBRC) - Joran Van der Sloot, the longtime suspect in the disappearance of missing Mountain Brook teenager Natalee Holloway, has been accused of offering $250,000 in exchange for her whereabouts.

In a criminal complaint filed Thursday by the U.S. Attorney in Birmingham, Van der Sloot is accused of offering $250,000 to a person in Birmingham in exchange for information about the whereabouts of her remains in Aruba.  Holloway disappeared in Aruba in May 2005 during a senior trip to the island.

Joyce White Vance, the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, has scheduled a news conference for 5 p.m. Thursday to discuss the criminal complaint, which was filed Thursday in federal court in Birmingham.

Van der Sloot was arrested earlier in the day in Chile on charges of murder in the death of a young woman in Peru. He's accused of killing Stephany Flores, 21, in a hotel in Lima, Peru, on Sunday, five years to the day after Holloway disappeared.

Fernando Ovalle, deputy spokesman of Chile's national investigative police, told the Associated Press Van der Sloot was arrested while traveling in a taxi, about halfway to the coast on Route 68.  Ovalle said Van der Sloot did not resist arrest and has been calm under detention.

Flores was killed exactly five years after the May 30, 2005, disappearance of Holloway during a high school trip in Aruba, a Dutch Caribbean island where van der Sloot's late father was a prominent judge.

Van der Sloot was twice arrested but later released for lack of evidence in the 2005 disappearance of Holloway in Aruba. Prosecutors said van der Sloot is still their main suspect in the case even though he was never charged.

No trace of her has been found and van der Sloot remains the main suspect in the case, Ann Angela, spokeswoman for the Aruba prosecutor's office, said Wednesday.

Two years ago, a Dutch television crime reporter captured hidden-camera footage of van der Sloot saying he was with Holloway when she collapsed on a beach from being drunk. He said he believed she was dead and asked a friend to dump her body in the sea.

Judges subsequently refused to arrest van der Sloot on the basis of the tape.

A spokeswoman for Holloway's mother, Beth Twitty of Mountain Brook, Alabama, told the AP the family was aware of the development in Peru but would have no comment.

http://www.myfoxal.com/Global/story.asp?S=12591263

Alabama charges van der Sloot with extortion in Holloway case
Posted: Jun 03, 2010 2:34 PM PDT
Updated: Jun 03, 2010 2:45 PM PDT

BIRMINGHAM, AL (WSFA) - The U. S. government has charged Joran van der Sloot with attempting to receive money in exchange for revealing the location of Natalee Holloway's body.  Van der Sloot has long been suspected in the 2005 disappearance of Holloway in Aruba.

Chilean police say they have detained van der Sloot in connection with the murder of a woman in Peru.

Police spokeswoman Macarena Olivares says van der Sloot has been taken into custody in Chile's capital of Santiago. Five years to the date after Holloway disappeared, van der Sloot was the last person seen with a Peruvian woman found dead in a Lima hotel room.

Below is the complaint filed in U. S. District Court.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ALABAMA

CRIMINAL COMPLAINT (Amended)

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

v. CASE NUMBER: MAG 1 0-117

JORAN VAN DER SLOOT,

defendant

I, William K. Bryan, the undersigned complainant, being duly sworn, state the following is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief: Count One

That on or about May 10, 20lO, the defendant, Joran van der Sloot, did obstruct, delay, and affect commerce and the movement of any article or commodity in commerce, by extortion and attempts to do so, in that, the defendant did knowingly and wilfully cause another person to wire transfer a partial payment of money ($15,000) from a financial institution in Birmingham, Alabama, to a financial institution in the Netherlands, after representing to the other person that he would provide the location ofNata lee Holloway's remains in Aruba and information regarding the circumstances of her death, upon receipt of $250,000 from the other person, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1951(a).

Count Two

That on or about May 10, 20 lO, the defendant, Joran van der Sioot, having devised or intending to devise any scheme and artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, did knowingly and with intent to defraud did knowingly and wilfully cause to be transmitted by means of wire communication in interstate and foreign commerce, any writings, signs, signals, pictures, or sounds, that being, a wire transfer in the amount of $15,000, from Birmingham, Alabama, to the Netherlands for the purpose of executing and attempting to execute such scheme and artifice, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1343.

I further state that I am a Special Agent with the Federal Bureau ofInvestigation, and that this complaint is based on the facts set forth in the affidavit, which is attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference.

See Attachment" A"

Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence,

at Birmingham, Alabama Date

City and State

PAUL W. GREENE Chief United States Magistrate Judge

Name and Title of Judicial Officer PAUL W. GREENE FILED 2010 Jun-03 PM 03:46 U.S. DISTRICT COURT N.D. OF ALABAMA Case 2:10-mj-00117-PWG Document 8 Filed 06/03/10 Page 1 of 1

http://www.wmbfnews.com/Global/story.asp?S=12591373

June 3, 2010 | 1:23 PM ET
WHY WAS HOLLOWAY FAMILY IN ARUBA

2 times in last 30 days?As you know doubt know, I have been making calls to Aruba to find out what people know about the latest Joran van der Sloot news.

I have learned - and this is rather curious - that Holloway family lawyer John Q. Kelly has been spotted twice in the last 30 days in Aruba.

His presence (twice in the last 30 days) in Aruba is notable and peculiar since the Aruban authorities have said they have shut down the Natalee investigation and yesterday made a statement that they have nothing to do with this latest Peru investigation for murder.

http://gretawire.blogs.foxnews.com/joran-van-der-sloot-update/
 

Joran Van der Sloot extorted Beth Holloway for info of the whereabouts of her daughter Natalee Holloway
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010 at 10:39 pm

(WIREUPDATE) — The mother of missing teen Alabama Natalee Holloway was extorted by the Dutchman who claimed to know the whereabouts of her body. Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren revealed that Beth Holloway was the victim of an extortion plot by Joran Van der Sloot.

On Thursday, the U.S. government charged Joran van der Sloot with attempting to receive money in exchange for revealing the location of Natalee Holloawy’s body. According to a complaint filed in U.S. District Court Van der Sloot received a partial payment of $15,000 from a financial institution in Birmingham Alabama last month. Van der Sloot wouldn’t reveal the location until a full payment of $250,000 was made.

Joran van der Sloot is the prime suspect of the May 2005 disappearance of Natalee Holloway. He is also a suspect for the murder of Stephany Rameriz in Peru, which allegedly happened 5 years to day of Holloway’s disappearance.

http://wireupdate.com/wires/5994/joran-van-der-sloot-extorted-beth-holloway-for-info-of-the-whereabouts-of-her-daughter-natalee-holloway/

June 3, 2010
Van Der Sloot Lawyer: Inconsistencies Already
Says Client Easy Target and Has "Bulls-eye" on His Back in Woman's Death in Peru, but Early Accounts Have Holes

(CBS/ AP)  Police in neighboring Chile are checking hotels for a young Dutchman long suspected in the 2005 disappearance of U.S. teen Natalee Holloway now being sought in the killing of a woman in Peru.

But on "The Early Show" Thursday, Joran van der Sloot's lawyer, Joe Tacopina, urged that no one rush to judgment

After Peruvian officials announced Wednesday that van der Sloot is the prime suspect in the death of 21-year-old Stephany Flores in a Lima hotel, Chilean police confirmed he had entered their country two days earlier.

Chilean Police Inspector Douglas Rodriguez in Arica told The Associated Press there was no record of van der Sloot leaving Chile and authorities were searching the country's dry, sparsely populated northern provinces for him.

In Lima, police Gen. Cesar Guardia said at a news conference that the slain woman was found Wednesday in a room at a hotel where van der Sloot had been staying and that she had been seen with the suspect early Sunday, when she was killed.

The killing occurred exactly five years after the May 30, 2005, disappearance of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway during a high school trip in Aruba, a Dutch Caribbean island where van der Sloot's late father was a prominent judge.

Prosecutors said van der Sloot is still their main suspect in the case, even though he was never charged.

In New York, Tacopina told co-anchor Maggie Rodriguez that he has "no idea" where van der Sloot is.

He said, "I've read reports, many reports in the last 12 hours in regards to this investigation. And I've seen inconsistencies already. And I hearken back to the last five years with the Aruba investigation, where time and again we've heard stories come out that turn out to be rumor or false facts. And I think you just have to be wary of that when you're dealing with Joran van der Sloot and this saga.

"I'm not taking the position that he's being wrongly accused - if he's being accused. I've heard that there is an arrest warrant. I've heard that there is not an arrest warrant. What I do say is that Joran van der Sloot is an easy guy to point the finger at. He's a popular suspect, he's someone who people believe -- people have very strong opinions about this - that he got away with murder, literally, in Aruba which, the evidence says otherwise, the judges have said otherwise. But he's someone who is easy to point the finger at, he wears a bulls-eye on his back."

Tacopina also pointed out that witnesses say they saw van der Sloot and Flores together on Sunday, but her body wasn't found until Wednesday.

The Dutch government said Interpol issued an international arrest warrant for van der Sloot in the Peru killing. But Rodriguez, the Chilean police official, said authorities there had received only a request to locate the suspect, not an arrest warrant.

Guardia, the Peruvian police general, said the 22-year-old Dutchman was in Peru for a poker tournament and appears with the dead woman in a video taken at a Lima casino early Sunday. The two were later seen entering the hotel by one of its employees about 5 a.m. and the Dutchman departed alone about four hours later, he said.

"We have an interview with a worker at the hotel who says she saw this foreigner with the victim enter his room," said Guardia.

The woman's body was found face down on the hotel room floor Wednesday, abrasions on her face and body, and signs of trauma, Guardia said. He said she was clothed.

Asked if she had been asphyxiated, Guardia said he was waiting for autopsy results on the cause of death.

The victim's father, Ricardo Flores, 48, is a former president of the Peruvian Automobile Club who won the "Caminos del Inca" rally in 1991 and brings circuses and foreign entertainers to Peru. He ran for vice president in 2001 and for president five years later on fringe tickets.

Van der Sloot was twice arrested but later released for lack of evidence in the 2005 disappearance of Holloway in Aruba.

No trace of her has been found and van der Sloot remains the main suspect in the case, Ann Angela, spokeswoman for the Aruba prosecutor's office, said Wednesday.

"What's happening now is incredible," she said. "At this moment we don't have anything to do with it, but we are following the case with great interest and if Peruvian authorities would need us, we are here."

The mystery of Holloway's disappearance garnered wide attention on television and in newspapers in Europe and the United States.

Two years ago, a Dutch television crime reporter captured hidden-camera footage of van der Sloot saying he was with Holloway when she collapsed on a beach from being drunk. He said he believed she was dead and asked a friend to dump her body in the sea.

Judges subsequently refused to arrest van der Sloot on the basis of the tape.

A spokeswoman for Holloway's mother, Beth Twitty of Mountain Brook, Alabama, told the AP the family was aware of the development in Peru but would have no comment.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/06/03/earlyshow/main6543604.shtml?tag=contentMain;contentBody

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/06/03/earlyshow/main6543604_page2.shtml?tag=contentMain;contentBody

Vance: Charges Filed against Van der Sloot
Last Update: 6:19 pm

Birmingham, AL (WIAT)- US Attorney Joyce Vance announced a criminal complaint of extortion and wire fraud  was filed today against Joren Van der Sloot. The complaint alleges on May 10 Van der Sloot extorted 15,000 as a partial payment to reveal the location of the remains of Natalee Holloway. The wire fraud comes from money being transferred from a Birmingham bank to a bank in Netherlands. The maximum sentence for these charges is 30 years.  Mr. Van der Sloot was arrested in Chile today for the murder of a Peruvian woman in a Lima hotel room. Watch the full press conference on the right.

Video
http://www.cbs42.com/content/localnews/story/Vance-Charges-Filed-against-Van-der-Sloot/qHhAAd3_yECXZzmmMHVsog.cspx

Joran van der Sloot led a high-stakes life in South America
Posted on Thursday, 06.03.10

When reached at her home -- a one-story cinder block house painted mustard yellow -- Anita van der Sloot sounded composed and attempted to politely dismiss any inquiries about her son.

She has two other sons, Valentijn and Sebastian. She is now a widow. Her husband died suddenly last February while playing tennis.

``I don't know anything,'' Anita told The Herald. ``I haven't been in contact with Joran for a long time ...

http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/06/03/1662456_p2/joran-van-der-sloot-led-a-high.html

Federal charges in Alabama will await van der Sloot, if he is not charged in murder case in Peru
June 03, 2010, 8:22PM

If Joran van der Sloot is not charged in the death of a woman in Peru, federal prosecutors in Birmingham say the Dutchman will be brought to Alabama on charges of fraud and extortion announced here today in connection with the disappearance of Natalee Holloway.

Holloway, a Mountain Brook teen, disappeared in May 2005 while on a high school graduation trip to Aruba. Van der Sloot has been a long-time suspect in that case, but does not face charges.

He is being detained in Chile in connection with the death of a 21-year-old woman, found on Sunday in Peru.

The U.S. Attorney's office and FBI said that on May 10, van der Sloot extorted $15,000 as a partial payment from an individual in exchange for information he would provide on the location of Natalee Holloway's remains and the circumstances of her death.

U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance said that van der Sloot had provided false information during his scheme. She declined to say who van der Sloot had extorted or what he is alleged to have told them.

Federal authorities said the extortion charge from Birmingham was coincidental to the case in Peru.

"I want to stress at the outset that our case is not related in any way to the ongoing murder investigation in Peru,"  Vance said at a press conference in Birmingham.

But if authorities in Peru don't charge van der Sloot then he would be brought to the U.S. to face the charges waiting for him in Birmingham, FBI and U.S. Attorneys office officials said.

Aruban authorities were helpful to the FBI in its extortion investigation, Vance said.

"We are committed to protecting citizens from unscrupulous individuals who attempt to financially exploit a person's deepest fears and greatest loss," Vance said in a prepared statement. If convicted on the two charges from Birmingham, van der Sloot could face a maximum sentence of 30 years on the wire fraud count and a maximum of 20 years on the extortion charge.

http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2010/06/federal_charges_in_alabama_wil.html

3 June, 2010
Chile decides to expel Joran van der Sloot, Peru prepares to arrest him

The Chilean government has decided to expel Dutch citizen Joran Van der Sloot, who is accused in Peru of murdering Stephany Flores (21), reports Radio Cooperativa Chile.

Van der Sloot, who is also related to the disappearance of US citizen Natalee Holloway in Aruba, will leave at 8:00 a.m. and will be sent by plane to Arica,.

Once in Arica, he will be moved to the border with Peru, where he will arrested by Peru police, reports Chilean daily La Tercera.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Peru expressed that the Dutch citizen will be arrested as soon as he enters Peru.

Van der Sloot, who entered Chile on May 31, was captured  this morning in Santiago, while he was heading to Viña del Mar.

His Peruvian victim, Stephany Flores, was found dead in a hotel room last Wednesday.

http://www.livinginperu.com/news-12362-breaking-news-chile-decides-expel-joran-van-der-sloot-peru-prepares-arrest-him

Exclusive interview Jug Twitty
6/03 8:19 pm

Jug Twitty spoke exclusively with CBS 42 News, to listen to the entire interview, click on the video link.

Video:
http://www.cbs42.com/content/localnews/story/Exclusive-interview-Jug-Twitty/Vp7af3v-ykaT6VJjG9tGxQ.cspx

ISSUES WITH JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL
Van Der Sloot Captured on Murder Charge
Aired June 3, 2010 - 19:00:00   ET

GUESTS:
VINDA DE SOUSA, ATTORNEY FOR DAVE HOLLOWAY:
TIM MILLER, DIRECTOR, TEXAS EQUUSEARCH:
T.J. WARD, PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1006/03/ijvm.01.html

Holloway Suspect Accused in Alabama Extortion
Updated: Thursday, 03 Jun 2010, 6:16 PM CDT
Published : Thursday, 03 Jun 2010, 6:05 PM CDT

(NewsCore) - Joran Van Der Sloot, the main suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway, was accused Thursday of trying to extort $250,000 in return for revealing the location of her body as well as the circumstances of her death.

The U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Alabama Joyce White Vance held a press conference at 5pm local time in Birmingham, Ala. to announce the filing of a criminal complaint charging Van Der Sloot on two counts of extortion and wire fraud.

Vance said that Van Der Sloot had attempted to extort $250,000 from an individual in return for information that was "false and fraudulent."

Van Der Sloot, a 22-year-old Dutch national, was arrested Thursday in Chile in connection with the murder of a 21-year-old Peruvian woman in a hotel room in Lima, Peru. Vance stated clearly that the case was in no way related to the murder charges currently being brought against Van Der Sloot in Peru.

“They are strangely a coincidence, our investigation has been going on for a period of about six weeks,” Vance told reporters when asked if the timing of the complaint was related to the ongoing murder investigation in Peru.

Van Der Sloot is currently being held in Santiago, Chile, awaiting extradition to Peru.

A copy of the complaint, signed by a Special Agent with the FBI, William K. Bryan, states that “the defendant [Van Der Sloot] did knowingly and wilfully cause another person to wire transfer a partial payment of money ($15,000) from a financial institution in Birmingham, Alabama, to a financial institution in the Netherlands, after representing to the other person that he would provide the location of Natalee Holloway's remains in Aruba and information regarding the circumstances of her death, upon receipt of $250,000 from the other person…”

Natalee Holloway, an 18-year-old high school senior from Alabama, disappeared in Aruba on May 30, 2005, while on a high school graduation trip. Van Der Sloot was arrested twice on suspicion of being involved in the disappearance of Holloway. The resulting investigation into her disappearance caused a media sensation.

Holloway was last seen in a car with Van Der Sloot and brothers Deepak and Satish Kalpoe in the early hours of Monday, May 30, 2005, the day she was due to return to Alabama. Her body was never found. Van Der Sloot gave a series of bizarre media interviews in which he changed his story, but was released after both arrests and never charged.

http://www.myfoxdfw.com/dpps/news/holloway-suspect-accused-in-alabama-extortion-dpgapx-20100603-mh_7898894

NANCY GRACE
Joran Van Der Sloot Taken Into Custody in Chile
Aired June 3, 2010 - 20:00:00   ET

GUESTS:
ENRIQUE FLORES, STEPHANY`S BROTHER
PAUL REYNOLDS, NATALEE HOLLOWAY`S UNCLE
JOSSY MANSUR, MANAGING DIRECTOR, DIARIO ARUBA:

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1006/03/ng.01.html

NANCY GRACE
Joran Van Der Sloot Taken Into Custody in Chile
Aired June 3, 2010 - 20:00:00   ET

MEG STRICKLER, INTERNATIONAL ATTORNEY: Yes, I absolutely agree. Complaints usually mention that. So I don`t think that the United States is doing what they should have done. They saw that one of their citizens was killed and nothing ever came of it so they found a way to make sure that Joran Van Der Sloot was going to prison.

And so now he`s got charges here. He`s going to go to prison here. He`s going to go to prison in Aruba but guess what, Peru is going to keep him and he`s going to serve his sentence there because guess what? The Netherlands are not going to be able to transfer him after he`s sentenced to prison. There is no prison transfer treaty between the two countries.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1006/03/ng.01.html

I don't know if this was already mentioned in the other thread, but... better twice than not at all.

Weblog of the infamous Terror Jaap Amesz, google translation with some adjustments.

Chilean police detain Dutchman in Peru killing
Friday June. 4, 2010

Flores, a 48-year-old former race car driver and sometime politician, buried his daughter on Thursday in the upscale Jardines de la Paz cemetery accompanied by about 100 mourners. His inconsolable wife, Maria Elena Ramirez, held the slain girl's Minnie Mouse doll to her chest.

http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/World/20100603/van-der-sloot-100603/

Chilean police detain Dutchman in Peru killing
Date: Thursday Jun. 3, 2010 8:39 PM ET

SANTIAGO, Chile — He was the last person to see two young women alive -- one in Aruba, one in Peru exactly five years later, police say. Joran van der Sloot was caught in a taxi Thursday, several days drive and a country away from the Lima hotel room where the second woman was found face down with a broken neck.

A fixture on TV true-crime shows after Natalee Holloway's disappearance in Aruba, the 22-year-old Dutchman did not speak or even turn his head when photographers shouted his name as Chilean police escorted him, without handcuffs, into a Santiago office for questioning.

Aruban authorities didn't prosecute van der Sloot even after he was caught on video saying he had asked a friend to dump Holloway's body. The Alabama woman's family was outraged by how Aruban authorities handled the case, and now the family of another young woman wants justice.

"This isn't a coincidence, this murder," Stephany Flores' anguished father, Lima entertainment impresario Ricardo Flores, told reporters after van der Sloot's arrest.

Van der Sloot was arrested the same day he was charged in Alabama with trying to extort $250,000 in return for giving the location of Holloway's body and describing the circumstances of Holloway's death. Federal prosecutors did not say who was allegedly extorted but filed a sworn statement saying that van der Sloot got a partial payment of $15,000 wired to a Netherlands bank.

Stephany Flores' neck was broken Sunday in a hotel room registered to van der Sloot, who police believe met the 21-year-old University of Lima business student for the first time the previous night at a nearby casino. Her body was found by a maid late Tuesday.

Flores, a 48-year-old former race car driver and sometime politician, buried his daughter on Thursday in the upscale Jardines de la Paz cemetery accompanied by about 100 mourners. His inconsolable wife, Maria Elena Ramirez, held the slain girl's Minnie Mouse doll to her chest.

The father called on authorities to immediately bring van der Sloot to Peru to face justice.

"It's not just about my daughter," he said. "There's a matter pending in Aruba and we don't know how many more remain unpunished."

Stephany Flores was fully clothed and there were no signs she had been sexually abused, the chief of Peru's criminal police, Gen. Cesar Guardia, told The Associated Press.

"The room was a complete mess," he said in an interview. He added that no potential murder weapon was found, indicating the killer may have used his bare hands.

"It's probable they had drunken alcohol," said Guardia. No alcohol was found in Flores' blood, he said, but he added that it could have dissipated in the more than two days it took to find her body.

Guardia added that police are investigating why it took until Tuesday night for hotel staff to discover the body.

Van der Sloot remains the prime suspect in the disappearance of Holloway, an 18-year-old who was celebrating her high school graduation on the Dutch Caribbean island of Aruba when she disappeared May 30, 2005. He told investigators he left her on a beach, drunk. That's the last anyone saw of her. Van der Sloot was twice arrested in her disappearance -- and twice released for insufficient evidence.

"If they have enough proof that he committed the crime in Peru, maybe, just maybe that might help to get him to confess in Natalee's case. It just might crack him," a Holloway family lawyer, Vinda de Souza, told the AP.

A spokeswoman for Holloway's mother, Beth, issued a statement saying she "extends her deepest sympathy" to the Flores family "and prays for swift and sure justice." Holloway's family has blamed Aruban authorities' inaction on the influence of van der Sloot's father, a judge there who died in February.

Van der Sloot put up no resistance when he was detained Thursday about halfway to the Pacific coast from Santiago, said deputy Chilean investigative police spokesman Fernando Ovalle. When brought in for questioning in Santiago, he was unshaven with closely cropped hair, khaki pants, and a grey hooded sweat shirt.

Ovalle said it was likely van der Sloot would be expelled to Peru. Peruvian authorities issued an arrest warrant for him through Interpol after learning van der Sloot had crossed into northern Chile on Monday.

Van der Sloot checked into the room where Flores' body was found May 14 after arriving on a flight from Colombia, Guardia said. He was in Peru for a poker tournament and it appears he and Flores met Saturday evening at Atlantic City, the Lima casino hosting the tourney, Guardia said.

The police chief said Flores was killed between 5 a.m. Sunday, when the victim and suspect were seen entering his room by a hotel employee, and about 8:45 a.m., when he said two people saw van der Sloot leave.

"Various things aren't very clear," Guardia said, among them the killer's motive.

It certainly wasn't money, he said. Van der Sloot had no problem paying for his escape to Chile.

He gave a truck driver 1,500 Peruvian soles ($525) to take him from Ica, a town south of Lima, to the Chilean border, the driver, Luis Aparcana, said in a TV interview. He said van der Sloot didn't speak Spanish very well and carried two suitcases.

Aparcana said van der Sloot "was worried because he kept smoking cigarettes. He didn't have a cellphone but he had a laptop that he would take out, handle and then put back."

Lawyers for van der Sloot did not immediately comment. On Wednesday, a lawyer in New York who has represented him, Joe Tacopina, cautioned against a rush to judgment.

"Joran van der Sloot has been falsely accused of murder once before. The fact is he wears a bull's-eye on his back now and he is a quote-unquote usual suspect when it comes to allegations of foul play," Tacopina said.

A former FBI agent who investigated the Holloway disappearance for the missing girl's family, Harold Copus, told the AP that while van der Sloot's behaviour in Peru followed "a pattern of him gambling and hooking up with girls" he was surprised at the violence of Flores' death.

"Violence was never something that came into his character," he said.

The Holloway case has followed many twists and turns.

Two years ago, a Dutch television crime reporter captured hidden-camera footage of van der Sloot saying he was with Holloway when she collapsed on a beach from being drunk. He said he believed she was dead and asked a friend to dump her body in the sea. Judges subsequently refused to arrest van der Sloot on the basis of the tape.

The reporter, Peter de Vries, reported later in 2008 that he had documented van der Sloot recruiting Thai women in Bankgok for sex work in the Netherlands.

Aruba's attorney general, Taco Stein, said Thursday that the island would offer assistance to investigators in Peru when van der Sloot arrives there.

He said van der Sloot remains the only suspect in the Holloway case. "There is always hope," he said.

http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/World/20100603/van-der-sloot-100603/

Chile Set to Expel Holloway Suspect to Peru
Published June 04, 2010

LIMA, Peru -- A Dutch man linked to the 2005 disappearance of U.S. teen Natalee Holloway is in custody in Chile, facing potential murder charges in Peru and extortion charges in the U.S.

Joran van der Sloot was detained in a taxi Thursday after crossing the border from Peru, where authorities say the 22-year-old man is the prime suspect in Sunday's murder of 21-year-old Stephany Flores.

Authorities planned to fly van der Sloot back to the Peruvian border Friday morning, according to a Chilean police spokesman who spoke on condition that he not be named in line with department policy.

Chile's Interior Ministry was considering whether to send van der Sloot back to Peru, although officials say they have yet to receive an arrest warrant issued by Peru in connection with Sunday's killing of Flores.

A fixture on TV true-crime shows after Holloway's disappearance in Aruba, the Dutchman did not speak or even turn his head when photographers shouted his name as Chilean police escorted him, without handcuffs, into a Santiago station for questioning.

Aruban authorities didn't prosecute van der Sloot even after he was caught on video saying he had asked a friend to dump Holloway's body. The Alabama teen's family was outraged by how Aruban authorities handled the case, and now the family of another young woman wants justice.

"This isn't a coincidence, this murder," Flores' father, Lima entertainment impresario Ricardo Flores, told reporters after van der Sloot's arrest.

Flores, a 48-year-old former race car driver and sometime politician, buried his daughter Thursday in the upscale Jardines de la Paz cemetery accompanied by about 100 mourners. He called on authorities to immediately bring van der Sloot to Peru to face justice.

"It's not just about my daughter," he said. "There's a matter pending in Aruba, and we don't know how many more remain unpunished."

The same day he was arrested in Chile, Van der Sloot was charged in Alabama with trying to extort $250,000 in return for giving the location of Holloway's body and describing the circumstances of her death. Federal prosecutors did not say who was allegedly extorted, but filed a sworn statement saying that van der Sloot got a partial payment of $15,000 wired to a Netherlands bank.

Stephany Flores' neck was broken in a hotel room registered to van der Sloot, who police believe met the University of Lima business student for the first time the previous night at a nearby casino. Her body was found by a maid late Tuesday.

She was fully clothed and there were no signs she had been sexually assaulted, the chief of Peru's criminal police, Gen. Cesar Guardia, told The Associated Press.

"The room was a complete mess," he said in an interview. He added that no potential murder weapon was found, indicating the killer may have used his bare hands.

Guardia added that police are investigating why it took until Tuesday night for hotel staff to discover the body.

Van der Sloot remains the prime suspect in the disappearance of Holloway, an 18-year-old who was celebrating her high school graduation on the Dutch Caribbean island of Aruba when she disappeared May 30, 2005. He told investigators he left her on a beach, drunk. That's the last anyone saw of her. Van der Sloot was twice arrested in her disappearance -- and twice released for insufficient evidence.

"If they have enough proof that he committed the crime in Peru, maybe, just maybe, that might help to get him to confess in Natalee's case. It just might crack him," a Holloway family lawyer, Vinda de Souza, told the AP.

A spokeswoman for Holloway's mother, Beth, issued a statement saying she "extends her deepest sympathy" to the Flores family "and prays for swift and sure justice."

Van der Sloot put up no resistance when he was detained Thursday about halfway to the Pacific coast from Santiago, deputy Chilean investigative police spokesman Fernando Ovalle said.

Peruvian authorities had issued an arrest warrant for him through Interpol after learning van der Sloot had crossed into northern Chile on Monday.

Van der Sloot checked into the room where Flores' body was found May 14 after arriving on a flight from Colombia, Guardia said. He was in Peru for a poker tournament and it appears he and Flores met Saturday evening at Atlantic City, the Lima casino hosting the tourney, Guardia said.

The police chief said Flores was killed between 5 a.m. Sunday, when the victim and suspect were seen entering his room by a hotel employee, and about 8:45 a.m., when two people saw van der Sloot leave.

"Various things aren't very clear," Guardia said, among them the killer's motive.

It certainly wasn't money, he said. Van der Sloot had no problem paying for his travel to Chile.

Truck driver Luis Aparcana said van der Sloot gave him 1,500 Peruvian soles ($525) to take him from Ica, a town south of Lima, to the Chilean border. The Dutchman didn't speak Spanish very well and carried two suitcases, he said in a TV interview.

Aparcana said van der Sloot appeared "worried, because he kept smoking cigarettes. He didn't have a cell phone but he had a laptop that he would take out, handle and then put back."

Lawyers for van der Sloot did not immediately comment. On Wednesday, a lawyer in New York who has represented him, Joe Tacopina, cautioned against a rush to judgment.

"Joran van der Sloot has been falsely accused of murder once before. The fact is he wears a bull's-eye on his back now and he is a quote-unquote usual suspect when it comes to allegations of foul play," Tacopina said.

The Holloway case has followed many twists and turns.

Two years ago, a Dutch television crime reporter captured hidden-camera footage of van der Sloot saying he was with Holloway when she collapsed on a beach from being drunk. He said he believed she was dead and asked a friend to dump her body in the sea. Judges subsequently refused to arrest van der Sloot on the basis of the tape.

The journalist, Peter de Vries, reported later in 2008 that he had documented van der Sloot recruiting Thai women in Bangkok for sex work in the Netherlands.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/06/04/holloway-suspect-faces-extradition-peru/

Peru murder suspect to be expelled from Chile, Interpol says
June 4, 2010 9:23 a.m. EDT

Santiago, Chile (CNN) -- Joran van der Sloot, the suspect in the slaying of a 21-year-old Peruvian woman this week, left Santiago, Chile, aboard a military aircraft in the custody of officers Friday morning.

He will be flown to the border with Peru and expelled, said Macarena Lopez, a spokeswoman for Interpol.

The Dutch citizen was previously a suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway, who was on a high school graduation trip to the Caribbean island of Aruba. Van der Sloot was arrested twice in connection with the case but released both times. He denied any involvement and has not been charged.

The suspect was captured Thursday in Chile, authorities said. He is the main suspect in this week's slaying of 21-year-old Stephany Flores Ramirez, who was found Wednesday in a Lima, Peru, hotel room registered to van der Sloot. Chilean police told CNN that paperwork showed that van der Sloot entered Chile on Wednesday.

Van der Sloot also faces an arrest warrant on charges of extortion and wire fraud in Alabama, U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance said Thursday. The charges are unrelated to the killing of the Peruvian woman and deal with an attempt to sell details about Holloway for $250,000, Vance said.

Van der Sloot, 23, was traveling alone in a taxi near the Chilean central coastal city of Vina del Mar when he was detained, said Douglas Rodriguez, spokesman for the Chilean Investigative Police.

Van der Sloot was transported Thursday afternoon to police headquarters in Santiago, Chile's capital.

TV images showed him emerging from a black police SUV at the police station. His hair, which had been dark in previous images, was red and worn in a close-cropped crew cut.

In Peru, Flores was buried in Lima, the country's capital.

An uncle of Natalee Holloway said van der Sloot should not have been free to allegedly kill again.

"We are disappointed that Joran has been able to do this to another young girl," Paul Reynolds told CNN. "He was not held accountable for what happened to Natalee and as a result has been able to repeat his actions. Sorry this other family has to go through the same thing we have."

There is "incriminating evidence" linking van der Sloot to the killing of Flores, said Peruvian criminal investigator Cesar Guardia Vasquez.

The woman's bludgeoned body was found in Room 309 of the Hotel Tac in the Miraflores section of Lima, police said. She suffered blunt trauma to the head, breaking her neck, and to her torso and back, Peruvian police said Thursday.

Van der Sloot had been staying at the hotel since arriving from Colombia on May 14, police said. Room 309 was booked in his name, authorities said.

A hotel guest and an employee witnessed the pair entering the hotel room together at 5 a.m. Sunday, Guardia said. Police have video of van der Sloot and Flores together the previous night at the Atlantic City Casino in Lima, he said.

Two Peruvian cab drivers said in an interview on CNN affiliate America TV that they drove a man matching van der Sloot's description to a city on the other side of the Chilean border.

"He paid me and I took him to Arica, to the border," cab driver Oswaldo Aparcana said.

The man sat in the front seat and smoked many cigarettes, Aparcana said. The passenger told the cabbies he used to live in Aruba, said the other driver, Carlos Alberto Uribe.

The victim's father said he believes van der Sloot is responsible for the young woman's death.

"We have all the evidence to show that the killer is this man," businessman and race-car driver Ricardo Flores told CNN en Español.

But van der Sloot's former attorney, Joseph Tacopina, told CNN it was too early to reach any conclusions.

"I just think we need to take a step back before we get to the 'I told you so' stage, and let's see what the evidence is here," Tacopina said Thursday.

Tacopina said he is not representing van der Sloot and no longer has a good relationship with the family.

Holloway, the Alabama teenager, disappeared May 30, 2005, five years to the day since the hotel videotape that officials say showed van der Sloot and Flores going into his hotel room. Both women are reported to have met van der Sloot at a night spot.

Ricardo Flores said police found his daughter's car about 50 blocks from the hotel. Inside the car, he said, authorities found pills like those used in date rapes.

Ricardo Flores said he did not believe his daughter knew the Dutch citizen beforehand.

Both of them speak English and they struck up conversation at the casino, he said.

Interpol had alerted its office in Chile and other bordering countries of the case and placed them on alert in case van der Sloot tried to leave that country, Peruvian Interpol Interim Director Gerson Ortiz told CNN.

Van der Sloot was arrested in Aruba in 2005 along with two other men, brothers Deepak and Satish Kalpoe, in connection with Holloway's disappearance. They were later released.

In 2007, they were arrested a second time after Aruba's then-chief prosecutor, Hans Mos, said he had received new evidence in the case.

Van der Sloot, who was attending college in the Netherlands, was brought back to Aruba. But judges ruled the new evidence -- which included an Internet chat the same day Holloway disappeared in which one of the three youths said she was dead -- was not enough to keep them jailed.

In 2008, prosecutors sought unsuccessfully to arrest van der Sloot a third time after a videotape surfaced on Dutch television. In it, van der Sloot tells a man he considered to be his friend that he had sex with Holloway on the beach after leaving the nightclub, then she "started shaking" and lost consciousness. He said he panicked when he could not resuscitate her and called a friend who had a boat. The two put Holloway's body in the boat, he said, and then he went home. The friend told him the next day that he had carried the body out and dumped it in the ocean.

But an Aruba court ruled there was not enough evidence to re-arrest him. Aruban prosecutors said authorities had met with van der Sloot in the Netherlands, but in a two-hour interview he denied any role in Holloway's disappearance.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/06/04/peru.murder.case/index.html?hpt=T2

Van Der Sloot Sent To Peru To Face Charges
June 4, 2010

LIMA, Peru -- Dutch murder suspect Joran van der Sloot is on his way to Peru, where authorities are likely to charge him with the killing of a 21-year-old woman from the capital of Lima.

Chilean police say van der Sloot has proclaimed his innocence in Sunday's slaying of Stephany Flores in a Lima hotel room.

The 22-year-old van der Sloot also remains the prime suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Alabama teen Natalie Holloway on the Dutch Caribbean island of Aruba.

Van der Sloot was handcuffed and placed aboard a police Cessna 310 in the Chilean capital of Santiago on Friday morning. He is expected to be handed over to Peruvian authorities Friday afternoon.

Chilean police captured van der Sloot on Thursday as he was headed to the country's Pacific coast.

http://www.kpho.com/news/23782355/detail.html

Father of woman killed in Peru says Joran van der Sloot's arrest in her death no 'coincidence'
June 03, 2010

LIMA, Peru --Natalee Holloway's family was outraged by how Aruban authorities handled the case of her disappearance, and now the family of another young woman wants justice.

"This isn't a coincidence, this murder," Stephany Flores' anguished father, Lima entertainment impresario Ricardo Flores, told reporters after Joran van der Sloot's arrest.

Van der Sloot was arrested in the killing of Stephany Flores the same day he was charged in Alabama with trying to extort $250,000 in return for giving the location of Holloway's body and describing the circumstances of Holloway's death. Federal prosecutors did not say who was allegedly extorted but filed a sworn statement saying that van der Sloot got a partial payment of $15,000 wired to a Netherlands bank.

Flores' neck was broken Sunday in a hotel room registered to van der Sloot, who police believe met the 21-year-old University of Lima business student for the first time the previous night at a nearby casino. Her body was found by a maid late Tuesday.

Flores, a 48-year-old former race car driver and sometime politician, buried his daughter today in the upscale Jardines de la Paz cemetery accompanied by about 100 mourners. His inconsolable wife, Maria Elena Ramirez, held the slain girl's Minnie Mouse doll to her chest.

The father called on authorities to immediately bring van der Sloot to Peru to face justice.

"It's not just about my daughter," he said. "There's a matter pending in Aruba and we don't know how many more remain unpunished."

Late today, a Chilean spokesman, speaking on condition of anonymity in line with department policy, said van der Sloot would be flown to the Peruvian border Friday morning.

http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2010/06/father_of_woman_killed_in_peru.html

Natalee Holloway suspect held in Peru slay
Friday, June 4, 2010

LIMA, Peru - He was the last person to see two young women alive - one in Aruba, one in Peru exactly five years later, cops said. And Natalie Holloway disappearance suspect Joran van der Sloot was arrested in Chile for a Peruvian woman’s death the same day he was charged in Alabama with a Holloway-related extortion bid.

The Dutchman was caught in a taxi in Chile yesterday, and was being questioned in the death of Stephany Flores, 21, a university student whose neck was broken Sunday in a Lima, Peru, hotel room registered to van der Sloot, who cops said met Flores the previous night at a nearby casino where he was in a poker tournament.

A fixture on true-crime TV, van der Sloot, 22, did not acknowledge photographers shouting his name as Chilean cops escorted him into a Santiago office.

This isn’t a coincidence, this murder,” Peruvian victim Stephany Flores’ anguished father, Lima entertainment impresario Ricardo Flores, told reporters.

Van der Sloot was arrested the same day he was charged in Alabama with trying to extort $250,000 in return for giving the location of Holloway’s body. Federal prosecutors did not say who the target was, but said van der Sloot got a partial payment of $15,000 wired to a Dutch bank.

Stephany Flores was fully clothed and there were no signs she had been sexually abused, Peruvian national police chief Gen. Cesar Guardia said. “The room was a complete mess,” he said. He added no murder weapon was found, indicating the killer may have used his bare hands.

Van der Sloot remains the prime suspect in the case of Holloway, 18, who was celebrating her high school graduation on Aruba when she disappeared May 30, 2005. He told cops he left her on a beach, drunk. He was arrested twice and released for insufficient evidence.

