JORAN VAN DER SLOOT MURDERS AGAIN? Articles only - no discussion please

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PLEA DEAL?

Joran van der Sloot has said it will release the whereabouts of Natalee Holloway

Justice must determine if the victim of citizen Dutchman, Stephany Flores, carrying large sums of money when the casino came the fateful morning of May 30.

After investigating the murder of Stephany Flores, the Homicide Division of the Dirincri manjeja two motives for the crime: the theft and violent reaction from Joran van der Sloot to be discovered by the girl.

"The concerns have seen exchanging money in hand, having seen arriving in a modern truck, seeing her alone. Presumably it was considered to be an easy target to gain an advantage via the theft, "said the head of the Dirincri, PNP general Cesar Guardia.

And is that according to the police, Stephany Flores went on to win up to 28 thousand suns on May 24, had a thousand dollars delivered by his father and purchased between 600 and 700 soles in the morning before he died. However, friends of the girl say that he had no money to play.

Therefore not rule out the second phone, referring to the violent reaction of the Dutchman to be discovered, which is confirmed yet, because the laptop Van der Sloot was not fully revised, as detailed the PNP general.

Discuss the case HOLLOWAY

The police report also notes that the case has said that the Dutchman will be released to the Aruban authorities the whereabouts of Natalee Holloway, whose death confessed to participating.

http://informe21.com/actualidad/joran-van-der-sloot-ha-manifestado-dara-conocer-paradero-natalee-holloway

Opens criminal court for murder in Peru against Dutchman

LIMA - A Lima judge on Friday ordered the arrest of Joran van der Sloot Netherlands on charges of "simple murder and theft" in connection with the murder on May 30 of the Peruvian Stephany Flores, told AFP a source the Judiciary.

Judge Juan Buendía ordered Van der Sloot, 22, "be prosecuted as the author of the alleged crimes of homicide and simple theft," he told AFP Luis Garcia, a spokesman for the Court of Lima.

To establish and crime, the judge upheld the complaint by the prosecutor Ninfa Espinosa, who in his arguments before the judge noted that the citizens Netherlands murdered "aggravated cruelty and ferocity" to Flores, 21.

Van der Sloot, who is linked in the case of disappearance in 2005 of the citizen Natalee Holloway in Aruba, confessed to killing Flores on May 30 in his hotel room.

American Justice initiated proceedings against the Netherlands on June 3 in connection with an extortion of Van der Sloot on the Holloway family, which required him to say where $ 250,000 was the body of her missing daughter.

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PERU did in one week what ARUBA couldn't do in 5 YEARS

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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

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Judge orders van der Sloot held for murder
Dutchman also is lone suspect in 2005 disappearance of Alabama teen
NBC, msnbc.com and news services
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/
 

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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.

(Contributed by BNO NEWS. All rights reserved. If you wish to reproduce this article, please contact us.)

Edited by BNO NEWS on Jun 11, 2010

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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

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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.

http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/World/20100611/van-der-sloot-suspect-100611/

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Interview with Stephany Flores' father with English subtitles:

http://www.youtube.com/user/migmontest#p/u/3/6HgeSzCRbHM

There are four right now, click on the others on the right side of the page.

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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.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37650865/ns/dateline_nbc-crime_reports/page/5/

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37650865/ns/dateline_nbc-crime_reports/page/6/

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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


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37650865/ns/dateline_nbc-crime_reports/page/5/

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37650865/ns/dateline_nbc-crime_reports/page/6/

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Aruba Public Prosecutor not informed about Joran’s statementPublished on 11 June 2010 - 8:18pm

The Public Prosecutor on the Caribbean island of Aruba says he has not been informed by the Peruvian authorities about Joran van der Sloot’s admission that he knows where Natalee Holloway’s body is.

Van der Sloot is reported to have told Peruvian investigators this during his interrogation, on Thursday, about the death of Stephany Flores. Ms Flores was recently found dead in a Lima hotel room booked in the name of Van der Sloot. Ms Holloway disappeared on Aruba in 2005.

Taco Stein, the Aruban Advocate General, said on Friday afternoon that he heard of Van der Sloot’s admission via the media and not through official channels. He said he had tried every means possible to make contact with the Peruvian authorities, in a bid to gain more clarity before further steps were undertaken.

http://www.rnw.nl/english/bulletin/aruba-public-prosecutor-not-informed-about-joran%E2%80%99s-statement

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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."

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

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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."

http://abcnews.go.com/International/Media/joren-van-der-sloot-high-night-peru-killing/story?id=10893791

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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."

http://abcnews.go.com/International/Media/joren-van-der-sloot-high-night-peru-killing/story?id=10893791&page=1
 
http://abcnews.go.com/International/Media/joren-van-der-sloot-high-night-peru-killing/story?id=10893791&page=2

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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

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http://www.ad.nl/ad/nl/1000/Nieuws/article/detail/490120/2010/06/12/Joran-naar-Aruba-in-ruil-voor-Holloway.dhtml

Through translator:




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I thought they found marijuana & coke in his system?

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Mama di Joran Van Der Sloot na ta Aruba, no na Peru

Publication: Diasabra, 12 Juni 2010. Categoria: General

Contrario na loke mayoria hende ta pensa



RANJESTAD (AAN):  Tur hende ta kere cu Anita van der Sloot, mama di Joran, ta na Peru na e momentonan aki pa atende cu e situacion di su yiu homber mayor.

   Esaki no ta e caso.   DIARIO a constata cu Anita van der Sloot ta na Aruba y diahuebs anochi por a mire den Ballroom di Marriot Hotel durante e Bollywood Night, cual tabata un fiesta special organiza den cuadro di e Aruba International Film Festival.

    Anita van der Sloot tabata acompaña pa su otro dos yiu y tabata cana normal entre esnan presente.

   Loke tambe por a ripara ta cu practicamente prensa presente a acerca Anita pa puntre riba e situacion di su yiu Joran cual ta noticia tur dia na nivel local como internacional.

   Den medionan stranhero, corant, radio y television tur dia tin “breaking news” relaciona cu e caso di Joran van der Sloot.  Sinembargo, e hecho cu Anita van der Sloot ta na Aruba y no na Peru por ta un indicacion cu e famia mes a dicidi di cera nan curazon apesar di tur locual ta pasando rond di nan.

   Loke a pasa cu Natalee Holloway y loke a pasa na Peru ta mucho hopi.  Ta yega un momento cu un famia cu a pasa loke e famia aki a pasa den e ultimo cinco añanan, cu nan mester para fuerte riba nan zapato pa sigui cu nan bida.   Joran a scoge su destino y esey ta algo cu nan mes no por a dicidi riba dje.

   Tin indicacion si cu prensa stranhero, esnan cu ta cubriendo e caso aki y cu ta na Aruba, ta busca manera pa haya Anita van der Sloot su declaracion pero nan no kier papia nada.  E hecho cu Sra. Van der Sloot no a bay Peru tambe por ta tin di haber cu e no kier bay expone su mes na opinion publico internacional y na e presion cu esaki lo nifica pe.

   Riba potret por aprecia Anita van der Sloot kende tabata presente durante e Bollywood Night den compania di su yiunan.

http://www.diario.aw/2010/06/mama-di-joran-van-der-sloot-na-ta-aruba-no-na-peru/

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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