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« Reply #280 on: June 21, 2010, 12:35:07 PM »

Joran van der Sloot Says He Was Tricked into Murder Confession
Accused Killer Shares Cell With Murderer, Corrupt General and Rats
 
By JOHN QUINONES and MARK MOONEY
June 21, 2010


Joran van der Sloot is now claiming that he was tricked into confessing that he killed Peruvian Stephany Flores and says that he will "explain later" what really happened.

The Dutch playboy also complained that he has to share his prison cellblock with a Colombian murderer, a corrupt Peruvian general and rats that creep into his cell through the toilet at night.

 Van der Sloot, 22, is accused of murdering Flores and is the prime suspect in the disappearance of American teen Natalee Holloway  in Aruba five years ago.

His claim of being fooled into confessing to murder came one day after his mother, Anita van der Sloot, conceded that her son "could have done something" to Flores and that she could no longer hug him.

Her son, however, is now insisting that he didn't realize he was signing a murder confession, which was written in Spanish. Van der Sloot speaks some Spanish.

"During the interrogations I was very frightened and confused, and I wanted to leave," van der Sloot told the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf in the notorious Castro Castro jail in Lima, Peru.

"'If you sign these papers you will be extradited to the Netherlands,' they were telling me all the time. In my blind panic I then signed everything, but I did not even know what was written down," he told the newspaper.

When asked about the murder of Flores, van der Sloot replied, "I have been framed. What happened exactly, I will explain later."

In the alleged confession, van der Sloot is quoted as saying he met Flores at a Lima casino and they were playing poker in his room when an email popped up on his computer linking him to the Holloway case.

He claims Flores became upset and struck him. Enraged, van der Sloot allegedly smashed her in the nose with his elbow. Blood gushed out and she nearly fainted from the blow, the confession states. He then grabbed her by the throat and banged her head against the wall, the confession says. He finally used his shirt to smother her, according to the reputed confession.

As ABC News reported at the time of his arrest, van der Sloot appeared confused before signing some police documents. He even asked his interrogatiors, "This only says I understand what my rights are, correct?"

The murder suspect today is scheduled to be brought before a judge in Lima who will interrogate him.

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/International/joran-van-der-sloot-tricked-signing-murder-confession/story?id=10968585


Van Der Sloot's Mom Still Believes He's Innocent in Natalee Holloway's Disappearance

Van der Sloot, who is the son of a judge, is even losing the support of his mother, who only recently insisted her son "is not a murderer" and once said that the van der Sloot family believes "200 percent that he's innocent."

 This weekend, however, his mother told De Telegraaph, "I now believe that Joran may indeed have done something to Stephany in Peru. Maybe in a burst of anger? I don't know."

During the emotional interview, Anita van der Sloot said, "I will not visit him in his cell. I cannot embrace him."

At another point, the distraught mother added, "It's time to let him go. I cannot cry for Joran. If he killed Stephany, then he will have to carry the burden of that. He who commits a crime has to pay."

She described her son as a loving boy, but said that something happened to him as he grew up.

"He was a sweet kid, who loved animals and his grandma. Happy, open," she said. "He lost his way along the way. It was gradual.

"After he was arrested for Natalee's disappearance, he was traumatized," the paper quoted her as saying. "We then made a big mistake. We sent him to the Netherlands to study. He should have gone to a closed clinic. He needed psychological help even back then. He wasn't getting any rest, he was being persecuted."

Anita van der Sloot still believes her son is innocent in Holloway's disappearance.

"I believed Joran. Despite his many lies. I felt that he didn't have anything to do with the disappearance of Natalee Holloway in 2005," she said. "He had left her on the beach. I still believe that."

Dr. Michael Wellner, one of America's top forensic psychologists, told "Good Morning America" today, said it wasn't surprising for van der Sloot to try to take back his confession.

"He realizes that the confession was very damaging to him, not only with his legal situation, but with his own family, so I would expect him to do this."

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/International/joran-van-der-sloot-tricked-signing-murder-confession/story?id=10968585&page=2


Joran van der Sloot's Past

Those family ties have likely been critical to van der Sloot in the past.
"We know it's quite possible that he killed two young women in two countries with no accountability... Maybe he went from country to country because he had the financial means to do so, because he had a mother and a support system that said, 'My son can do no wrong,'" Wellner said.

 He dismissed Anita van der Sloot's contention that he son was under pressure for being accused of Holloway's murder and then cracked when his father died last year.