A spokeswoman for Holloway’s mother, Beth, issued a statement saying she “extends her deepest sympathy” to the Flores family “and prays for swift and sure justice.”

http://news.bostonherald.com/news/international/americas/view.bg?articleid=1259114&srvc=news&position=recent

Statement from Beth Holloway's spokeswoman after the arrest of Joran van der Sloot
The Birmingham News
June 03, 2010, 5:22PM

This is an e-mail statement released by Beth Holloway's spokeswoman at 5:15 today.

Regarding the recent news from Peru, Beth Holloway extends her deepest sympathy to the family of Stephany Flores Ramirez and prays for swift and sure justice. She is also very grateful for the outpouring of prayers and support for Natalee and her family.

Sunny Tillman
Spokesperson for Beth Holloway

http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2010/06/statement_from_beth_holloways.html

June 4, 2010 11:46 AM
Anita van der Sloot: Suspected Killer's Mom Shocked by New Allegations in Stephany Flores Murder

NEW YORK (CBS) Anita van der Sloot is "shocked" by the latest allegations against her son, Joran van der Sloot, in connection with yet another young woman's death, according to the family's lawyer Bert de Rooij.

PICTURES: Stephany Flores

De Rooij says that Anita van der Sloot spoke to her son via telephone Thursday but would not give details about the conversation except to say that Joran "certainly did not" confess to killing 21-year-old Stephany Flores, according to the Dutch News.

The young woman's body was found in a Lima hotel room in a pool of blood. The room was registered to Joran van der Sloot, according to Peruvian newspaper El Comercio.

"I am advising him to find a lawyer who knows something about laws affecting foreigners in South American," de Rooij told Dutch radio station Radio I.

Joran van der Sloot was detained in a taxi Thursday in Chile after crossing the border from Peru, where authorities say the 22-year-old man is the prime suspect in Flores' murder.

Police believe van der Sloot met the University of Lima business student the night before her death at a local casino. Her body was found by a hotel maid late Tuesday, her neck snapped, according to Peruvian police.

PICTURES: Natalee Holloway: Paradise Lost

The same day he was arrested in Chile, Van der Sloot was also charged in Alabama with trying to extort $250,000 in connection with the disappearance of  Natalee Holloway.

The 17-year-old American student vanished in 2005 during an Aruba vacation. Van der Sloot has long been the primary suspect, but Aruban prosecutors felt they didn't have the goods to charge him.

In the Alabama charges, van der Sloot is accused of trying to sell information about the location of Holloway's body and the circumstances of her death. Federal prosecutors say van der Sloot already took $15,000 on the deal, but did not name a victim.

Authorities plan to fly van der Sloot, who is currently in Chilean custody, back to the Peruvian border Friday morning, according to a Chilean police spokesman who spoke on condition that he not be named in line with department policy.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20006804-504083.html

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CBS NEWS
Maggie Rodriguez talks to the family of Natalee Holloway about the arrest of Joran Van der Sloot.

Video:
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6547777n&tag=related;photovideo

June 4, 2010 | 1:14 PM ET
BREAKING NEWS ! FBI VIDEO TAPED IT ALL!
Greta Van Susteren | Anchor

FBI VIDEO TAPED JORAN VAN DER SLOOT EXTORTING THE MONEY from a representative of Beth Holloway.

THE TAPING OCCURRED ON MAY 10 IN ARUBA AND ARUBAN AUTHORITIES WORKED WITH THE FBI TO DO THIS.

THIS WAS A JOINT OPERATION [FBI AND ARUBA] CAREFULLY PLANNED AND EXECUTED.
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NOTE: What we don't know is WHY van der Sloot was not arrested on May 10.  The criminal complaint released yesterday by the US Attorney in Alabama identifies May 10 as the crime date.  They had enough evidence on May 10 to make the arrest - they had the crime on tape. From a prosecutor's viewpoint, it doesn't get any better than catching the crime on tape.

(Note also that Holloway family lawyer John Q. Kelly was seen in Aruba at least twice in May.

More information to come...
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UPDATE 1:50pm....just learned that Joran van der Sloot left Aruba on the afternoon of May 13 and flew to Peru via Columbia.  Note that he had to go through customs and immigration......that would be a good place to arrest someone ...

http://gretawire.blogs.foxnews.com/breaking-news-fbi-video-taped-it-all/

Murder suspect expected in Peru after expulsion from Chile
By the CNN Wire Staff
June 4, 2010 2:31 p.m. EDT

Santiago, Chile (CNN) -- Peruvian officials awaited the return from Chile on Friday of Joran van der Sloot, the suspect in the slaying of a 21-year-old Peruvian woman this week.

Van der Sloot was captured in Chile on Thursday and placed aboard a military aircraft in the custody of officers Friday morning. He was being flown to the border with Peru to be expelled, said Macarena Lopez, a spokeswoman for Interpol.

The Dutch citizen was previously a suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway, who was on a high school graduation trip to the Caribbean island of Aruba. Van der Sloot was arrested twice in connection with the case but released both times. He denied any involvement and has not been charged.

He is the main suspect in this week's slaying of 21-year-old Stephany Flores Ramirez, who was found Wednesday in a Lima, Peru, hotel room registered to van der Sloot. Chilean police told CNN that paperwork showed that van der Sloot entered Chile on Wednesday.

The victim's family said Friday they had mixed emotions about van der Sloot's capture and return to face charges in Peru.

"I cannot say that I was happy," brother Enrique Flores told CNN's Rafael Romo. "I feel a little relief in this pain that I have and that my family has. This pain that won't go away ... We want this action not to happen again."

Stephany's sister-in-law Carolina Jorge was more outspoken.

"We need justice for our family, for Natalee's family," she said.

Stephany's father, Ricardo, was more wistful and philosophical.

"My daughter had everything in life," the businessman and race car driver said. "Perhaps my error was to show her the pretty side of the world. I didn't show her that there was the other side to the world -- the evilness."

The family said they thought Stephany had been abducted, until authorities found her body. Her burial was Thursday.

Van der Sloot's former attorney, Joseph Tacopina, told CNN it was too early to reach any conclusions.

"I just think we need to take a step back before we get to the 'I told you so' stage, and let's see what the evidence is here," Tacopina said Thursday.

Tacopina said he is not representing van der Sloot and no longer has a good relationship with the family.

Van der Sloot also faces an arrest warrant on charges of extortion and wire fraud in Alabama, U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance said Thursday. The charges are unrelated to the killing of the Peruvian woman and deal with an attempt to sell details about Holloway for $250,000, Vance said.

Van der Sloot, 23, was traveling alone in a taxi near the Chilean central coastal city of Vina del Mar when he was detained, said Douglas Rodriguez, spokesman for the Chilean Investigative Police.

Van der Sloot was transported Thursday afternoon to police headquarters in Santiago, Chile's capital.

TV images showed him emerging from a black police SUV at the police station. His hair, which had been dark in previous images, was red and worn in a close-cropped crew cut.

The woman's bludgeoned body was found in Room 309 of the Hotel Tac in the Miraflores section of Lima, police said. She suffered blunt trauma to the head, breaking her neck, and to her torso and back, Peruvian police said Thursday.

Van der Sloot had been staying at the hotel since arriving from Colombia on May 14, police said. Room 309 was booked in his name, authorities said.

A hotel guest and an employee witnessed the pair entering the hotel room together at 5 a.m. Sunday, Guardia said. Police have video of van der Sloot and Flores together the previous night at the Atlantic City Casino in Lima, he said.

Two Peruvian cab drivers said in an interview on CNN affiliate America TV that they drove a man matching van der Sloot's description to a city on the other side of the Chilean border.

"He paid me and I took him to Arica, to the border," cab driver Oswaldo Aparcana said.

The man sat in the front seat and smoked many cigarettes, Aparcana said. The passenger told the cabbies he used to live in Aruba, said the other driver, Carlos Alberto Uribe.

Holloway, the Alabama teenager, disappeared May 30, 2005, five years to the day since the hotel videotape that officials say showed van der Sloot and Flores going into his hotel room. Both women are reported to have met van der Sloot at a night spot.

Ricardo Flores said police found his daughter's car about 50 blocks from the hotel. Inside the car, he said, authorities found pills like those used in date rapes.

Ricardo Flores said he did not believe his daughter knew the Dutch citizen beforehand.

Both of them speak English and they struck up conversation at the casino, he said.

Interpol had alerted its office in Chile and other bordering countries of the case and placed them on alert in case van der Sloot tried to leave that country, Peruvian Interpol Interim Director Gerson Ortiz told CNN.

Van der Sloot was arrested in Aruba in 2005 along with two other men, brothers Deepak and Satish Kalpoe, in connection with Holloway's disappearance. They were later released.

In 2007, they were arrested a second time after Aruba's then-chief prosecutor, Hans Mos, said he had received new evidence in the case.

Van der Sloot, who was attending college in the Netherlands, was brought back to Aruba. But judges ruled the new evidence -- which included an Internet chat the same day Holloway disappeared in which one of the three youths said she was dead -- was not enough to keep them jailed.

In 2008, prosecutors sought unsuccessfully to arrest van der Sloot a third time after a videotape surfaced on Dutch television. In it, van der Sloot tells a man he considered to be his friend that he had sex with Holloway on the beach after leaving the nightclub, then she "started shaking" and lost consciousness. He said he panicked when he could not resuscitate her and called a friend who had a boat. The two put Holloway's body in the boat, he said, and then he went home. The friend told him the next day that he had carried the body out and dumped it in the ocean.

But an Aruba court ruled there was not enough evidence to re-arrest him. Aruban prosecutors said authorities had met with van der Sloot in the Netherlands, but in a two-hour interview he denied any role in Holloway's disappearance.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/06/04/peru.murder.case/index.html?hpt=Sbin

Joran van der Sloot denies murder
Published on 4 June 2010 - 9:05pm

Joran van der Sloot has denied murdering Peruvian woman Stephany Flores according to the head of the Chilean investigation police, Fernando Ovalle. The 22-year-old, who is also the prime suspect in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway in 2005 in Aruba, has only admitted knowing the woman, reports Peruvian media.

Joran van der Sloot was seen with Ms Flores, the daughter of a well-known business man and racing driver Ricardo Flores, at a casino at the weekend, she was later found dead in a Lima hotel room. Van der Sloot was arrested in Chile on Thursday after a massive police operation.

On Friday morning, Joran gave a statement in Spanish, which police say he speaks fluently. He claims he can only remember going to the casino with Ms Flores and being arrested, says the police chief.

© Radio Netherlands Worldwide

http://www.rnw.nl/english/bulletin/joran-van-der-sloot-denies-murder

Joran van der Sloot arrested heading for Santiago
Friday 04 June 2010

Dutchman Joran van der Sloot, wanted in connection with the murder of a young Peruvian woman earlier this week, has been picked up by police while heading to Santiago in a taxi.

Van der Sloot will be held by the Chilean authorities until Peru issues an international warrant for him, which could take three to five days. Until then, the 22-year-old is technically only under a form of house arrest.

Van der Sloot faces a 25 year jail term if convicted of the murder of Stephany Flores who was found dead in a hotel room in Lima. He reportedly fled, paying two brothers to take him over the border to Chile.

Van der Sloot, who is still a suspect in the disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway, was in Peru for a poker tournament.

Flores was killed almost exactly five years after Hollaway disappeared on the holiday island of Aruba where Van der Sloot, who was 17 at the time, lived.

Extradition

International criminal law expert Geert-Jans Knoops told the Telegraaf on Thursday Van der Sloot would not get any special legal protection as a Dutch national in Peru. Nor is it likely the Netherlands will ask for him to be extradited to the Netherlands.

In addition, Van der Sloot would have to serve any jail term in Peru because there is no prisoner exchange treaty between the two countries, he said.

© DutchNews.nl

http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2010/06/joran_van_der_sloot_arrested_h.php

Van der Sloot on his way back to Peru
Friday 04 June 2010

Joran van der Sloot, wanted in connection with the murder of a Peruvian woman in a hotel in Lima earlier this week, is on his way back to Peru.

Van der Sloot was picked up by Chilean police on Thursday night, heading for Santiago in a taxi.

According to Radio 1's correspondent in the region, Van der Sloot is being expelled from Chile as an undesirable foreigner.

Waiting for an international arrest warrant and the ensuing bureaucracy means it could take months before Van der Sloot faces charges, the correspondent said.

Instead he will be escorted to the border by Chilean police and handed over to the Peruvian authorities, the correspondent said.

Mother

Van der Sloot's mother is 'shocked' by the latest developments surrounding her son, the family's lawyer Bert de Rooij told Radio I news.

Anita van der Sloot spoke to her son by telephone on Thursday evening, the lawyer said, but declined to go into details about the conversation.

He did say that Joran van der Sloot had 'certainly not' admitted murdering 21-year-old Stephany Flores.

De Rooj said he was still trying to reach Van der Sloot by email. 'I am advising him to find a lawyer who knows something about laws affecting foreigners in South American.'

Extortion

Van der Sloot is also facing unrelated charges of extortion and wire fraud in Alabama, US attorney Joyce Vance said Thursday.

The Dutchman is alleged to have tried to extort $250,000 from the mother of Natalee Holloway, the US teenager who disappeared on the holiday island of Aruba five years ago. She was last seen in the company of Van der Sloot, who was 17 at the time.

Van der Sloot allegedly asked for money in return for the location of the remains of Holloway and the circumstances surrounding her death.

He has twice made statements about how Holloway died but her body has never been found.

© DutchNews.nl

http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2010/06/van_der_sloots_mother_shocked.php

NANCY GRACE
Joran Van Der Sloot Taken Into Custody in Chile
Aired June 3, 2010 - 20:00:00   ET

NANCY GRACE, HOST: Enrique, did you go identify your sister`s body?

ENRIQUE FLORES, BROTHER OF STEPHANY FLORES RAMIREZ,: My brother. My brother is the only one that saw her because we decided that one of us first is going to see her and think how -- to see how -- how was she. But he told us that she didn`t even have an eye. She was -- she was unrecognizable. All the body (INAUDIBLE) he said, his neck -- her neck. It was awful.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1006/03/ng.01.html

Department of Justice Press Release
 
For Immediate Release
June 3, 2010 United States Attorney's Office
Northern District of Alabama
Contact: (205) 244-2001
 
Joran van der Sloot Charged with Fraud and Extortion in Birmingham

BIRMINGHAM—Federal prosecutors in Birmingham have filed a criminal complaint against JORAN VAN DER SLOOT, a citizen of the Netherlands, on wire fraud and extortion charges in connection with his soliciting money in May on promises he would reveal the location of Natalee Holloway’s remains in Aruba and circumstances of her death, U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and FBI Special Agent in Charge Patrick Maley announced today.

“We are committed to protecting citizens from unscrupulous individuals who attempt to financially exploit a person’s deepest fears and greatest loss,” Vance said.

The wire fraud and extortion charges are unrelated to the ongoing murder investigation in Peru, in which van der Sloot is an alleged person of interest.

Vance said her office filed the two-count criminal complaint today in U.S. District Court in Birmingham.

The complaint charges that van der Sloot, on May 10, extorted $15,000 from an individual as partial payment toward his promise to reveal the location of Natalee Holloway’s remains for $250,000. The maximum sentence on the extortion count is 20 years in prison.

The complaint also charges van der Sloot with wire fraud for causing the $15,000 to be transferred by wire from a Birmingham bank to a bank in the Netherlands in furtherance of his scheme to defraud. The maximum sentence for the wire fraud count is 30 years.

Vance thanked Aruban authorities for the assistance they provided in this investigation.
 
Members of the public are reminded that the criminal complaint contains only charges. A defendant is presumed not guilty.

Press Releases | Birmingham Home

http://birmingham.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/bh_060310.htm

 
 

Dutch murder suspect van der Sloot in Peru
© 2010 The Associated Press
June 4, 2010, 4:07PM

TACNA, Peru — Chilean police have turned over Dutch murder suspect Joran van der Sloot to Peruvian authorities at the countries' border.

Authorities say he has declared himself innocent of Sunday's murder of a 21-year-old student in a Lima hotel but acknowledged meeting the girl in a casino in the Peruvian capital.

Van der Sloot also remains the prime suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Alabama teen Natalie Holloway on the Caribbean island of Aruba.

The Peruvians put a bulletproof vest on the 22-year-old van der Sloot after he was driven into Peruvian territory in a Chilean police van. He was then taken to a police post for medical tests.

Van der Sloot was arrested Thursday between Santiago and Chile's Pacific coast. Police say he traveled to Peru on Monday.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/top/all/7037066.html

Murder suspect arrives in Peru after expulsion from ChileBy the CNN Wire Staff
June 4, 2010 5:17 p.m. EDT

Santa Rosa, Peru (CNN) -- Dozens of jeering, angry Peruvians met murder suspect Joran van der Sloot Friday as Chilean authorities handed him over to their counterparts in Peru in the border town of Santa Rosa.

Van der Sloot, previously a suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway, is the main suspect in this week's slaying of a 21-year-old Peruvian woman found Wednesday in a Lima hotel room registered to him. Chilean police told CNN that paperwork showed that van der Sloot entered Chile that same day.

The Dutch citizen was captured in Chile on Thursday and placed aboard a military aircraft in the custody of officers Friday morning. He was flown to the border to be expelled, said Macarena Lopez, a spokeswoman for Interpol.

The Chileans drove Van der Sloot across the border to a Peruvian police station, where dozens of people awaited his arrival. Police set up a perimeter to keep the crowd away from the suspect as he walked about 100 feet from the car to the station, but the protesters were angry and pushed forward.

Police kept them away from van der Sloot but could not stop the loud and steady rain of obscenities they shouted. He was taken inside the station for processing. From there, he is to be taken to the nearby town of Tanca and then flown to Lima.

Holloway was on a high school graduation trip to the Caribbean island of Aruba in 2005 when she disappeared. Van der Sloot was arrested twice in connection with the case but released both times. He denied any involvement and has not been charged.

The family of Stephany Flores Ramirez, the woman found dead in van der Sloot's hotel room, said Friday they had mixed emotions about the suspect's capture and return to face charges in Peru.

"I cannot say that I was happy," brother Enrique Flores told CNN's Rafael Romo. "I feel a little relief in this pain that I have and that my family has. This pain that won't go away ... We want this action not to happen again."

Stephany's sister-in-law Carolina Jorge was more outspoken.

"We need justice for our family, for Natalee's family," she said.

Stephany's father, Ricardo, was more wistful and philosophical.

"My daughter had everything in life," the businessman and race car driver said. "Perhaps my error was to show her the pretty side of the world. I didn't show her that there was the other side to the world -- the evilness."

The family said they thought Stephany had been abducted until authorities found her body. Her burial was Thursday.

Van der Sloot's former attorney, Joseph Tacopina, told CNN it was too early to reach any conclusions.

"I just think we need to take a step back before we get to the 'I told you so' stage, and let's see what the evidence is here," Tacopina said Thursday.

Tacopina said he is not representing van der Sloot and no longer has a good relationship with the family.

Van der Sloot also faces an arrest warrant on charges of extortion and wire fraud in Alabama, U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance said Thursday. The charges are unrelated to the killing of the Peruvian woman and deal with an attempt to sell details about Holloway for $250,000, Vance said.

Van der Sloot, 23, was traveling alone in a taxi near the Chilean central coastal city of Vina del Mar Thursday when he was detained, said Douglas Rodriguez, spokesman for the Chilean Investigative Police.

TV images showed him emerging from a black police SUV at the police station. His hair, which had been dark in previous images, was red and worn in a close-cropped crew cut.

There is "incriminating evidence" linking van der Sloot to the killing of Flores, said Peruvian criminal investigator Cesar Guardia Vasquez.

The woman's bludgeoned body was found in Room 309 of the Hotel Tac in the Miraflores section of Lima, police said. She suffered blunt trauma to the head, breaking her neck, and to her torso and back, Peruvian police said Thursday.

Van der Sloot had been staying at the hotel since arriving from Colombia on May 14, police said. Room 309 was booked in his name, authorities said.

A hotel guest and an employee witnessed the pair entering the hotel room together at 5 a.m. Sunday, Guardia said. Police have video of van der Sloot and Flores together the previous night at the Atlantic City Casino in Lima, he said.

Two Peruvian cab drivers said in an interview on CNN affiliate America TV that they drove a man matching van der Sloot's description to a city on the other side of the Chilean border.

"He paid me and I took him to Arica, to the border," cab driver Oswaldo Aparcana said.

The man sat in the front seat and smoked many cigarettes, Aparcana said. The passenger told the cabbies he used to live in Aruba, said the other driver, Carlos Alberto Uribe.

Holloway, the Alabama teenager, disappeared May 30, 2005, five years to the day since the hotel videotape that officials say showed van der Sloot and Flores going into his hotel room. Both women are reported to have met van der Sloot at a night spot.

Ricardo Flores said police found his daughter's car about 50 blocks from the hotel. Inside the car, he said, authorities found pills like those used in date rapes.

Ricardo Flores said he did not believe his daughter knew the Dutch citizen beforehand.

Both of them speak English and they struck up conversation at the casino, he said.

Interpol had alerted its office in Chile and other bordering countries of the case and placed them on alert in case van der Sloot tried to leave that country, Peruvian Interpol Interim Director Gerson Ortiz told CNN.

Van der Sloot was arrested in Aruba in 2005 along with two other men, brothers Deepak and Satish Kalpoe, in connection with Holloway's disappearance. They were later released.

In 2007, they were arrested a second time after Aruba's then-chief prosecutor, Hans Mos, said he had received new evidence in the case.

Van der Sloot, who was attending college in the Netherlands, was brought back to Aruba. But judges ruled the new evidence -- which included an Internet chat the same day Holloway disappeared in which one of the three youths said she was dead -- was not enough to keep them jailed.

In 2008, prosecutors sought unsuccessfully to arrest van der Sloot a third time after a videotape surfaced on Dutch television. In it, van der Sloot tells a man he considered to be his friend that he had sex with Holloway on the beach after leaving the nightclub, then she "started shaking" and lost consciousness. He said he panicked when he could not resuscitate her and called a friend who had a boat. The two put Holloway's body in the boat, he said, and then he went home. The friend told him the next day that he had carried the body out and dumped it in the ocean.

But an Aruba court ruled there was not enough evidence to re-arrest him. Aruban prosecutors said authorities had met with van der Sloot in the Netherlands, but in a two-hour interview he denied any role in Holloway's disappearance.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/06/04/peru.murder.case/index.html

Jug Twitty: More aggressive Aruban probe of Joran van der Sloot might have kept Peruvian woman safe
By Hannah Wolfson -- The Birmingham News
June 04, 2010, 4:20PM

The death of a young Peruvian woman could have been prevented if Aruban authorities had made a stronger case against Joran van der Sloot in Natalee Holloway's disappearance, Holloway's stepfather, Jug Twitty, said today.

He made his comments as van der Sloot was being delivered to Peruvian police for questioning in Stephany Flores' death five years to the day after Holloway went missing in Aruba. Flores, 21, was found dead in van der Sloot's hotel room Tuesday.

"He's a monster, he's a sick individual," Twitty said. "He should have been taken off the streets a long time ago."

Twitty said he and Holloway's mother, Beth Twitty, hoped van der Sloot might reveal new information while under questioning in Peru. He was flown from Chile and was to be handed over to Peruvian police this afternoon.

Van der Sloot has also been charged with extortion in Alabama in connection with the Holloway case. Twitty said he wasn't directly involved in that case and he could not comment on Beth Twitty's role in it.

Aruban authorities said they were helping Birmingham investigators on the extortion case. Police in the Netherlands raided two homes hunting for evidence linked to the extortion charges. They seized computers, cell phones and data-storage devices in the raid, said national prosecutor's office spokesman Wim de Bruin.

http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2010/06/jug_twitty_more_aggressive_aru.html

Cops: Murder suspect Joran van der Sloot killed girl w/baseball bat

Bombshell! Cops just confirm the murder weapon was found in Joran van der Sloot’s hotel room – a baseball bat. Natalee Holloway suspect thrown out of Chile after fleeing there to avoid capture after 21-yr-old Stephany Flores Ramirez was found dead in his hotel room! Authorities escorted van der Sloot, wearing a bullet proof vest, back to Peru where he will face new murder charges. And more – according to a criminal complaint, van der Sloot attempted to sell details about Holloway’s disappearance & the location of her body to an unidentified person for $250K. Will Joran van der Sloot escape justice for a second time?

http://nancygrace.blogs.cnn.com/2010/06/02/suspected-in-murder/


Diario … “THEY WENT INTO PANIC WHEN NATALEE REMAINED PASSED OUT”
Posted December 6, 2006 by Scared Monkeys

Comments

66.  viet vet on December 6th, 2006 8:11 pm

Speaking of off the record comments, we were told were to find Joran at the International School on a Friday , June 2 or 3, have it in my notes. Was also told Joran hit Natalee with an aluminum baseball bat…in the head. The same man told me both stories and guess what, Joran was at the International School that day, hiding. He was sleeping over there rather than home,,, scared he was. The fine Aruba Police followed us to the school that day or maybe we would already have solved this case. Yeah Karin, a bounch of cowboys…

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http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/06/04/1663716/dutch-man-sent-to-peru-to-face.html

Dutch murder suspect back in Peru to face charges

By FRANK BAJAK and FRANKLIN BRICENO
Associated Press Writers

LIMA, Peru -- A Dutch suspect in the 2005 disappearance of an Alabama teenager in Aruba and the recent murder of a 21-year-old woman in a Lima hotel was en route to Peru's capital, where a preliminary warrant for his arrest was issued.

Wearing a bulletproof vest, Joran van der Sloot was taken away by Peruvian police Friday after being deported from neighboring Chile, where he was arrested the day before in a taxi headed from Santiago toward the Vina del Mar resort.

Peru's chief Cabinet minister, Javier Velasquez, told Radioprogramas radio that van der Sloot would arrive in the capital, Lima, on Saturday morning.

Van der Sloot told police in Chile that he did not kill Stephany Flores, who was found dead in his hotel room with her neck broken earlier this week. Chilean police spokesman Ricardo Flores said van der Sloot acknowledged, however, that "he met her and at some point they went to a casino."

The girl's father, Ricardo Flores, told The Associated Press that video cameras tracked the couple as they walked before dawn Sunday to van der Sloot's hotel from the casino in Lima's upscale Miraflores district where they met playing poker.

Flores said he doesn't want the death penalty for van der Sloot, only justice. In Peru, murder carries a prison sentence of up to 35 years.

"I haven't slept since Monday," Flores, his eyelids heavy and speech slurred, said in an interview at his Lima home. "I'm waiting for him to step foot on Peruvian soil." Then, he said, he'd take a sleeping pill or simply collapse from exhaustion.

Flores, a circus promoter and former race car driver, spoke as the 22-year-old Dutchman was being flown handcuffed to the border with Peru.

Van der Sloot remains the prime suspect in the May, 30, 2005 disappearance - five years to the day of Flores' murder - of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway on the Dutch island of Aruba.

The longtime fixture of TV true-crime shows also now faces criminal charges in the United States of trying to extort $250,000 from Holloway's family in exchange for disclosing the location of Holloway's body and describing how she died. U.S. prosecutors charged van der Sloot with the crime on Thursday, saying $15,000 had been transferred to a Dutch bank account in his name. In the Netherlands on Friday, prosecutors acting on a U.S. request raided two homes seeking evidence in the case, seizing computers, cell phones and data-storage devices.

The body of Stephany Flores, a business student with a sunny disposition, was found late Tuesday in the Lima hotel room where van der Sloot had been staying since arriving in Peru on May 14 from Colombia.

She was fully clothed, with multiple bruises and scratches on her body but no signs she had been sexually assaulted, the chief of Peru's criminal police, Gen. Cesar Guardia, told the AP.

A tennis racket was found in the room "that could have been the murder weapon but that's so far not been proven," said Dr. Cesar Tejada, deputy Lima medical examiner.

"My daughter resisted," Flores told the AP in a marble-floored interior porch of his home. "There was violence, resistance to being raped - and there's where she was murdered."

Flores said police wouldn't let him see his daughter's battered body. His oldest son, 35, identified her at the morgue, and the casket was closed at her funeral.

Peruvian police say they have video of van der Sloot and Flores together in the casino and on the street and say witnesses saw the two enter the Dutchman's hotel room about 5 a.m. and van der Sloot leaving alone some four hours later.

Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/06/04/1663716/dutch-man-sent-to-peru-to-face.html#ixzz0pyeDoi6H
 Flores, 48, buried his daughter Thursday but said he expected her to be exhumed for DNA testing.

"Under the fingernails of my daughter there are traces, evidence, that's why they didn't permit her cremation," he said.

Dr. Tejada confirmed that valuable evidence could be found under the girl's fingernails.

Flores said he hopes his daughter's death will help investigators solve not just the Holloway case but others of missing girls in which van der Sloot might be responsible.

Holloway was an 18-year-old celebrating her high school graduation on Aruba when she disappeared. Van der Sloot told investigators he left her on a beach, drunk. That's the last anyone saw of her. Van der Sloot was twice arrested in her disappearance - and twice released for insufficient evidence.

Two years ago, a Dutch television crime reporter captured hidden-camera footage of van der Sloot saying that after Holloway collapsed on the beach he asked a friend to dump her body in the sea. But judges in Aruba ruled it insufficient to re-arrest him. The same journalist, Peter de Vries, reported later in 2008 that van der Sloot was recruiting Thai women in Bangkok for sex work in the Netherlands.

A person answering the phone Friday at the home of the girl's mother, Beth Holloway of Mountain Brook, Alabama, said she was not there and hung up. The girl's uncle, Paul Reynolds, told NBC's "Today" show that the family hopes to see van der Sloot behind bars and the Aruba case reopened. He called the alleged extortion attempt "despicable."

A New York lawyer for van der Sloot, Joseph Tacopina, had no immediate comment on his client's predicament. He said he was not yet able to say whether a Peruvian lawyer had been obtained for the young man.

Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/06/04/1663716_p2/dutch-man-sent-to-peru-to-face.html#ixzz0pyeNQjJe

Van der Sloot's Arrogance may have done him In

http://tinyurl.com/24k72lx

News Type: Event — Sat Jun 5, 2010 10:07 AM EDT

By Clint Van Zandt

Joran van der Sloot, the 22-year-old so-called "Dutch Man" currently held by Peruvian authorities for the brutal murder of Stephany Flores-Ramirez, has been captured 2,500 miles away from Flores-Ramirez's murder scene, a cheap hotel in downtown Lima, Peru. Investigators believe that the two met during a poker tournament in which Flores-Ramirez was a big winner. Van der Sloot watched her play and soon approached her and asked her to go to his room with him to celebrate her winnings. They left the casino allegedly in Flores-Ramirez's car, one that was later found some 50 blocks from Van der Sloot'shotel. The car had evidence of date rape drugs.

Witnesses and surveillance cameras place the two in the hotel, where other witnesses state they heard the two argue inside of Van der Sloot's hotel room. After a few hours Van der Sloot left the hotel room, placing a no admittance sign on the hotel room door and told hotel officials that he did not want anyone entering his room, to include maids. He evidently had a good reason for this request, for inside of the room lay the broken, bloodied and dead body of Flores-Ramirez. She had been beaten with a baseball bat (found by police inside of the room) her neck was broken, she had allegedly been stabbed, and at least one relative stated that one of her eyes was out of it's socket. Her body was not found for almost three days, and by that time even those who knew the victim found it hard to recognize the remains of the onetime attractive young woman.

Media reports suggest that the victim's significant cash winnings were also missing, indicating the likelihood that her killer also stole her money prior to departing the murder scene. Van der Sloot's whereabouts were unknown until he entered Chile, this on the same day the victim's body was found. Then the hunt for her killer was officially on.

Van der Sloot had made his way south along the western coast of South America and was finally located traveling alone in a cab, one he had paid the drivers almost $800 for a ride. He had cut his dark hair in a short crew cut and dyed what was left red, something like Scott Peterson did in 2002 after killing his pregnant wife Laci as he prepared to flee the U.S. Van der Sloot has been turned over by Chilean authorities to Peruvian police who have chosen to drive the 18 hours back to Lima instead of a quick airplane ride. This will, of course, give authorities plenty of time to talk to Van der Sloot, to build their case against him, and to tell him in graphic terms of the conditions what he will face in a Peruvian prison. They may even have the time to work out some kind of deal with him, a slightly limited sentence if he also confesses to the believed murder of Natalee Holloway in Aruba some five years below. But have no doubt, their first job is to lock him into the murder of Flores-Ramirez and that they will surely do.

Trying to Extort the Holloways

Independent of the murder of Flores-Ramirez, so we're told, is a separate indictment has been returned this week by the FBI and the US Attorney in Birmingham, Alabama, Holloway's home. In that case we're told that in April and May of this year Van der Sloot allegedly made contact with Natalee's mother or another relative, demanding a payment of $250,000 to provide the family with information concerning Natalee's death and the whereabouts of her remains. (This is something like a Chinese firing squad charging a victim's family for the bullets used to kill their loved one...) Anyway, between the Holloways and the FBI, an agreement was struck with Van der Sloot and a down payment of $15,000 was wired to a Holland bank account, one that Van der Sloot had access to. It is sadly ironic that maybe, just maybe this $15,000 may have been used by Van der Slootto finance his trip to Peru, thus enabling his contact with Flores-Ramirez. Did one woman need die to get this suspected killer off the street - Flores-Ramirez's family sadly believe this to be the case.

Unlike the case of the missing and presumed dead American teenager some five years to the day of the murder of Flores-Ramirez, there is a body, a crime scene, a murder weapon, and a lot of forensic evidence that will likely link the victim's murder to her killer, currently assumed to be Van der Sloot. If convicted, this smug, narcissistic, sociopathic killer will not be afforded any of the considerations he was given in Aruba. His arrogance and his lack of anger management skills have all contributed to his now facing charges of murdering the daughter of an extremely well known, and well wired political and public figure in Peru. The whole country will be watching and, perhaps like O.J. Simpson before him, he will be tried for one crime in criminal court but he will be convicted for multiple crimes in the more important court of public opinion. The man who said he never lost a night's sleep over Holloway's disappearance and assumed death may now find reason to consider everything he's done over the past five years.

How does someone do these things?

Many know that teenagers can show the characteristics of the sociopath, psychopath or antisocial personality, traits that allow someone to ignore the pain and needs of others while their only concerns in life center around meeting their own needs, and keeping themselves stimulated while they live on the edge of life and society. We know that Van der Sloot was raised in a privileged home where he was treated as more than special. While it was illegal to gamble in a casino in Aruba if you were younger than 18, the FBI determined that his parents had set him up with a $50,000 line of credit when he was but 17, the age that he met Natalee Holloway in a local casino. Nature and nurture form the personality of an individual, and in Van der Sloot's case, all appear to have formed the monster many now believe him to be.

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Show Name: LIVE FROM ARUBA; EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH DAVE HOLLWAY

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The Dana Pretzer Show On Scared Monkeys Radio – Sunday, June 6th, 2010 – Special Guests: Joel Brodsky, Jossy Mansur, Blink from Blink on Crime, Clint Van Zandt, RED from Scared Monkeys & Robin Sax

June 6th, 2010

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BREAKING NEWS - JORAN ARRESTED IN CHILE
Posted June 3, 2010 by Klaasend

http://scaredmonkeys.com/2010/06/03/breaking-news-joran-arrested-in-chili/


VAN DER SLOOT CHARGED IN HOLLOWAY CASE, MURDER IN CHILE
Posted June 3, 2010 by Klaasend

http://scaredmonkeys.com/2010/06/03/van-der-sloot-charged-in-holloway-case-murder-in-chile/


Joran Van der Sloot Charged in Alabama with Extortion in the Case of Natalee Holloway
Posted June 4, 2010 by Scared Monkeys

http://scaredmonkeys.com/2010/06/04/joran-van-der-sloot-charged-in-alabama-with-extortion-in-the-case-of-natalee-holloway/


Joran van der Sloot - in Handcuffs
Posted June 4, 2010 by Klaasend

http://scaredmonkeys.com/2010/06/04/joran-van-der-sloot-in-handcuffs/


Daily Commentary – Friday, June 4th, 2010 – Joran Van der Sloot Accused of Another Murder
Posted June 4, 2010 by Klaasend

http://scaredmonkeys.com/2010/06/04/daily-commentary-%e2%80%93-friday-june-4th-2010-%e2%80%93-joran-van-der-sloot-accused-of-another-murder/


Two Mothers Grieve - Five Years Apart
Posted June 5, 2010 by Klaasend

http://scaredmonkeys.com/2010/06/05/two-mothers-grieve-five-years-apart/


Baseball Bat Used in the Murder of Stephany Flores in Peru by Suspect Joran Van der Sloot
Posted June 5, 2010 by Scared Monkeys

http://scaredmonkeys.com/2010/06/05/baseball-bat-used-in-the-murder-of-stephany-flores-in-peru-by-suspect-joran-van-der-sloot/


Aruba Papers Cover Joran Van der Sloot Suspected Murder of Stephany Flores Ramírez
Posted June 5, 2010 by Scared Monkeys

http://scaredmonkeys.com/2010/06/05/aruba-papers-cover-joran-van-der-sloot-suspected-murder-of-stephany-flores-ramirez/


Peruvian Police Release Hotel Security VIDEO of Joran Van der Sloot & Murder Victim Stephany Flores
Posted June 5, 2010 by Scared Monkeys

http://scaredmonkeys.com/2010/06/05/peruvian-police-release-hotel-security-video-of-joran-van-der-sloot-murder-victim-stephany-flores/


At Large with Geraldo Rivera, Guests Bo Dietl and Jug Twitty Discussing Joran Van der Sloot, Stephany Flores and Natalee Holloway
Posted June 6, 2010 by Scared Monkeys

http://scaredmonkeys.com/2010/06/06/at-large-with-geraldo-rivera-guests-bo-dietl-and-jug-twitty-discussing-joran-van-der-sloot-stephany-flores-and-natalee-holloway/

The Dana Pretzer Show On Scared Monkeys Radio – Sunday, June 6th, 2010 – Special Guests: Joel Brodsky, Jossy Mansur, Blink from Blink on Crime, Clint Van Zandt, RED from Scared Monkeys & Robin Sax
Posted June 6, 2010 by Scared Monkeys

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June 5, 2010

The Cases Against Joran Van der Sloot
Greta and her legal panel dissect the extortion and murder evidence against Holloway suspect

Guests:
Mark fuhrman
bo dietl
Bernie Grimm
Jim Hammer
Ted Williams

http://video.foxnews.com/v/4227973/the-cases-against-joran-van-der-sloot

June 4, 2010 2:25 PM
Joran van der Sloot Back in Peru for Stephany Flores Murder

LIMA, Peru (CBS/AP) Murder suspect Joran van der Sloot is is back in Peru after Chilean authorities packed him up and flew him across the border to face murder charges.

PICTURES: Joran van der Sloot
PICTURES: Stephany Flores

Van der Sloot is wanted for the murder of 21-year-old Stephany Flores, whose blood soaked body was found Tuesday in a hotel room linked to van der Sloot.

The Dutchman claims he is innocent but acknowledged having met Flores at a Lima casino, said Chilean police spokesman Fernando Ovalle.

He also remains the prime suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway in Aruba. Flores was killed five years to the day after Holloway disappeared. On Thursday, prosecutors in the U.S. charged van der Sloot with extortion in connection with the Holloway case.

Wearing the same black-hooded sweat shirt and khaki pants in which he was arrested the day before, van der Sloot was handcuffed and placed aboard a police Cessna 310 in the Chilean capital, Santiago, on Friday morning. The 22-year-old did not speak to or look at reporters who called to him as he was escorted onto the plane.

Van der Sloot, who was seen on video with Flores prior to her death, fled Peru on Monday, but was captured three days later by Chilean police as he was headed in a taxi from Santiago to the Pacific coastal city of Vina del Mar. Police said he had rented a room there.

