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« Reply #160 on: June 10, 2010, 05:03:04 PM »

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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« Reply #161 on: June 10, 2010, 05:41:57 PM »

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« Reply #162 on: June 10, 2010, 07:46:06 PM »



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/



Those rusty Dutch buggers just can`t keep their hands off that boy, can they?

It`s built in to their DNA.

As was learned, the Dutchman would have the advice of a private lawyer had been hired by diplomats from the embassy.

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« Reply #163 on: June 10, 2010, 08:55:13 PM »

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."

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« Reply #165 on: June 10, 2010, 10:46:34 PM »

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.

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« Reply #166 on: June 10, 2010, 11:27:31 PM »

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.

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« Reply #167 on: June 11, 2010, 10:28:54 AM »

Police: Dutchman to reveal Holloway location
Prosecutors prepare charges against Van der Sloot in Peru murder

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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."

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« Reply #168 on: June 11, 2010, 10:34:31 AM »

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
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« Reply #169 on: June 11, 2010, 10:46:42 AM »

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Joran van der Sloot simulated as an excuse not to have keys to the room where Stephany Flores killed

Video of Joran with coffee cups and bread pretending he is locked out of room, and Stephany not answering his knocks on the door.

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« Reply #170 on: June 11, 2010, 11:04:35 AM »

PERUVIAN JUDGE CHARGES JORAN VAN DER SLOOT WITH MURDER AND ROBBERY CHARGES
Friday, June 11th, 2010 at 2:41 pm

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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.


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« Reply #171 on: June 11, 2010, 11:06:07 AM »

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.

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« Reply #172 on: June 11, 2010, 11:14:32 AM »

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.

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« Reply #173 on: June 11, 2010, 11:23:04 AM »

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

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« Reply #174 on: June 11, 2010, 11:29:26 AM »

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.

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« Reply #175 on: June 11, 2010, 11:32:52 AM »

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.

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« Reply #176 on: June 11, 2010, 12:18:07 PM »

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


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« Reply #177 on: June 11, 2010, 12:23:53 PM »

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.

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« Reply #178 on: June 11, 2010, 12:58:49 PM »

Holloway attorney details van der Sloot sting
John Q. Kelly set up suspect, who said he would show Holloway’s remains

By Mike Celizic
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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. ....

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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.

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« Reply #179 on: June 11, 2010, 01:02:47 PM »

Joran van der Sloot is now detained in the courthouse lockup
Confessed murderer of Stephany Flores will be transferred in the coming hours Castro Castro prison. Netherlands will be in the same flag as the Colombian hit man accused of killing Myriam Fefer

Friday June 11, 2010 - 11:22 a.m.

http://elcomercio.pe/noticia/493277/joran-van-der-sloot-ya-esta-detenido-carceleta-palacio-justicia

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