"People mourn their parents all the time and they're not homicidal," Wellner said. He added, "People don't kill because they are in mourning. They kill for other reasons and other motivations."

 http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/International/joran-van-der-sloot-tricked-signing-murder-confession/story?id=10968585&page=3
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« Reply #281 on: June 21, 2010, 12:39:58 PM »

THE STEPHANY FLORES CASE

De Telegraaf Interview - June 20, 2010


In the interview Joran Van der Sloot claims that he was scared and confused during his interrogation and that he wanted to leave. "If you sign these papers you will be extradited to the Netherlands..." Van der Sloot said he was told by Peruvian authorities. "In my blind panic I signed everything, but I didn't know what it all said."

"I was tricked into it," said Van der Sloot about the killing of Stephany Flores.

"How exactly all this happened, I will tell you later."

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/5507588/joran_van_der_sloot_to_dutch_reporter.html


THE NATALEE HOLLOWAY CASE

A Current Affair Interview - September 26, 2005


Reporter: Well, I think if you can explain to people what really happened, and you were really forthcoming, the more forthcoming you are, the more chance there will be for you to get on with your life.
 
Joran van der Sloot: One day, I will explain exactly what happened, but, right now, I don’t feel ready to do that

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« Reply #282 on: June 21, 2010, 01:10:14 PM »

Joran's confession in the Stephany Flores murder:

Andreaus Peter Joran van der Sloot (22) from Arnhem , born August 6, 1987. Marital status: single. Son of Paul and Anita van der Sloot van der Sloot. Education: Bachelor of the Han HAN Nijmegen . Living in Aruba, but enrolled in Arnhem .

Present the lawyer Luz Marina Romero Chinchay and the witness and translator of the Dutch Embassy Maurice Stein.

Questions from the police and the representative of the Public

1.Via translator: Do you have advice from a lawyer for that statement?

-My lawyer is present.

2. Explain why your statement about the murder of Tatiana Flores Stephany Ramirez (1921) on June 5 has failed to finish, despite the presence of a representative of the OM , the translator and the lawyer?

- Because I was tired and had not slept in 24 hours. I wanted my statement and my lawyer told me that I had better wait until the end of police investigations and the right to talk.

3. Since when you are on the Homicide Division and you know why you are being detained?

- I've been here since June 5 and that is because of the murder of Stephany Flores.

4. What do you do for work, where, since when and how much you earn?

- I have one thing in Thailand . Selling pizza, sandwiches and coffee, which I earn 20,000 euros annually. I do this already 2.5 years.

5. Why did you come to Peru and how and when you come to Lima ?

I arrived in Lima to participate in the international poker tournament, by plane from Aruba , from Bogotá, on May 14, 2010.

6. Do you know the person Elton Garcia and the person who lives Stephany Flores Tatiana Ramirez (21) was called? If yes, please indicate where and when you came to know and tell them about your relationship to them.

Elton-Garcia is a friend of mine. I met him two weeks ago to know the Atlantic City casinos in Lima . Stephany Flores, I have met in Atlantic City casinos, about May 27 She was a knowledge I have not been granted.

7. You explain further what activities you did between May 14, the day you arrived in Lima , and May 30?

- I often go to Atlantic City casinos have. I've shopped in Larco Marco and in the center of Lima . And I went to the casinos of the Marriott Hotel and Fiesta, opposite Atlantic City .

8.Where have you lived since you came to Lima on May 14 and how much you paid for this?

- I was in room 309 of Hotel TAC WONG opposite the supermarket in Miraflores, and paid 50 soles per night.

9. What were you doing on May 29 between 18.00 and 2.00 on May 30?

- On May 29th I went to Atlantic City casinos to 18.00 at blackjack and poker. I drank pisco sour whiskey and cola. I think I played blackjack 18.00 to 2.00u and 2.00u to 5.00u poker.

10. Tell in detail what happened between the murder of Stephany Flores in Room 309 of Hotel TAC and your flight to Chile .

- On May 30th I was at 2.00u with different people play poker when Stephany Flores sat at my table. Then I played cards some two to three hours, always in her presence. For five hours she told me she wanted to play more on the Intenet . They proposed a way to go together. We played for a bit and  then left to hotel TAC in Stephany's car, a black 4x4.

We arrived at around half past five and went to my room to play poker at my laptop. At one point I opened my mailbox and saw a message: "I'll murder you, mongooltje", referring to the Holloway case. I started with Stephany Flores to talk about the case. I explained that I was five years ago was arrested, I was suspicious of the disappearance of the girl. That was half hours after we had entered Room 309.

As I said, she hit me on my head with her left fist. I reacted impulsively by a blow with my right elbow to give precisely on her nose. There was blood everywhere. She seemed half unconscious. I was so angry that I had with both hands grabbed at her throat and strangled her, one minute long. Then I realized what I was doing.