Flores was found dead late Tuesday in the Lima hotel room where van der Sloot had been staying before he left the country. She had a broken neck. She was fully clothed, with multiple bruises and scratches on her body, but there were no signs she had been sexually assaulted, according to The Associated Press.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20006846-504083.html?tag=latest

NorthernRose =Hat tip

Video of Joran van der Sloot in police custody in Peru (Part 1 of 3)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UkxOTRoZho

Video of Joran van der Sloot in police custody in Peru (Part 2 of 3)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BaGx5Q8Flk

Video of Joran van der Sloot in police custody in Peru (Part 3 of 3)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K70OZ167aUY

NANCY GRACE
Peru Says Van Der Sloot Killed Stephany With Baseball Bat
Aired June 4, 2010 - 20:00:00   ET

LINDA ALLISON, NATALEE HOLLOWAY`S AUNT
RICARDO FLORES, BROTHER OF STEPHANY FLORES
RICARDO FLORES, BROTHER OF STEPHANY FLORES

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1006/04/ng.01.html


ISSUES WITH JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL
Van Der Sloot Denies Murdering Young Woman
Aired June 4, 2010 - 19:00:00   ET

PAUL REYNOLDS, UNCLE OF NATALEE HOLLOWAY
MARIA VELAZQUEZ, STEPHANY`S AUNT
RICARDO FLORES, FATHER OF STEPHANY FLORES
T.J. WARD JR., PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR IN NATALEE HOLLOWAY CASE

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1006/04/ijvm.01.html

Van der Sloot seeks own lawyer in murder case
Peru police expected to interrogate him all week in girl's death

updated 2 hours, 18 minutes ago

LIMA, Peru - Joran van der Sloot will spend all week at criminal police headquarters being questioned in the death of a 21-year-old Lima woman and has asked to be able to hire his own lawyer, authorities said Sunday.

The Dutchman, who is also the prime suspect in U.S. teen Natalee Holloway's 2005 disappearance in Aruba, is being held in a seventh-floor cell with a bunk bed and blanket and gets three hot meals a day, said Maj. Jose Gamboa, spokesman for the Peruvian national police.

Van der Sloot is suspected in the May 30 killing — five years to the day after Holloway's disappearance — of Stephany Flores, a business student who police say he met playing poker at a casino.

Police released video Saturday taken by security cameras at the hotel where van der Sloot had been staying since arriving from Colombia on May 14. It shows the two entering van der Sloot's room together and the Dutchman leaving alone four hours later.

The woman's battered body was found on the room's floor more than two days later, her neck broken. Van der Sloot had by then crossed into Chile, where he was arrested Thursday.

In video taken of the husky 22-year-old Dutchman that was broadcast Sunday by a TV channel, Peruvian police search van der Sloot's belongings in his presence.

They pull out of his backpack a laptop, a business-card holder and 15 bills in foreign currency. Van der Sloot tells police the money includes Thai, Cambodian and Bolivian currency. He is asked for credit cards and documents and appears to say — his Spanish is very rudimentary — that they are in a hotel room back in Chile.

Peru's chief homicide investigator, Col. Miguel Canlla, would neither confirm nor deny a Sunday report in the Lima newspaper El Comercio that van der Sloot told his Peruvian questioners he was innocent of the Flores killing.

"I don't know where that information came from," Canlla told The Associated Press. "We are still in the investigative stage."

Chilean police said earlier that van der Sloot declared himself innocent in the Lima slaying but acknowledged having met Flores.

Van der Sloot was represented by a state-appointed lawyer during Saturday's questioning.

Until he hires his own counsel, "the guys prosecuting him will decide which attorney he's going to get," van der Sloot's U.S. attorney, Joseph Tacopina, told the AP.

Tacopina said the suspect's family "is trying to find competent counsel."

Dutch Embassy chief consular officer Angela Lowe said her government was providing van der Sloot with "regular consular assistance, which means an occasional consular visit, and we will make sure he is being treated decently, just like any other inmate."

She said Peruvian authorities have assured the Dutch government they are treating him well. "They are taking this case very seriously," she added. "The world is watching."

Van der Sloot is one of 117 Dutch citizens currently in Peruvian jails or prisons, most of them on drug-related charges, Lowe said.

The suspect spoke to his mother by telephone for the first time Saturday, Lowe said, adding that she did not know whether the mother plans to travel to Peru.

Van der Sloot's father, a former judge and attorney on the Dutch Caribbean island of Aruba, died in February. The suspect has two brothers.

After a a 17-hour journey up the Pan-American Highway from Chile in a police caravan Saturday, the young Dutchman was paraded, sheathed in bulletproof vest and handcuffed, before reporters at criminal police headquarters in Lima.

He was then submitted to an initial interrogation. A judge subsequently granted prosecutors' request to extend van der Sloot's preliminary detention order seven more days, said Gamboa, the national police spokesman.

If tried and convicted of murder, van der Sloot faces a potential prison term of 35 years.

He remains, meanwhile, the prime suspect in the disappearance in Aruba of Holloway, an Alabama teen who hasn't been seen since May 30, 2005. He was arrested and released in that case, and faces no charges.

Van der Sloot was charged Thursday in the United States with trying to extort $250,000 from Holloway's family in exchange for disclosing the location of her body and describing how she died.

U.S. prosecutors say $15,000 was transferred to a Dutch bank account in his name. In the Netherlands on Friday, prosecutors raided two homes in the case, seizing computers, cell phones and data-storage devices.

Peruvian President Alan Garcia told reporters Friday that van der Sloot would have to be tried in Flores' death before any extradition request could be considered.

Holloway, 18, was celebrating her high school graduation on Aruba when she disappeared. Van der Sloot told investigators he left her on a beach, drunk. That's the last anyone saw her.

Two years ago, a Dutch television crime reporter captured hidden-camera footage of van der Sloot saying that after Holloway collapsed on the beach he asked a friend to dump her body in the sea.

The same journalist, Peter de Vries, reported later in 2008 that van der Sloot was recruiting Thai women in Bangkok for sex work in the Netherlands.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37542848/ns/world_news-americas/

Aruban Authorities Speak to CBS42
Last Update: 12:50 am

Birmingham, AL (WIAT)- Jossy Mansur, editor of Diario newspaper in Aruba, spoke with CBS 42 by phone, Sunday afternoon. He said there are two planned searches on the island. He says one will be near the bird sanctuary and the other near the dam. Mansur says the two other suspects in the Holloway case, Deepak and Satish Kalpoe, are still believed to live on the island. They have kept a very low profile. He believes they should be worried Joran may try to implicate them in the disappearance of Natalee to get a better deal in Peru.

Joran van der Sloot will spend next week at police headquarters in Peru. He faces more questioning, and officials are testing a tennis racket and bloody clothes, for d-n-a linking him to the death of a young woman.

The two were caught on tape entering his hotel room, the day she was killed. As you can imagine, this is the talk of Aruba where Natalee Holloway disappeared five years ago. Joran van der Sloot is still the prime suspect in that case. 

http://www.cbs42.com/content/localnews/story/Aruban-Authorities-Speak-to-CBS42/-WvWfDxXok60JfQse3kJRg.cspx

Joran van der Sloot Hotel Footage
Last Update: 6/05 9:49 pm

Hotel security camera footage released by Peruvian police on Saturday, June 5. It shows Joran van der Sloot entering his hotel room with Stephany Flores, whom he is accused of murdering. He is later shown leaving the hotel alone carrying two bags.

van der Sloot is the prime suspect in the murder of 21-year-old Stephany Flores, whose body was found in a Lima hotel room on Wednesday. He could face at least 25 years in prison, if found guilty of murdering the daughter of a wealthy businessman.

Peruvian police said they were "convinced" van der Sloot was responsible for killing Flores, a business student.  He was stopped by police in central Chile on Thursday after traveling hundreds of miles from the border to a beach resort city near the capital, Santiago.

Chilean police said van der Sloot has denied he was involved in the murder of Flores. van der sloot, in his early 20s, travels the world to participate in poker tournaments and was in Peru for that reason, local media reported.

Police said van der Sloot and Flores met at a casino in Lima, and they may have played poker together. The murder probe has brought renewed attention to the case of Natalee Holloway. An 18-year-old American from Alabama, who disappeared during a high school graduation trip in the Dutch Caribbean island of Aruba.

Van der Sloot was arrested twice in the Holloway case, which was much publicized in here in the United States. But he was never charged, due to insufficient evidence.

Peruvian President Alan Garcia declared van der Sloot must face justice in the Andean country. Alabama authorities issued an arrest warrant for van der Sloot on extortion charges linked to Holloway's disappearance. 

Peruvian police said Flores was killed on May 30, the same date that Holloway disappeared in 2005.

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Van der Sloot Latest: Possible Evidence
Last Update: 6/06 7:16 pm

Lima, Peru) WIAT-  Loved ones of Natalee Holloway are reacting to the latest on the murder in Peru and what it means for the Holloway investigation.
 Investigators think a tennis racquet may have been used in the killing of 21 year old Stephany Flores, according to Carlos Gonzalo a spokesperson for Peru's Interior Ministry speaking to CNN. Gonzalo says investigators are testing the racquet and bloody clothes found with Joran van der Sloot for DNA. The body of Stephany Flores was found Wednesday in a Lima hotel room registered to van der Sloot.

  The Flores murder happened exactly five years after Natalee Holloway disappeared.  Van der Sloot was also arrested and released twice in connection with that case. A top Peruvian government official suspects Joran van der Sloot may be a serial killer, according to published reports.
 Back in Birmingham, a family friend of Natalee Holloway feels the timing is no coincidence.
  "I think that's beyond creepy. I mean...and again who knows what he does? He gets away with everything he's ever done best as I can tell. So perhaps he does this a lot and we just don't know. It's happened to the wrong people. Who can explain the coverage that Natalee got?" said Betsy Koepsel.  "We know how he is. We know how he answers questions. We know how his mind works and so I hope that the Peruvian officials can get what they need to get from him to get the truth from him for Stephanie, because we weren't able to get it for Natalee."

CBS 42 News has learned from sources in Aruba, there may be more searches on the island soon. The editor of Aruban newspaper El Diario tells CBS 42 that Joran van der Sloot would face a trial by judges and not a jury in Peru.
 
"We are glad people finally paying attention to this guy as a very dangerous man on the streets, if found guilty he will be put in jail for a minimum of 25 years, said Jossy Mansur, Editor of El Diario.

http://www.cbs42.com/mostpopular/story/Van-der-Sloot-Latest-Possible-Evidence/aUyCa_ADGU65Z-cavTKmQw.cspx

LIMA, Peru, June 7, 2010
Van der Sloot Was to Turn Self In, Lawyer Claims
But Suspect Was Arrested Before He Got to, CBS News Is Told; He Faces Week of Grilling in Peruvian Police Headquarters

CBS/ AP)  Joran van der Sloot intended to surrender but was arrested before he was able to, according to his Dutch lawyer.

Van der Sloot will spend all week at criminal police headquarters in Lima being questioned in the death of a 21-year-old Lima woman and has asked to be able to hire his own lawyer in Peru, authorities said Sunday.

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The Dutchman, who is also the prime suspect in Alabama teen Natalee Holloway's 2005 disappearance in Aruba, is being held in a seventh-floor cell with a bunk bed and blanket and gets three hot meals a day, said Maj. Jose Gamboa, spokesman for the Peruvian national police.

Van der Sloot is suspected in the May 30 killing - five years to the day after Holloway's disappearance - of Stephany Flores, a business student police say he met playing poker at a casino.

Van der Sloot crossed into Chile last Monday, where he was arrested three days later.

But, reports CBS News Correspondent Jeff Glor, van der Sloot's lawyer in Holland contends van der Sloot was going to surrender.

Bert de Rooij told CBS News, "Just before he got arrested he e-mailed me that he would give himself in in the police station of Santiago, Chile, just before this he was arrested."

Police released video Saturday taken by security cameras at the hotel where van der Sloot had been staying since arriving from Colombia on May 14. It shows the two entering van der Sloot's room together and the Dutchman leaving alone four hours later, carrying two bags.

The woman's battered body was found on the room's floor more than two days later. Authorities say her neck was broken.

"The only possessions of my daughter they found were her empty wallet and her cell phone," her father, circus empresario Ricardo Flores, said in TV interview Sunday night. "There wasn't a peso in her wallet."

Van der Sloot remains the prime suspect in the disappearance in Aruba of Holloway, an Alabama teen who hasn't been seen since May 30, 2005. He was twice taken into custody and released in that case, but never charged.

Van der Sloot was charged Thursday in the United States with trying to extort $250,000 from Holloway's family in exchange for disclosing the location of her body and describing how she died.

U.S. prosecutors say $15,000 was transferred to a Dutch bank account in his name. In the Netherlands on Friday, prosecutors raided two homes in the case, seizing computers, cell phones and data-storage devices.

In video taken of the husky 22-year-old Dutchman that was broadcast Sunday by a TV channel, Peruvian police search van der Sloot's possessions in his presence.

They pull out of his backpack a laptop, a business-card holder and 15 bills in foreign currency. Van der Sloot tells police the money includes Thai, Cambodian and Bolivian currency. He is asked for credit cards and documents and appears to say - his Spanish is very rudimentary - that they are in a hotel room back in Chile.

Peru's chief homicide investigator, Col. Miguel Canlla, would neither confirm nor deny a Sunday report in the Lima newspaper El Comercio that van der Sloot told his Peruvian questioners he was innocent of the Flores killing.

"I don't know where that information came from," Canlla told The Associated Press. "We are still in the investigative stage."

Chilean police said earlier that van der Sloot declared himself innocent in the Lima slaying but acknowledged having met Flores and gone with her to a casino.

Van der Sloot was represented by a state-appointed lawyer during Saturday's questioning.

Until he hires his own counsel, "the guys prosecuting him will decide which attorney he's going to get," van der Sloot's U.S. attorney, Joseph Tacopina, told the Associated Press.

Tacopina said the suspect's family "is trying to find competent counsel."

Dutch Embassy chief consular officer Angela Lowe said her government was providing van der Sloot with "regular consular assistance, which means an occasional consular visit, and we will make sure he is being treated decently, just like any other inmate."

She said Peruvian authorities have assured the Dutch government they are treating him well. "They are taking this case very seriously," she added. "The world is watching."

Van der Sloot is one of 117 Dutch citizens currently in Peruvian jails or prisons, most of them on drug-related charges, Lowe said.

The suspect spoke to his mother by telephone for the first time Saturday, Lowe said, adding that she did not know whether the mother plans to travel to Peru.

Van der Sloot's father, a former judge and attorney on the Dutch Caribbean island of Aruba, died in February. The suspect has two brothers.

After a a 17-hour journey up the Pan-American Highway from Chile in a police caravan Saturday, the young Dutchman was paraded, sheathed in bulletproof vest and handcuffed, before reporters at criminal police headquarters in Lima.

He was then submitted to an initial interrogation. A judge subsequently granted prosecutors' request to extend van der Sloot's preliminary detention order seven more days, said Gamboa, the national police spokesman.

If tried and convicted of murder, van der Sloot faces a potential prison term of 35 years.

Peruvian President Alan Garcia told reporters Friday that van der Sloot would have to be tried in Flores' death before any extradition request could be considered.

Holloway, 18, was celebrating her high school graduation on Aruba when she disappeared. Van der Sloot told investigators he left her on a beach, drunk. That's the last anyone saw her.

Two years ago, a Dutch television crime reporter captured hidden-camera footage of van der Sloot saying that after Holloway collapsed on the beach he asked a friend to dump her body in the sea.

The same journalist, Peter de Vries, reported later in 2008 that van der Sloot was recruiting Thai women in Bangkok for sex work in the Netherlands.

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Van der Sloot remains jailed as murder investigation continuesBy the CNN Wire Staff
June 6, 2010 9:39 p.m. EDT

Lima, Peru (CNN) -- -- A judge has extended the investigation into murder suspect Joran van der Sloot, accused of killing a Peruvian woman, for another week, a spokeswoman for Peru's Interior Ministry said Sunday.

Van der Sloot, a Dutch citizen, will remain jailed at the investigations building of Peru's national police where he spent the night, Rut Cardenas said.

Cardenas said a judge has given investigators another week to gather information about the killing of the woman last week.

Carlos Neyra, an official with the Peruvian National Police criminal investigation division, said van der Sloot, the sole suspect named in the case, has not been formally charged.

Neyra added that van der Sloot now has a lawyer. The Netherlands Embassy says it is working with local authorities in the case, but it is not paying for a defense attorney.

The Embassy has told Peruvian authorities that it is not comfortable with the way van der Sloot has been presented to the media, Neyra said. The Peruvian interior minister is asking authorities not to talk about the case without his authorization.

Van der Sloot arrived Saturday at the Lima police headquarters. Handcuffed and wearing a protective vest, he was escorted through a news conference held by Peruvian authorities as photographers snapped photo after photo.

The body of 21-year-old Stephany Flores Ramirez was found Wednesday in a Lima hotel room registered to van der Sloot, who was twice arrested and released in connection with the 2005 disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway in Aruba.

Peruvian authorities have released a video from May 30 where the suspect is seen entering the hotel at 5:16 a.m. local time accompanied by Flores. Moments later, he is seen entering a hotel room with Flores. More than three hours later, van der Sloot is seen exiting the hotel alone.

A hotel worker is also seen in the video speaking to van der Sloot as he is leaving the hotel, Peru Interior Ministry spokesman Carlos Gonzalo said. When investigators questioned the worker, he told them that van der Sloot told him "don't bother my girl," according to Gonzalo.

Van der Sloot indicated to the hotel worker that he would be returning to the room, Gonzalo said.

Surveillance video from a casino -- also recorded on May 30 -- shows Flores and van der Sloot playing cards at the same table, he said. The woman won about 5,000 soles (about $1,755), though it was not found in the room or the victim's car, Gonzalo said.

Flores' body was badly beaten and investigators believe a tennis racquet in the room was used in the killing, Gonzalo said.

He said "they found bloodied clothes with" van der Sloot and that investigators are testing them, as well as the tennis racquet, for DNA.

The hotel workers became suspicious after no one else left the room, and eventually a foul smell came from it, Gonzalo said. It wasn't immediately clear how much time lapsed between the conversation on video and workers noticing the smell.

Chilean authorities delivered van der Sloot to their Peruvian counterparts on Friday in the border town of Santa Rosa, where he was greeted by hecklers and dozens of media personnel jostling for position to get a better picture of him.

Paperwork showed that van der Sloot entered Chile the same day Flores' body was found, Chilean police told CNN. He was captured in Chile on Thursday and transported to the border to be expelled, said Macarena Lopez, a spokeswoman for Interpol.

Holloway was on a high school graduation trip to the Caribbean island of Aruba, where van der Sloot lived with his family, in 2005 when she disappeared. Van der Sloot was arrested twice in connection with the case but released both times. He denied any involvement and has not been charged.

Van der Sloot also faces an arrest warrant on charges of extortion and wire fraud in Alabama, U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance said Thursday. The charges are unrelated to the killing of the Peruvian woman and deal with an attempt to sell details about Holloway for $250,000, Vance said.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/06/06/peru.murder.case/index.html?hpt=Sbin
 

Van der Sloot seeks own lawyer in murder case
Peru police expected to interrogate him all week in girl's death
updated 2 hours, 18 minutes ago

Dutch Embassy chief consular officer Angela Lowe said her government was providing van der Sloot with "regular consular assistance, which means an occasional consular visit, and we will make sure he is being treated decently, just like any other inmate." ....

Van der Sloot is one of 117 Dutch citizens currently in Peruvian jails or prisons, most of them on drug-related charges, Lowe said.

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Van der Sloot remains jailed as murder investigation continues
June 6, 2010 9:39 p.m. EDT

The Embassy has told Peruvian authorities that it is not comfortable with the way van der Sloot has been presented to the media, Neyra said.

The Peruvian interior minister is asking authorities not to talk about the case without his authorization.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/06/06/peru.murder.case/index.html?hpt=Sbin

June 7, 2010 1:04 PM
New Search for Natalee Holloway's Body as Joran van der Sloot Questioned in Peru Murder?

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (CBS/WIAT) The murder in Peru of Stephany Flores, allegedly at the hands of Joren van der Sloot, has sparked renewed interest from Aruban authorities in the 2005 disappearance of Natalee Holloway, according to a report.

PICTURES: Joran Van Der Sloot
PICTURES: Stephany Flores

Van der Sloot has long been considered the prime suspect in Holloway's death, and now, says Jossy Mansur, editor of the Diario Newspaper in Aruba, police are preparing to launch two new searches on the island in the hopes of locating Holloway's remains.

Mansur told CBS affiliate WIAT that the search will occur "by the bird sanctuary near the hotel" and also at Monserat dam on the island.

Mansur said that Aruban authorities "believe they must have missed something, some kind of evidence" related to Holloway's disappearance.

Holloway, of Mountain Brook, Ala., was 18 when she was last seen leaving a bar with Dutch national van der Sloot, then 17. He has been detained in the case several times but Aruban authorities have said they don't have enough evidence to charge him.

Van der Sloot is currently being held at criminal police headquarters in Lima, Peru while being questioned in the killing of Stephany Flores.

Flores was found dead late Tuesday in the Lima hotel room where van der Sloot had been staying before he left the country. She had a broken neck. She was fully clothed, with multiple bruises and scratches on her body, but there were no signs she had been sexually assaulted, according to The Associated Press. Flores was killed five years to the day after Natalee Holloway disappeared. On Thursday, prosecutors in the U.S. charged van der Sloot with extortion in connection with the Holloway case.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20006938-504083.html

Van de Sloot wants Peruvian lawyer
Monday 07 June 2010

Joran van der Sloot, suspected of the murder of Peruvian woman Stephany Flores, has asked for a Peruvian lawyer to represent him, according to Dutch media reports.

Van der Sloot, who was picked up in Chile on Thursday and handed over to the Peruvian authorities on Saturday morning, has been given a list of lawyers by Dutch embassy staff. He is receiving normal 'consular assistance' from the Dutch authorities.

According to CNN, the Dutch embassy in Peru is not happy at the way Joran van der Sloot was presented to the press at a news conference on Saturday.

Parade

Van der Sloot, wearing a bullet proof vest and prison clothes, was paraded up and down while his photograph was taken.

And Peruvian newspaper Crónica Viva put a video of Van der Sloot being questioned by police on its website and his belongings being gone through.

The body of 21-year-old Stephany Flores was found on Wednesday in a Lima hotel room registered in his name. Van der Sloot has been twice arrested and released in connection with the disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway in Aruba in May 2005.

Van der Sloot has been remanded in custody for a further week while the investigation into Flores death continues. He has denied murder.

http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2010/06/van_de_sloot_wants_peruvian_la.php

Van Der Sloot and Victim Caught on Tape Hotel surveillance video shows suspect and Stephany Flores together.
07:16 | 06/07/2010

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/van-der-sloot-victim-caught-tape-10844930
 

What Joran van der Sloot can expect from Peruvian police

Peruvian police say they expect Joran van der Sloot, the prime suspect in the murder of a Peruvian college student, to be in their custody by this weekend. The victim's father, Ricardo Flores, is a businessman with close ties to the Peruvian police.

By Lucien Chauvin, Correspondent / June 4, 2010

Lima, Peru
Peruvian police officers are itching for the opportunity to grill Joran van der Sloot, a Dutchman accused of murdering a young woman here earlier this week.

Mr. van der Sloot was detained by Chilean police Thursday, a day after the body of 21-year-old Stephany Flores was discovered in a hotel room in Lima.

Police investigators have determined that Ms. Flores, a university student, and van der Sloot, who is 23, met last weekend at a casino. Police have film footage from the Atlantic City Casino in Lima showing the couple leaving together. Police say that Ms. Flores was killed in the early morning hours of May 30; van der Sloot entered Chile the following day at a overland border crossing.

This is the second time van der Sloot has been implicated in a high-profile murder case – with both happening, eerily, on the same day five years apart. He was arrested, but released twice, for the May 30, 2005, murder of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway on the island of Aruba. Her body was never located.

Peru’s police claim that while evidence was sparse in the Holloway case, the same is not true for the crime here.

Evidence of a struggle
Investigators say Flores’s body showed obvious signs of struggle and has provided evidence. There is also the casino video – van der Sloot was in Peru for a poker tournament – and the fact that he rented the room in the Hotel Tac where the murder took place. While unable to provide details, Peruvian police General Cesar Guardia said there was “ample evidence implicating the suspect in this murder.”

Peru’s Interior Ministry has asked Chilean authorities to transport van der Sloot to the border and that he be deported to Peru. Sources in the police department said officers from the National Criminal Investigation Unit were dispatched to the border on Thursday night. They expect van der Sloot to be transferred back to Lima this weekend, at the latest.

The murder of the Peruvian college student has touched the National Police in a particular way. Ricardo Flores, the young woman’s father, is president of the civic committee that supports the police’s internal affairs division. “He is a great man who has always been loyal to the police. We have no doubts that we will solve this case,” says one officer who has worked with Mr. Flores on events organized to help officers in need.

Victim's father is well-know figure
Flores is also a well-known figure in other Peruvian circles. He is a former race car driver, event promoter, entrepreneur, and occasional politician. He has run for local, legislative, and national office, but has never been elected. He was also implicated, like thousands of other businesspeople and politicians in Peru, in the corruption web that brought down former president Alberto Fujimori’s regime (1990-2000) nearly 10 years ago.  

Once back in Peru, van der Sloot will be held for an initial 24-hour arrest warrant. The police can then request that the judge assigned to the case extend the detention for seven to 14 days to further the investigation. The judge will determine whether to keep the suspect behind bars or release him while he awaits trial. The investigative police say van der Sloot is unlikely to be let out on bail.

There was also a new twist in the five-year-old Holloway case as events were unfolding in Peru and Chile. The US attorney for the northern district of Alabama charged van der Sloot with fraud as he was being arrested in Chile. The Associated Press reported that the charges relate to him having offered information on the Holloway case in exchange for $250,000.

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/2010/0604/What-Joran-van-der-Sloot-can-expect-from-Peruvian-police
 

Police report reveals new details in Peru murder caseBy the CNN Wire Staff
June 7, 2010 6:15 p.m. EDT

(CNN) -- A Peruvian police report leaked Monday says the alleged victim of Joran van der Sloot was found in his hotel room on the floor, half-dressed. The report provides new details about the hours before Stephany Flores' body was found.


According to the document, the Hotel Tac, where van der Sloot was staying, received a call from someone looking for him about 11 p.m. June 1. The receptionist forwarded the call, but no one answered. The hotel worker assumed that van der Sloot was asleep because the room key was with him and not the front desk.

About an hour later, according to the police report, the receptionist noticed that van der Sloot owed money for two nights and went up to his room, where her knocks went unanswered. The television was blaring, so the hotel employee figured he was resting, the report says.

Afterward, the hotel supervisor told the employee to go back to van der Sloot's room and enter using a spare key. When the employee went in, she found Flores' body on the floor, dressed in a black T-shirt and red panties, half-covered with a piece of white clothing, the police report said.

Flores was bleeding from her nose, the report said.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/06/07/peru.murder.case/index.html?hpt=T3

Peru police say evidence mounts against Dutchman Joran van der Sloot
 
Unlike 2005 in Aruba, Peru's investigative police say evidence is piling up against Joran van der Sloot for the killing of Stephany Flores. But will he face murder or robbery charges?

By Lucien Chauvin, Correspondent / June 7, 2010

Lima, Peru
Joran van der Sloot – the young Dutchman in connection to the disappearance of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway in Aruba arrested five years ago – is again behind bars, this time in Lima, Peru, where he is the prime suspect in the murder of Stephany Flores Ramirez.

In 2005, Mr. van der Sloot admitted to knowing Ms. Holloway and spending time with her, but said he had no idea what happened to her the day she went missing. He was arrested and released (twice) for lack of evidence. Holloway has never been found.

This time, though, the circumstances are much different.

Peru's investigative police say there is plenty of evidence against van der Sloot, and few observers expect him to be set free anytime soon.

Evidence stacks up
Since the discovery of Flores' body on June 2, police here have released surveillance footage of her entering the hotel where she was killed with van der Sloot. There is also video footage and testimony from witnesses who saw the two together at a local casino and in the Hotel Tac. A detective on the case says that there is physical evidence, including blood and finger prints, which point to van der Sloot as the culprit.

Under Peruvian law, police can hold Van der Sloot seven days, starting from June 5, when he was brought back to Peru from neighboring Chile. He left Peru the same day that Flores was murdered.

Authorities will also use this week to decide what the official charges will be in the case against van der Sloot, which in term will determine the scope of a future trial.

Murder or robbery charges?
If convicted of murder, van der Sloot could face anywhere from 15 to 35 years in prison. The maximum sentence would be based any a prior record and the circumstances of the murder. The average murder trial in Peru takes two years from arrest to verdict.

Luis Lamas Puccio, a leading criminal lawyer in Peru, says the fact that van der Sloot fled Peru would act as a major strike against him if he is tried and found guilty of murder. "He could be looking at the maximum sentence given the circumstances of the case," he said.

There is a possibility, however, that authorities could charge van der Sloot with aggravated robbery instead of murder. Aggravated robbery is used in cases when robbery is the motive, but the perpetrator kills the victim in the act. This crime carries a life sentence.

Police are investigating claims from Flores' friends that she had won around $1,000 playing poker in a local casino where she met Flores on May 29. They left the casino together around daybreak the next morning. Another lead involves money that Flores supposedly had with her to buy a new computer.

The police did not find any money with her, which has sparked speculation in the media that van der Sloot killed her for the cash.

The US attorney for the Northern District of Alabama charged van der Sloot with trying to extort $250,000 from Holloway's family in exchange for disclosing the location of her body. Charges of extortion and wire fraud were filed on June 3, the day van der Sloot was detained in Chile. Prosecutors say $15,000 was transferred to from a Birmingham bank to a bank account in his name in the Netherlands.

Lamas Puccio says that the case could grow complicated for the prosecutor if the decision is made to charge van der Sloot with aggravated robbery. "This involves speculating about motive. It is more difficult to demonstrate," he says.

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Peru Murder Victim's Kin React
June 4, 2010 9:00 AM

In an Early Show Exclusive, Maggie Rodriguez interviews the brother and sister-in-law of murder victim, Stephany Flores.

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6548102n&tag=related;photovideo

Holloway and Flores Families Connected By Violence
Last Update: 6/05 9:36 am

Mountain Brook, Alabama (WIAT) The Holloway family and the Flores family maybe on different continents, but they are closely connected by two acts of violence. The disappearance of Natalee Holloway in Aruba, and the murder of Stephany Flores in Peru are both linked to one man Joran Van Der Sloot and both happening on the same day exactly five years apart.

"Every Memorial Day weekend it’s hard for her. This is hard for all of us who went through this because it brings it back, and we remember what happened. This event in Peru was extremely upsetting and disturbing and I want to extend my heart and wishes to the family," says Carol Standifer, a family friend.

"I am happy that they have caught Joran hopefully the investigation they go through down there they will do a much better job than they did in Aruba," says Jug Twitty, Natalee’s step father.

For the Flores family who are just beginning to live this nightmare, involving Joran Van Der Sloot, all bits of new information are not only shocking, but frightening.

"We saw the video in the hotel and casino. The owner of the casino is a friend of the family. I saw the face, I saw when he left with our sister," says Enrique Flores, the brother of Stephany Flores.

The man's face they saw, and the name they received from the casino had no meaning for the Flores family until they got home and Googled him.

"I get to the house I went to internet in Stephany's room. I put the name of this person in Google that's when we start to read all the information that appears there. The murder of this pure girl Natalee Holloway in Aruba," says Carolina Jorge Flores, Stephany’s sister in law.

What they read about the man their sister left with put them immediately into action, in fear for her life.

"The minute I start to read that I called my father in law and I called the police that was in the house. At that moment we got scared and freaking out. Like an hour later they found her in the hotel," says Carolina Jorge Flores.

Joran Van Der Sloot is still in Chili, but both families are hoping his extradition comes quickly.

http://www.cbs42.com/mostpopular/story/Holloway-and-Flores-Families-Connected-By-Violence/EkzkKI6q-Eun1LWrmiL6AQ.cspx

Dutchman Joran van der Sloot confesses to murdering Peruvian Stephany Flores over private information
Tuesday, June 8th, 2010 at 3:31 am

LIMA (BNO NEWS) — Dutchman Joran van der Sloot, who remains the prime suspect in the disappearance of missing teenager Natalee Holloway, on Monday confessed to murdering a Peruvian woman, police confirmed.

According to police, Van der Sloot killed 21-year-old Stephany Tatiana Flores Ramirez because she saw ’something’ about Natalee Holloway on his laptop.

“I did not want to do it,” Van der Sloot said in his confession. “The girl saw private things. She had no right. I approached her and she was scared,” he continued.

“We discussed it and she tried to escape, and I took her neck and hit her.”

Further details were not immediately released.

http://wireupdate.com/wires/6155/dutchman-joran-van-der-sloot-confesses-to-murdering-peruvian-stephany-flores-over-private-information-2/

Van der Sloot confesses to Peru slaying
Paper reports suspect lost his temper after victim grabbed laptop
NBC News and news services
updated 16 minutes ago

LIMA, Peru - A high-ranking Peruvian government official confirmed to NBC News Monday night that Joran van der Sloot confessed to the slaying of a 21-year-old Lima woman.

According to La Republica newspaper, he said that his anger exploded and he broke Stephany Flores' neck after she grabbed his laptop without his permission, and found out that he was involved in the disappearance of an American woman.

The paper quoted Van der Sloot as saying, "I did not want to do it. The girl intruded into my private life."

The Dutchman, who is also the prime suspect in U.S. teen Natalee Holloway's 2005 disappearance in Aruba, is being held in a seventh-floor cell with a bunk bed and blanket and gets three hot meals a day, said Maj. Jose Gamboa, spokesman for the Peruvian national police.

Van der Sloot is suspected in the May 30 killing — five years to the day after Holloway's disappearance — of Flores, a business student who police say he met playing poker at a casino.

Police released video Saturday taken by security cameras at the hotel where van der Sloot had been staying since arriving from Colombia on May 14. It shows the two entering van der Sloot's room together and the Dutchman leaving alone four hours later.

The woman's battered body was found on the room's floor more than two days later, her neck broken. Van der Sloot had by then crossed into Chile, where he was arrested Thursday.

In video taken of the husky 22-year-old Dutchman that was broadcast Sunday by a TV channel, Peruvian police search van der Sloot's belongings in his presence.

They pull out of his backpack a laptop, a business-card holder and 15 bills in foreign currency. Van der Sloot tells police the money includes Thai, Cambodian and Bolivian currency. He is asked for credit cards and documents and appears to say — his Spanish is very rudimentary — that they are in a hotel room back in Chile.

Earlier, Peru's chief homicide investigator, Col. Miguel Canlla, would neither confirm nor deny a Sunday report in the Lima newspaper El Comercio that van der Sloot told his Peruvian questioners he was innocent of the Flores killing.

"I don't know where that information came from," Canlla told The Associated Press. "We are still in the investigative stage."

Chilean police said earlier that van der Sloot declared himself innocent in the Lima slaying but acknowledged having met Flores.

Van der Sloot was represented by a state-appointed lawyer during Saturday's questioning.

Until he hires his own counsel, "the guys prosecuting him will decide which attorney he's going to get," van der Sloot's U.S. attorney, Joseph Tacopina, told the AP.

Tacopina said the suspect's family "is trying to find competent counsel."

Dutch Embassy chief consular officer Angela Lowe said her government was providing van der Sloot with "regular consular assistance, which means an occasional consular visit, and we will make sure he is being treated decently, just like any other inmate."

She said Peruvian authorities have assured the Dutch government they are treating him well. "They are taking this case very seriously," she added. "The world is watching."

Van der Sloot is one of 117 Dutch citizens currently in Peruvian jails or prisons, most of them on drug-related charges, Lowe said.

The suspect spoke to his mother by telephone for the first time Saturday, Lowe said, adding that she did not know whether the mother plans to travel to Peru.

Van der Sloot's father, a former judge and attorney on the Dutch Caribbean island of Aruba, died in February. The suspect has two brothers.

After a a 17-hour journey up the Pan-American Highway from Chile in a police caravan Saturday, the young Dutchman was paraded, sheathed in bulletproof vest and handcuffed, before reporters at criminal police headquarters in Lima.

He was then submitted to an initial interrogation. A judge subsequently granted prosecutors' request to extend van der Sloot's preliminary detention order seven more days, said Gamboa, the national police spokesman.

If tried and convicted of murder, van der Sloot faces a potential prison term of 35 years.

He remains, meanwhile, the prime suspect in the disappearance in Aruba of Holloway, an Alabama teen who hasn't been seen since May 30, 2005. He was arrested and released in that case, and faces no charges.

Van der Sloot was charged Thursday in the United States with trying to extort $250,000 from Holloway's family in exchange for disclosing the location of her body and describing how she died.

U.S. prosecutors say $15,000 was transferred to a Dutch bank account in his name. In the Netherlands on Friday, prosecutors raided two homes in the case, seizing computers, cell phones and data-storage devices.

Peruvian President Alan Garcia told reporters Friday that van der Sloot would have to be tried in Flores' death before any extradition request could be considered.

Holloway, 18, was celebrating her high school graduation on Aruba when she disappeared. Van der Sloot told investigators he left her on a beach, drunk. That's the last anyone saw her.

Two years ago, a Dutch television crime reporter captured hidden-camera footage of van der Sloot saying that after Holloway collapsed on the beach he asked a friend to dump her body in the sea.

The same journalist, Peter de Vries, reported later in 2008 that van der Sloot was recruiting Thai women in Bangkok for sex work in the Netherlands.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37542848/ns/world_news-americas/

Report: Van der Sloot Confesses to Peru Murder
Published June 08, 2010

An official in Peru says Joran van der Sloot has confessed to killing a 21-year-old female student who police say he met playing poker at a casino, the La Republica newspaper reported late Monday.

The Dutchman, who is also the prime suspect in U.S. teen Natalee Holloway's 2005 disappearance in Aruba, is being held in a seventh-floor cell with a bunk bed and blanket and gets three hot meals a day, said Maj. Jose Gamboa, spokesman for the Peruvian national police.

Van der Sloot is suspected in the May 30 killing — five years to the day after Holloway's disappearance — of Stephany Flores.

Police released video Saturday taken by security cameras at the hotel where van der Sloot had been staying since arriving from Colombia on May 14. It shows the two entering van der Sloot's room together and the Dutchman leaving alone four hours later.

The woman's battered body was found on the room's floor more than two days later, her neck broken

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/06/08/report-van-der-sloot-confesses-peru-murder/

June 8, 2010
Wire: Van Der Sloot Confesses to Flores Killing
Prime Suspect in Natalee Holloway Disappearance Has Confessed to Killing Peruvian Student, According to News Wire

(CBS/AP)  BNO News is reporting that Dutchman Joran van der Sloot has confessed in the killing of 21-year-old Peruvian woman Stephany Flores. Van der Sloot is the prime suspect in the disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway.

According to BNO the Holloway case played a roll in the Flores killing. BNO reports that police say van der Sloot said he hit Flores because she saw private information on his computer regarding Holloway.

Sunday the Associated Press reported that Joran van der Sloot would spend all week at criminal police headquarters being questioned in the death of Flores. He had asked to be able to hire his own lawyer, authorities said Sunday.

Flores' May 30 killing was five years to the day after Holloway's disappearance. Flores was a business student who police say he met playing poker at a casino.

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Police released video Saturday taken by security cameras at the hotel where van der Sloot had been staying since arriving from Colombia on May 14. It shows the two entering van der Sloot's room together and the Dutchman leaving alone four hours later.

The woman's battered body was found on the room's floor more than two days later, her neck broken. Van der Sloot had by then crossed into Chile, where he was arrested Thursday.

In video taken of the husky 22-year-old Dutchman that was broadcast Sunday by a TV channel, Peruvian police search van der Sloot's belongings in his presence.

They pull out of his backpack a laptop, a business-card holder and 15 bills in foreign currency. Van der Sloot tells police the money includes Thai, Cambodian and Bolivian currency. He is asked for credit cards and documents and appears to say - his Spanish is very rudimentary - that they are in a hotel room back in Chile.

Peru's chief homicide investigator, Col. Miguel Canlla, would neither confirm nor deny a Sunday report in the Lima newspaper El Comercio that van der Sloot told his Peruvian questioners he was innocent of the Flores killing.

"I don't know where that information came from," Canlla told The Associated Press. "We are still in the investigative stage."

Chilean police said earlier that van der Sloot declared himself innocent in the Lima slaying but acknowledged having met Flores.

Van der Sloot was represented by a state-appointed lawyer during Saturday's questioning.

Until he hires his own counsel, "the guys prosecuting him will decide which attorney he's going to get," van der Sloot's U.S. attorney, Joseph Tacopina, told the AP,

Tacopina said the suspect's family "is trying to find competent counsel."

Dutch Embassy chief consular officer Angela Lowe said her government was providing van der Sloot with "regular consular assistance, which means an occasional consular visit, and we will make sure he is being treated decently, just like any other inmate."

She said Peruvian authorities have assured the Dutch government they are treating him well. "They are taking this case very seriously," she added. "The world is watching."

Van der Sloot is one of 117 Dutch citizens currently in Peruvian jails or prisons, most of them on drug-related charges, Lowe said.

The suspect spoke to his mother by telephone for the first time Saturday, Lowe said, adding that she did not know whether the mother plans to travel to Peru.

Van der Sloot's father, a former judge and attorney on the Dutch Caribbean island of Aruba, died in February. The suspect has two brothers.

After a a 17-hour journey up the Pan-American Highway from Chile in a police caravan Saturday, the young Dutchman was paraded, sheathed in bulletproof vest and handcuffed, before reporters at criminal police headquarters in Lima.

He was then submitted to an initial interrogation. A judge subsequently granted prosecutors' request to extend van der Sloot's preliminary detention order seven more days, said Gamboa, the national police spokesman.

If tried and convicted of murder, van der Sloot faces a potential prison term of 35 years.

He remains, meanwhile, the prime suspect in the disappearance in Aruba of Holloway, an Alabama teen who hasn't been seen since May 30, 2005. He was arrested and released in that case, and faces no charges.

Van der Sloot was charged Thursday in the United States with trying to extort $250,000 from Holloway's family in exchange for disclosing the location of her body and describing how she died.

U.S. prosecutors say $15,000 was transferred to a Dutch bank account in his name. In the Netherlands on Friday, prosecutors raided two homes in the case, seizing computers, cell phones and data-storage devices.

Peruvian President Alan Garcia told reporters Friday that van der Sloot would have to be tried in Flores' death before any extradition request could be considered.

Holloway, 18, was celebrating her high school graduation on Aruba when she disappeared. Van der Sloot told investigators he left her on a beach, drunk. That's the last anyone saw her.

Two years ago, a Dutch television crime reporter captured hidden-camera footage of van der Sloot saying that after Holloway collapsed on the beach he asked a friend to dump her body in the sea.

The same journalist, Peter de Vries, reported later in 2008 that van der Sloot was recruiting Thai women in Bangkok for sex work in the Netherlands.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/06/08/world/main6559272.shtml?tag=stack

Van der Sloot confesses to murder, Peruvian authorities say
By the CNN Wire Staff
June 8, 2010 1:11 a.m. EDT

Lima, Peru (CNN) -- Joran van der Sloot could be formally charged as early as Tuesday in the killing of Stephany Flores Ramirez, Peruvian government authorities said.

Van der Sloot, who confessed to murder in the case on Monday, will likely be held at one of three maximum security prisons -- Castro Castro, Piedras Gordas and Lurigancho, authorities said.

At his first court appearance, the judge may set a hearing date for van der Sloot and could order additional investigations in the case.

The Peruvian justice system often issues a lighter sentence in cases where the suspect confesses. That may have influenced his alleged confession.

Van der Sloot could get up to 35 years in prison. There is no death penalty or life sentence in Peru.

A Peruvian police report leaked Monday said Flores was found in his hotel room on the floor, half-dressed. The report provides new details about the hours before Flores' body was found.

Van der Sloot, who was twice arrested in connection with the disappearance of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway in Aruba in 2005, is in Peruvian custody as a suspect in the killing of Flores, 21.

According to the document, the Hotel Tac, where van der Sloot was staying, received a call from someone looking for him about 11 p.m. June 1. The receptionist forwarded the call, but no one answered. The hotel worker assumed that van der Sloot was asleep because the room key was with him and not the front desk.

About an hour later, according to the police report, the receptionist noticed that van der Sloot owed money for two nights and went up to his room, where her knocks went unanswered. The television was blaring, so the hotel employee figured he was resting, the report says.

Afterward, the hotel supervisor told the employee to go back to van der Sloot's room and enter using a spare key. When the employee went in, she found Flores' body on the floor, dressed in a black T-shirt and red panties, half-covered with a piece of white clothing, the police report said.

Flores was bleeding from her nose, the report said.

The hotel employee became frightened at the sight and went to alert her supervisor and the police, turning off the television and lights on her way out of the room, the report said.

http://current.com/1p65o4c

Van der Sloot Known to Tell Conflicting Tales
Published June 07, 2010

AMSTERDAM — Joran van der Sloot can be charming, angry, deceitful, tearful. The young Dutchman has been all that and more, playing out his troubled drama on TV over the five years since he came under suspicion in the disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway in Aruba.

By his own admission, half of what he says is a lie.

Twice arrested and released for lack of evidence in the Holloway case, Van der Sloot was taken into custody again last week in connection with the slaying in Peru of Stephany Flores, a 21-year-old college student police say he met while playing poker at a Lima casino. Her May 30 killing came five years to the day after Holloway disappeared.

Towering over the Peruvian officers flanking him, the 6-foot-3-inch (191-centimeter-tall) Dutchman appeared sullen and moist-eyed this weekend when he was paraded before journalists in handcuffs and a bulletproof vest after he was caught and extradited from Chile. Chilean police said Van der Sloot told investigators he was innocent in the case.

But late Monday, a Peruvian police spokesman said that Van der Sloot had confessed to killing Flores

Police Col. Abel Gamarra, head of the Information Directorate of Police, told The Associated Press that the case will be turned over to prosecutors who will present formal charges against Van der Sloot.

Police planned to take Van der Sloot to the hotel on Tuesday to participate in a reconstruction of the events leading to Flores' slaying, Gamarra said.

Van der Sloot became something of a minor celebrity during earlier appearances on American and Dutch TV regarding the Holloway case, where he fed public curiosity by spinning contradictory stories about the American teen's final hours and sometimes displaying flashes of a volatile temper.

Once, at the end of a relaxed interview with Dutch crime reporter Peter de Vries, Van der Sloot threw a glass of wine in the reporter's eyes.

Aad Schalke, a Dutch private investigator who administered a polygraph to Van der Sloot for a TV show about the Holloway case aired last year, said he was not surprised the 22-year-old was in trouble again.

"The moment he's not in control any more, he can be really dangerous," the detective told The Associated Press on Monday.

Van der Sloot is the son of a respected lawyer in Aruba who died in February. He was 17 when Holloway disappeared in 2005 and he spent three months in detention, then returned to the Netherlands to study. Two years later, he was arrested again and sent back to Aruba for further questioning.

It's unclear how he supported himself when he wasn't in jail. He is an avid gambler, and reportedly spent much of the last two years in Thailand, where De Vries claimed in 2008 Van der Sloot was recruiting Thai women for the sex trade in the Netherlands.

Just days after the slaying in Peru, Van der Sloot was charged in the United States with trying to extort $250,000 from Holloway's family in exchange for disclosing the location of her body and describing how she died. U.S. prosecutors say $15,000 was transferred to a Dutch bank account in his name.

Van der Sloot has told conflicting stories of his involvement with the Alabama teen. He and two Surinamese brothers, Satish and Deepak Kalpoe, were the last to see the 18-year-old honors student, who was on a school trip to Aruba to celebrate her high school graduation.

He initially told island police he took Holloway to her hotel, then later said he left her alive and well on the beach. He apologized for lying earlier.

At other times he claimed Holloway collapsed and died on the beach, and he dumped the body in the ocean. On another occasion he said her body was taken to a marsh.

In a lengthy 2006 interview with Greta Van Susteren on Fox News, Van der Sloot described drinking shots of rum with Holloway, whom he said he met while playing poker at an Aruba casino, then taking her to a beach and leaving her there around 3:30 a.m.

In De Vries' 2008 Dutch television documentary, Van der Sloot said during a secretly recorded conversation that Holloway was drunk and slumped to the sand as they were kissing.

"Suddenly she started shaking and then she didn't say anything," Van der Sloot said in Dutch, adding that he did not kill her. "I would never murder a girl."

The interview prompted authorities in Aruba to reopen the case, but Van der Sloot later said he made up the whole story and he was not charged.

"I have a busy imagination and it was one big lie. ... Nothing's true," he told interviewer Jaap Amesz in a show broadcast on Dutch TV last year.

He told Amesz yet one more story. Holloway was dancing on a balcony when she accidentally fell over the railing, he said, his eyes filling with tears.

Amesz, who had arranged for the polygraph test, asked Van der Sloot if half of everything he said was a lie.

"Oh, more than half," he replied.

Van der Sloot's lie detector test lent support to that admission.

Annette Heldens, the investigator who questioned Van der Sloot, said he continuously squirmed in his chair to throw off the polygraph machine.

"He tried to manipulate the results," she said. Nonetheless, she said the test showed he lied when he repeatedly answered "no," to questions about whether he was involved in Holloway's disappearance or death.

Polygraph tests are inadmissible as evidence in the Netherlands, and Schalke said police did not follow up after the results were broadcast on TV.

After Van der Sloot was shown the test results, Amesz asked him on camera what he thought the consequences would be.

Rather than answer, he grabbed a glass of water from the table, spun out of his chair and smashed it in fury against a wall.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/06/07/dutch-suspect-peru-murder-aruba-disappearance-shows-volatile-moods-tv/

Van Der Sloot Confesses To Peru Slaying
Stephany Flores' Battered Body Found In Hotel
June 8, 2010

LIMA, Peru -- Dutchman Joran van der Sloot, long the prime suspect in the 2005 disappearance of a U.S. teen in Aruba, has confessed to killing a young Peruvian woman in his Lima hotel room, a police spokesman said.

Peru's chief police spokesman, Col. Abel Gamarra, told The Associated Press that Van der Sloot admitted under police questioning Monday that he killed 21-year-old Stephany Flores on May 30.

The broadcaster America Television reported that Van der Sloot killed Flores in a rage after learning she had looked up information about his past on his laptop. It said it had access to details of the confession but did not cite its source.

Gamarra would not provide details of the confession. Nor would the chief of Peru's criminal police, Gen. Cesar Guardia, when the AP reached him by telephone. Guardia said only police director Gen. Miguel Hidalgo could authorize the information to be divulged. Hidalgo's cell phone rang unanswered.

Asked about the Van der Sloot confession, a brother of the victim, Enrique Flores, told the AP "we are not going to make any comment. This is in the hands of the police, of the justice system."

Van der Sloot's confession came on his third full day in Peruvian police custody, on the eve of a planned trip to the hotel in which he was to participate in a reconstruction of the events leading to Flores' slaying, Gamarra said.

Flores, a business student, was found beaten to death, her neck broken, in the 22-year-old Dutchman's hotel room. Police said the two met playing poker at a casino.

Video from hotel security cameras shows the two entering Van der Sloot's hotel room together at 5 a.m. Saturday and Van der Sloot leaving alone four hours later with his bags. Police say Van der Sloot also left the hotel briefly at 8:10 a.m. and returned with two cups of coffee and bread purchased across the street at a supermarket.

Gamarra said the case would now be turned over to prosecutors to present formal charges and Van der Sloot will be assigned to a prison while he awaits trial. Murder convictions carry a maximum of 35 years in prison in Peru and it was not immediately clear if a confession could lead to a reduced sentence.

Van der Sloot remains the prime suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway, then 18, on the Caribbean resort island of Aruba while she was celebrating her high school graduation.

He was arrested twice in the case -- and gave a number of conflicting confessions, some in TV interviews -- but was freed for lack of evidence.

Holloway's father told ABC's "Good Morning America" on Tuesday that Van der Sloot should tell all he knows about the disappearance of his daughter.

"He confessed to this one ... I would like for him to tell everyone what happened" in the earlier case, Dave Holloway said. "Hopefully this is his last victim."

A fixture on true crime shows and in tabloids after Holloway's disappearance, he gained a reputation for lying -- even admitting a penchant for it -- and also exhibited a volatile temper. In one Dutch television interview he threw a glass of wine in a reporter's eyes. In another, he smashed a glass of water against a wall in a fury.

The 6-foot-3 (191-centimeter) -tall Van der Sloot had been held at Peruvian criminal police headquarters since arriving Saturday in a police convoy from Chile, where he was captured on Thursday.

He had crossed into Chile on Monday, nearly a day after leaving the Lima hotel -- five years to the day after Holloway's disappearance.

Lima's deputy medical investigator, Victor Tejada, told the AP that Flores was killed by blows with a blunt object, probably the tennis racket found in the hotel room.

Guardia told the AP her body was found face down and clothed with no indication of sexual assault.

In video taken of the Dutchman that was broadcast by a TV channel, Peruvian police were seen searching Van der Sloot's belongings in his presence, pulling a laptop, a business-card holder and 15 bills in foreign currency from his backpack.

Chilean police who questioned Van der Sloot earlier said he declared himself innocent of the Lima slaying but acknowledged knowing Flores.

Van der Sloot was represented by a state-appointed lawyer during Saturday's questioning and both a Dutch Embassy official and his U.S.-based attorney told the AP on Sunday that he was seeking to hire his own counsel.

The suspect's father, a former judge and attorney on the Dutch Caribbean island of Aruba, died in February. Van der Sloot has two brothers.

There were indications Van der Sloot may have been traveling on money gained through extortion.

The day of his arrest in Chile, Van der Sloot was charged in the United States with trying to extort $250,000 from Holloway's family in exchange for disclosing the location of her body and describing how she died.

U.S. prosecutors say $15,000 was transferred to a Dutch bank account in his name on May 10. He arrived in Peru four days later, his visit coinciding with the runup to a June 2-5 Latin America Poker Tour tournament with a $930,000 prize pool.

Tournament organizers said Van der Sloot did not sign up to participate in the event.

Van der Sloot is an avid gambler and was known to frequent Aruba's casino hotels, one of which was lodging Natalee Holloway.

In a lengthy 2006 interview with Greta Van Susteren on Fox News, Van der Sloot described drinking shots of rum with Holloway, whom he said he met while playing poker at an Aruba casino, then taking her to a beach and leaving her there around 3:30 a.m.

Two years later, a Dutch television crime reporter captured hidden-camera footage of Van der Sloot saying that after Holloway, drunk, collapsed on the beach while the two were kissing he asked a friend to dump her body in the sea.

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

That interview prompted authorities in Aruba to reopen the case, but Van der Sloot later said he made up the whole story and he was not charged.

The crime reporter, Peter de Vries -- the victim of the wine-throwing incident -- reported later in 2008 that Van der Sloot was recruiting Thai women in Bangkok for sex work in the Netherlands.

http://www.wfsb.com/news/23825980/detail.html

Joran van der Sloot - Peru makes evidence public
Published on : 7 June 2010

The media in Peru has already decided that Dutchman Joran van der Sloot is guilty of murdering 21-year-old Stephany Flores. After he was handed over to Peruvian police officials, Joran van der Sloot was paraded before the press three times. Video footage of his first hearing can also be found on the internet. The Dutch foreign ministry is considering its reaction. 
 
Peruvian Interior Minister Octavio Salazar has guaranteed that Joran van der Sloot will be given a fair trial. However, meanwhile all kinds of evidence against the Dutchman has been made public.
 
The Peruvian police say initial forensic investigations clearly indicate Joran van der Sloot's involvement int the murder. Police say the victim was beaten to death with a tennis racket. There is video footage showing the suspect and the young woman arriving at his hotelin the Peruvian capital, Lima.

Natalee Holloway
Joran van der Sloot is already a well-known figure in the United States, the Netherlands and in Aruba, for he has been the main suspect for several years in the case of the disappearance of US teenager Natalee Holloway on the island of Aruba in 2005.

It is still not known what actually happened to Ms Holloway, and Joran van der Sloot has not been formally charged in connection with her disappearance.
 
No protest
The Dutch embassy in Peru, contrary to earlier reports, has not protested against the release of incriminating evidence. The foreign ministry is still considering whether it will give an official reaction to how the case is being handled. A spokesperson for the ministry told Radio Netherlands Worldwide: "I have asked at the ministry how we should deal with this."
 
Generally, the Netherlands never interferes with legal processes in other countries, but there may well be reason to protest in this case. After all, the suspect claims he's innocent of murdering Stephany Flores.
 
His American lawyer, Joseph Tacopina, has come to his assistance. He asked on Peruvian television how it was possible that the body of Ms Flores could have been in Joran van der Sloot's hotel room for three days without anyone noticing.
 
Extradition
Peru and the Netherlands do not have a mutual treaty for the return of nationals to serve their sentences in their home nation. Although negotiations for the transfer of prisoners have been taking place, it is not clear when agreement might be reached.
 
Even if such a treaty is agreed after his possible conviction, Joran van der Sloot will be able to apply to be transferred back to the Netherlands on condition that the two countries have no objections and the convicted person also agrees. It is too early to say whether Peru would cooperate with a transfer.
 
Robbery
It looks as if robbery was the motive of the murder. Ms Flores' father says jewellery was missing. An amount of 1,000 dollars. which he had given her to buy a laptop, was not found on the victim or in the hotel room.
 
Joran van der Sloot is being held in a police cell in Lima. His custody has been extended for a further seven days. A cell has been reserved for him at the infamous high security Castro Castro prison, which has some 4,000 inmates.

In Lima, stories are circulating about how inmates deal with rapists and murderers of children and women within the prison walls. If Joran van der Sloot is found guilty of murder with robbery, he could facing a 25-year sentence.

http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/joran-van-der-sloot-peru-makes-evidence-public

Natalee Holloway's mother, Beth Holloway, speaks at morning news conference on center named for daughter
By Mary Orndorff -- The Birmingham News
June 08, 2010, 10:36AM

WASHINGTON -- Natalee Holloway's mother, Beth Holloway, spoke briefly at a news conference in downtown Washington this morning to discuss the opening of the Natalee Holloway Resource Center to help the families of missing persons.

Beth Holloway spoke for less than two minutes and did not take questions.

"I feel confident it will serve as a point of light for all missing persons." Beth Holloway said this morning of the center.

The opening of the center today comes after Joran van der Sloot's recent arrest in the murder of Stephany Flores in Peru. The Dutch man has since confessed, according to the Associated Press. Van der Sloot has been the prime suspect in Holloway's 2005 disappearance.

"Let's keep the Flores family in our hearts and prayers," Beth Holloway said in her only comments on the Peru case.

Holloway was planning to answer questions about the center until news of Van der Sloot's confession broke this morning, said Janine Vaccarello, co-founder of the center.There was an "FBI directive" that Holloway not discuss her daughter's or any van der Sloot cases, according to Vaccarello.Van der Sloot has been charged by federal prosecutors in Alabama with trying to extort $250,000 from Holloway's family in exchange for information about what happened to her.

Natalee Holloway was with her Mountain Brook High School classmates on a trip to Aruba when she disappeared, five years ago to the day of the death of Flores, 21, in van der Sloot's hotel room in Peru.

The resource center, co-founded by Beth Holloway, will officially open tonight with a public fundraiser at the National Museum of Crime and Punishment.

http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2010/06/natalee_holloways_mother_beth_3.html

Dutch concern over van der Sloot 'show trial'
June 8, 2010 12:58 p.m. EDT

CNN) -- Dutch media expressed concern Tuesday about the prospects of Joran van der Sloot getting a fair trial following his arrest in Peru over the death of a 21-year-old woman.

Peruvian authorities say that Van der Sloot has already confessed to killing Stephany Flores Ramirez and could be charged on Tuesday. If convicted of murder he could face up to 35 years in jail.

The case has attracted international attention because van der Sloot was twice arrested and released in connection with the disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway in Aruba in 2005.

In a comment piece published on Tuesday morning before the alleged confession, Dutch newspaper Trouw warned that police and authorities in Peru were under "overwhelming pressure" from the media to condemn van der Sloot, as soon as possible, warning that his presumed guilt appeared to be a "foregone conclusion" which risked turning his case into a "show trial."

It also criticized the "openness" of the Peruvian police in placing van der Sloot in front of television cameras wearing a bulletproof vest, warning that it could compromise the case against the suspect.

"Showing the suspect as a trophy could seriously harm the investigation. It could influence witnesses before they are heard," said Trouw.

Trouw also criticized Dutch forensic psychology professor Corine de Ruiter who speculated in another Dutch newspaper, De Volkskrant, that van der Sloot displayed "all the major features of a classic psychopath."

De Ruiter has not met van der Sloot and told De Volkskrant her suggestion that he may have a psychopathic disorder was based on analysis of "books, images and interviews" concerning the case.

She cited an interview he gave on Dutch television in 2008 following which he threw a glass of wine into the face of crime reporter Peter R. de Vries.

Psychopathic personality disorder is a chronic mental illness also known as antisocial personality disorder. Those with the condition "typically have no regard for right and wrong" and may be prone to violent behavior, according to MayoClinic.com.

De Ruiter told the newspaper that typical psychopathic characteristics included a lack of empathy and guilt, manipulative tendencies, pathological lying and narcissism.

"Psychopaths have a certain flair. They have wit, and they can also be very charming and polite," de Ruiter said.

But Trouw, in the opinion piece published before van der Sloot's alleged confession, said: "What if he is still proven innocent? On closer inspection, the 22-year-old Dutchman is just a suspect in an 'ordinary' murder investigation. So he must be treated. Until the court has sentenced, after thorough deliberation."

That sentiment was echoed by the Web site of the English language Radio Netherlands Worldwide which voiced concerns about the amount of possible evidence which had already been made public.

It noted that van der Sloot was "already a well-known figure in the United States, the Netherlands and in Aruba."

"Generally, the Netherlands never interferes with legal processes in other countries, but there may well be reason to protest in this case," it said.

Radio Netherlands Worldwide said van der Sloot's alleged confession over the killing of Flores was a "surprise" as van der Sloot had previosly refused to say anything about his alleged involvement.

"For Peru, Joran van der Sloot is principally a matter of prestige," the Web site said. "His rights and privacy are secondary to the country's desire to show off to the world with its handling of the Stephany Flores murder case."

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/06/08/netherlands.van.der.sloot.media.wrap/

June 8, 2010 | 2:24 PM ET
BREAKING NEWS: IT WAS HOLLOWAY ATTORNEY JOHN Q. KELLY WHO SET UP THE MAY 10 STING

Following up on the tip I reported her last week that John Q. Kelly was in Aruba twice in May, sources have now confirmed to me that it was John Q. Kelly, the Holloway family attorney who set up the sting operation on May 10.

Here is how it unfolded:

Sources confirm that the plan started in early April.  Kelly was engaged in email traffic back and forth with Joran van der Sloot for some time prior to Easter Sunday.  Kelly traveled to Aruba on or about Easter, met with van der Sloot and began to set the stage.  Kelly was seeking information as to what happened to Natalee Holloway and was seeking that information for his clients, the parents of Natalee Holloway.  For reasons unclear, Kelly did not get the information on Easter Sunday but returned to the United States and made contact with the FBI.

Kelly, with the FBI, and with the assistance of  Aruban law enforcement, set up the sting operation for May 10.  A hotel room in Aruba and a car were both equipped with videotape equipment so that the crime could be caught on tape.

The plan was to tape van der Sloot extorting money from Beth Holloway via her lawyer.  Van der Sloot was given $10,000 cash (he counted it twice on tape) which is the extortion count and was wired $15,000 (wire fraud count.)  The FBI has all the bank information for the bank transfer.  The method of money transfer - cash and wire - was deliberate part of the plan in order to set up these two crimes.

Once the crime was committed on tape - it was -  the FBI planned to make arrangements to arrest van der Sloot.  The FBI arrest obviously did not happen.  Kelly spent several hours being taped with van der Sloot.  The FBI has the entire tape.  The Aruban authorities do not have the tape.

3 days after Van der Sloot was caught on tape committing the two planned crimes, he boarded a flight from Aruba to Colombia and on to Peru.  The Aruban Attorney General told me that the FBI was warned that van der Sloot was leaving the country but that the FBI did not move.

At no time after he left the country, per my sources, was Kelly told by the FBI that the FBI had "lost" van der Sloot.  Instead, Kelly was - it apears - mislead by the FBI into thinking an arrest was imminent.

After the murder in Peru, the US Attorney in Alabama unsealed an Amended Criminal Complaint charging van der Sloot with extortion and wire fraud (per the original plan.)  What is not known is what was Amended or when the original Criminal Complaint was filed (it was apparently under seal.) Both these pieces of information could be helpful in  better understanding what happened.

What is still not fully explained - is why the FBI did not act.  It appears the crime was "delivered" to them on May 10 and in the best possible manner: on tape.

http://gretawire.blogs.foxnews.com/breaking-news-it-was-holloway-attorney-john-q-kelly-who-set-up-the-may-10-sting/

Details of the Alleged Van der Sloot-Holloway Extortion Revealed
Sunday, June 06, 2010

GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, FOX NEWS HOST
MARK FUHRMAN, FORMER LAPD HOMICIDE DETECTIVE
BO DIETL, CHAIR OF BEAU DIETL AND ASSOCIATES
BERNIE GRIMM, CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY
JIM HAMMER, FORMER ASSISTANT D.A.
TED WILLIAMS, CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,594062,00.html

June 8, 2010 | 3:21 PM ET
email from OTR Producer in Peru about Joran van der Sloot
Greta Van Susteren | Anchor

From: Kim Rittberg  / OTR Producer

Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 3:08 PM

Subject: update info about confession

I spoke to Peruvian National Police PR, Joran confessed Monday around 5 pm with the state appointed attorney present. He will probably go to Lurigancho jail which receives the most dangerous high-profile criminals.

The reconstruction will involve police officers with Joran present reenacting it inside the HOTEL TAC. Not sure when this will happen, but he will be charged officially after that and then will get moved from Peruvian National Police HQ to another holding cell. The judge then chooses where to move him (possibly Lurigancho).

http://gretawire.blogs.foxnews.com/email-from-otr-producer-in-peru-about-joran-van-der-sloot/

Aruban officials uncertain reported Joran van der Sloot confession will help Natalee Holloway case
By Hannah Wolfson -- The Birmingham News
June 08, 2010, 3:31PM

Aruban officials say they're uncertain a reported confession from Joran van der Sloot will be enough to convict him but they still hope information that comes from his interrogation in Peru will help them with Natalee Holloway's case.

Van der Sloot has long been the prime suspect in Holloway's 2005 disappearance in Aruba. A police spokesman in Peru said he admitted under questioning that he killed 21-year-old Stephany Flores, who was found dead in his hotel room.

That report has given Aruban investigators hope but van der Sloot has been so unreliable that it must be verified, Aruban Attorney General Taco Stein said in a phone interview this afternoon.

"We have had so many statements by Joran that we will have to evaluate that very carefully," Stein said.

He said he had been in communication with the Peruvian prosecutor's office and is ready to send Aruban investigators to take part if permission is granted.

Although an Aruban newspaper editor reported that police were renewing their search for Holloway's remains on the island, Stein said that there is no official search underway. He said private investigators may be conducting some kind of search

http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2010/06/aruban_officials_uncertain_rep.html

Texas Equusearch heads to Aruba for Holloway case
Updated at 04:45 PM today

Tim Miller with Texas Equusearch is back in Aruba again. He got there on Saturday, and we talked to him on the phone Tuesday. He's hoping van der sloot will confess to Natalee's murder, and reveal the location of her remains.

"I think this is the first time in Joran van der Sloot's life that he has not been in control. "I think they've pressured him in Peru on Natalee's case; he's at the breaking point, trying to save as much of his life as he can," said Miller. "I anticipate that he will give information on Natalee and where she's at, and I'm hoping the end is in sight for this island and this family."

Natalee's father, David Holloway, is on the way to Aruba. He'll join Miller on Wednesday. Miller says this is a tough time for the Holloways, but they are hopeful that they'll finally have closure.

The Texas Equusearch team is on standby should they get new information about where to look for Natalee's body.

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=7486016&rss=rss-ktrk-article-7486016

Joran Van Der Sloot: A Growing Link to Natalee Holloway?
Dutch Playboy Caught Counting 'Extorted' Money That Financed Trip to Peru
June 9, 2010

The Dutch playboy who has reportedly confessed to last month's murder of a Peruvian woman was caught on tape counting the cash widely believed to have financed his trip to Peru , Greta Van Susteren, host of Fox News' "On the Record," told "Good Morning America" today.

The money was extorted from Natalee Holloway's family in what was supposed to have been an FBI-led sting, U.S. authorities have said.

Van Susteren said the FBI's failure to arrest Joran van der Sloot after $15,000 was wired from Holloway's hometown in Mountain Brook, Ala., to the Netherlands was "a blunder."

Van Susteren said he was given $10,000 in cash and was caught on camera counting and then recounting the cash. Sources have said that an additional $15,000 was wired to a Dutch bank.

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Media/joran-van-der-sloot-growing-link-natalee-holloway/story?id=10863952

(Continued)

Van der Sloot is being held in a Lima jail for the alleged murder of Stephany Flores Ramirez , 21. The two met while gambling and drinking at a Lima casino, officials said. Police believe she was killed May 30, the five-year anniversary of Holloway's disappearance in Aruba.

Flores' battered body was found three days later, her neck broken. Van der Sloot, who had crossed the border into Chile, was nabbed there and extradited back to Peru.

Van Susteren called the entire chain of events a "huge embarrassment" for U.S. authorities.

"I don't know why they didn't arrest him and I'm sure the FBI feels horrible about what happened," she said.

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Media/joran-van-der-sloot-growing-link-natalee-holloway/story?id=10863952&page=1

Joran Van Der Sloot: A Growing Link to Natalee Holloway?
Dutch Playboy Caught Counting 'Extorted' Money That Financed Trip to Peru
June 9, 2010

.... In Peru, investigators are leaning on van der Sloot to give them information about Holloway's 2005 disappearance in Aruba during a school trip. He has been arrested twice in Aruba and remains the prime suspect, but has never been charged.

Master hackers hired by Peruvian authorities to examine his laptop have reportedly found pictures and other information relating to Holloway.  

Investigators in Lima are also pressuring van der Sloot to take then to the hotel where Flores was killed to retrace his steps.

Police investigators told Lima's La Republica newspaper that van der Sloot's bombshell confession came late Monday night when he tearfully admitted that he grabbed Flores by the neck when she began reading articles about him on the Internet.

"I did not want to do it. The girl intruded into my private life," he told investigators, according to La Republica. "She had no right."

"I confronted her," he continued. "She was frightened, we argued and she wanted to get away. I grabbed her by the neck and I hit her."

Van der Sloot to Take Investigators to Scene of the Crime
 Dave Holloway, Natalee Holloway's father, told "Good Morning America" Tuesday that search teams had been assembled in Aruba in case Peruvian investigators are able to glean any more information about the teenager's disappearance.

"He's confessed to this one," Holloway said of Flores' death, "and I'd like for him to tell everyone what happened."

Holloway said he's been closely following the Flores case, calling it "deja vu."

"I would just like to say that you know all the pain and suffering that we've gone through, hopefully justice is served this time," he said.

Peruvian authorities have been careful to document every step of their investigation, videotaping every move including a search of his belongings.

Flores' father, Peruvian politician and race car driver Ricardo Flores, told ABC News that van der Sloot's laptop "contains valuable information that may lead to more of Joran's victims."

"I think he killed many others," he said.

Prior to van der Sloot's reported confession, Peruvian authorities released videos of his interrogation and from the hotel where he brought Flores after a night of drinking and gambling.

In the video of his interrogation, van der Sloot can be seen calmly explaining where he's been and what he's carrying, including a laptop, cash from different countries and photos. He even seemed friendly with the officers on his long drive back from Chile to Lima.

When investigators asked him where his credit cards were, van der Sloot answered in broken Spanish.

"I have those back in my hotel in Santiago," he said on the video. "I went up to my hotel room and I saw these things on the Internet and I had to leave quickly."

The calm demeanor van der Sloot showed on the video was a stark contrast to the stunned, even frightened look on his face as he was paraded in front of a media frenzy upon his return to Lima.

On the hotel surveillance video, released this week, van der Sloot can be seen getting his room key from the front desk. Police said they believe Flores was walking behind him, her back to the camera.

Moments later another camera upstairs captured the two walking into van der Sloot's room.

Van der Sloot was captured on camera leaving the hotel alone four hours later, wearing a different shirt and carrying a bag and a backpack.

Though the hotel management declined to comment on why it took three days to discover Flores, sources told ABC News that van der Sloot had pre-paid for a two-week stay and demanded that no one enter his room.

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Media/joran-van-der-sloot-growing-link-natalee-holloway/story?id=10863952&page=1

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Media/joran-van-der-sloot-growing-link-natalee-holloway/story?id=10863952&page=2

Joran Van Der Sloot: From Paradise to Prison
Broke and Depressed, the Recently Confessed Murderer Came From a Life Privilege
June 9, 2010

In the time it took Joran van der Sloot to buy a cup of coffee, Stephany Flores Ramirez learned something that cost her her life.

According to Peruvian authorities van der Sloot confessed to killing Flores, a 22-year-old Peruvian woman he had met only hours earlier when playing poker, because she found something on his laptop computer – something she was never meant to see.

"I did not want to do it," he confessed to police, but "the girl intruded into my private life."

Van der Sloot's private life, however, has been fodder for international headlines around the world his entire adult life. Although the subject of numerous police investigations and undercover press probes, what is still not known about van der Sloot is what makes him tick and if there are other women who have met the same grisly fate as Flores.

 "He is a narcissist and he has no impulse control," Harold Copus, a former FBI special agent hired by the Twittys to investigate van der Sloot, told ABCNews.com. "He might not set out to murder. I don't believe he's a serial killer. He's just extremely arrogant and believes he can get away with anything."

The profligate son of an Aruban judge, van der Sloot at 18 became the subject of international intrigue for his alleged role in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway, a 17-year-old American high school girl who vanished from an Aruban beach on May 30, 2005, exactly five years before Flores was killed.

The snippet of van der Sloot's confession, made three days after authorities arrested him in Chile, shed some light on a young man whose 22-year-old life has been defined by scandal and arrests.

Prior to his arrival in Peru, van der Sloot had been trying to sell information about Holloway, first to journalists and, according to a U.S. federal indictment, to an individual in Alabama who sources say is Natalee's mother, Beth Twitty.

In the five years since Holloway disappeared, the unemployed van der Sloot spent much of that time gambling, partying and soliciting women.

 He has also been suspected of murdering two women, arrested three times, indicted on extortion charges, and accused of trafficking women in Thailand for sex.

Just after news broke that Joran was wanted for the Flores murder, Dutch journalist Jaap Amesz interviewed a friend of van der Sloot, who described him as broke, "completely desperate and pretty depressed."

 "I was in touch with Joran until right before May 30," the friend told Amesz."He was in Peru, that was known. In Aruba he couldn't deal with it anymore. His relationship with his mother was getting worse, he had gambled money away again. This is what preceded his flight to Peru. Right before the weekend it was clear that Joran was in financial trouble, and he was pretty confused. Driven by hunger, the fear of not being able to pay for his hotel. He desperately needed money. I have never seen Joran so frustrated as in this period."

"He asked me on several occasions to send money, and was (by his own account), completely desperate, and pretty depressed. He asked for small amounts (to eat), and became pretty angry when I refused to send anything. He said literally that he was capable of strange things, because no one wanted to help him," the friend told Amesz.

That is a far cry from 2005 when he was described by the Associated Press as "an honors student at the Aruba International School" who enjoyed a privileged life in the labyrinthine streets of an island paradise.

From the age of 16 he regularly visited the island's casinos, gambling on a $5,000 line of credit in his father's name. On the night Holloway disappeared he had been gambling with his father, Paulus, who was known to spend more time on the tennis court than in his courtroom.

Van der Sloot could act with impunity in Aruba because he knew the judge, said Copus.

"His father was a judge and his best friend was the police chief. In southern vernacular, Joran was the beneficiary of 'home cooking.' When you know the judge and the police department there's not a lot left to be against you," Copus said.

Although arrested twice in Holloway's disappearance, he was never tried for it.

Van der Sloot, even at a young age, had earned a reputation for "preying on girls, allegedly slipping them a date rape drug and taking advantage of them," Copus said.

In the years since Holloway's disappearance, van der Sloot has maintained a lifestyle similar to those of his teenage years in Aruba, playing poker and picking up women.

He left Aruba in 2006, returning to Arnhem, the Netherlands, where he briefly studied engineering.

Holloway's parents tried suing van der Sloot and his parents in 2006, seeking civil damages in a U.S. court. In their complaint they describe the Dutch teen as leading a "violent and anti-social lifestyle."

Van der Sloot was back in the news in 2008 for allegedly preying on women when he was captured in a sting by Dutch crime journalist Piet de Vries.

 Using hidden cameras, de Vries recorded van der Sloot trying to convince Thai women to go to Europe to work as sex workers. That same year de Vries interviewed van der Sloot on a Dutch talk show, which ended when van der Sloot threw a glass of wine in reporter's face.

Van der Sloot's father, Paulus, one of Aruba's four judges, died in February 2010, leading Joran to return to Aruba. But according to the friend it also led to a breakdown and plans to enter therapy.

"In the weeks before the murder things went totally awry with Joran. After the death of his father Joran went to live in Aruba again. Joran had new plans for the future. He was going into therapy... to give his life shape again," the friend told Amesz.

"A week after he was going to be admitted, this happens…" the friend said.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/Media/joran-van-der-sloot-paradise-prison/story?id=10860167&page=1

http://abcnews.go.com/International/Media/joran-van-der-sloot-paradise-prison/story?id=10860167&page=2

http://abcnews.go.com/International/Media/joran-van-der-sloot-paradise-prison/story?id=10860167&page=3

Re-enactment, formal charges in store for van der Sloot in Peru slayingBy the CNN Wire Staff
June 9, 2010 -- Updated 1421 GMT (2221 HKT)

Lima, Peru (CNN) -- Joran van der Sloot, the longtime suspect in the disappearance of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway, could be formally charged as early as Wednesday in the death of a Peruvian woman, authorities said.

Also Wednesday, van der Sloot is expected to re-enact for investigators the crime in his room at Hotel Tac, said Peru National Police Col. Abel Gamarra.

That re-enactment was originally slated for Tuesday but was delayed for security reasons.

Stephany Flores Ramirez' body was found in van der Sloot's hotel room last week. The 21-year-old woman was killed after she discovered information on his laptop linking him to Holloway's disappearance, a source with direct knowledge of the investigation told CNN.

Van der Sloot was interrogated for seven hours Monday, the source said.

The Dutch citizen told investigators that he left the hotel room to buy bread and coffee at a gas station next to the hotel, the source said.

Upon his return, he found Flores going through his laptop, where she found something linking him to the disappearance of Holloway, the source said.

At that point, Flores wanted to leave, and the pair started arguing, according to the source.

Flores slapped van der Sloot, and he hit her back, and then grabbed her neck, the source said.

Van der Sloot told investigators he was intoxicated on marijuana when all this happened, the source said.

Although Flores' body was found half-dressed, there was no evidence that she had sexual intercourse that night, the source said.

Van der Sloot had access to a public defender, but it was unclear whether he had used his services. Attempts by CNN to reach the public defenders' office were unsuccessful Tuesday.

Van der Sloot, 22, was arrested twice in connection with Holloway's disappearance in Aruba but was released for lack of evidence. He has denied any involvement and has not been charged.

Flores' body was found in the room registered to van der Sloot. Video from hotel security cameras shows van der Sloot and Flores entering his room at 5:33 a.m. on May 30. He emerged alone and left the hotel more than three hours later, the video shows.

He was arrested in Chile on Thursday and returned to Peru on Friday.

At van der Sloot's first court appearance, the judge may set a hearing date and order additional investigations.

The Peruvian justice system often issues a lighter sentence in cases in which the suspect confesses.

Van der Sloot could get up to 35 years in prison. There is no death penalty or life sentence in Peru.

A Peruvian police report leaked Monday provides new details about the hours before Flores' body was found.

According to the document, the Hotel Tac received a call from someone looking for van der Sloot about 11 p.m. June 1. The receptionist forwarded the call, but no one answered.

The hotel worker assumed that van der Sloot was asleep because the room key was with him and not at the front desk.

About an hour later, according to the police report, the receptionist noticed that van der Sloot owed money for two nights and went up to his room, where her knocks went unanswered. The television was blaring, so the hotel employee figured he was resting, the report says.

Afterward, the hotel supervisor told the employee to go back to van der Sloot's room and enter using a spare key. When the employee went in, she found Flores' body on the floor, dressed in a black T-shirt and red panties, half-covered with a piece of white clothing, the police report said.

Flores had bled from her nose, the report said.

The hotel employee became frightened and went to alert her supervisor and the police, turning off the television and lights on her way out of the room, the report said.

The developments in the van der Sloot case came as the Natalee Holloway Resource Center opened Tuesday in Washington. The nonprofit center is located at the National Museum of Crime and Punishment.

Holloway's mother, Beth, attended the opening.

She urged supporters to keep the Flores family "in our hearts and in our prayers."

The center says it will provide families of missing persons help with managing their crises and give students advice on traveling safely.

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/06/09/peru.murder.case/?hpt=T1

Latest developments on the Joran van der Sloot caseBy the CNN Wire Staff
June 9, 2010 5:19 a.m. EDT

(CNN) -- Here are the latest developments on the arrest of Joran van der Sloot, who is in Peruvian custody as the suspect in the killing of Stephany Flores Ramirez.

NEW

Van der Sloot could be formally charged with murder as early as Wednesday.

He is also expected to re-enact crime at the Hotel Tack in Lima. That re-enactment, initially scheduled for Tuesday, was postponed for security reasons.

PREVIOUSLY REPORTED

Joran van der Sloot faces criminal charges in Alabama because he tried to extort $250,000 from Natalee Holloway's mother, according to an Interpol document.

Stephany Flores was killed after she discovered information on van der Sloot's laptop linking him to the disappearance of Natalee Holloway, a source with direct knowledge of the investigation told CNN.

He confessed to the Flores killing Monday night, officials said.

The Dutch citizen told investigators that he left the hotel room to buy bread and coffee at a gas station next to the hotel and returned to find Flores on his laptop.

Flores wanted to leave, and the pair started arguing. Flores slapped van der Sloot, and he hit her back and then went for her neck, a source with direct knowledge of the investigation told CNN.

Van der Sloot told investigators he was intoxicated on marijuana during the incident.

There was no evidence that Flores had sexual intercourse the night she was killed, the source said.

Van der Sloot was arrested twice in connection with Natalee Holloway's disappearance in Aruba but was released for lack of evidence. He has denied any involvement and has not been charged.

He was arrested in Chile on Thursday and returned to Peru on Friday.

Van der Sloot could get up to 35 years in prison. There is no death penalty or life sentence in Peru.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/06/09/peru.murder.case.developments/index.html?section=cnn_latest

Interpol: Van der Sloot tried to extort Holloway's motherBy the CNN Wire Staff
June 8, 2010 8:10 p.m. EDT

(CNN) -- Joran van der Sloot, who authorities say has confessed to the murder of a Peruvian woman, faces criminal charges in Alabama because he tried to extort $250,000 from Natalee Holloway's mother, according to an Interpol document.

U.S. authorities last week announced an arrest warrant for van der Sloot on charges of extortion and wire fraud, but they did not name the victim.

In an Interpol document obtained by CNN Wednesday, American authorities ask Peruvian police to arrest van der Sloot and begin a process of extradition to the United States. The document states that Peruvian authorities can hold him if he is facing charges there.

According to the document, around March 29, van der Sloot contacted a representative of Holloway's mother, Beth Holloway.

The Dutch citizen, who was twice arrested in connection with the disappearance of Natalee Holloway but released for lack of evidence, said he would reveal the location of the body and the circumstances surrounding her death for $25,000 in cash. He asked for $250,000 in total, the document states.

Van der Sloot and Beth Holloway's representative met in Aruba, where a payment of $10,000 was made to him, followed by a transfer of $15,000 to a personal bank account in the Netherlands, the document states.

In exchange, van der Sloot showed the representative a house where supposedly Holloway's remains were, according to the document. When records showed that the house wasn't even built at the time of her disappearance, van der Sloot admitted that he lied, Interpol said.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/06/08/us.van.der.sloot.alabama/index.html?hpt=T3

ISSUES WITH JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL
Video Released of Van Der Sloot
Aired June 7, 2010 - 19:00:00   ET

TIM MILLER, TEXAS EQUUSEARCH: Well, you know, I`m in Aruba right now, and I`ve actually got a map that Joran wrote and drew another map down here where Natalee`s body is supposedly at.

You know, Joran was very convincing to a lot, a lot of people. He`s exported thousands and thousands of dollars over the past years with lies. Every time he moves his lips a lie was coming out it, and he`s very, very convincing.

And you know -- you know, Aruba has a lot of mud on their face right now. Joran Van Der Sloot should have been in prison for the disappearance/murder of Natalee Holloway, and unfortunately, that investigation -- and Jane, we talked about it yesterday, should it be reinvestigated? And remember, I said it never was investigated as far as...

(CROSSTALK)

JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL, HOST: Right. Is it your understanding that Beth was the victim of the extortion and that Beth sent the money? We have not been able to get a comment from her attorneys. This is just what other people are reporting.

MILLER: Well, and yes. And you know, the other thing is that he was actually on the island here in Aruba, and it was a money transfer -- wire transfer here in Aruba. And Aruba authorities had him under surveillance and could have arrested him at that minute, held him for 30 days.

America would have extradited him back to America. He could have gotten a 20-year prison sentence in America. And again, he slipped through the fingers of the Aruban authorities, took the $15,000, went to Peru, gambled, had a good time, and ended up -- murdered another girl.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1006/07/ijvm.01.html

Interview
Did FBI Botch Van Der Sloot Case?
Wednesday, June 09, 2010

BILL O'REILLY, HOST
BO DIETL, FORMER NYPC DETECTIVE

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,594262,00.html

 

June 8, 2010 | 2:24 PM ET
BREAKING NEWS: IT WAS HOLLOWAY ATTORNEY JOHN Q. KELLY WHO SET UP THE MAY 10 STING

The Aruban Attorney General told me that the FBI was warned that van der Sloot was leaving the country but that the FBI did not move.

http://gretawire.blogs.foxnews.com/breaking-news-it-was-holloway-attorney-john-q-kelly-who-set-up-the-may-10-sting/


ISSUES WITH JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL
Video Released of Van Der Sloot
Aired June 7, 2010 - 19:00:00   ET

TIM MILLER, TEXAS EQUUSEARCH: And you know, the other thing is that he was actually on the island here in Aruba, and it was a money transfer -- wire transfer here in Aruba. And Aruba authorities had him under surveillance and could have arrested him at that minute, held him for 30 days.
 
America would have extradited him back to America. He could have gotten a 20-year prison sentence in America. And again, he slipped through the fingers of the Aruban authorities, took the $15,000, went to Peru, gambled, had a good time, and ended up -- murdered another girl.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1006/07/ijvm.01.html


The O'Reilly Factor
Did FBI Botch Van Der Sloot Case?
Wednesday, June 09, 2010

BO DIETL, FORMER NYPC DETECTIVE: Yes, he takes off. The meeting was on May 10. He disappears on the 13. But then, again, you have incriminating statements by him under the law of Aruba. The Aruba government could have held for 180 days just for investigation.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,594262,00.html

FBI gave $25K to van der Sloot, official says
June 9, 2010 1:48 p.m. EDT

(CNN) -- The FBI paid Joran van der Sloot $25,000 in an undercover investigation of a plot to extort money from Natalee Holloway's mother, a federal law enforcement official told CNN Wednesday.

The FBI and U.S. Attorneys Office in Alabama arranged for a meeting where an undercover agent paid van der Sloot $10,000 in cash and another $15,000 in a wire transfer for information van der Sloot allegedly promised would lead to Holloway's body in Aruba, a source familiar with the case said.

It's unclear if that money funded van der Sloot's trip to Colombia and into Peru where authorities said he confessed this week to killing 21-year-old Stephany Flores.

Van der Sloot, a Dutch citizen, was twice arrested in connection with the 2005 disappearance of Holloway but was released for lack of evidence.

The information van der Sloot provided to the FBI was not true, according to an Interpol document obtained by CNN Wednesday.

This week Alabama authorities filed extortion and wire fraud charges against van der Sloot.

On or about March 29, van der Sloot contacted a representative of Holloway's mother, Beth Holloway, the Intepol document states.

That came as a shock to Natalee Holloway's father Dave Holloway.

CNN spoke with his attorney Vinda de Sousa in Aruba Wednesday.

"Shocked, saddened," the attorney said when asked if he knew about the deal.

Van der Sloot and Beth Holloway's representative met in Aruba, where a payment of $10,000 was made to him, followed by a transfer of $15,000 to a personal bank account in the Netherlands, the Interpol document states.

In exchange, van der Sloot showed the representative a house where supposedly Holloway's remains were, according to the document. When records showed that the house wasn't even built at the time of her disappearance, van der Sloot admitted that he lied, Interpol said.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/06/09/us.van.der.sloot.alabama/index.html?hpt=T1&iref=BN1

ISSUES WITH JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL
Van Der Sloot Confesses to Murder
Aired June 8, 2010 - 19:00:00   ET

TIM MILLER, EQUUSEARCH:  ... And there`s also reports, Jane, coming in that with that $15,000 he first went to Colombia. He was in Colombia for two days. And I was actually in Jossy`s office today. And there are two girls that are missing from a casino in Colombia.

JEAN VELEZ-MITCHELL, HOST: What?

MILLER: Jossy is telling me this story, and while he was talking to me, his phone rang, and Jossy told me that the authorities from Colombia are on their way now to Peru also to interrogate Joran Van Der Sloot on two girls that have disappeared in Colombia when he left Aruba. He was in Colombia two days and then went to Peru.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: This is breaking news! This is breaking news that you`re telling us right now, that he could be connected to two other women`s disappearance?

MILLER: In Colombia. From a casino, Jane. And I was there in Jossy`s office when he got the phone call, which I believe came from Colombia, that the authorities...

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Breaking news right here on ISSUES. The whole world has learned that Joran Van Der Sloot confessed to killing a woman in Lima, Peru. But now we are hearing from Tim Miller, who is the director of Texas EquuSearch, who is in Aruba, that Colombian authorities are traveling to Peru and investigating whether Joran Van Der Sloot might have connection to other missing women in Colombia.

Repeat again, Tim Miller, the breaking news that you just gave us.

MILLER: OK. Again, I was at Jossy Mansur`s office today. And Jossy has the area newspaper; a very intelligent man, a very credible man. And he actually gave me this article.

And while we was talking about it, Jossy`s phone rang. And I believe it was a call that came from Colombia that stated that authorities in Colombia were heading to Peru to go ahead and interview Joran Van Der Sloot also about the disappearance of these two girls while Joran Van Der Sloot was in Peru after he left Aruba. The disappearance of these two girls for a casino.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: In Colombia?

MILLER: In Colombia.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: All right. Linda De Sousa, you are the Aruban attorney for Dave Holloway. You are in Aruba. What is your reaction to what we`re hearing, which we cannot independently confirm here on HLN? But I can tell you, Jean Casarez, who is in Peru, is making phone calls right now, having heard that, to try to find out what authorities in Peru are saying.

LINDA DE SOUSA, ARUBAN ATTORNEY FOR DAVE HOLLOWAY: Hi, Jane. Good evening.

Well, I have heard that before. I spoke to Tim, and he told me about it, and I had read something on the Internet about that, locally posted. We don`t know yet. It has not been confirmed. But the coming days will let us know and will show if that, indeed, is the case.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1006/08/ijvm.01.html
 

June 9, 2010 4:42 PM
Joran van der Sloot Update: FBI Official Responds to Blackmail Sting Criticism

NEW YORK (CBS) The FBI is defending its failure to arrest murder suspect Joran van der Sloot on extortion charges in the Natalee Holloway case, saying they were getting closer to making a murder arrest in that case, and didn't want to blow the investigation.

PICTURES: Joran van der Sloot
PICTURES: Stephany Flores

The Bureau is coming under some fire for not arresting van der Sloot in Aruba, since he then allegedly then took the money from the exortion sting and went to Peru, where he has since been jailed in the killing of 21-year-old Stephany Flores, who was murdered the last week of May.

A senior FBI official tells CBS News that the Dutchman "had avoided arrest for five years. If we had nabbed him [for extortion], he would have clammed up. He is not afraid of anyone. It would have spooked him."

According to the official, the FBI felt that for the first time in five years they were on the brink of finding Natalee Holloway's body. The FBI says it was receiving statements from van der Sloot about how and where he hid the body. Aruban officials, along with FBI agents, "were working this very intensely," including looking at blueprints, making plans to dig and bring in cadaver dogs.

"We were not trying to build a white collar extortion case. We were trying to solve the crime," the senior official told CBS News.

The official said there was no evidence van der Sloot, now 22, was a serial killer or about to commit another crime. The Bureau believed he was desperate for money and thought he would use it to feed a gambling addiction.

The FBI official adds that the Arubans couldn't stop him from leaving the country, and neither could the FBI because "it's not our country and he isn't a US citizen."

"We believe it was a very logical investigation," the senior official told CBS News.

The FBI says on Ma y 10, a $15,000 wire payment was sent van der Sloot with money from the Holloway family, which established the crime of extortion. There was also a 10-thousand dollar cash payment, which the Bureau says couldn't be used as a basis for a criminal charge.

The extortion charges against van der Sloot in the Holloway case were announced Thursday, June 3, the same day he was captured in Chile in the murder of Stephany Flores in Lima, Peru.

Natalee Holloway disappeared five years ago in Aruba, during the Alabama teen's senior class high school graduation trip.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20007271-504083.html

Press Release
For Immediate Release
June 9, 2010

FBI Birmingham
Contact: Public Affairs Specialist Paul E. Daymond
(205) 279-1457
United States Attorney's Office
Northern District of Alabama
Contact: (205) 244-2001
 
Joint Statement by United States Attorney Joyce White Vance and FBI Special Agent in Charge Patrick Maley Regarding the Joran van der Sloot Investigation

In April of this year, the FBI and U.S. Attorney's office in Birmingham, Alabama initiated an investigation into allegations of criminal conduct by Joran van der Sloot related to the disappearance of Natalee Holloway in Aruba five years earlier. Prior to law enforcement's involvement in the situation, Van der Sloot offered to provide information to an individual regarding the location of Natalee Holloway's remains and the circumstances of her death in exchange for $250,000.00. The FBI-led investigation was conducted in conjunction with Aruban authorities. The U.S. Attorney filed a criminal complaint charging van der Sloot with extortion and wire fraud on June 3, 2010.

Some news accounts have suggested that the FBI provided $25,000.00 in funds that were transmitted to van der Sloot. This is incorrect. The funds involved were private funds.

News accounts have also questioned why charges were not brought earlier, so that the tragic death of Stephany Flores could have been avoided. We offer our heartfelt sympathy to the Flores family. The Birmingham investigation was not related in any way to the murder in Peru. Despite having been in motion for several weeks at the time of Miss Flores’ death, it was not sufficiently developed to bring charges prior to the time van der Sloot left Aruba. This is not due to any fault on the part of the FBI or the U.S. Attorney’s Office, where agents and prosecutors were working as hard as possible to bring the case to fruition when they learned of the murder. A case based on events outside of the United States is a complex matter, and work was proceeding with all deliberate speed to prepare the evidence, the charges, and the necessary procedures to obtain custody of van der Sloot.

http://birmingham.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel10/bh060910.htm


 

CNN LARRY KING LIVE
Murder Suspect Van Der Sloot Confesses
Aired June 8, 2010 - 21:00   ET

TACO STEIN, SOLICITOR GENERAL, ARUBA (via phone): Well, I'm glad for the people there that this happened. It was a terrible tragedy over there. And I think it's a good thing that they got him so fast.

LARRY KING, HOST: Have Aruban authorities spoken to anyone in Peru about this?

STEIN: Right this morning, my colleague that's still in charge of the Natalee Holloway case here has tried to be in contact with the prosecutor in Peru. She was not available at that time, but we left message and we are expecting a call back from them to share information and see how we can help each other.

KING: Do you want Peruvian authorities to question him about Natalee Holloway?

STEIN: That's -- would be a possibility, but I might imagine that they have enough on their own hands. So we have to see how we can work this out in a way that is profitable for both of us.

STEIN: Well, extradition -- there is no treaty between the Dutch kingdom and Peru as far as I'm aware that makes an extradition a possibility. So then it's up to the countries themselves to work a deal out. But I can imagine that Peru will be reluctant to let him go.

KING: Yes.

STEIN: In view of what has happened there.

KING: They've got him nailed, as they say.

STEIN: Yes. Sure. Yes.

KING: What is the status of the case -- the case of Van Der Sloot in Aruba right this minute?

STEIN: OK, well, if you look at it from what has happened recently, for us not much has changed. We are still in a position that we say we have done a very great number of land inquiry which didn't work out, and we still are willing and ready to pick up on new lines of inquiry or new information that needs to be investigated.

But at this moment, they are not yet there. But the new case might bring something about. We've heard about the laptop and that laptop might or might not -- we don't know that yet of course -- information that might be useful for us.

KING: To your knowledge, when was the last time he was in Aruba?

STEIN: He was in Aruba until recently, somewhere in May.

KING: Now this is puzzling. What was Aruba's awareness of, involvement in this May 10th sting operation against Joran in connection with an alleged extortion of money in which he would get money and give you information about Natalee?

STEIN: Well, to begin with, I don't know if this would be a real sting operation, that's one. But that's not up to me to decide. Two, if that was an American investigation done by the American authorities, and we were only involved in the investigation in a support of capacity.

So we helped in the investigation, but it was not our investigation. The crime was an American crime perpetrated on American soil against an American citizen.

KING: So you don't know anything about money exchanging hands?

STEIN: Not more than I've heard, and I know that that was the story behind what was happening was that as far as I get it that Joran Van Der Sloot asked for money to show the place the remains of Natalee were buried.

KING: Without admitting that he harmed her.

STEIN: Of course.

KING: Yes. Have you been keeping track of him?

STEIN: In a part of the help in the investigation was keeping track of him, yes.

KING: As you look back, were there mistakes made by Aruban authorities?

STEIN: You mean in this last part of the investigation?

KING: Yes.

STEIN: I don't think so, because we were just supporting the investigation.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1006/08/lkl.01.html

Van Der Sloot Confesses To Peru Slaying
Stephany Flores' Battered Body Found In Hotel
June 8, 2010

The day of his arrest in Chile, Van der Sloot was charged in the United States with trying to extort $250,000 from Holloway's family in exchange for disclosing the location of her body and describing how she died.

U.S. prosecutors say $15,000 was transferred to a Dutch bank account in his name on May 10. He arrived in Peru four days later, his visit coinciding with the runup to a June 2-5 Latin America Poker Tour tournament with a $930,000 prize pool.

http://www.wfsb.com/news/23825980/detail.html


June 8, 2010 | 2:24 PM ET
BREAKING NEWS: IT WAS HOLLOWAY ATTORNEY JOHN Q. KELLY WHO SET UP THE MAY 10 STING

Kelly, with the FBI, and with the assistance of  Aruban law enforcement, set up the sting operation for May 10.  A hotel room in Aruba and a car were both equipped with videotape equipment so that the crime could be caught on tape. ....

3 days after Van der Sloot was caught on tape committing the two planned crimes, he boarded a flight from Aruba to Colombia and on to Peru.  The Aruban Attorney General told me that the FBI was warned that van der Sloot was leaving the country but that the FBI did not move.

http://gretawire.blogs.foxnews.com/breaking-news-it-was-holloway-attorney-john-q-kelly-who-set-up-the-may-10-sting/

Investigator Points Finger At Aruban Government
Updated: Thursday, 10 Jun 2010, 9:39 AM EDT
Published : Thursday, 10 Jun 2010, 9:22 AM EDT

MYFOXNY.COM - A former detective turned private investigator told Good Day NY on Thursday that the FBI and the Aruban government set up an extortion sting of accused killer Joran van der Sloot in Aruba providing him with thousands of dollars.

The money came from the Alabama mother of one of van der Sloot's alleged victims, according to Bo Dietl. He adds that the Aruban government could have held Van der Sloot by charging him with extortion and wire fraud and prevented the murder of another woman in Peru.

The FBI says they did not have enough evidence to arrest Van der Sloot.

The 22-year-old later allegedly killed a woman in Peru. Officials say Van der Sloot admitted to  allegedly smashing her face and strangling her. Formal charges are expected to be filed on Thursday. Officials in Peru say the Aruban killed the woman because she found out about his involvement in the death of Alabama teen Natalee Halloway in 2005. The case remains unsolved.

Dietl, who was called by the attorney for the Halloway family in 2007 to work on the wrongful death lawsuit against the accused killer, told Good Day NY on Thursday that Van der Sloot contacted the lawyer in April.

"(John) Kelly was contacted by Van der Sloot who said my father died and I  want to tell you where the body of Natalee Halloway is buried," said Dietl.  John meets with me. I tell him this is an extortion set up. We contact the FBI office in Alabama. They tell him to tell me to back out,  we'll set it up. They get a warrant with the Aruba government. In a hotel room they give him $10,000 and they wire $15,000 in van der Sloot's name. In that room, he makes admissions he killed Natalee. He said she died, how he was involved with her death and how he got help burying her. The Aruban government did nothing for 180 days they could have held him but they didn't."

Dietl adds that the Aruban government should be taken to task for not holding Van der Sloot in custody after the extortion plot.

"Everyone is pointing fingers at the FBI. What about the Aruban government? He made incriminating statements there. Why didn't they lock him up? How many others did he kill? He is a homicidal maniac."

http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/good_day_ny/investigator-points-finger-at-aruban-government-20100610-kc

Van der Sloot attorney says he will try to strike confessionBy the CNN Wire Staff
June 10, 2010 -- Updated 1345 GMT (2145 HKT)

Lima, Peru (CNN) -- The attorney for Peru murder suspect Joran van der Sloot said he's going to ask the judge in charge of the case to strike down his client's confession in the death of 21-year-old Stephany Flores Ramirez.

Lawyer Maximo Altez told CNN affiliate Panamericana TV in an interview that aired Thursday that he would challenge the confession because van der Sloot was not being properly represented at the time he was interrogated.

Van der Sloot, a longtime suspect in the disappearance of U.S. teen Natalee Holloway five years ago in Aruba, was arrested last week in connection with Flores' slaying.

Flores' body was found in a hotel room registered to van der Sloot. Hotel surveillance video shows the pair entering his room and van der Sloot leaving alone more than three hours later.

Altez said Flores attacked van der Sloot first, after he confronted her for going through his computer. Police said Flores was badly beaten and suffered a broken neck.

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/06/10/peru.murder.case.attorney/

June 10, 2010
Van der Sloot Called "Homicidal Maniac" by P.I.
Beau Dietl: I Was Inside Attempted FBI Sting; I Looked Him in Eye; "This Is a Bad Guy"

(CBS)  A private investigator who was inside the attempted FBI sting of murder suspect Joran van der Sloot says the Dutchman is a "homicidal maniac."

Van der Sloot, 22, is being held in Peru in the death of 21-year-old business student Stephany Flores.

Flores-Van Der Sloot 1st Meeting Caught on Tape
Flores Kin Was "Freaking Out" over van der Sloot
Photos: Stephany Flores Murder
Van der Sloot Lawyer: Inconsistencies Already
Photos: Van der Sloot Wanted for Murder
Photos: Photos: Natalee Holloway, Paradise Lost
Holloway Ally: Flores Murder Brings It All Back


He's also the chief suspect in the disappearance in Aruba five years ago of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway. Van der Sloot was taken into custody and questioned twice in that case, but has never been charged.

Peruvian police say van der Sloot confessed to killing Flores, telling them, reports CBS News Correspondent Elaine Quijano, he did it because she saw information about Holloway on his laptop.

Days before leaving for Peru last month, van der Sloot was targeted by the FBI in the Holloway case.

In April, he allegedly offered a deal to Holloway's mother: He'd disclose the location of her daughter's body in exchange for $250,000.

Private investigator Beau Dietl was brought in by the Holloway family.

He told CBS News van der Sloot "admits to pushing Natalee down, where he hits her head and she dies. That's what he states."

The FBI then launched the sting, Quijano says.

On May 10, van der Sloot was given $25,000, but federal officials say he provided false information about the location of Holloway's body.

The FBI says it didn't move in because its case "wasn't sufficiently developed."

Van der Sloot left Aruba and wound up in Peru, where he's accused of taking Flores' life.

On "The Early Show" Thursday, Dietl took viewers inside the FBI sting.

As he tells it, van der Sloot contacted the Holloways, saying "his father had just died in January and he wants to come clean and he wants to tell everybody where he buried Natalee Holloway" - if they give him $250,000.

Dietl says his firm arranged to meet van der Sloot in Aruba, then let the FBI know what was going on.

It was at that point, says Dietl, that the sting was put together.

And, he asserts, Aruban officials dropped the ball by not arresting van der Sloot - again, before he was off to Peru.

And, Dietl observed, "This guy's been all over the world in the last five years. Thailand, everywhere. This is a homicidal maniac. I've met him. I looked in his eyes. This guy we should be checking Interpol and the FBI should be checking where he's gone all over this world. You've got a serial killer here. I think."

(CBS)  A private investigator who was inside the attempted FBI sting of murder suspect Joran van der Sloot says the Dutchman is a "homicidal maniac."

Van der Sloot, 22, is being held in Peru in the death of 21-year-old business student Stephany Flores.

Flores-Van Der Sloot 1st Meeting Caught on Tape
Flores Kin Was "Freaking Out" over van der Sloot
Photos: Stephany Flores Murder
Van der Sloot Lawyer: Inconsistencies Already
Photos: Van der Sloot Wanted for Murder
Photos: Photos: Natalee Holloway, Paradise Lost
Holloway Ally: Flores Murder Brings It All Back


He's also the chief suspect in the disappearance in Aruba five years ago of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway. Van der Sloot was taken into custody and questioned twice in that case, but has never been charged.

Peruvian police say van der Sloot confessed to killing Flores, telling them, reports CBS News Correspondent Elaine Quijano, he did it because she saw information about Holloway on his laptop.

Days before leaving for Peru last month, van der Sloot was targeted by the FBI in the Holloway case.

In April, he allegedly offered a deal to Holloway's mother: He'd disclose the location of her daughter's body in exchange for $250,000.

Private investigator Beau Dietl was brought in by the Holloway family.

He told CBS News van der Sloot "admits to pushing Natalee down, where he hits her head and she dies. That's what he states."

The FBI then launched the sting, Quijano says.

On May 10, van der Sloot was given $25,000, but federal officials say he provided false information about the location of Holloway's body.

The FBI says it didn't move in because its case "wasn't sufficiently developed."

Van der Sloot left Aruba and wound up in Peru, where he's accused of taking Flores' life.

On "The Early Show" Thursday, Dietl took viewers inside the FBI sting.

As he tells it, van der Sloot contacted the Holloways, saying "his father had just died in January and he wants to come clean and he wants to tell everybody where he buried Natalee Holloway" - if they give him $250,000.

Dietl says his firm arranged to meet van der Sloot in Aruba, then let the FBI know what was going on.

It was at that point, says Dietl, that the sting was put together.

And, he asserts, Aruban officials dropped the ball by not arresting van der Sloot - again, before he was off to Peru.

And, Dietl observed, "This guy's been all over the world in the last five years. Thailand, everywhere. This is a homicidal maniac. I've met him. I looked in his eyes. This guy we should be checking Interpol and the FBI should be checking where he's gone all over this world. You've got a serial killer here. I think."

To see the entire Dietl interview, click on the video below:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/06/10/earlyshow/main6567830.shtml

Joran van der Sloot: 'This is a Homicidal Maniac'
Private Investigator Blames Aruban Authorities for Letting van der Sloot Get Away
June 10, 2010

A private investigator who was involved in the extortion sting on Joran van der Sloot called the Dutch playboy a "homicidal maniac" and blamed the Aruban government for not nabbing him when it had the chance.

Investigator Bo Dietl said the mere fact that van der Sloot was videotaped, detailing the demise of missing American teenager Natalee Holloway should have been enough for police in Aruba to detain him before he left the island.

"You have wire fraud, you have extortion, but on top of it you have him making incriminating statements," Dietl said. "They could have popped him on that."  

 Police in Peru have said van der Sloot confessed to killing 21-year-old Stephany Flores Ramirez  while in Lima. His trip to Peru was believed to be financed by money provided by the United States as part of a sting that was designed catch van der Sloot taking money from Holloway's family in exchange for information about her whereabouts.

But even though van der Sloot was videotaped counting the cash, neither Aruban or U.S. authorities charged him. And when he was taken to the site where he'd told authorities he buried Holloway's body, investigators found no trace of her.

Dietl has been quoted as saying van der Sloot was videotaped saying that he pushed Holloway while they were together and that she fell and hit her head and died.

"I met him once," Dietl said of van der Sloot, "and I'm telling you this could be a psychopathic killer that could have killed other people."

The FBI has taken heat in the U.S. for not only letting him go but apparently financing the trip to Peru that ended with Flores' death. The FBI has denied moving too slowly.

"News accounts have also questioned why charges were not brought earlier, so that the tragic death of Stephany Flores could have been avoided," the agency said in a statement released Wednesday "The Birmingham investigation was not related in any way to the murder in Peru. Despite having been in motion for several weeks at the time of Miss Flores' death, it was not sufficiently developed to bring charges prior to the time van der Sloot left Aruba."

Dietl said that the entire operation, which involved Holloway's mother, Beth Twitty, was put together in hopes of once and for all bringing closure to a five-year-old investigation into Holloway's disappearance.

"This is a mother who wants to have closure with the death of her daughter," Dietl said. "This is what it's all about."

In Peru, van der Sloot is expected to be charged sometime this weekend.

Newly released surveillance video taken shortly after 2 a.m. on May 30, just hours before Flores was killed, shows van der Sloot walking up to a poker table alone. Less than an hour later, Flores walks over to the same table, shakes hands with van der Sloot and sits down next to him.

Police say they had met earlier that weekend. At 3 a.m., casino suveillance video shows the pair laughing and playing cards. A minute later she was seen gesturing to a friend and then leaving with van der Sloot.

Now in a Lima jail, police say he breaks down in tears when he recalls the night of Flores' murder.

Extortion Plot Meant to Nab van der Sloot, Close Holloway Case
 The FBI's Birmingham office has said that it was leading an investigation on May 10 when $15,000 was wired to a Dutch bank for van der Sloot. The money, the FBI said, was supposed to be in exchange for information about what happened to Holloway and the location of her body.

According to reports, van der Sloot was also given $10,000 in cash, and that he was caught on tape counting the cash.

 In Peru, investigators are leaning on van der Sloot to give them information about Holloway's 2005 disappearance in Aruba during a school trip. He has been arrested twice in Aruba and remains the prime suspect, but has never been charged

Master hackers hired by Peruvian authorities to examine his laptop have reportedly found pictures and other information relating to Holloway.

Investigators in Lima are also pressuring van der Sloot to take them to the hotel where Flores was killed to retrace his steps.

Police investigators told Lima's La Republica newspaper that van der Sloot's bombshell confession came late Monday night when he tearfully admitted that he grabbed Flores by the neck when she began reading articles about him on the Internet.

"I did not want to do it. The girl intruded into my private life," he told investigators, according to La Republica. "She had no right."

"I confronted her," he continued. "She was frightened, we argued and she wanted to get away. I grabbed her by the neck and I hit her."

Flores' battered body was found three days later, her neck broken. van der Sloot, who had crossed the border into Chile, was nabbed there and extradited back to Peru.

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Media/joran-van-der-sloot-homicidal-maniac/story?id=10874347&page=1
 
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Media/joran-van-der-sloot-homicidal-maniac/story?id=10874347&page=2
 

Police Give Dutchman Case to Prosecutors
Peru police give Van der Sloot murder case to prosecutors
The Associated Press
LIMA, Peru June 10, 2010 (AP)

Joran van der Sloot 's confession in the murder of a 21-year-old woman — allegedly smashing her face and strangling her — was so complete that police decided there was no need to take him to the crime scene for a walkthrough, according to Peru's criminal police chief.

 The case against the young Dutchman, who also remains the lone suspect in the Natalee Holloway missing-teenager case, goes to prosecutors Thursday so they can file formal charges, said the official, Gen. Cesar Guardia.

"We've practically closed the case," he told The Associated Press. "He's confessed with a wealth of details that have been corroborated through criminal investigative rigor."

Guardia denied any suggestion that Van der Sloot's confession was forced. He said a translator assigned by the Dutch Embassy was present, as was a state-appointed defense attorney.

If tried and convicted on murder charges, Van der Sloot would face from 15 to 35 years in prison.

What remains unresolved is the May 30, 2005 disappearance of Holloway on the Caribbean  island of Aruba.

Efforts by the FBI to try to resolve it may have inadvertently helped fund the travel that enabled the murder — exactly five years to the day after the Alabama teen vanished — of Lima business student Stephany Flores.

Believing it was closing in on Van der Sloot, the FBI videotaped and paid him $25,000 in a sting operation in Aruba last month, investigators told the AP. But it held off on arresting him, and he took the money and flew to Peru.

Peruvian interrogators restricted their questioning of Van der Sloot to the case of Flores, the daughter of a circus promoter and former race car driver whom he met playing poker at a casino, Guardia said.

He told the AP in an interview Wednesday evening that the 6-foot-3 (190-centimeter-tall) Van der Sloot, 22, impressed investigators with both his intelligence and brutality.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wirestory?id=10873420&page=1


Continued:

Police Give Dutchman Case to Prosecutors
Peru police turn Van der Sloot over to prosecutors

"He is irascible. He has no self-control," Guardia said

The general said Van der Sloot took Flores' cash, about US$300 worth of Peruvian currency, and two credit cards.

 Guardia said Van der Sloot attested in his confession to killing Flores because she found out about the Aruba case by using his laptop without his permission. But he said police didn't necessarily believe him and think he may have killed Flores before going out and returning to the room with two cups of coffee and rolls.

"This guy is very intelligent but at times has lapses," said Guardia. "And the truth is that he is not a person in possession of all his senses."

A psychological examination is pending, he said.

Van der Sloot is also getting plenty to eat, Guardia said. "If he wants a steak we give him a steak ... If he wants a cigarette we give him cigarettes."

The evidence against the Dutchman includes hotel security camera video showing Flores and Van der Sloot entering his hotel room together and the Dutchman leaving alone four hours later.

"The incriminatory elements were so powerful that he had to confess," said Guardia.

Van der Sloot confessed, police say, on his third full day in police custody and a full week after he fled into northern Chile. Police said they removed him from their headquaters and took him to the prosecutor's office on Thursday.

He was charged with extortion in the United States on June 2, the day of his arrest in Chile, in a case U.S. law officers and a private investigator say stemmed from work revived in April when Van der Sloot contacted a lawyer for Holloway's mother. The Dutchman was seeking $250,000 in exchange for the location of the young woman's body, they said.

Van der Sloot's father died in February and he "wanted to come clean, but he also wanted money," the private investigator, Bo Dietl, told the AP.

Holloway's family said they wanted closure and the attorney, John Kelly, contacted the FBI. It sent 10 to 12 agents to Aruba who set up a sting operation, added Dietl, who works with Kelly.

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Peru police turn Van der Sloot over to prosecutors

In the operation, Van der Sloot was given $10,000 in cash — another $15,000 was wired to a bank account in his name — and told he'd get $225,000 once the body was found, the investigator said.

 Van der Sloot was secretly videotaped by the FBI  in an Aruba hotel telling Kelly he pushed Holloway down, she hit her head on a rock and died, he added.

He said he then contacted his father, who helped him bury the body, Dietl added.

Under surveillance by the FBI, Kelley and Van der Sloot went to where the body supposedly was buried.

No body has been found.

The investigation of Van der Sloot in the Holloway case was simply not far enough along to have him arrested, the FBI and the U.S. attorney's office in Birmingham said Wednesday.

However, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy  quickly asked FBI Director Robert Mueller for an explanation of "exactly what happened in this case and the basis for all actions taken by the FBI."

The federal criminal complaint in the case says Van der Sloot got a partial payment of $15,000 wired to a Netherlands bank on or around May 10.

It did not say where the money came from.

In a statement Wednesday, the FBI said only that the payment came from private funds. Holloway's mother, Beth Twitty, has refused to discuss details of the case and Dietl said he didn't know the money's origin.

Van der Sloot was the last person seen with her daughter before the girl vanished on the last night of a high school graduation trip. He was arrested twice but released both times for a lack of evidence.

Flores' family was asked Wednesday for comment on the fact that Van der Sloot traveled to Peru less than a week after receiving the cash in the extortion sting.

Enrique Flores, one of the slain Peruvian woman's brothers, said, "My sister is dead, so I can't accomplish anything by thinking about what might have been."

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Peru police give Van der Sloot murder case to prosecutors

Enrique Flores, one of the slain Peruvian woman's brothers, said, "My sister is dead, so I can't accomplish anything by thinking about what might have been."

"Neither I nor the family are thinking about all the things that could have happened but did not."

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 Associated Press Writers Samantha Gross in New York City, Pete Yost in Washington, Jay Reeves and Kendal Weaver in Alabama  and Mike Melia in San Juan contributed to this report.

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Report: Van der Sloot moved to attorney general's office
June 10th, 2010

[Updated 10:05 a.m.] Peru murder suspect Joran van der Sloot, a longtime suspect in the disappearance of an American teen in Aruba, was transferred from a police facility to the national attorney general's office Thursday morning, according to images broadcast by CNN affiliate America TV in Peru.

Peruvian TV earlier reported that he was transferred to a medical facility, which is across the street from the national attorney general's office.

[Updated at 9:50 a.m.] Peru murder suspect Joran van der Sloot, a longtime suspect in the disappearance of an American teen in Aruba, was transferred from a police facility to a medical facility Thursday morning, according to images broadcast by CNN affiliates in Peru.

[Posted at 9:00 a.m.] The attorney for Peru murder suspect Joran van der Sloot said he's going to ask the judge in charge of the case to strike down his client's confession because he was not being properly represented at the time he was interrogated, lawyer Maximo Altez told CNN affiliate Panamericana TV in an interview that aired Thursday.

Van der Sloot, a longtime suspect in the disappearance of U.S. teen Natalee Holloway five years ago in Aruba, was arrested last week in connection with the slaying of a 21-year-old Peruvian woman. The body of Stephany Flores was found in a hotel room registered to van der Sloot. Hotel surveillance video shows the pair entering his room and van der Sloot leaving alone more than three hours later.

Altez said Flores attacked van der Sloot first, after he confronted her for going through his computer. Police said Flores was badly beaten and suffered a broken neck.

– CNN's Rafael Romo contributed to this report

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Translation of Peruvian website:

"Raquetazo" means hit with a tennis racquet. The Peruvian media knew and reported it but it escaped me and the rest-no weapon of choice was known. FYI

Van der Sloot pasó a manos de Fiscalía
El asesino confeso de Stephany Flores fue trasladado de la sede de la Dirincri al Ministerio Público en medio de fuertes medidas de seguridad.

Video

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June 8, 2010 | 2:24 PM ET
BREAKING NEWS: IT WAS HOLLOWAY ATTORNEY JOHN Q. KELLY WHO SET UP THE MAY 10 STING

Following up on the tip I reported her last week that John Q. Kelly was in Aruba twice in May, sources have now confirmed to me that it was John Q. Kelly, the Holloway family attorney who set up the sting operation on May 10.

Here is how it unfolded:

Sources confirm that the plan started in early April.  Kelly was engaged in email traffic back and forth with Joran van der Sloot for some time prior to Easter Sunday.  Kelly traveled to Aruba on or about Easter, met with van der Sloot and began to set the stage.  Kelly was seeking information as to what happened to Natalee Holloway and was seeking that information for his clients, the parents of Natalee Holloway.  For reasons unclear, Kelly did not get the information on Easter Sunday but returned to the United States and made contact with the FBI.

Kelly, with the FBI, and with the assistance of  Aruban law enforcement, set up the sting operation for May 10.  A hotel room in Aruba and a car were both equipped with videotape equipment so that the crime could be caught on tape.

The plan was to tape van der Sloot extorting money from Beth Holloway via her lawyer.  Van der Sloot was given $10,000 cash (he counted it twice on tape) which is the extortion count and was wired $15,000 (wire fraud count.)  The FBI has all the bank information for the bank transfer.  The method of money transfer - cash and wire - was deliberate part of the plan in order to set up these two crimes.

Once the crime was committed on tape - it was -  the FBI planned to make arrangements to arrest van der Sloot.  The FBI arrest obviously did not happen.  Kelly spent several hours being taped with van der Sloot.  The FBI has the entire tape.  The Aruban authorities do not have the tape.

3 days after Van der Sloot was caught on tape committing the two planned crimes, he boarded a flight from Aruba to Colombia and on to Peru.  The Aruban Attorney General told me that the FBI was warned that van der Sloot was leaving the country but that the FBI did not move.

At no time after he left the country, per my sources, was Kelly told by the FBI that the FBI had "lost" van der Sloot.  Instead, Kelly was - it apears - mislead by the FBI into thinking an arrest was imminent.

After the murder in Peru, the US Attorney in Alabama unsealed an Amended Criminal Complaint charging van der Sloot with extortion and wire fraud (per the original plan.)  What is not known is what was Amended or when the original Criminal Complaint was filed (it was apparently under seal.) Both these pieces of information could be helpful in  better understanding what happened.

What is still not fully explained - is why the FBI did not act.  It appears the crime was "delivered" to them on May 10 and in the best possible manner: on tape.

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June 9, 2010 | 6:06 PM ET
FBI issues statement about Joran van der Sloot

Joint statement from FBI and U.S. Attorney's Office in Birmingham, AL:

“In April of this year, the FBI and U.S. Attorney's office in Birmingham, Alabama, initiated an investigation into allegations of criminal conduct by Joran van der Sloot, related to the disappearance of Natalee Holloway in Aruba five years earlier. Prior to law enforcement's involvement in the situation, Van der Sloot offered to provide information to an individual regarding the location of Natalee Holloway's remains and the circumstances of her death in exchange for $250,000.00. The FBI-led investigation was conducted in conjunction with Aruban authorities. The U.S. Attorney filed a criminal complaint charging van der Sloot with extortion and wire fraud on June 3, 2010.

Some news accounts have suggested that the FBI provided $25,000.00 in funds that were transmitted to van der Sloot. This is incorrect. The funds involved were private funds.

News accounts have also questioned why charges were not brought earlier, so that the tragic death of Stephany Flores could have been avoided. We offer our heartfelt sympathy to the Flores family. The Birmingham investigation was not related in any way to the murder in Peru. Despite having been in motion for several weeks at the time of Miss Flores’ death, it was not sufficiently developed to bring charges prior to the time van der Sloot left Aruba. This is not due to any fault on the part of the FBI or the US Attorney’s Office, where agents and prosecutors were working as hard as possible to bring the case to fruition when they learned of the murder. A case based on events outside of the United States is a complex matter, and work was proceeding with all deliberate speed to prepare the evidence, the charges and the necessary procedures to obtain custody of van der Sloot.”

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FBI, U.S. Attorney's office respond to criticism on timing of Joran van der Sloot charges
Published: Wednesday, June 09, 2010, 4:23 PM
Updated: Wednesday, June 09, 2010, 4:51 PM

The FBI and U.S. Attorney's offices in Birmingham responded this afternoon to questions about whether if it had acted earlier to charge Joran van der Sloot then the death of a Peru woman might have been prevented.

Van der Sloot confessed to the death of 21-year-old Stephany Flores in Peru. The FBI and U.S. Attorney's Office had filed charges against van der Sloot after his arrest charging that he had extorted money from someone in May in connection with the disappearance of Mountain Brook teen Natalee Holloway in 2005. Van der Sloot has also been the prime suspect in Holloway's disappearance.

"We offer our heartfelt sympathy to the Flores family," according to the joint FBI and U.S. Attorney's Office statement. "The Birmingham investigation was not related in any way to the murder in Peru.  Despite having been in motion for several weeks at the time of Miss Flores' death, it was not sufficiently developed to bring charges prior to the time van der Sloot left Aruba."

"This is not due to any fault on the part of the FBI or the U.S. Attorney's Office, where agents and prosecutors were working as hard as possible to bring the case to fruition when they learned of the murder," according to the statement. "A case based on events outside of the United States is a complex matter, and work was proceeding with all deliberate speed to prepare the evidence, the charges and the necessary procedures to obtain custody of van der Sloot."
 
The FBI and U.S. Attorney's Office statement also says that some news accounts have suggested that the FBI provided $25,000 that was transmitted to van der Sloot. "This is incorrect. The funds involved were private funds," according to the statement.

The statement said that in April, the FBI and U.S. Attorney's Office in Birmingham started an investigation into allegations of criminal conduct by Joran van der Sloot, related to the disappearance of Natalee Holloway in Aruba five years earlier.

Prior to law enforcement's involvement in the situation, Van der Sloot offered to provide information to an individual regarding the location of Natalee Holloway's remains and the circumstances of her death in exchange for $250,000, according to the statement.

The FBI-led investigation was conducted in conjunction with Aruban authorities and the U.S. Attorney's office filed a criminal complaint charging van der Sloot with extortion and wire fraud on June 3.

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Peru murder suspect van der Sloot taken to attorney general's officeBy the CNN Wire Staff
June 10, 2010 12:55 p.m. EDT

Lima, Peru (CNN) -- Peru murder suspect Joran van der Sloot, a longtime suspect in the disappearance of an American teen in Aruba, was transferred from a police facility to the national attorney general's office Thursday morning, according to images broadcast by CNN affiliate America TV.

Van der Sloot's attorney, Maximo Alonso Altez Navarro, told CNN his client will go from the attorney general's office to the Justice Ministry, where a judge will determine which jail he will go to.

Van der Sloot, twice detained but never charged in the disappearance of U.S. teen Natalee Holloway five years ago in Aruba, was arrested last week in connection with the slaying of a 21-year-old Peruvian woman in Lima, the nation's capital. He confessed to the slaying earlier this week, police said.

The lawyer said he has spoken with the director of jails in Lima to make sure van der Sloot is safe once he is moved to one of the city's maximum-security prisons.

Altez said he planned to ask the judge in the case to strike down van der Sloot's confession, because he was not properly represented when he was interrogated.

The attorney said police got a public defense attorney to be present at the interrogation and subsequent confession, but that van der Sloot never agreed to this lawyer.

Altez also said he has found indications that the handling of the evidence was tainted, especially the way the body was handled during the crime scene investigation.

He intends to go to trial, Altez said.

The body of Stephany Flores was found last week in a hotel room registered to van der Sloot. Hotel surveillance video shows the pair entering his room and van der Sloot leaving alone more than three hours later.

Altez said Flores attacked van der Sloot first, after he confronted her for going through his computer. Police said Flores was badly beaten and suffered a broken neck.

Van der Sloot confessed Monday night after a seven-hour interrogation to killing Flores, a source with direct knowledge of the investigation told CNN.

The Dutch citizen told investigators that he left the hotel room to buy bread and coffee at a gas station next to the hotel, the source said.

Upon van der Sloot's return, he found Flores going through his laptop, where she found something linking him to Holloway's disappearance, the source said.

At that point, Flores wanted to leave, and the pair started arguing, according to the source.

Flores slapped van der Sloot, and he hit her back, and then grabbed her neck, the source said.

Van der Sloot told investigators he had smoked marijuana before the confrontation, the source said.

Although Flores' body was found half-dressed, there was no evidence that she had sexual intercourse that night, the source said.

Van der Sloot, 22, was arrested in Chile on June 4 and returned to Peru the next day.

While he was never charged in connection with Holloway's disappearance in 2005, he has been charged in Alabama with extortion and wire fraud charges. According to a document from Interpol, van der Sloot contacted a representative of Holloway's mother, Beth Holloway, on or around March 29 to ask for $250,000 in exchange for information on the whereabouts of Natalee Holloway's remains.

Van der Sloot received $25,000 last month, officials said.

A representative for Holloway's mother who paid the money was an undercover FBI agent, a federal law enforcement official told CNN.

However, the FBI and the U.S. attorney's office in Birmingham, Alabama, said Wednesday that the FBI did not supply the money.

"Some news accounts have suggested that the FBI provided $25,000 in funds that were transmitted to van der Sloot. This is incorrect. The funds involved were private funds," the FBI and U.S. attorney's office said in a statement.

The FBI and U.S. attorney's office in Birmingham arranged for a meeting in which van der Sloot was paid $10,000 in cash and another $15,000 in a wire transfer, a source familiar with the case said. The meeting took place in May, according to the U.S. attorney's office in Birmingham.

Interpol documents show that the $15,000 was transferred to a personal bank account in the Netherlands. The information about Natalee Holloway that van der Sloot provided to the FBI was not true, according to the documents.

Although the investigation involving alleged extortion had been in motion for several weeks at the time of Flores' death, "it was not sufficiently developed to bring charges prior to the time van der Sloot left Aruba," the FBI statement said.

"This is not due to any fault on the part of the FBI or the U.S. attorney's office, where agents and prosecutors were working as hard as possible to bring the case to fruition when they learned of the murder. A case based on events outside of the United States is a complex matter, and work was proceeding with all deliberate speed to prepare the evidence, the charges and the necessary procedures to obtain custody of van der Sloot," the statement said.

CNN's Mayra Cuevas and Rafael Romo contributed to this report.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/06/10/peru.murder.case/?hpt=T2

June 10, 2010 | 1:02 PM ET
AFFIDAVIT UNSEALED ! Joran van der Sloot

AFFIDAVIT IN SUPPORT OF CRIMINAL COMPLAINT CHARGING Joran van der Sloot has just been UNSEALED.

The affidavit will (should) state what the FBI claims happened that gives rise to extortion and wire fraud.  Pay close attention to the date on the affidavit....was it close to May 10....or just since Peru began looking for van der Sloot.)

http://gretawire.blogs.foxnews.com/affidavit-unsealed-joran-van-der-sloot/


Affidavit:

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FILED
2010 Jun-10 AM 11:10
U.S. DISTRICT COURT
N.D. OF ALABAMA

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Affidavit in Support of Criminal Complaint I, William K. Bryan, the undersigned complainant, after being duly sworn, state the following is true to the best of my belief and knowledge:

1. I am a Special Agent within the Federal Bureau ofInvestigation (FBI). I have been so employed for over twenty years, and am currently assigned to the FBI office in Birmingham, Alabama.

2. This affidavit is made in support of a criminal complaint against Joran van der Sloot (hereafter, "van der Sloot"), a citizen ofthe Netherlands, who resides from time-to-time on the island of Aruba, and is based on information provided to me by other law enforcement officials, including, but not limited to, FBI special agents, Aruban Police officers, witness interviews conducted by law enforcement officers, and affiant's personal knowledge of international electronic communications that have recently occurred between van der Sloot and a representative of Beth Holloway Twitty (hereafter, "Mrs. Twitty"). The representative ofMrs. Twitty is a cooperating witness in this case. Based on the information contained herein, affiant respectfully submits there is probable cause to believe that van der Sloot has committed the federal offense ofextortion, in

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violation ofTitle 18, United States Code, Section 1951(a) and the federal offense of wire fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1344.

Background

3. On May 30, 2005, Natalee Holloway (hereafter, "Natalee") failed to return to Birmingham from a high school graduation trip to Aruba. Natalee was scheduled to fly home on May 30, 2005, but failed to appear for her flight. She was last seen by her classmates leaving Carlos'n Charlie's, a Caribbean chain restaurant and nightclub in Oranjestad, Aruba, sitting inside a vehicle with van der Sioot and two acquaintances -brothers Deepak and Satish Kalpoe.

4. When Natalee failed to return home, her mother, Mrs. Twitty, along with her step-father, George "Jug" Twitty, and other friends immediately traveled to Aruba in an effort to ascertain Natalee's whereabouts. Within hours of landing in Aruba, the Twittys provided Aruban police with van der Sloot's name and address, identifying him as the person with whom Natalee had left the nightclub on the previous evening. On June 2, 2005, van der Sloot told authorities that he and Holloway had driven to the California Lighthouse area of Arashi Beach because Holloway wantedto see sharks. He said that he dropped Holloway off at her hotel, the Holiday Inn around 2:00 a.m. V AN DER SLOaT has since made several contradictory statements about what happened to Holloway and his

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involvement.

5. In the years following Natalee's disappearance, extensive searches have been conducted on the island of Aruba and in the surrounding waters, with no success. Over time, monetary rewards of up to $1 million have been offered for Natalee's safe return. In addition, rewards ofup to $250,000 have been offered for information leading to the return of her remains.

Scheme

6. On or about March 29,2010, van der 8loot contacted the cooperating witness via email.using the email address (BLANK), During a series of emails that followed, van der Sloot offered to take the cooperating witness to the location ofNatalee Holloway's body, advise the cooperating witness as to the circumstances ofher death, and identify those involved in her death and disappearance in return for a payment of$250,000. Van der Sloot indicated to the cooperating witness that unless Mrs. Twitty paid the money demanded he would not tell where the remains of her daughter were hidden, nor provide any information regarding the circumstances of her death. During a subsequent series of emails,van der 8100t agreed to modify the terms ofhis offer.

For an initial payment of $25,000, he would take the cooperating witness to the location of Nata lee's body. Upon recovery of the body and confirmation that it

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was, in fact, the remains ofNata lee Holloway, van der Sloot would be paid an additional $225,000 by Mrs. Twitty. Van der Sloot later emailed his bank account information to the cooperating witness, so that the money could be deposited into his bank account by wire transfer. The information sent by van der Sloot revealed that his account is located at the SNS Bank, located in the Netherlands. While negotiating this deal via email, van der Sloot insisted that a written contract between him and Mrs. Twitty be prepared by the cooperating witness. The contract was to set out the terms of their agreement and be signed by both parties. The cooperating witness drew up the agreement and sent it by electronic facsimile (FAX) from his office in New York to Mrs. Twitty in Birmingham, Alabama. Mrs. Twitty signed the agreement and FAXed it back to the cooperating witness.

7. On April 15,2010, Mrs. Twitty executed a wire transfer of$100 from Regions Bank in Birmingham, Alabama to van der Sloot's bank account in the Netherlands, to confirm that the account was, in fact, a good account. Bank records later confirmed the wire transfer ofthe funds into van der Sloot's account.

8. On May 10,2010, the cooperating witness flew to Aruba to meet with van der Sloot. Before the cooperating witness departed the United States, Mrs. Twitty wire transferred the sum of $1 0,000 from her bank account in Birmingham, Alabama, to the cooperating witness's bank account in New York, so that he could

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withdraw this amount in cash and carry it with him to his meeting with van der Sloot. Once in Aruba, the cooperating witness called van der Sloot, who said he would come to the hotel where the cooperating witness was staying. After van der Sloot arrived, the cooperating witness presented him with the agreement signed by  . Mrs. Twitty. Van der Sloot and the cooperating witness signed two copies ofthe agreement and took pictures of each other signing the agreement. The cooperating witness then gave $10,000 in cash to van der Sloot. This meeting was recorded. Next, the cooperating witness called Mrs. Twitty, who immediately wire transferred $15;000, the balance of the initial payment, from her bank account in Regions Bank in Birmingham, Alabama, to van der Sloot's bank account in the Netherlands. Van der Sloot confirmed to the cooperating witness that the wire transfer had occurred. Van der Sloot also confirmed to the cooperating witness that he used the (BLANK) account.

9. The cooperating witness and van der Sloot got into the cooperating witness's rental carand left the hotel. They drove to a house located at (BLANK).  Once there, van der Sloot pointed to the residence and said that Natalee Holloway'S body would be found in the foundation of the house. The cooperating witness wanted to be certain which house van der Sloot was identifying so he took photographs of the house. Van der Sloot then told the

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cooperating witness that van der Sloot's father, Paulus van der Sioot, had disposed of Natalee's body by burying her remains in the gravel under the foundation of the single story house. Vander Sioot went on to admit that he had been with Natalee on the night of May 29/30,2005, and that he had thrown her to the ground after she had attempted to stop him from leaving her. Van der Sloot claimed that when she fell down, she hit her head on a rock and died as a result of the impact. Van der Sloot told the cooperating witness that he hid Natalee's body and then returned home and told his father what had happened. According to van der Sioot , his father accompanied him to the location where van der Sloot had secreted Natalee's body. Van der Sioot returned to the car while his father further ~oncealed the body. Van der Sloot said that a few days later, his father buried Natalee's body under the house van der Sloothad shown the cooperating witness. Van der Sioot added that he had not actually seen his father inter the remains, but was told and
shown by his father where the body was buried.

10. A review by Aruban law enforcement officials of a b~ilding permit for (BLANK) the residence indicated by van derSloot, revealed that there was no foundation or structure on that parcel of land at the time of Natalee Holloway's disappearance. The document indicates that a permit was requested on 5/23/2005, that a permit was approved on 5/26/2005, that a site

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inspection was conducted on 6/15/2005, and that the permit was not issued until

10/18/2010. An interview with the contractor who built the house confirms that the house identified by van der Sloot was not under construction at the time of Natalee Holloway's disappearance. Further, investigation discovered aerial photographs which were taken on May 29,2005 and June 5, 2005, that show no construction was underway at the location.

11. After leaving Aruba the cooperating witness exchanged additional emails with van der Sloot. In a May 17, 2010 email, van der Sloot admitted to the cooperating witness that he had lied about the location of Natalee Holloway's remams.

Based on the foregoing I have probable cause to believe that JORAN VAN DER SLOaT has committed extortion in violation ofTitle 18, United States Code, Section 1951(a) and wire fraud in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1344.

William K. Bryan L
Affiant

Paul W. Greene
U.S. Magistrate Judge

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Casino Video Captures Meeting of Van Der Sloot, Peruvian 'Victim'
Published June 10, 2010

A security camera in a Peru casino has captured the moment Joran Van der Sloot met the young woman who he has confessed to killing in a fit of rage.

The video shows the 22-year-old Van der Sloot sitting at a card table at the Atlantic City Casino in Lima as Stephany Flores approaches, and the two shake hands. The casino is owned by Flores’ father, an influential politician and former race car driver, Ricardo Flores, Sr.

After chatting and drinking with him, Flores, 21, drove Van der Sloot in her Jeep to the Miraflores Hotel Tac, where they went to his room at about 5:20 a.m. local time on May 30.

Van der Sloot told police he sat on the edge of his hotel bed in Lima, Peru, sipping espresso and munching four sponge cakes just minutes after brutally killing Flores, the New York Post reported Thursday.

Van der Sloot, the man long suspected of murdering Alabama teen Natalee Holloway in Aruba five years ago, told Peruvian detectives he also popped three amphetamine pills to stay alert and ward off the exhaustion he felt from playing poker with Flores at the casino into the early-morning hours before considering whether he could dump the body in the ocean, according to La Republica newspaper in Lima.

"I was going to use one of my suitcases to get rid of the body, but I didn't do it because I was afraid that I would be detained leaving the hotel with my baggage and not paying the bill," he later told cops.

He eventually showered and changed out of the clothes he wore while he was bashing Flores with a tennis racket, and left the hotel room with a backpack containing his laptop computer. He walked out of the hotel room shortly before 9 a.m. local time, leaving behind Flores' body. The corpse was found three days later when hotel workers grew suspicious and entered the room.

A wrapper from a date-rape pill later was found in her abandoned car, according to Flores' father. Police believe that Van der Sloot tried to have sex with Flores in his room but that she rebuffed him by saying she was a lesbian, U.S. tabloid the National Enquirer said. Both of them slept until about 8 a.m. local time, at which time Van der Sloot got up and went out to a nearby restaurant to buy some cakes and two espressos.

When he returned, he discovered Flores looked at his laptop and learned of his ties to Holloway. Van der Sloot told cops he grabbed Flores by the neck and began a beating that ended with her death.

"I did not want to do it," he later told cops, according to La Republica. "The girl intruded into my private life. She had no right."

He was arrested in Chile one day after Flores' body was found. Authorities there found him in possession of his laptop and a chart indicating the tides in the Pacific off Lima's coast, which led them to suspect he wanted to dump Flores' body in the ocean.

Van der Sloot was quickly extradited to Peru.

On Monday, La Republica reported, van der Sloot spoke to his mother on the phone for 20 minutes, and authorities believe she convinced him to tell the truth.

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Van der Sloot's Meeting with Flores
June 10, 2010 5:22 AM

Newly-released video from a Lima, Peru casino shows Stephanie Flores' first meeting with Joran van der Sloot. Elaine Quijano reports.

Video:

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Van der Sloot case goes to prosecutors
They're deciding on whether premeditation was involved
updated 1 hour, 31 minutes ago

LIMA, Peru - Police moved Joran van der Sloot to a cell at the prosecutor's office on Thursday as officials prepared to file charges following what they called a remarkably complete confession in the beating and strangling death of a 21-year-old woman.

"We've practically closed the case," criminal police chief Gen. Cesar Guardia told The Associated Press.

Sheathed in a bulletproof vest, the young Dutchman was driven less than a mile across central Lima during rush hour in a police caravan escorted by motorcycle officers.

Guardia said Van der Sloot, who also remains the lone suspect in the Natalee Holloway missing-teenager case, "confessed with a wealth of details that have been corroborated through criminal investigative rigor."

But he said Peruvian interrogators restricted their questioning to the case of Stephany Flores, the daughter of a circus promoter and former race car driver whom he met playing poker at a casino.

They did not question him about Holloway's disappearance — exactly five years to the day before Flores was killed.

Guardia denied any suggestion that Van der Sloot's confession was forced. He said a translator assigned by the Dutch Embassy was present, as was a state-appointed defense attorney.

It's not clear what Van der Sloot will be charged with, NBC News reported. Under Peruvian law, the prosecutor must select a judge and together they will decide how to charge him, based on his confession and the evidence.

There are two options, NBC News reported, homicidio simple (murder without premeditation), if it's determined he flew into a rage against Flores and the killing was spontaneous, or homicidio culposo calificado, which is pre-meditated murder.

If tried and convicted on murder charges, Van der Sloot would face from 15 to 35 years in prison.

The attorney for the slain girl's family, Edwar Alvarez, told the AP that prosecutors have until 8 a.m. Friday morning to file charges. Otherwise, Van der Sloot would have to be freed.

The Holloway case
What remains unresolved is the May 30, 2005, disappearance of Holloway on the Caribbean island of Aruba.

Efforts by the FBI to try to resolve it may have inadvertently helped fund the travel that enabled the murder of Flores.

Believing it was closing in on Van der Sloot, the FBI videotaped and paid him $25,000 in a sting operation in Aruba last month, investigators told the AP. But it held off on arresting him, and he took the money and flew to Peru.

Peruvian interrogators restricted their questioning of Van der Sloot to the case of Flores, the daughter of a circus promoter and former race car driver whom he met playing poker at a casino, Guardia said.

He told the AP in an interview Wednesday evening that the 6-foot-3 Van der Sloot, 22, impressed investigators with both his intelligence and brutality.

"He grabbed her and smashed her with an elbow," Guardia said, pointing to his own nose. "A lot of blood spewed out ... Then he strangles her and throws her to the floor."

"He is irascible. He has no self-control," Guardia said.

Theft from victim

The general said Van der Sloot took Flores' cash, about US$300 worth of Peruvian currency, two credit cards and her national ID card. He apparently also took her Jeep Cherokee, which was found abandoned blocks away in a lower-class neighborhood.

Guardia said Van der Sloot attested in his confession to killing Flores because she found out about the Aruba case by using his laptop without his permission. But he said police didn't necessarily believe him and think he may have killed Flores before going out and returning to the room with two cups of coffee and rolls.

"This guy is very intelligent but at times has lapses," said Guardia. "And the truth is that he is not a person in possession of all his senses."

A psychological examination is pending, he said.

Van der Sloot is also getting plenty to eat, Guardia said. "If he wants a steak we give him a steak ... If he wants a cigarette we give him cigarettes."

Security camera video
The evidence against the Dutchman includes hotel security camera video showing Flores and Van der Sloot entering his hotel room together and the Dutchman leaving alone four hours later.

Security camera video from the Atlantic Casino where the two met shows Flores arriving at a poker table where Van der Sloot is sitting with other players, shaking his hand as if they'd met before and then taking the seat next to him. The two later leave together.

"The incriminatory elements were so powerful that he had to confess," said Guardia.

Van der Sloot confessed, police say, on his third full day in police custody and a full week after he fled into northern Chile.

He was charged with extortion in the United States on June 2, the day of his arrest in Chile, in a case U.S. law officers and a private investigator say stemmed from work revived in April when Van der Sloot contacted a lawyer for Holloway's mother. The Dutchman was seeking $250,000 in exchange for the location of the young woman's body, they said.

Van der Sloot's father died in February and he "wanted to come clean, but he also wanted money," the private investigator, Bo Dietl, told the AP.

Holloway's family said they wanted closure and the attorney, John Kelly, contacted the FBI. It sent 10 to 12 agents to Aruba who set up a sting operation, added Dietl, who works with Kelly.

In the operation, Van der Sloot was given $10,000 in cash — another $15,000 was wired to a bank account in his name — and told he'd get $225,000 once the body was found, the investigator said.

Van der Sloot was secretly videotaped by the FBI in an Aruba hotel telling Kelly he pushed Holloway down, she hit her head on a rock and died, he added.

He said he then contacted his father, who helped him bury the body, Dietl added.

Under surveillance by the FBI, Kelley and Van der Sloot went to where the body supposedly was buried.

No body has been found.

The investigation of Van der Sloot in the Holloway case was simply not far enough along to have him arrested, the FBI and the U.S. attorney's office in Birmingham said Wednesday.

However, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy quickly asked FBI Director Robert Mueller for an explanation of "exactly what happened in this case and the basis for all actions taken by the FBI."

The federal criminal complaint in the case says Van der Sloot got a partial payment of $15,000 wired to a Netherlands bank on or around May 10.

It did not say where the money came from.

In a statement Wednesday, the FBI said only that the payment came from private funds. Holloway's mother, Beth Twitty, has refused to discuss details of the case and Dietl said he didn't know the money's origin.

Van der Sloot was the last person seen with her daughter before the girl vanished on the last night of a high school graduation trip. He was arrested twice but released both times for a lack of evidence.

Flores' family was asked Wednesday for comment on the fact that Van der Sloot traveled to Peru less than a week after receiving the cash in the extortion sting.

Enrique Flores, one of the slain Peruvian woman's brothers, said, "My sister is dead, so I can't accomplish anything by thinking about what might have been."

"Neither I nor the family are thinking about all the things that could have happened but did not."

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Van der Sloot attorney says he will try to strike confessionBy the CNN Wire Staff
June 10, 2010 -- Updated 1345 GMT (2145 HKT)

Lima, Peru (CNN) -- The attorney for Peru murder suspect Joran van der Sloot said he's going to ask the judge in charge of the case to strike down his client's confession in the death of 21-year-old Stephany Flores Ramirez.

Lawyer Maximo Altez told CNN affiliate Panamericana TV in an interview that aired Thursday that he would challenge the confession because van der Sloot was not being properly represented at the time he was interrogated.

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/06/10/peru.murder.case.attorney/


Van der Sloot case goes to prosecutors
June 10, 2010

Guardia denied any suggestion that Van der Sloot's confession was forced. He said a translator assigned by the Dutch Embassy was present, as was a state-appointed defense attorney.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37618530/ns/world_news-americas/

Police: Dutchman to reveal Holloway location
Prosecutors prepare charges against Van der Sloot in Peru murder
NBC, msnbc.com and news services
updated 21 minutes ago

LIMA, Peru - As prosecutors in Peru prepared charges against Joran van der Sloot in the strangling death of a 21-year-old woman, police told NBC News on Thursday the Dutch man admits knowing the location of the remains of missing U.S. teen Natalee Holloway in Aruba.

Van der Sloot remains the lone suspect in Holloway’s disappearance — exactly five years to the day before Stephany Flores was killed in Peru.

Police sources told NBC News van der Sloot is now willing to tell authorities in Aruba where to find the Alabama teenager’s remains.  

Van der Sloot was moved to a cell at the prosecutor's office in advance of filing charges in what police called a remarkably complete confession in the killing of Flores, the daughter of a circus promoter and former race car driver whom he met playing poker at a casino.

'Practically closed the case"
"We've practically closed the case," criminal police chief Gen. Cesar Guardia told The Associated Press.

Sheathed in a bulletproof vest, the young Dutchman was driven less than a mile across central Lima during rush hour in a police caravan escorted by motorcycle officers.

Guardia said Van der Sloot "confessed with a wealth of details that have been corroborated through criminal investigative rigor."

Guardia denied any suggestion that Van der Sloot's confession was forced. He said a translator assigned by the Dutch Embassy was present, as was a state-appointed defense attorney.

The attorney for the slain girl's family, Edwar Alvarez, told the AP that prosecutors have until 8 a.m. Friday morning to file charges. Otherwise, Van der Sloot would have to be freed.

It's not clear what Van der Sloot will be charged with, NBC News reported. There are several options under Peruvian law:

- Premeditated aggravated murder — up to a 35-year sentence
- Simple murder — up to 20 years
- Murder “as result of violent emotion" — from 3 to 5 years in prison
- "Injury that leads to death" — 1 to 3 years in prison

Confessions help reduce a sentence, but likely not much for a case like this, according to Peruvian legal sources.

Prosecutors will first file a formal charge to a judge — expected on Friday — who then has 15 days to accept the charges, or dismiss them. If accepted, a months-long investigation phase begins before formal charges are reviewed and prosecutors file an official "accusation" — a charge with a request for a penalty.

Van der Sloot would then face a trial in which a panel of three judges – not a jury — decides his fate.

The Holloway case
What remains unresolved is the May 30, 2005, disappearance of Holloway on the Caribbean island of Aruba.

Efforts by the FBI to try to resolve it may have inadvertently helped fund the travel that enabled the murder of Flores.

Believing it was closing in on Van der Sloot, the FBI videotaped and paid him $25,000 in a sting operation in Aruba last month, investigators told the AP. But it held off on arresting him, and he took the money and flew to Peru.

Peruvian interrogators restricted their questioning of Van der Sloot to the case of Flores, according to Guardia.

He told the AP in an interview Wednesday evening that the 6-foot-3 Van der Sloot, 22, impressed investigators with both his intelligence and brutality.

"He grabbed her and smashed her with an elbow," Guardia said, pointing to his own nose. "A lot of blood spewed out ... Then he strangles her and throws her to the floor."

"He is irascible. He has no self-control," Guardia said.

Theft from victim
The general said Van der Sloot took Flores' cash, about US$300 worth of Peruvian currency, two credit cards and her national ID card. He apparently also took her Jeep Cherokee, which was found abandoned blocks away in a lower-class neighborhood.

Guardia said Van der Sloot attested in his confession to killing Flores because she found out about the Aruba case by using his laptop without his permission. But he said police didn't necessarily believe him and think he may have killed Flores before going out and returning to the room with two cups of coffee and rolls.

"This guy is very intelligent but at times has lapses," said Guardia. "And the truth is that he is not a person in possession of all his senses."

A psychological examination is pending, he said.

Van der Sloot is also getting plenty to eat, Guardia said. "If he wants a steak we give him a steak ... If he wants a cigarette we give him cigarettes."

Security camera video
The evidence against the Dutchman includes hotel security camera video showing Flores and Van der Sloot entering his hotel room together and the Dutchman leaving alone four hours later.

Security camera video from the Atlantic Casino where the two met shows Flores arriving at a poker table where Van der Sloot is sitting with other players, shaking his hand as if they'd met before and then taking the seat next to him. The two later leave together.

"The incriminatory elements were so powerful that he had to confess," said Guardia.

Van der Sloot confessed, police say, on his third full day in police custody and a full week after he fled into northern Chile.

He was charged with extortion in the United States on June 2, the day of his arrest in Chile, in a case U.S. law officers and a private investigator say stemmed from work revived in April when Van der Sloot contacted a lawyer for Holloway's mother. The Dutchman was seeking $250,000 in exchange for the location of the young woman's body, they said.

Van der Sloot's father died in February and he "wanted to come clean, but he also wanted money," the private investigator, Bo Dietl, told the AP.

Holloway's family said they wanted closure and the attorney, John Kelly, contacted the FBI. It sent 10 to 12 agents to Aruba who set up a sting operation, added Dietl, who works with Kelly.

In the operation, Van der Sloot was given $10,000 in cash — another $15,000 was wired to a bank account in his name — and told he'd get $225,000 once the body was found, the investigator said.

Van der Sloot was secretly videotaped by the FBI in an Aruba hotel telling Kelly he pushed Holloway down, she hit her head on a rock and died, he added.

He said he then contacted his father, who helped him bury the body, Dietl added.

Under surveillance by the FBI, Kelley and Van der Sloot went to where the body supposedly was buried.

No body has been found.

The investigation of Van der Sloot in the Holloway case was simply not far enough along to have him arrested, the FBI and the U.S. attorney's office in Birmingham said Wednesday.

However, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy quickly asked FBI Director Robert Mueller for an explanation of "exactly what happened in this case and the basis for all actions taken by the FBI."

The federal criminal complaint in the case says Van der Sloot got a partial payment of $15,000 wired to a Netherlands bank on or around May 10.

It did not say where the money came from.

In a statement Wednesday, the FBI said only that the payment came from private funds. Holloway's mother, Beth Twitty, has refused to discuss details of the case and Dietl said he didn't know the money's origin.

Van der Sloot was the last person seen with her daughter before the girl vanished on the last night of a high school graduation trip. He was arrested twice but released both times for a lack of evidence.

In a statement Wednesday, the FBI said only that the payment came from private funds. Holloway's mother, Beth Twitty, has refused to discuss details of the case and Dietl said he didn't know the money's origin.

Van der Sloot was the last person seen with her daughter before the girl vanished on the last night of a high school graduation trip. He was arrested twice but released both times for a lack of evidence.

Flores' family was asked Wednesday for comment on the fact that Van der Sloot traveled to Peru less than a week after receiving the cash in the extortion sting.

Enrique Flores, one of the slain Peruvian woman's brothers, said, "My sister is dead, so I can't accomplish anything by thinking about what might have been."

"Neither I nor the family are thinking about all the things that could have happened but did not."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37618530/from/ET
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Dutch youth lives under shadow of Holloway case 5 years laterBy the CNN Wire Staff
June 10, 2010 7:22 p.m. EDT

(CNN) -- It was supposed to be a celebration -- sun, fun and relaxation on a tropical island for recent graduates savoring the heady taste of approaching adulthood.

But instead, the trip to Aruba by a group of Birmingham, Alabama, high school seniors ended in tragedy, as one of their members, 18-year-old Natalee Holloway, never returned home. Questions surrounding her fate are unanswered five years later.

Now, Joran van der Sloot, the youth twice arrested and released in Holloway's disappearance -- seen by many as a privileged playboy who has displayed no remorse or concern over her whereabouts -- has been named a suspect in the bludgeoning death of a woman in Peru, allegations that hint at a chilling pattern. Van der Sloot was arrested Thursday in Chile following a manhunt.

"It's fair to say that he's a pretty easy guy to point a finger at, a pretty easy guy to say, 'I'm confident suspecting him,'" said Joe Tacopina, who represents van der Sloot in the Aruba case. "And he's earned some of that and some of it he hasn't earned. He's been through the wringer. He's been detained twice in Aruba. There's been absolutely no credible evidence in that case whatsoever ... he was never charged with a crime there. Don't forget that."

Holloway was last seen in the early hours of May 30, 2005, leaving an Oranjestad, Aruba, nightclub with van der Sloot and two other men, brothers Deepak and Satish Kalpoe. She was visiting the island with about 100 classmates to celebrate their graduation from Mountain Brook High School in suburban Birmingham.

Holloway failed to show up for her flight home the following day, and her packed bags were found in her hotel room.

Van der Sloot and the Kalpoes were arrested and released in 2005 in connection with the case, then arrested a second time in 2007 after Aruba's then-chief prosecutor Hans Mos said he had received new evidence in the case. Van der Sloot, then attending college in the Netherlands, was brought back to Aruba. But judges ruled the new evidence -- which included an Internet chat the same day Holloway disappeared with one of the three youths writing that she was dead -- was not enough to keep them in custody.

In the years since Holloway vanished, van der Sloot has consistently denied any involvement in her disappearance, police said.

"He's just totally, totally dragged us all through hell," Holloway's anguished mother, Beth, has said.

In 2008, a videotape surfaced on Dutch television. In it, van der Sloot tells a man he thought was a friend he had sex with Holloway on the beach after leaving the nightclub, then she "started shaking" and lost consciousness. He said he panicked when he could not resuscitate her and called a friend who had a boat. The two put Holloway in the boat, van der Sloot said, and he went home. The friend told him the next day that he had carried the body out and dumped it into the ocean.

"I don't lose a minute of sleep over it," van der Sloot said.

He later claimed the account was a lie, saying he told the man what he wanted to hear. A court ruled there was not enough evidence to re-arrest him. Aruba chief prosecutor Peter Blanken said the story was "unbelievable and not true."

But it's been van der Sloot's cavalier attitude toward the case that has fueled criticism, as well as conflicting statements he's made. He told Fox News in a 2008 interview he sold Holloway to human traffickers for $10,000, then in a taped interview denied it.

At the time his name first surfaced in the Holloway investigation, suspicion swirled around his parents, particularly his father, an Aruban lawyer training to be a judge. Paul van der Sloot was briefly taken into custody in 2005 on suspicion of involvement in the Holloway case. Authorities said he told his son that police had no case without a body. He was released after three days of questioning.

Holloway's parents, however, have said they met with Paul van der Sloot and continue to believe he had the answers to questions regarding their daughter.

"I remember the day I met with Paul at the prison," Dave Holloway has said. "And the thing that stuck out in my mind was I asked him all the questions, why he hid from the news media. And the last question that I had was, was he involved, and he said no. He said, 'Dave, I can understand your position, but you've got to understand mine. Joran's my son and I'll do everything I can to protect him.' And I believe it."

Van der Sloot's mother, Anita, has said her son told her he was on the beach with Holloway but left her there because she wanted to stay. She has maintained her son's innocence.

However, Tacopina said van der Sloot's relationship with his family has suffered in recent years.

"Joran in the last several years has gone in a very different direction, has not behaved in a way that is acceptable to anybody," he said, referring to van der Sloot's being paid for versions of events in the Holloway case. "It border-lined on pathological, it really did, and quite frankly I think he hurt a lot of people."

Tacopina cautioned against jumping to conclusions, saying that many times a new lead was thought to be the key to the Holloway case but didn't pan out. In March, for instance, a Pennsylvania couple told authorities a picture they took last year while snorkeling off Aruba showed something that looked like a skeleton. Authorities called off a dive team's search after two days, saying they found nothing that resembled the image depicted in the photograph.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/06/03/holloway.suspect.profile/index.html

Official: Van der Sloot says he knows location of Holloway's bodyBy the CNN Wire Staff
June 10, 2010 10:50 p.m. EDT

Lima, Peru (CNN) -- Joran van der Sloot told investigators during an interrogation that he knows the location of Natalee Holloway's body, but he would neither identify the location nor say what happened to her the night of her disappearance, a Peruvian police official told CNN Thursday in Lima.

"He says he knew the location of the American citizen but that he was going to explain everything to Aruban police," said Miguel Canlla, head of the homicide division of the Peruvian national police investigative unit.  

Van der Sloot, twice detained but never charged in the disappearance of Holloway five years ago in Aruba, was arrested last week in connection with a different case: the slaying of a 21-year-old Peruvian woman in Lima, the nation's capital. He confessed to the Peruvian woman's slaying earlier this week, police said.

Van der Sloot was transferred from a police facility to the national attorney general's office Thursday morning, according to images broadcast by CNN affiliate America TV.

His attorney, Maximo Alonso Altez Navarro, told CNN his client will go from the attorney general's office to the Justice Ministry, where a judge will determine which jail he will go to.

The lawyer said he has spoken with the director of jails in Lima to make sure van der Sloot is safe once he is moved to one of the city's maximum-security prisons.

Altez said he planned to ask the judge in the case to strike down van der Sloot's confession in the Peruvian case, because he was not properly represented when he was interrogated.

The attorney said police got a public defense attorney to be present at the interrogation and subsequent confession, but that van der Sloot never agreed to this lawyer.

Altez also said he has found indications that the handling of the evidence was tainted, especially the way the body was handled during the crime scene investigation.

He intends to go to trial, Altez said.

The body of Stephany Flores was found last week in a hotel room registered to van der Sloot. Hotel surveillance video shows the pair entering his room and van der Sloot leaving alone more than three hours later.

Altez said Flores attacked van der Sloot first, after he confronted her for going through his computer. Police said Flores was badly beaten and suffered a broken neck.

Van der Sloot confessed Monday night after a seven-hour interrogation to killing Flores, a source with direct knowledge of the investigation told CNN.

The Dutch citizen told investigators that he left the hotel room to buy bread and coffee at a gas station next to the hotel, the source said.

Upon van der Sloot's return, he found Flores going through his laptop, where she found something linking him to Holloway's disappearance, the source said.

At that point, Flores wanted to leave, and the pair started arguing, according to the source.

Flores slapped van der Sloot, and he hit her back, and then grabbed her neck, the source said.

Van der Sloot told investigators he had smoked marijuana before the confrontation, the source said.

Although Flores' body was found half-dressed, there was no evidence that she had sexual intercourse that night, the source said.

Van der Sloot, 22, was arrested in Chile on June 4 and returned to Peru the next day.

While he was never charged in connection with Holloway's disappearance in 2005, he has been charged in Alabama with extortion and wire fraud charges. According to a document from Interpol, van der Sloot contacted a representative of Holloway's mother, Beth Holloway, on or around March 29 to ask for $250,000 in exchange for information on the whereabouts of Natalee Holloway's remains.

Van der Sloot received $25,000 last month, officials said.

A representative for Holloway's mother who paid the money was an undercover FBI agent, a federal law enforcement official told CNN.

However, the FBI and the U.S. attorney's office in Birmingham, Alabama, said Wednesday that the FBI did not supply the money.

"Some news accounts have suggested that the FBI provided $25,000 in funds that were transmitted to van der Sloot. This is incorrect. The funds involved were private funds," the FBI and U.S. attorney's office said in a statement.

The FBI and U.S. attorney's office in Birmingham arranged for a meeting in which van der Sloot was paid $10,000 in cash and another $15,000 in a wire transfer, a source familiar with the case said. The meeting took place in May, according to the U.S. attorney's office in Birmingham.

Interpol documents show that the $15,000 was transferred to a personal bank account in the Netherlands. The information about Natalee Holloway that van der Sloot provided to the FBI was not true, according to the documents.

Although the investigation involving alleged extortion had been in motion for several weeks at the time of Flores' death, "it was not sufficiently developed to bring charges prior to the time van der Sloot left Aruba," the FBI statement said.

"This is not due to any fault on the part of the FBI or the U.S. attorney's office, where agents and prosecutors were working as hard as possible to bring the case to fruition when they learned of the murder. A case based on events outside of the United States is a complex matter, and work was proceeding with all deliberate speed to prepare the evidence, the charges and the necessary procedures to obtain custody of van der Sloot," the statement said.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/06/10/peru.murder.case/index.html?hpt=T2

Police: Dutchman to reveal Holloway location
Prosecutors prepare charges against Van der Sloot in Peru murder

NBC, msnbc.com and news services
updated 5:18 p.m. PT, Thurs., June 10, 2010

LIMA, Peru - As prosecutors in Peru prepared charges against Joran van der Sloot in the strangling death of a 21-year-old woman, police told NBC News on Thursday the Dutch man admits knowing the location of the remains of missing U.S. teen Natalee Holloway in Aruba.

Van der Sloot remains the lone suspect in Holloway’s disappearance — exactly five years to the day before Stephany Flores was killed in Peru.

Police sources told NBC News van der Sloot is now willing to tell authorities in Aruba where to find the Alabama teenager’s remains.

Van der Sloot was moved to a cell at the prosecutor's office in advance of filing charges in what police called a remarkably complete confession in the killing of Flores, the daughter of a circus promoter and former race car driver whom he met playing poker at a casino.

'Practically closed the case"
"We've practically closed the case," criminal police chief Gen. Cesar Guardia told The Associated Press.

Sheathed in a bulletproof vest, the young Dutchman was driven less than a mile across central Lima during rush hour in a police caravan escorted by motorcycle officers.

Guardia said Van der Sloot "confessed with a wealth of details that have been corroborated through criminal investigative rigor."

Guardia denied any suggestion that Van der Sloot's confession was forced. He said a translator assigned by the Dutch Embassy was present, as was a state-appointed defense attorney.

The attorney for the slain girl's family, Edwar Alvarez, told the AP that prosecutors have until 8 a.m. Friday morning to file charges. Otherwise, Van der Sloot would have to be freed.

It's not clear what Van der Sloot will be charged with, NBC News reported. There are several options under Peruvian law:

Premeditated aggravated murder — up to a 35-year sentence
Simple murder — up to 20 years
Murder “as result of violent emotion" — from 3 to 5 years in prison
"Injury that leads to death" — 1 to 3 years in prison
Confessions help reduce a sentence, but likely not much for a case like this, according to Peruvian legal sources.

Prosecutors will first file a formal charge to a judge — expected on Friday — who then has 15 days to accept the charges, or dismiss them. If accepted, a months-long investigation phase begins before formal charges are reviewed and prosecutors file an official "accusation" — a charge with a request for a penalty.

Van der Sloot would then face a trial in which a panel of three judges – not a jury — decides his fate.

The Holloway case
What remains unresolved is the May 30, 2005, disappearance of Holloway on the Caribbean island of Aruba.

Efforts by the FBI to try to resolve it may have inadvertently helped fund the travel that enabled the murder of Flores.

Believing it was closing in on Van der Sloot, the FBI videotaped and paid him $25,000 in a sting operation in Aruba last month, investigators told the AP. But it held off on arresting him, and he took the money and flew to Peru.

Peruvian interrogators restricted their questioning of Van der Sloot to the case of Flores, according to Guardia.

He told the AP in an interview Wednesday evening that the 6-foot-3 Van der Sloot, 22, impressed investigators with both his intelligence and brutality.

"He grabbed her and smashed her with an elbow," Guardia said, pointing to his own nose. "A lot of blood spewed out ... Then he strangles her and throws her to the floor."

"He is irascible. He has no self-control," Guardia said.

Theft from victim
The general said Van der Sloot took Flores' cash, about US$300 worth of Peruvian currency, two credit cards and her national ID card. He apparently also took her Jeep Cherokee, which was found abandoned blocks away in a lower-class neighborhood.

Guardia said Van der Sloot attested in his confession to killing Flores because she found out about the Aruba case by using his laptop without his permission. But he said police didn't necessarily believe him and think he may have killed Flores before going out and returning to the room with two cups of coffee and rolls.

"This guy is very intelligent but at times has lapses," said Guardia. "And the truth is that he is not a person in possession of all his senses."

A psychological examination is pending, he said.

Van der Sloot is also getting plenty to eat, Guardia said. "If he wants a steak we give him a steak ... If he wants a cigarette we give him cigarettes."

Security camera video
The evidence against the Dutchman includes hotel security camera video showing Flores and Van der Sloot entering his hotel room together and the Dutchman leaving alone four hours later.

Security camera video from the Atlantic Casino where the two met shows Flores arriving at a poker table where Van der Sloot is sitting with other players, shaking his hand as if they'd met before and then taking the seat next to him. The two later leave together.

"The incriminatory elements were so powerful that he had to confess," said Guardia.

Van der Sloot confessed, police say, on his third full day in police custody and a full week after he fled into northern Chile.

He was charged with extortion in the United States on June 2, the day of his arrest in Chile, in a case U.S. law officers and a private investigator say stemmed from work revived in April when Van der Sloot contacted a lawyer for Holloway's mother. The Dutchman was seeking $250,000 in exchange for the location of the young woman's body, they said.

Van der Sloot's father died in February and he "wanted to come clean, but he also wanted money," the private investigator, Bo Dietl, told the AP.

Holloway's family said they wanted closure and the attorney, John Kelly, contacted the FBI. It sent 10 to 12 agents to Aruba who set up a sting operation, added Dietl, who works with Kelly.

In the operation, Van der Sloot was given $10,000 in cash — another $15,000 was wired to a bank account in his name — and told he'd get $225,000 once the body was found, the investigator said.

Van der Sloot was secretly videotaped by the FBI in an Aruba hotel telling Kelly he pushed Holloway down, she hit her head on a rock and died, he added.

He said he then contacted his father, who helped him bury the body, Dietl added.

Under surveillance by the FBI, Kelley and Van der Sloot went to where the body supposedly was buried.

No body has been found.

The investigation of Van der Sloot in the Holloway case was simply not far enough along to have him arrested, the FBI and the U.S. attorney's office in Birmingham said Wednesday.

However, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy quickly asked FBI Director Robert Mueller for an explanation of "exactly what happened in this case and the basis for all actions taken by the FBI."

The federal criminal complaint in the case says Van der Sloot got a partial payment of $15,000 wired to a Netherlands bank on or around May 10.

It did not say where the money came from.

In a statement Wednesday, the FBI said only that the payment came from private funds. Holloway's mother, Beth Twitty, has refused to discuss details of the case and Dietl said he didn't know the money's origin.

Van der Sloot was the last person seen with her daughter before the girl vanished on the last night of a high school graduation trip. He was arrested twice but released both times for a lack of evidence.

Flores' family was asked Wednesday for comment on the fact that Van der Sloot traveled to Peru less than a week after receiving the cash in the extortion sting.

Enrique Flores, one of the slain Peruvian woman's brothers, said, "My sister is dead, so I can't accomplish anything by thinking about what might have been."

"Neither I nor the family are thinking about all the things that could have happened but did not."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37618530/ns/world_news-americas/

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37618530/ns/world_news-americas/page/2/

Police: Van der Sloot has information about Holloway location
From Mayra Cuevas , CNN
June 11, 2010 7:55 a.m. EDT

ima, Peru (CNN) -- Joran van der Sloot told investigators during an interrogation that he knows the location of Natalee Holloway's body, but he would neither identify the location nor say what happened to her the night of her disappearance, a Peruvian police official told CNN.

"In the interrogation done to the Dutch citizen, he says he knew the location of the corpse of the American citizen, but that he was going to explain everything to Aruban police," said Miguel Canlla, head of the homicide division of the Peruvian national police investigative unit, on Thursday.

Van der Sloot, a 22-year-old Dutch citizen, is suspected of killing a 21-year-old woman in Lima last month. Stephany Flores Ramirez was found beaten to death in a hotel room registered in van der Sloot's name. Van der Sloot was captured in Chile and returned last week to Peru, where authorities say he confessed to killing Flores.

He was twice arrested in connection with the 2005 disappearance of Holloway, but was released for lack of evidence. Holloway was on a class trip to Aruba when she went missing.

Canlla said Thursday that Aruban police were not currently in Peru, and said he did not know whether Aruban and Peruvian investigators had been in contact.

Van der Sloot told authorities that he attacked Flores on May 30 after she read an e-mail on his computer connected with the Holloway case, Peruvian national police said in a statement released Thursday.

In an interview with CNN, Canlla defended his department's interrogation and said van der Sloot's confession that he killed Flores was acquired legally.

"The statement was done within all the requirements stipulated by Peruvian law," he said.

But van der Sloot's lawyer, Maximo Alonso Altez Navarro, has told CNN that he plans to ask the judge in the case to strike down van der Sloot's confession, because he was not properly represented when he was interrogated.

Canlla said Peruvian investigators were still waiting for judicial permission in order to investigate the contents of van der Sloot's computer.

"There has to be authorization from the judge to open the laptop," he said.

But already authorities have gathered significant evidence, Canlla said.

Blood stains found on van der Sloot's clothes match Flores' blood type, he said.

"We found blood stains on the victim's clothes, and we found blood stains on his clothes, which, according to biological testing, they correspond to the victim," he said.

Police said in a statement Thursday that van der Sloot presumably attacked Flores to rob her of the money she had won gambling at a casino. The two met playing poker on May 27 and had several encounters before driving together to the hotel where van der Sloot was staying on May 30.

After killing her, the police statement said, van der Sloot cleaned the room in an attempt to hide evidence of the crime, changed clothes and fled with Flores' money, bank cards and black Jeep.

Police said evidence against van der Sloot includes his confession, forensic data, surveillance videos and fingerprints lifted from the crime scene and Flores' Jeep.

Altez, van der Sloot's lawyer, claims he has found indications that the handling of the evidence was tainted, especially the way the body was handled during the crime scene investigation.

But Canlla said there were no irregularities in the investigation.

Van der Sloot, 22, was arrested in Chile on June 4 and returned to Peru the next day.

Canlla said police will likely accuse van der Sloot of committing homicide, robbery and obstructing justice. The two drivers who took him across the border to Chile will also be accused of obstructing justice, he said.

While van der Sloot was never charged in connection with Holloway's disappearance in 2005, U.S. authorities filed extortion and wire fraud charges against the Dutch man this week.

An Interpol document says van der Sloot faces criminal charges in Alabama because he allegedly tried to extort money from Holloway's mother.

A federal law enforcement agent told CNN that a representative for Natalee Holloway's mother who paid $25,000 for information on the whereabouts of her daughter's remains last month was an undercover FBI agent.

Van der Sloot said he would reveal the location of the body and the circumstances surrounding Holloway's death for $25,000 in cash and asked for $250,000 in total, the document states.

The FBI and U.S. Attorney's office in Birmingham arranged for a meeting where van der Sloot was paid $10,000 in cash and another $15,000 in a wire transfer, a source familiar with the case said.

The meeting took place last month, according to the U.S. attorney's office in Birmingham.

Interpol documents show that the $15,000 was transferred to a personal bank account in the Netherlands.

It's unclear whether that money paid for van der Sloot's trip to Colombia and to Peru.

In exchange for the money, van der Sloot showed the representative a house where supposedly Holloway's remains were, according to the document. When records showed that the house had not yet been built at the time of her disappearance, van der Sloot admitted that he lied, Interpol said.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/06/11/peru.murder.case/index.html?hpt=T1

PERUVIAN JUDGE CHARGES JORAN VAN DER SLOOT WITH MURDER AND ROBBERY CHARGES
Friday, June 11th, 2010 at 2:41 pm

By Monica Lawrence

LIMA (BNO NEWS) -- Peruvian judge charges Joran van der Sloot with murder and robbery charges in the death of a Peruvian woman.

By Monica LawrenceLIMA (BNO NEWS) -- Peruvian judge charges Joran van der Sloot with murder and robbery charges in the death of a Peruvian woman.

PERUVIAN JUDGE CHARGES JORAN VAN DER SLOOT WITH MURDER AND ROBBERY CHARGES
Friday, June 11th, 2010 at 2:41 pm

By Monica Lawrence

LIMA (BNO NEWS) -- Peruvian judge charges Joran van der Sloot with murder and robbery charges in the death of a Peruvian woman.

http://wireupdate.com/wires/6315/peruvian-judge-charges-joran-van-der-sloot-with-murder-and-robbery-charges/

Judge orders Van der Sloot held for murder

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LIMA, Peru - A Peruvian judge ordered Joran van der Sloot held on murder charges in the death of a 21-year-old Lima student.

Judge Juan Buendia issued the order before dawn Friday, instructing penal authorities to place the Dutchman in a penitentiary pending trial.

Van der Sloot remains the lone suspect in the 2005 disappearance in Aruba of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway — exactly five years to the day before Stephany Flores was killed in Peru.

On Thursday, police told NBC News Van der Sloot admitted knowing the location of the remains of Holloway. Police sources told NBC News Van der Sloot was now willing to tell authorities in Aruba where to find the Alabama teenager’s remains.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37618530/from/ET

 

Jun. 11, 2010
Peruvian Judge Orders Van Der Sloot Held On Murder Charges In Death Of Lima Student

(AP)  LIMA, Peru (AP) - A Peruvian judge has ordered Joran van der Sloot jailed on murder and robbery charges in the killing of a 21-year-old Lima woman.

Judge Juan Buendia issued the order before dawn Friday, instructing penal authorities to place the Dutchman in a penitentiary pending trial.

Van der Sloot remains the lone suspect in the 2005 disappearance in Aruba of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/06/11/ap/latinamerica/main6571969.shtml

Van der Sloot Faces Murder Charges
Updated: Friday, 11 Jun 2010, 10:46 AM EDT
Published : Friday, 11 Jun 2010, 10:33 AM EDT

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A Peruvian judge has ordered that Joran van der Sloot be held on murder charges in death of a woman in Lima, Peru.

The Dutchman, long the prime suspect in the 2005 disappearance of a U.S. teen in Aruba, has confessed to killing the woman in a hotel room.

Van der Sloot admitted under police questioning Monday that he killed 21-year-old Stephany Flores on May 30.

Van der Sloot claimed he killed Flores in a rage after learning she had looked up information about his past on his laptop.  His confession came on his third full day in Peruvian police custody.

Flores, a business student, was found beaten to death, her neck broken, in the 22-year-old Dutchman's hotel room. Police said the two met playing poker at a casino.

Police released video from hotel security cameras that shows the two entering Van der Sloot's hotel room together at 5 a.m. and Van der Sloot leaving alone four hours later with his bags. Police say Van der Sloot left the hotel briefly at 8:10 a.m., returning to the room with two cups of coffee and bread purchased across the street at a supermarket.

Van der Sloot remains the prime suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway, then 18, on the Caribbean resort island of Aruba while she was celebrating her high school graduation.

He was arrested twice in the case — and gave a number of conflicting confessions, some in TV interviews — but was freed for lack of evidence.  He was captured in Chile last week.

http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/international/Van-der-Sloot-Confesses-To-Peru-Killing-20100611

June 11, 2010 10:21 AM
Joran van der Sloot Confession: Defense Says It's Bogus

NEW YORK (CBS/AP) Joran van der Sloot's new attorney says his client's confession to murdering Stephany Flores doesn't hold water - and he's asking a judge to throw it out, saying it was made without proper representation.

Van der Sloot's attorney, Maximo Altez, said Thursday that his client's confession was void on the grounds that he made it in the presence of a defense lawyer who was appointed by police.

PICTURES: Joran van der Sloot
PICTURES: Stephany Flores

But the chief of Peru's criminal police, Gen. Cesar Guardia, dismissed the lawyer's claim, saying that not only was van der Sloot properly represented by his government-appointed defense attorney, the Dutch translator present during the interrogation was assigned by the Dutch Embassy.

"The incriminatory elements were so powerful that he had to confess," Guardia said, adding that the evidence included blood stains found on Van der Sloot's clothing.

Van der Sloot was moved Thursday across downtown Lima, protected by a bulletproof vest, to a cell at the prosecutor's office where officials were preparing to file charges in the May 30 killing of Stephany Flores, who police say he met playing poker at a casino three days earlier.

Altez could not be reached directly for comment, but a person answering his cell phone identified himself as the lawyer's secretary and said Altez was unavailable. Later calls went unanswered.

If tried and convicted on murder charges, Van der Sloot would face from 15 to 35 years in prison.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20007436-504083.html

Van der Sloot charged in Peru murder
From Mayra Cuevas , CNN
June 11, 2010 11:37 a.m. EDT

Lima, Peru (CNN) -- Joran van der Sloot was charged with murder Friday in the slaying of a 21-year-old student in Lima, Peru, according to court documents.

Earlier, he told investigators during an interrogation that he knows the location of Natalee Holloway's body, but he would neither identify the location nor say what happened to her the night of her disappearance, a Peruvian police official told CNN.

"In the interrogation done to the Dutch citizen, he says he knew the location of the corpse of the American citizen, but that he was going to explain everything to Aruban police," said Miguel Canlla, head of the homicide division of the Peruvian national police investigative unit, on Thursday.

Van der Sloot, a 22-year-old Dutch citizen, is suspected of killing Stephany Flores Ramirez in Lima last month. Flores was found beaten to death in a hotel room registered in van der Sloot's name. Van der Sloot was captured in Chile and returned last week to Peru, where authorities say he confessed to killing Flores.

He was twice arrested in connection with the 2005 disappearance of Holloway, but was released for lack of evidence. Holloway was on a class trip to Aruba when she went missing.

Canlla said Thursday that Aruban police were not currently in Peru, and said he did not know whether Aruban and Peruvian investigators had been in contact.

Van der Sloot told authorities that he attacked Flores on May 30 after she read an e-mail on his computer connected with the Holloway case, Peruvian national police said in a statement released Thursday.

In an interview with CNN, Canlla defended his department's interrogation and said van der Sloot's confession that he killed Flores was acquired legally.

"The statement was done within all the requirements stipulated by Peruvian law," he said.

But van der Sloot's lawyer, Maximo Alonso Altez Navarro, has told CNN that he plans to ask the judge in the case to strike down van der Sloot's confession, because he was not properly represented when he was interrogated.

Canlla said Peruvian investigators were still waiting for judicial permission in order to investigate the contents of van der Sloot's computer.

"There has to be authorization from the judge to open the laptop," he said.

But already authorities have gathered significant evidence, Canlla said.

Blood stains found on van der Sloot's clothes match Flores' blood type, he said.

"We found blood stains on the victim's clothes, and we found blood stains on his clothes, which, according to biological testing, they correspond to the victim," he said.

Police said in a statement Thursday that van der Sloot presumably attacked Flores to rob her of the money she had won gambling at a casino. The two met playing poker on May 27 and had several encounters before driving together to the hotel where van der Sloot was staying on May 30.

After killing her, the police statement said, van der Sloot cleaned the room in an attempt to hide evidence of the crime, changed clothes and fled with Flores' money, bank cards and black Jeep.

Police said evidence against van der Sloot includes his confession, forensic data, surveillance videos and fingerprints lifted from the crime scene and Flores' Jeep.

Altez, van der Sloot's lawyer, claims he has found indications that the handling of the evidence was tainted, especially the way the body was handled during the crime scene investigation.

But Canlla said there were no irregularities in the investigation.

Van der Sloot, 22, was arrested in Chile on June 4 and returned to Peru the next day.

Canlla said police will likely accuse van der Sloot of committing homicide, robbery and obstructing justice. The two drivers who took him across the border to Chile will also be accused of obstructing justice, he said.

While van der Sloot was never charged in connection with Holloway's disappearance in 2005, U.S. authorities filed extortion and wire fraud charges against the Dutch man this week.

An Interpol document says van der Sloot faces criminal charges in Alabama because he allegedly tried to extort money from Holloway's mother.

A federal law enforcement agent told CNN that a representative for Natalee Holloway's mother who paid $25,000 for information on the whereabouts of her daughter's remains last month was an undercover FBI agent.

Van der Sloot said he would reveal the location of the body and the circumstances surrounding Holloway's death for $25,000 in cash and asked for $250,000 in total, the document states.

The FBI and U.S. Attorney's office in Birmingham arranged for a meeting where van der Sloot was paid $10,000 in cash and another $15,000 in a wire transfer, a source familiar with the case said.

The meeting took place last month, according to the U.S. attorney's office in Birmingham.

Interpol documents show that the $15,000 was transferred to a personal bank account in the Netherlands.

It's unclear whether that money paid for van der Sloot's trip to Colombia and to Peru.

In exchange for the money, van der Sloot showed the representative a house where supposedly Holloway's remains were, according to the document. When records showed that the house had not yet been built at the time of her disappearance, van der Sloot admitted that he lied, Interpol said.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/06/11/peru.murder.case/index.html?hpt=T3

Natalee Holloway's Mom: Aruba Investigators 'Not Following Up on Any Leads'
Wednesday, November 19, 2008

BETH HOLLOWAY: ... Greta, I was just wanting to say that, you know, like I said, it's been a long time, but it's never too late for justice. And I'd be good with a "Midnight Express" prison anywhere for Joran.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,454527,00.html

Holloway attorney details van der Sloot sting
John Q. Kelly set up suspect, who said he would show Holloway’s remains

By Mike Celizic
TODAYshow.com contributor
updated 2 hours, 41 minutes ago

An attorney for Natalee Holloway's mother spent more than six hours on two occasions trying to get Joran van der Sloot to divulge the location in Aruba of her daughter’s remains, first on his own, then with the help of the FBI. He lured van der Sloot with $100 and the promise of $25,000 more, he tells TODAY.

Van der Sloot, who is under arrest in Peru for the murder of the 21-year-old daughter of a prominent local family, has been suspected almost from the beginning of being responsible for Holloway’s death in Aruba five years ago.

Attorney John Q. Kelly says he walked away from his meetings with van der Sloot having no doubt that the suspect is a psychopath. ....

Read more:

 http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/37635627/ns/today-today_people/#ixzz0qZ1tI5xl


Natalee Holloway's mother, Beth Holloway, speaks at morning news conference on center named for daughter
By Mary Orndorff -- The Birmingham News
June 08, 2010, 10:36AM

Holloway was planning to answer questions about the center until news of Van der Sloot's confession broke this morning, said Janine Vaccarello, co-founder of the center.There was an "FBI directive" that Holloway not discuss her daughter's or any van der Sloot cases, according to Vaccarello.Van der Sloot has been charged by federal prosecutors in Alabama with trying to extort $250,000 from Holloway's family in exchange for information about what happened to her.

http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2010/06/natalee_holloways_mother_beth_3.html

Aruban Authorities on Van der Sloot Comments
June 11, 2010 - 1:47 PM | by: Meredith Orban
 
Aruban authorities say they have no official confirmation on reports that Joran Van der Sloot, the main suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Natalee Holloway, told Peruvian investigators that he knows where the body of the Alabama teen can be found.  Aruban Solicitor General Taco Stein says that they are reaching out to Peruvian authorities to discuss the reported statement and that if Van der Sloot did, in fact, say he will tell investigators where the body is, the Arubans will weigh the information to see if they can act on it.  "We are in the process of reaching out to them," Stein said of Peruvian investigators, "as you can understand they are very busy with their case... it's very hard to get the proper person."  Since 2005, Van der Sloot has told investigators and members of the media countless conflicting versions of what happened the night Holloway disappeared, none of which have led to formal charges against the Dutch national.

Stein reports that there is no formal treaty between the Dutch Kingdom, which the island nation of Aruba is a part of, and Peru.  Thus, he says it would be difficult for Aruban investigators to request Van der Sloot be brought to Aruba.  Without speculating on the veracity of the reports regarding Van der Sloot, Stein says if they are true it is more likely that Aruba would send a small team of investigators to Peru.  "We can ask the Peruvian authorities if we can come there and interrogate him on this point and see what we can do on the information he gives," said Stein.  Since it is highly unlikely there is any trace evidence related to the Holloway case in Peru, Stein says only one or two investigators familiar with the Holloway case would be sent and that such a team could be ready to go within a day of being granted permission.

As for the investigation on the island of Aruba, Stein says there have been no new developments in the Holloway case since the murder of 21-year-old Stephany Flores last month in Peru.

http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/06/11/aruban-authorities-on-van-der-sloot-comments/?test=latestnews

Judge orders van der Sloot held for murder
Dutchman also is lone suspect in 2005 disappearance of Alabama teen
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updated 2 hours, 2 minutes ago

LIMA, Peru - A Peruvian judge on Friday ordered Joran van der Sloot jailed on charges of first-degree murder and robbery in the killing of a 21-year-old Lima woman, determining that he acted with "ferocity and great cruelty."

Lima Superior Court Judge Juan Buendia issued the order before dawn and the 22-year-old suspect was taken in an armored truck with 11 other prisoners to a holding cell in the basement of Lima's judicial palace.

Police ushered van der Sloot quickly out of the truck, a scarf around his neck. Two officers pushed his head down.

"Disgrace!" and "Murderer!" bystanders yelled. Some threw rotten vegetables at him.  

Van der Sloot remains the lone suspect in the 2005 disappearance in Aruba of Natalee Holloway, and the chief of Peru's criminal police said van der Sloot told investigators that he knows the location of the U.S. teen's body.

Police say van der Sloot smashed in the face of Lima business student Stephany Flores, whom he met playing poker at a casino, after taking her to his hotel room on May 30. They say he then strangled her, threw her to the floor and emptied her wallet.

If convicted on the murder and robbery charges, van der Sloot would be sentenced to between 15 and 35 years in prison, court spokesman Luis Gallardo told The Associated Press.

"The aggravating factors are having acted with ferocity and great cruelty," he said.

The announcement of the charges and judge's order came in a news release issued by the court shortly before 9 a.m. Friday.

It was not immediately known to which prison van der Sloot would be assigned or how long it might take before his trial begins.

On Thursday, police told NBC News van der Sloot admitted knowing the location of the remains of Holloway. Police sources told NBC News van der Sloot was now willing to tell authorities in Aruba where to find the teen’s remains.

Van der Sloot was moved to a cell at the prosecutor's office in advance of filing charges in what police called a remarkably complete confession in the killing of Flores, the daughter of a circus promoter and former race car driver whom he met playing poker at a casino.

'Practically closed the case"
"We've practically closed the case," criminal police chief Gen. Cesar Guardia told The Associated Press.

Sheathed in a bulletproof vest, the young Dutchman was driven less than a mile across central Lima during rush hour in a police caravan escorted by motorcycle officers.

Guardia said van der Sloot "confessed with a wealth of details that have been corroborated through criminal investigative rigor."

Guardia denied any suggestion that van der Sloot's confession was forced. He said a translator assigned by the Dutch Embassy was present, as was a state-appointed defense attorney.

Confessions help reduce a sentence, but likely not much for a case like this, according to Peruvian legal sources.

Van der Sloot would then face a trial in which a panel of three judges – not a jury — decides his fate.

The Holloway case
What remains unresolved is the May 30, 2005, disappearance of Holloway on the Caribbean island of Aruba.

Efforts by the FBI to try to resolve it may have inadvertently helped fund the travel that enabled the murder of Flores.

Believing it was closing in on van der Sloot, the FBI videotaped and paid him $25,000 in a sting operation in Aruba last month, investigators told the AP. But it held off on arresting him, and he took the money and flew to Peru.

Peruvian interrogators restricted their questioning of van der Sloot to the case of Flores, according to Guardia

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37618530/ns/world_news-americas/
 

Aruba prosecutor: Not informed by Peruvian police about Joran van der Sloot’s recent statements about Holloway

LIMA (BNO NEWS) — Aruba’s chief prosecutor told BNO News on Friday that it is not aware of Joran van der Sloot’s alleged statement in Peru in which he said he was willing to tell Aruban authorities where the body of missing American teenager Natalee Holloway is.

Van der Sloot was recently accused of killing 21-year-old Stephany Tatiana Flores Ramirez in the early hours of May 30, the fifth anniversary of Holloway’s disappearance, at a hotel in the Peruvian capital of Lima. He later confessed to her murder, saying he got angry after Flores found out that he is a suspect in Holloway’s disappearance.

Natalee Holloway went missing on May 30, 2005 during a high school graduation trip to Aruba. The case received international media attention, but her body was never found.

Van der Sloot has always been the prime suspect in her disappearance, and made several ‘confessions’ during interviews with hidden cameras. Real evidence, however, was never found and the taped confessions to undercover journalists did not constitute legal evidence.

On Thursday, NBC News – citing police sources – reported that Van der Sloot is now willing to tell authorities in Aruba where to find Holloway’s remains. The network did not provide further details.

But on Friday, Aruban prosecutor Peter Blanken told BNO News that – although he was aware of the media reports in the United States – his office had not been informed by Peruvian authorities about the reported statements.

“It could be interesting if it is true,” he said, while adding a note of caution about Van der Sloot’s history of false statements.

Blanken said his office was trying to get into contact with Peruvian police to get more information, but said they had been unsuccessful as of Friday morning.

Besides the cases in Peru and Aruba, Van der Sloot is also wanted in the United States where prosecutors have charged him with extortion and wire fraud after he tried to extort $250,000 from Natalee Holloway’s mother in exchange for the location of her remains and the circumstances surrounding her death.

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Edited by BNO NEWS on Jun 11, 2010

De Zaak Natalee Holloway/Stephany Flores - Part 4

Saartje - vrijdag 11 juni 2010 @ 23:17 

nieuwe geruchten

A reported deal in the works

Apparently there is a deal in the works between Peru and Aruba concerning Joran. If reports are correct Aruba will take custody contingent on Joran revealing the whereabouts of Natalee and due to Joran's past claims being false this new deal is only valid with the truth.

If Joran is truthful he will spend 10 years in KIA prison in Aruba and all other charges will be dropped.The deal was struck when it became obvious that with Joran's truthful confession in Peru and the likelihood of him getting 20 years and 10 years credit for confessing and credit for 2 for 1 days served resulting in only 5 years in a Peruvian prison in the best of accommodations provided at the prison.If the deal goes thru Joran will spend 10 years in the KIA.

If Joran's claims of Holloway's whereabouts are false then he will serve the maximum 20 years in a Peruvian prison without any luxuries at all.Authorities have said no more tail chasing in the Holloway case.

It is reported that in order for Joran to accept the deal he is demanding that in return for spending an additional 5 years in prison that he be offered the following: after spending 6 months in KIA that he gets supervised bi-weekly weekend furloughs to his mothers house and be allowed to play poker on his furloughs and then after 18 months of supervised furloughs that he be able to participate in a work release program thru the week.Under such a deal Joran would spend Sun-thru-Thurs at KIA from 6 p.m. til 6 a.m. locked up and from 6 a.m. Fri-thru 6 p.m. Sun on unsupervised furlough.

It sounds as if LE is attempting to kill two birds with one stone and give out more than the required Peruvian punishment with a chance for Joran to rehabilitate himself.

As stated its only a report and a starting point for LE in these negotiations.It sounds like a fair deal.Only time will tell what deal will be made.

no joke,rumors circulating in the South America is all I know,they may be true.Sounds true given the leniency in Peru. I guess we will all find out soon.

http://www.vol.nl/viewtopic.php?p=4505918

Van der Sloot jailed on first-degree murder charge
The Associated Press

Date: Friday Jun. 11, 2010 6:44 PM ET

LIMA, Peru — Angry Peruvian onlookers shouted "Disgrace!" and "Murderer" at Joran van der Sloot on Friday after a judge ordered him jailed on first-degree murder and robbery charges in the violent killing of a 21-year-old Lima woman.

Prosecutors said the Dutchman, who was taken to a segregated block of an eastern Lima prison, acted with "ferocity and great cruelty" in killing business student Stephany Flores in his hotel room after they met playing poker.

Van der Sloot remains the lone suspect in the 2005 disappearance of U.S. teen Natalee Holloway on the Caribbean resort island of Aruba, and Peru's criminal police chief says the defendant told interrogators he knows where her body is.

Aruba's attorney general, Taco Stein, told The Associated Press on Friday he is skeptical Van der Sloot was telling the truth about Holloway's body. He said Aruban officials will decide whether to sent investigators to Peru to question him once they learn exactly what he is offering.

Lima Superior Court Judge Juan Buendia issued a detention order before dawn for Van der Sloot on the murder charge. He was first taken with other prisoners in an armoured truck to Lima's judicial palace, then alone to the maximum-security Castro Castro prison.

Police manhandled Van der Sloot as they ushered him to the judicial palace, a scarf around his neck and his hands cuffed behind him.

The more virulent catcalls and bile -- the sensational case has dominated Peru's news for a week -- came from onlookers as he was taken from the prosecutor's office where he had been held since Thursday. One onlooker threw spoiled lettuce.

Police say Van der Sloot brutally murdered Flores three days after meeting her at a casino. He broke her nose, strangled her, threw her to the floor then emptied her wallet and drove away in her SUV, said Gen. Cesar Guardia, chief of the criminal police.

The 6-foot-3 (190-centimetre-tall) Van der Sloot took about $300 worth of Peruvian currency, two credit cards and Flores' national ID card, Guardia said. He said the suspect abandoned her car in a lower-class Lima neighbourhood before fleeing south to Chile by bus.

If convicted on the murder and robbery charges, Van der Sloot would be sentenced to between 15 and 35 years in prison, court spokesman Luis Gallardo told the AP.

"The aggravating factors are having acted with ferocity and great cruelty," said a news release issued by the court that announced the charges.

At Castro Castro prison, Van der Sloot was fed the Peruvian chicken dish "seco de pollo," prisons director Ruben Rodriguez said. The Dutchman will have his own cell in a small block near the director's office.

The only other two prisoners on the block are a reputed Colombian hit man charged with strangling a Peruvian socialite and a provincial mayor charged with laundering drug money

It was not yet known when the trial might begin. A judge must first be assigned to hear the case.

Flores was killed three days after meeting Van der Sloot, police say, and five years to the day after Holloway disappeared. Guardia said "a wealth of evidence" against the Dutchman includes closed-circuit video tracking him leaving the casino with Flores, entering his room with the woman and then leaving alone.

The police chief told the AP on Thursday night that when Van der Sloot confessed to killing Flores investigators asked him about the Holloway case.

"He let slip that he knew the place where this person was buried," Guardia said.

The general said the Dutchman told investigators "he would only testify (on the matter) before Aruba authorities."

He said he didn't know how seriously to take Van der Sloot's comment given his history of dubious statements the Alabama teen's disappearance.

Stein, the Aruba attorney general, was cautious about the development.

"I'm not getting my hopes up," he told the AP. "Let's face it, he has been telling us many stories many times before."

Stein said that even if Van der Sloot did reveal what happened to Holloway, there was no guarantee her remains would be found.

Guardia said Van der Sloot confessed that he killed Flores, the daughter of a circus promoter and former race car driver, because she found out about the Aruba case by using his laptop without his permission.

Van der Sloot's newly hired Peruvian attorney, Maximo Altez, has asked the judge to declare his client's Monday confession void on the grounds it was made in the presence of a defence lawyer appointed by police.

Reached by the AP, Altez refused to discuss the case. He said Van der Sloot's schoolteacher mother, Anita, would be arriving early next week with the family's own media adviser.

The young man's father, a lawyer on Aruba, a Dutch territory, died in February while playing tennis.

Van der Sloot arrived in Peru on May 14, authorities say, four days after allegedly receiving $25,000 as part of an FBI sting aimed at resolving the Holloway case. U.S. prosecutors charged him with extortion four days after Flores was killed.

Prosecutors say the extortion case began when Van der Sloot contacted a New York lawyer for Holloway's mother, Beth Twitty, in April seeking $250,000 in exchange for the location of the young woman's body, how she died and the identity of those involved.

The lawyer, John Kelly, contacted the FBI, which secretly recorded video of him giving Van der Sloot $10,000 in cash in Aruba on May 10 while $15,000 was wired to a bank account in the Dutch man's name, prosecutors say.

Van der Sloot was recorded telling Kelly he pushed Holloway down, and she hit her head on a rock and died, an affidavit says. He allegedly said his father helped him bury the body.

Van der Sloot admitted in a May 17 email -- he was in Peru by then -- that he had lied about the location of Holloway's remains, prosecutors say.

That fit a pattern of Van der Sloot making confessions he later retracted.

Van der Sloot was the last person seen with Holloway before the girl vanished on the last night of a high school graduation trip. He was arrested twice but released both times for a lack of evidence.

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Deadly Connection?
Police say Joran van der Sloot - after confessing to killing a young woman in Peru - is finally admitting that he killed Natalee Holloway

TRANSCRIPT
By Chris Hansen
Correspondent
NBC News
updated 6:03 p.m. PT, Fri., June 11, 2010

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With his money troubles mounting, his father dead, and his life spiraling downward, this spring Joran van der Sloot allegedly made a bold attempt to cash in on the Natalee Holloway disappearance.

JOHN KELLY: I got the first e-mail from van der Sloot on March 30.

Attorney John Q. Kelly represents the Holloway family in a wrongful death lawsuit filed against van der Sloot. He spoke exclusively to NBC News about the alleged extortion plot that, he says, began with that email from van der Sloot.

CHRIS HANSEN: What went through your mind?  What did you think he wanted?

JOHN KELLY: I had no idea.  I was more than amenable to talking to him, or hearing what he had to say just because, you know, I still-- committed to finding what happened to Natalee. So, any chance I had to open a door, I was willing to do it.

Kelly says van der Sloot quickly raised the stakes.

CHRIS HANSEN: Give me a sense for the e-mail communications that ensued.

JOHN KELLY: It was about money. It was, you know, "I want to come clean.  My father's dead now.  I have nothing to hide.  I want to help Natalee’s family, but at a price, you know, for a quarter million dollars—“

CHRIS HANSEN: A quarter million dollars?

JOHN KELLY: “Quarter million dollars, I will tell you what happened to Natalee, where she is now so you can help Beth bring her home."

After all the heartbreak and grief, after all the stories he had told, could van der Sloot be believed? Kelly says he immediately went to Beth Holloway with the offer.

CHRIS HANSEN: How hopeful was Beth that this might develop into some sort of closure?

JOHN KELLY: She's always been hopeful. I mean, she can't be anything but hopeful as a mother.

According to Kelly, with Beth Holloway’s blessing, he travelled to Aruba to meet with van der Sloot, who was expecting to receive a down payment of $25,000. 

For Kelly, it was a test run.  He didn't have the money.  It was Easter Sunday.  He says they met at the Marriott hotel.

CHRIS HANSEN: And what did he tell you during that meeting?

JOHN KELLY: He alluded to knowing where Natalee’s body was, and how she had died. And I asked him, "Well, what if I don't pay you the $25,000?"  And he just said, "Beth can wait another five years."

CHRIS HANSEN: Another five years?

JOHN KELLY: Yeah.  He was well aware that the five year anniversary coming up was sort of, it was almost like a clock ticking with him.

CHRIS HANSEN: Describe his demeanor during this initial interview. 

JOHN KELLY: He was agitated, nervous and desperate at that time.

After returning to the U.S., Kelly and Beth went to the FBI and the Feds agreed to work with them on a sting operation.

Kelly would set up another meeting with van der Sloot in Aruba and this time bring $10,000 cash from Beth.  She would wire an additional $15,000 to van der Sloot’s Netherlands bank account. If van der Sloot took the bait, they might be able to charge him with a crime.

JOHN KELLY: If he took the money, and he took a wire transfer, and it was false information, which you know he has done in the past…

CHRIS HANSEN: Wire fraud.

JOHN KELLY: It's wire fraud. And extortion. And if for some reason, his information was true, the Aruban authorities pick him up on the murder charge.

According to Kelly, the FBI sent an advance team to Aruba to coordinate with Aruban authorities and set up for the sting, outfitting a hotel room and rental car with hidden cameras and microphones.

CHRIS HANSEN: How did you think this was going to play out?

JOHN KELLY: I wasn’t sure. I was just holding my breath, the whole way. Every step of the way.

After a mostly sleepless night, Kelly arrived in Aruba on May 10.

With FBI agents monitoring, Kelly returned to the Marriott hotel, where he says van der Sloot met him.

CHRIS HANSEN: When van der Sloot walks into room 443--

JOHN KELLY: Yeah.

CHRIS HANSEN: --what does he say first?

JOHN KELLY: "How you doing?"  He's covered with sweat.  He apparently walked from his house to get there.  And, you know, I just told him to have a seat.  Gave him a Diet Coke.  We actually split a Three Musketeers. The one thing I did at the very beginning was show him the $10,000 cash.

CHRIS HANSEN: So, he knew he was getting $10,000 from you in cash?

JOHN KELLY: He was like, "Give me the money now."  And I was, "No, you're not getting the money now."

CHRIS HANSEN: And what did he have to do to convince you to hand over the $10,000?

JOHN KELLY: To take the wire transfer and sign the documents I had there, too.

Strangely enough, Kelly says van der Sloot had insisted Kelly draw up a document for both Beth and van der Sloot to sign.

CHRIS HANSEN: And what did those documents say?

JOHN KELLY: That he would take me exactly to where Natalee’s body was, and tell me how she died. And once I had confirmed that, he'd get the other $225,000. 

With the documents signed, Kelly says he handed over the cash and confirmed the wire transfer.

Then, Kelly says, they got into the rental car that had been wired by the FBI, and drove to the site where van der Sloot claimed Natalee’s body had been buried.

CHRIS HANSEN: And precisely where did he say Natalee's remains were?

JOHN KELLY: He pointed to a specific room on a house right by the Aruba Racquet Club. The foundation hadn't gone in yet.

CHRIS HANSEN: So, the story was that there was a house being constructed, the foundation was about to be built or poured, and they put Natalee’s remains in there, and the house was built around it?

JOHN KELLY: Correct. And I took pictures of him with a throwaway camera.

CHRIS HANSEN: You actually took pictures of Joran van der Sloot pointing to the location where he says Natalee’s body was?

JOHN KELLY: Yeah.

Then, Kelly says , they got back in the car and that's when van der Sloot told him how Natalee died.

JOHN KELLY: He actually admitted,  this was the first time he admitted being personally responsible for physically causing her death.

According to Kelly, van der Sloot claimed that he and Natalee were at the beach and when he wanted to leave, Natalee tried to stop him. 

JOHN KELLY: He got angry and actually threw her. He actually made the gesture in the car, on video, showing me how he threw her in anger, because she wouldn't leave at that point.  And according to him, she hit the back of her head, lots of blood and she was dead.

CHRIS HANSEN: Did you think at the time he was telling the truth?

JOHN KELLY: Ah, no.

But Kelly says he played along and van der Sloot told him he hid the body on the beach with the help of his father who, the following day, buried the body.

CHRIS HANSEN: He implicated his own father in the disposal of the body?

JOHN KELLY: Along with himself, yeah.

CHRIS HANSEN: Why wasn't he arrested on the spot?

JOHN KELLY: That I don't know.  I mean, I went down there, I did what I was supposed to do. When I got on the plane May 11, I thought it was a done deal.  And he was going to be arrested at some point.  That he'd be talking at some point, and we'd get some closure at some point.

Aruban authorities would eventually determine van de Sloot's story about the body being buried at that site could not be true because the house he pointed out was not under construction at the time Natalee disappeared.

In the meantime, Kelly had no way of knowing that Joran van der Sloot would leave Aruba, find his way to Peru and a fateful encounter with Stephany Flores.

In Aruba, on May 10, attorney John Q. Kelly says he gave Joren van der Sloot $25,000 of Beth Holloway’s money. 

Working with the FBI and Aruban authorities, Kelly and Holloway hoped that van der Sloot would be arrested-- if not for allegedly implicating himself in Natalee’s death then for extortion or wire fraud.

But van der Sloot was not picked up. After Kelly left Aruba, he says van der Sloot continued to email him.

JOHN KELLY: He was telling me how he was personally going to turn himself into the police, and that he needed more time.  And I was pretending like I believed all this, just to keep a line of communication open.  I had been in personal contact with Joran up to May 25.

Kelly assumed van der Sloot was still in Aruba-- but he wasn't.

CHRIS HANSEN: Just days after you give him $25,000, he goes to Peru.

JOHN KELLY: Correct.

Then, on May 30, exactly five years to the day after Natalee Holloway’s disappearance, it happened.   

Van der Sloot allegedly killed 21-year-old Stephany Flores at this hotel after a night out at a casino in Lima, Peru.

JOHN KELLY:  I was dumbfounded.

CHRIS HANSEN: Did you have to break the news to Natalee’s mother about the death of this woman in Lima, Peru?

JOHN KELLY: Yes.

CHRIS HANSEN: What did she say?

JOHN KELLY: She just stopped.  Just “how could this happen?”

According to Kelly, for Beth Holloway, the thought that her money may have facilitated van der Sloot’s travel plans was almost too much to bear.

JOHN KELLY: It's probably the most horrific, unanticipated nightmarish ending for Beth that you could ever imagine.  That her money may have financed his trip to Peru.

CHRIS HANSEN: Has Beth reached out to the family of Stephany Flores ?

JOHN KELLY: Not directly.  She's extended her deepest sympathy.  She's just really upset. Everything was just like an instant replay of what had happened five years ago.

CHRIS HANSEN: Déjà vu?

JOHN KELLY: Déjà vu.

This week, Beth Holloway appeared at the dedication of the Natalee Holloway Resource Center  in Washington, D.C., a coordinating facility designed to help families of missing persons get more help within the first 48-hours.

[Beth Holloway at the dedication]

Let's all remind ourselves and keep the Flores family in our hearts and in our prayers.

In the aftermath of van der Sloot’s alleged crime in Peru, the U.S. Attorney's office in Birmingham charged van der Sloot with extortion and wire fraud.

JOYCE VANCE: This morning my office obtained an arrest warrant for Joran van der Sloot.

The FBI  has faced criticism for not arresting van der Sloot immediately after the sting operation....but in a joint statement with the U.S. Attorney's office in Birmingham, Alabama, the bureau said the case "was not sufficiently developed to bring charges prior to the time van der Sloot left Aruba."

Former FBI profiler, and NBC News contributor Clint van Zandt:

VAN ZANDT: Aruba has a history of arresting and releasing this guy already, and he slipped through their hands.  So I think the FBI said, “Let's take our time, let's build a good case. I don't think there's any way anyone could have predicted that with a few dollars in his hand he would go to Peru and commit this crime."

Kelly says he does not blame U.S. law enforcement for letting van der Sloot leave Aruba but wonders why the Arubans didn't arrest him as soon as they could.

JOHN KELLY: I think at the minimum, the Aruban authorities could've picked him up, and they had the ability to hold him there at that time.  It was their country, it was their island, it was their citizen. They controlled the port, and apparently, they knew he was leaving when he was leaving.

CHRIS HANSEN: Had they prevented him from leaving, arguably, a young woman in Lima, Peru could be alive today.

JOHN KELLY: I don't think it's arguably.  If he wasn't in Peru, she'd be alive today.

But Aruba’s Solicitor General Taco Stein says it was up to American officials to decide when to act.

TACO STEIN: It was an American investigation so decisions on whether or not to detain someone has to be taken to the American, by the American. And we can only execute a warrant that has been issued in the U.S. and if there's no warrant there's no grounds to arrest him.

Today, van der Sloot was officially charged with first-degree murder and robbery in the killing of Stephany Flores. The Peruvian judge said  the suspect acted with ferocity and great cruelty.  Meanwhile, van der Sloot’s attorney challenged the legality of his confession.

in what could be an important break for the Holloway family, Peruvian police officials say Joran van der Sloot told them he knows where Natalee’s remains can be found.

But van der Sloot said he was only willing to share that information with Aruban officials. And Dave Holloway’s Aruban attorney, Vinda Desousa,   is highly skeptical about any information from van der Sloot.

VINDA DESOUSA: He's said so much and so much has been said.  And that's what he's been playing with, and toying with all along. 

In Aruba, will the authorities ever get the information the Holloway family so desperately wants?

Knowing Joran van der Sloot’s reputation, Arubans have their doubts...but  many islanders are glad van der Sloot is in custody in Peru.

JOSSY MANSOUR:  In the majority of the population, they are glad that the guy was taken off the street.

Jossy Mansour is the editor of Aruba’s largest newspaper and says many Arubans are angry van der Sloot was never charged with any crime in the Natalee Holloway case in the first place.

JOSSY MANSOUR: If you want to put any blame whatsoever you have to put it on the people that investigated this case and let him go. Three judges set him free even though we know there was sufficient evidence to charge him with.

The Holloway family hopes now that van der Sloot is in custody someone else in Aruba might provide the family with solid leads. Natalee's uncle, PAUL REYNOLDS:

PAUL REYNOLDS: I believe that there are people that have this information, that they rethink Joran and their opinion of him. We need to know where Natalee is.  That's the only way we can start to move towards closure.  And once we know that, then we can talk about justice.

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Deadly Connection?
Police say Joran van der Sloot - after confessing to killing a young woman in Peru - is finally admitting that he killed Natalee Holloway

TRANSCRIPT
By Chris Hansen
Correspondent
NBC News
updated 6:03 p.m. PT, Fri., June 11, 2010


Then, Kelly says , they got back in the car and that's when van der Sloot told him how Natalee died.

JOHN KELLY: He actually admitted,  this was the first time he admitted being personally responsible for physically causing her death.


According to Kelly, van der Sloot claimed that he and Natalee were at the beach and when he wanted to leave, Natalee tried to stop him.  

JOHN KELLY: He got angry and actually threw her. He actually made the gesture in the car, on video, showing me how he threw her in anger, because she wouldn't leave at that point.  And according to him, she hit the back of her head, lots of blood and she was dead.


Kelly says he does not blame U.S. law enforcement for letting van der Sloot leave Aruba but wonders why the Arubans didn't arrest him as soon as they could.

JOHN KELLY: I think at the minimum, the Aruban authorities could've picked him up, and they had the ability to hold him there at that time.  It was their country, it was their island, it was their citizen. They controlled the port, and apparently, they knew he was leaving when he was leaving.

CHRIS HANSEN: Had they prevented him from leaving, arguably, a young woman in Lima, Peru could be alive today.

JOHN KELLY: I don't think it's arguably.  If he wasn't in Peru, she'd be alive today.


But Aruba’s Solicitor General Taco Stein says it was up to American officials to decide when to act.

TACO STEIN: It was an American investigation so decisions on whether or not to detain someone has to be taken to the American, by the American. And we can only execute a warrant that has been issued in the U.S. and if there's no warrant there's no grounds to arrest him


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Natalee Holloway's family awaits closure
Published: Saturday, June 12, 2010, 8:20 AM
Updated: Saturday, June 12, 2010, 7:45 AM

Joran van der Sloot's claim to Peruvian officials that he will reveal the loca­tion of Natalee Holloway's body offers some hope to the family of the missing teen.

Though the 22-year-old Dutchman, officially charged Friday with the murder of Stephany Flores, has lied countless times, Holloway's family said this time feels different.

"His butt's in a crack right now and I think he's going to do anything he can to keep from going to prison in Peru," said Jug Twitty, Hol­loway's stepfather. "It's just a wait and see. We've been down this road so many times. We just pray this time will be different."

A Peruvian judge on Fri­day ordered van der Sloot jailed on charges of first-de­gree murder and robbery in the killing of a 21-year-old Lima woman, determining that he acted with "ferocity and great cruelty."

Lima Superior Court Judge Juan Buendia issued the order before dawn Friday, instructing penal authorities to place van der Sloot in a penitentiary pending trial.

Police say van der Sloot smashed in the face of Lima business student Stephany Flores, whom he met playing poker at a casino, after taking her to his hotel room on May 30. They say he then strangled her, threw her to the floor and emptied her wallet.

If convicted on the murder and robbery charges, van der Sloot would be sentenced to between 15 and 35 years in prison, court spokesman Luis Gallardo told The Associated Press.

Van der Sloot, a longtime suspect in the 2005 disappearance of the Mountain Brook teen, told investigators in Peru he knows the location of Holloway's body, CNN reported Thursday night.

Van der Sloot said he would only tell authorities in Aruba the location of Holloway's body, which has never been found, despite extensive searches.

Van der Sloot, a citizen of the Netherlands who lives much of the time in Aruba, has been arrested twice but released each time in connection with Holloway's disappearance.

Federal officials in Birmingham have charged van der Sloot with wire fraud and extortion after they say he offered to disclose Holloway's whereabouts in exchange for $250,000. After receiving a down payment, van der Sloot provided a bogus location of her body.

From his Birmingham office, Twitty said Friday he hopes Aruban authorities will follow up on van der Sloot's claim.

"There's no doubt in my mind that he knows where the body is," Twitty said. "I would hope the Aruban authorities Peru and let him talk."

Twitty said he wouldn't be against van der Sloot being allowed to go to Aruba to lead investigators to Holloway's remains.

"If it would give us an answer, absolutely we would be for it," he said. "I doubt if Stephany's parents and Peru would allow that to happen."

Do others know?

Twitty said he has long suspected that there are others in Aruba, in addition to van der Sloot and his father, who passed away in February, who know what happened to Holloway.

"There are probably a lot of people in Aruba nervous right now," Twitty said.

Holloway's family is watching and hoping and planning to let authorities handle van der Sloot's latest revelation.

"Beth has got so many things going on with her different projects," he said, "the best thing for us to do is sit back and wait."

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Joren Van der Sloot Charged with Murder in Peru; Allegedly Lied about Drug Use
Van der Sloot, Longtime Suspect in Natalee Holloway Case, in Solitary Confinement

By DAN COLLYNS and BARBIE LATZA NADEAU
The Daily Beast
Jule 11, 2010

Joren Van der Sloot, the 22-year-old Dutch native long suspected of killing Natalee Holloway, was charged today with the murder of Stephany Flores. Now prison officials tell The Daily Beast that he lied about the timing of the crime, that contrary to earlier reports, he wasn't high the night of it — and that he'll be locked in solitary confinement for months to come, "for his own safety."

Van der Sloot is finally, officially, going down. On Friday, he was formally charged with first-degree murder and robbery in the death of 21-year-old Peruvian student Stephany Flores, whom he confessed to killing earlier this week. The Peruvian judge who condemned him to one of Lima's most notorious prisons to await trial added that the murder had been committed with "ferocity and great cruelty."

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Joren Van der Sloot Charged with Murder in Peru; Allegedly Lied about Drug Use (Continued)

An extraordinary scene unfolded outside Lima's Palace of Justice as Van der Sloot heard the judge's order. Crowds of indignant onlookers flanked the rear entrance of the imposing colonial building as a decoy van marked "AMBULANCE" stopped outside the door. Van der Sloot, clearly identifiable by his height and close-cropped haircut, was the last of 11 suspects police manhandled into the entrance. Onlookers shouted "murderer!" and threw rotten vegetables at him from behind police lining the gap between the van and the door.

After van der Sloot was loaded back into the van to be transported to Lima's Miguel Castro Castro prison, Police General Cesar Guardia told The Daily Beast that most of what the accused murderer had confessed were blatant lies. "His toxicological report shows no signs that he had ingested any kind of drug," Guardia said, countering van der Sloot's perhaps strategic claim that he was high on marijuana when he killed Flores—in Peru, felony crimes committed under the influence of drugs can be treated with leniency in the courts.

Guardia also told The Daily Beast that van der Sloot lied about the timing of the murder. Earlier in the week, he told investigators that he had gone out to buy coffee for himself and Flores, and killed her when he returned to the room after finding the young woman on his computer. In fact, according to Guardia, hotel surveillance cameras show that van der Sloot faked his early-morning coffee run. Instead, he left the room with two empty paper cups and then summoned a member of the hotel staff to open his door, lying that he had forgotten his key.

This, according to the Peruvian police, underscores the suspect's attempts to cover his tracks . "In terms of the sequence of events which led him to commit this savage act, it's true he has recounted most of what occurred," Guardia told The Daily Beast. "But he admits there are also some parts which he doesn't remember." Guardia added that he thinks van der Sloot confessed "because the evidence against him was so overwhelming, he was obliged to do so."

Lamenting the final moments of the young woman's life, Guardia says he believes that Flores suffered greatly at the young man's hand. "Can you imagine how she could defend herself against a man who is two meters in height and with his physical build?" he asked. "He gave her a ferocious beating and took the life of a young Peruvian. In doing so he has injured the whole country and he will face justice."

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Van Der Sloot's Latest Lie
June 11, 2010 | 4:53pm

The 22-year-old Dutch native has been charged with the murder of Stephany Flores. Now prison officials tell The Daily Beast that he lied about the timing of the crime, that contrary to earlier reports, he wasn't high the night of it—and that he'll be locked in solitary confinement for months to come, "for his own safety."

Joran van der Sloot is finally, officially, going down. On Friday, the 22-year-old Dutch native was formally charged with first-degree murder and robbery in the death of 21-year-old Peruvian student Stephany Flores, whom he confessed to killing earlier this week. The Peruvian judge who condemned him to one of Lima's most notorious prisons to await trial added that the murder had been committed with "ferocity and great cruelty."

An extraordinary scene unfolded outside Lima's Palace of Justice as Van der Sloot heard the judge's order. Crowds of indignant onlookers flanked the rear entrance of the imposing colonial building as a decoy van marked "AMBULANCE" stopped outside the door. Van der Sloot, clearly identifiable by his height and close-cropped haircut, was the last of 11 suspects police manhandled into the entrance. Onlookers shouted "murderer!" and threw rotten vegetables at him from behind police lining the gap between the van and the door.

After van der Sloot was loaded back into the van to be transported to Lima's Miguel Castro Castro prison, Police General Cesar Guardia told The Daily Beast that most of what the accused murderer had confessed were blatant lies. "His toxicological report shows no signs that he had ingested any kind of drug," Guardia said, countering van der Sloot's perhaps strategic claim that he was high on marijuana when he killed Flores—in Peru, felony crimes committed under the influence of drugs can be treated with leniency in the courts.

Guardia also told The Daily Beast that van der Sloot lied about the timing of the murder. Earlier in the week, he told investigators that he had gone out to buy coffee for himself and Flores, and killed her when he returned to the room after finding the young woman on his computer. In fact, according to Guardia, hotel surveillance cameras show that van der Sloot faked his early-morning coffee run. Instead, he left the room with two empty paper cups and then summoned a member of the hotel staff to open his door, lying that he had forgotten his key.

This, according to the Peruvian police, underscores the suspect's attempts to cover his tracks. "In terms of the sequence of events which led him to commit this savage act, it's true he has recounted most of what occurred," Guardia told The Daily Beast. "But he admits there are also some parts which he doesn't remember." Guardia added that he thinks van der Sloot confessed "because the evidence against him was so overwhelming, he was obliged to do so."

Lamenting the final moments of the young woman's life, Guardia says he believes that Flores suffered greatly at the young man's hand. "Can you imagine how she could defend herself against a man who is two meters in height and with his physical build?" he asked. "He gave her a ferocious beating and took the life of a young Peruvian. In doing so he has injured the whole country and he will face justice."

At the very beginning of Van der Sloot's interrogation earlier this week, he hinted that he would reveal what really happened to Natalee Holloway, the young American woman he was suspected of killing in Aruba in 2005—but only if he could be returned to the Aruban authorities to do so. Peruvian police felt that Van der Sloot was trying to leverage information about Holloway in an attempt to be returned to Aruba, where he is perceived to have enjoyed protection from the law thanks to his influential family. "During the interrogation the question subtly slipped out, and he said he would talk to the Aruban authorities about the matter," said Guardia. But in the end, the Peruvians felt that the young Dutchman was simply crying wolf. Van Der Sloot has played the Natalee card on far too many occasions in the past. And Guardia says the Aruban authorities would be able to question Van der Sloot while he's in Peruvian custody.

Now the prisoner is en route to Miguel Castro Castro to be housed with its frightening population of 1,500 inmates. It is a maximum-security facility designed using the American prison model, with a central gun turret and several more on its periphery. The most dangerous murderers and terrorists serve time here, including former members of the leftist Shining Path rebel group and other smaller groups from Peru's 20-year internal conflict in the 1980s and '90s. But van der Sloot will not be part of the general population, at least for now.

"The Dutchman will be held in a solitary cell for at least four or five months," a prison official told The Daily Beast. "For his own safety we cannot mix him with the other prisoners. This murder case is so infamous that he could easily be killed. There are a lot of murderers in this prison, especially hit men who can easily be contracted from outside … To the criminal mind, it's an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. They feel affronted that he's murdered a Peruvian girl and they would kill him for the honor of their country."

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-06-11/joran-van-der-sloots-prison-and-murder-charges/?cid=hp:mainpromo2

Joran van der Sloot fears to be killed in Peru and wants to serve his sentence in Aruba

LivinginPeru.com
Isabel Guerra

Joran van der Sloot, the Dutch citizen who confessed murdering Stephany Flores in Lima, Peru, feels that his life is in danger in Peru, since he thinks that other inmates at Castro Castro prison may take revenge and kill him.

While he was being transferred to Castro Castro prison, people in the streets gathered around the police vehicles to yell at him "Psycho! Murderer! You are going to die!" and even threw trash at him.

“I don't want to be in prison in Peru. I am afraid I might be killed,” said van der Sloot to police authorities, according to reports published in El Comercio, La Republica, Peru21 and RPP.

According to Ruben Rodriguez, Chief of the Inpe (Peru's Prisons System), van der Sloot feels he is hated and has asked for guarantees for his life, and he has been jailed at an individual cell, a privilege that very few inmates can have in Peru.  

Also, van der Sloot is willing to reveal to the US authorities the exact location of Natalie Holloway's remains, as long as he is allowed to serve his sentence in Aruba.

Joran van der Sloot is formally charged of first-degree murder and robbery, and he may be sentenced up to 35 years of prison.

http://www.livinginperu.com/news/12438

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Jun. 13, 2010
Van Der Sloot Told Chile Police Thief Killed Woman
Chilean Police: Van Der Sloot Initially Said Unidentified Intruder Killed Woman In Peru Hotel

(AP)  LIMA, Peru (AP) - Joran van der Sloot told police in Chile that it was an unidentified robber who beat a young woman to death in his hotel room, a killing for which the Dutchman has been charged with murder in Peru.

Peruvian police say Van der Sloot, long suspected in the 2005 disappearance of U.S. teen Natalee Holloway, has confessed to killing 21-year-old business student Stephany Flores on May 30 after they met playing poker.

But according to a Chilean police report obtained by The Associated Press through Peruvian authorities late Saturday, Van der Sloot gave a different account of events while in custody in neighboring Chile, where he was captured after the killing and quickly extradited.

In the version offered to Chilean investigators, Van der Sloot said he and Flores were surprised in the early morning by two robbers in an apparent assault.

"A man came out of the bathroom blocking the access door with a knife in his hand. On the bed was another man with a gun," the Spanish-language report quotes him as saying. "The man with the knife said to be quiet, but Stephany began talking in a loud voice and he hit her in the face, making her nose bleed."

It also says Van der Sloot told Chilean agents that the previous day, he and Flores had been extorted by apparent police officers who demanded $4,000 and a wristwatch he brought from Thailand.

Chilean police told their Peruvian colleagues that the 22-year-old Dutchman responded in English to their questioning but refused to sign a declaration after learning he would be expelled to Peru.

On Friday, a Peruvian judge ordered Van der Sloot jailed on first-degree murder and robbery charges.

Police in Peru say he confessed to beating Flores to death after she learned details of the Holloway case from his laptop. He allegedly broke her nose, strangled her, threw her to the floor, then emptied her wallet and drove away in her SUV, said Gen. Cesar Guardia, chief of the criminal police. He then traveled south to Chile by bus.

If convicted on the murder and robbery charges, Van der Sloot could get 15 to 35 years in prison.

Van der Sloot's newly hired Peruvian attorney, Maximo Altez, has asked the judge to declare his client's confession void on the grounds it was made in the presence of a defense lawyer appointed by police.

Van der Sloot remains the lone suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway on the Caribbean resort island of Aruba.

Peru's criminal police chief said recently that Van der Sloot told interrogators he knows where Holloway's body is, but Aruba's attorney general said Friday he is skeptical Van der Sloot was telling the truth.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/06/13/ap/latinamerica/main6577895.shtml

Joran van der Sloot Arrives at Castro Castro Prison in Peru

By Joan Clements in The Hague
Published: 12:01AM BST 14 Sep 2005

The relaxed regime at a prison housing some of Holland's most dangerous criminals is causing controversy.

Pictures of tattooed prisoners enjoying a "social evening" and beer embarrassed the authorities which are sensitive to claims abroad that they are soft on crime.

One inmate at Esserheem serving 14 years for murder said: "We have a party every weekend in our own prison bar. We can enjoy wonderful snacks, ice cream, beers, play cards or billiards and listen to music. If the weather is warm we can play tennis."

Another prisoner spoke of "perfect" fresh food and said: "We can buy everything in the prison shop including sushi and sake."

A senior Dutch police official who declined to be named said Esserheem was an exception, but "foreign offenders, in particular those involved in drug-related crime, will be even more inclined to appear before Dutch courts rather than be extradited to their own countries".

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/netherlands/1498394/A-party-every-weekend-at-Dutch-prison.html

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20393769,00.html
Joran van der Sloot Fears for His Life in Peruvian Prison
By Aaron Parsley and Antoinette Y. Coulton

Monday June 14, 2010 11:00 AM EDT
Joran van der Sloot has reportedly told Peruvian officials he wants to come clean about the location of the body of Alabama honor student Natalee Holloway, who went missing five years ago in Aruba.

The reason? He's afraid for his life inside the Peruvian prison where he's locked-up after being charged in the murder of business student Stephany Flores, 21.

"I don't want to be imprisoned in Peru," he told police, according to a local newspaper. "I am afraid I will be killed."

Van der Sloot, 22, is currently being held in isolation in the high-security Miguel Castro Castro prison in the San Juan de Lurigancho district of Lima while he awaits trial – and officials say he has requested security measures to guarantee his safety there, fearing other prisoners will take justice into their own hands.

"Convicts inside have committed serious crimes," criminal attorney Luis Lamas Puccio, who is not connected to the case, tells PEOPLE in Peru. "There is too much promiscuity, overcrowding and poor health conditions. I know Joran is isolated . . . This way he'll be safe not only from rape but also from being killed."
Inside 'Castro Castro'
The prison, which was built to hold 2,000 inmates, now houses about 2,300. But Leonardo Caparros, former director of the National Institute that oversees Peru's prison system, tells PEOPLE that van der Sloot is lucky to be assigned to Miguel Castro Castro prison because overcrowding isn't as horrendous there as it is in others in the South American country.

"Of course it's still a very tough jail because the people there – they all are well-known criminals," Caparros says. "You never send to Castro Castro a person who is going into a criminal situation for the first time. There is an exception, and that is murder."

Though van der Sloot is being kept separated from other prisoners, "isolation is relative because infrastructure is not ready and adapted to separate convicts," says Puccio, who also provided an example of how this isolation works: "They have to stay at the auditorium alone, and when that place has to be used, they are taken to a garden or an office. There isn't a proper isolation system like there is in the United States."
What Money Can Buy
If van der Sloot has access to outside money he might be able to buy himself protection from other inmates inside Castro Castro. "It's like a secret that everybody knows," Caparros says.

A U.S. Department of State report on conditions in Peru's prisons, released in March 2010, backs up Caparros's claim.

"Conditions were poor to extremely harsh in facilities for prisoners who lacked funds," the report states. "Overcrowding, poor sanitation, and inadequate nutrition and health care were serious problems. Inmates had intermittent access to running water, bathing facilities were inadequate, kitchen facilities were unhygienic, and prisoners slept in hallways and common areas for lack of cell space."

Whether or not van der Sloot has access to money, Caparros says, "I don't think that so many people will be able to sympathize with somebody who killed little girls. Criminals have codes, you know. . . . I guess many people in jail will not like that."
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Joran van der Sloot Fears for His Life in Peruvian Prison
By Aaron Parsley and Antoinette Y. Coulton
Monday June 14, 2010 11:00 AM EDT

Joran van der Sloot has reportedly told Peruvian officials he wants to come clean about the location of the body of Alabama honor student Natalee Holloway, who went missing five years ago in Aruba.

The reason? He's afraid for his life inside the Peruvian prison where he's locked-up after being charged in the murder of business student Stephany Flores, 21.

"I don't want to be imprisoned in Peru," he told police, according to a local newspaper. "I am afraid I will be killed."

Van der Sloot, 22, is currently being held in isolation in the high-security Miguel Castro Castro prison in the San Juan de Lurigancho district of Lima while he awaits trial – and officials say he has requested security measures to guarantee his safety there, fearing other prisoners will take justice into their own hands.

"Convicts inside have committed serious crimes," criminal attorney Luis Lamas Puccio, who is not connected to the case, tells PEOPLE in Peru. "There is too much promiscuity, overcrowding and poor health conditions. I know Joran is isolated . . . This way he'll be safe not only from rape but also from being killed."
 
Inside 'Castro Castro'

The prison, which was built to hold 2,000 inmates, now houses about 2,300. But Leonardo Caparros, former director of the National Institute that oversees Peru's prison system, tells PEOPLE that van der Sloot is lucky to be assigned to Miguel Castro Castro prison because overcrowding isn't as horrendous there as it is in others in the South American country.

"Of course it's still a very tough jail because the people there – they all are well-known criminals," Caparros says. "You never send to Castro Castro a person who is going into a criminal situation for the first time. There is an exception, and that is murder."

Though van der Sloot is being kept separated from other prisoners, "isolation is relative because infrastructure is not ready and adapted to separate convicts," says Puccio, who also provided an example of how this isolation works: "They have to stay at the auditorium alone, and when that place has to be used, they are taken to a garden or an office. There isn't a proper isolation system like there is in the United States."
 
What Money Can Buy

If van der Sloot has access to outside money he might be able to buy himself protection from other inmates inside Castro Castro. "It's like a secret that everybody knows," Caparros says.

A U.S. Department of State report on conditions in Peru's prisons, released in March 2010, backs up Caparros's claim.

"Conditions were poor to extremely harsh in facilities for prisoners who lacked funds," the report states. "Overcrowding, poor sanitation, and inadequate nutrition and health care were serious problems. Inmates had intermittent access to running water, bathing facilities were inadequate, kitchen facilities were unhygienic, and prisoners slept in hallways and common areas for lack of cell space."

Whether or not van der Sloot has access to money, Caparros says, "I don't think that so many people will be able to sympathize with somebody who killed little girls. Criminals have codes, you know. . . . I guess many people in jail will not like that."

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20393769,00.html

Van Der Sloot Willing to Tell Where Holloway's Buried in Exchange for Transfer to Aruba
Published June 11, 2010

Dutch murder suspect Joran van der Sloot says he'll reveal the location of U.S. teen Natalee Holloway's body if authorities transfer him from Peru's most infamous prison to a jail in Aruba, Radio Netherlands Worldwide reports Sunday.

Van der Sloot, who reportedly fears for his safety inside the infamous Miguel Castro Castro prison, said he will disclose information about Holloway's remains on condition that he be transferred to his native Aruba.

The 22-year-old Dutchman, who is the prime suspect in Holloway's disappearance, confessed to killing 21-year-old Peruvian Stephany Flores on May 30 -- five years to the day after the Alabama teen disappeared during a senior class trip to Aruba.

Van der Sloot has since told police investigators that he knows the location of Holloway's remains, the chief of Peru's criminal police, Gen. Cesar Guardia, told The Associated Press. 

"He let slip that he knew the place where this person was buried," Guardia said.

He added, however, that Van der Sloot told investigators "he would only testify (on the matter) before Aruba authorities."

Peruvian President Alan García said Van der Sloot will serve his prison sentence in Peru, according to Radio Netherlands Worldwide. And the prosecutor's office on Aruba has reportedly said there is no treaty allowing prisoner transfers between Peru and the Netherlands.

Van der Sloot has told a number of differing accounts since Holloway's disappearance, including one story in which he sold her to an unnamed man who took her out to sea in his boat -- possibly to Venezuela.

Efforts by the FBI to try to solve the Holloway case may have inadvertently helped fund the travel that enabled the murder of Flores in Van der Sloot's hotel room.

Believing it was closing in on Van der Sloot, the FBI videotaped and allowed him to be paid $25,000 in a sting operation in Aruba last month. But it held off on arresting him, and he took the money and flew to Peru.

Guardia told the AP in an interview that the 6-foot-3 Van der Sloot impressed investigators with both his intelligence and brutality.

He said the husky Dutchman grabbed Flores and smashed her with an elbow before strangling her and throwing her to the floor of his room.

The general said Van der Sloot took Flores' cash, about $300 worth of Peruvian currency, two credit cards and her national ID card.

Guardia said Van der Sloot admitted to killing Flores because she found out about the Aruba case while using his laptop without his permission when he went out for coffee.

But he said police do not necessarily believe him and think he may have killed Flores before going out and returning to the hotel room with two cups of coffee and rolls.

Col. Miguel Canlla, chief of homicide investigations, told the AP that Van der Sloot took off his shirt after strangling Flores and put it on her. He said the Dutchman wanted to put her body into a suitcase but couldn't.

"He is cold, calculating and cynical," Canlla said.

The evidence against the Dutchman includes hotel security camera video showing Flores and Van der Sloot entering his hotel room together and the Dutchman leaving alone four hours later.

Security camera video from the Atlantic City casino early on the morning of her death shows Flores arriving at a poker table where Van der Sloot is sitting with other players, shaking his hand as if they met before and then taking the seat next to him. The two later leave together.

Van der Sloot confessed, police say, on his third full day in police custody and a full week after he fled into northern Chile.

He was charged with extortion in the United States on June 2 -- the day of his arrest in Chile -- in a case that started after Van der Sloot contacted John Kelly, a New York lawyer for Holloway's mother, Beth Twitty, in April, according to an affidavit.

The Dutchman allegedly was seeking $250,000 in exchange for the location of Holloway's body, how she died and the identity of those involved.

Van der Sloot's father died in February and he "wanted to come clean, but he also wanted money," said Bo Dietl, a private investigator who worked with Kelly on the case.

After consulting with Twitty, Kelly contacted the FBI.

The agency sent 10 to 12 agents to Aruba for a sting operation, he said, in which Kelly on May 10 gave Van der Sloot $10,000 in cash; another $15,000 was wired to a bank account.

Van der Sloot was told he would get $225,000 once the body was found, Dietl said. According to the affidavit, Van der Sloot insisted that a written contract be signed between him and Twitty.

Van der Sloot was secretly videotaped by the FBI in an Aruba hotel telling Kelly he pushed Holloway down, that she hit her head on a rock and died, the affidavit says. He said he then contacted his father, who helped him bury the body.

Kelly and Van der Sloot went to where the Dutchman said he and his father had put Holloway -- in the foundation of a house.

No body has been found, however.

And the affidavit says Van der Sloot admitted in a May 17 e-mail -- he was in Peru by then -- that he had lied about the location of Holloway's remains.

It was not the first time Van der Sloot has admitted to having lied about the case. Several times, he made confessions he later retracted.

Van der Sloot was the last person seen with Holloway before the girl vanished on the last night of a high school graduation trip.

He was arrested twice but released both times for a lack of evidence.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/06/11/van-der-sloot-reveal-location-holloways-remains-transferred-aruban-prison/

Van der Sloot jailed on first-degree murder charge
The Associated Press
Friday Jun. 11, 2010 6:44 PM ET

Reached by the AP, Altez refused to discuss the case. He said Van der Sloot's schoolteacher mother, Anita, would be arriving early next week with the family's own media adviser.

http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/World/20100611/van-der-sloot-suspect-100611/

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Rene Gielen??

Pauw and Witteman
January 11, 2008 
 
(translated from Dutch)

Anita: I don't know, I have thought for a long time that she is alive, and there ahve been indications she is.  And those facts have to be investigated.  Rene Gielen on Curacao is making a documentary, she has interviewed a lot a people, we know because she's in contact with us.  I really would like for the other side of the story to also be investigated.

http://www.hollowaycase.com/archive/media/jorandevries.htm

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