I got up thinking what to do. There was also blood on my shirt and on the bed. When I took my shirt and I pushed it hard on her face, until she was dead. Then I thought: now what? I left the hotel but the receptionist told me I had to move the car. I went back to room 309. I wanted to flee the hotel. I grabbed my two bags and I drove away with the car. I do not remember where. I have about five minutes driving around. Then I took a taxi to the international airport "Jorge Chavez". Then I thought that I better not by plane could go. I took a taxi to the other side of town, at a bus terminal.

As I packed for 600 soles a taxi to another town whose name I do not remember. Since I took another taxi for 500 soles to Nazca. In Nazca someone drove me 100 soles to the following cities. When we arrived I talked with the taxi driver about the murder of Stephany Flores. "I have committed murder, I want out of Peru ," I said. "Wait for the next city," he replied. Once there, he said: "My friends are not now, maybe it's better if you have a bus takes." "You told me you would bring me to Arica , please do that too,"  I said back. The driver: "Slowly, we're going to eat something."

We did that and then came his friends turn. They asked $ 1,500 for the trip. I agreed. I had at that time only $ 500 cash in his pocket. I said I would pin the rest from an ATM. We left in a white mini van, but said the move wegpolitie our papers. The drivers then advised me to throw away a bag. I threw my briefcase beige sport away.

Then they said they would bring me to Arica when my stuff would not specify. They wanted my cell phone, my watch, two perfumes, books, clothing (including jeans and a few polos from Lacoste brand) and some other stuff. When we arrived at the border post, in Tacna , remained one of the drivers behind because his ID was fake.

I went across the border with the two Peruvians who had ridden piece from Nazca. Until we, at approximately 16:00 on May 31, arrived in Chile . I tried with my debit card to one thousand U.S. dollars, but I could only get five hundred. The Peruvians said that I also had to pay the rest. To have no problems with them, told me that I had two watches, one of the Ferrari brand, with a value of $ 7000.

I gave the watch to one of them, but the other kept it with him. I promised that I would call a day later and I was by Western Union the remaining $ 500 would make. At the time of transfer, I would tell them where they had to give back the watch. If I would have inside, I'd pay $ 500. After having agreed that, they left.

I spent the night in a hotel in Arica , I do not remember the name. A day later, on June 1st, I'm in town all day and I stayed at night caught a bus to Antofagasta . Since I took the plane to Santiago , where I arrived at 14h00. I went to a place called Vasco de Gama, where I took a shower in a hotel. I dropped my gear and took a taxi to Santiago .

Someone approached me and asked me if I ever "Coffee with feet 'had been drinking. I said no. Then he took me to a bar where naked women were serving coffee. I befriended this man and he invited me to his home. As I kept drinking liquor. I stayed there to sleep because I was drunk.

A day later I left, back to Vasco de Gama, and I saw the taxi that my picture in the newspaper and that they were looking for a murderer Holland . I asked the taxi driver to bring me to a police station. At the police station in Vasco de Gama I talked with the agents. I said: "I'm in the paper that the Peruvian police search for murder me." She looked at me weird and said 'wait'. Then a female police officer. "It is better if you go to another police station because we know nothing of."

I told the next taxi driver that I wanted to vomit. "A cousin of mine has been police chief in Santiago . If you want, I call him, "he said. I asked him to do so. He spoke five minutes and gave me the phone. In Spanish, I was managing, I explained to him that the Peruvian police searched me. He asked me where I came from. From the Netherlands , I said. When he called back a little later, he told me at the police headquarters in Santiago to go.

Along the taxi driver kept calling. He said: "My cousin tells me that she'll go for safety intercept." It took another hour before police intercepted my taxi. They drove me in a private car to the Migration Service in Santiago . They explained that I was not arrested was that I could do what I wanted. I used the computer and ate. Until I was told that my extradition to Peru soon.

I said I did not agree that I wanted to talk with a lawyer. They told me that I have nothing to say. That a decision by the government. I asked if I could not be extradited to the Netherlands . That would see them. Then they repeated that I was not arrested, but to take me because of a decision from higher up the country would expand, to Peru .

11. How were you dressed and Stephany on May 30?

- I had a blue jeans, which brand I do not know. I have several. Furthermore, a beige shirt with long sleeves and white Nike sneakers that I wear now. Stephany had a blue jeans. And a polo shirt and shoes, I think.

12. Do you get an object used to kill Stephany?

- No

13. Specify where you have beaten her and how often.

- I saw her only once beaten her nose with my right elbow.

14. Is Prince racket in the hotel room was found for the murder?

- The racket that you showed me, I did not used to save the victim.

15. Is this garment of One Star Converse, beige, with long sleeves and blood, the same clothing you wore on May 30 and used to Stephany to suffocate?

- Yes.

16. Who is this white-turquoise purse at the place of offense was found and there was what exactly?

- From Stephany. There were three fit, one Visa, one of a bank, an ID card. And an amount of 850 soles.

17. What happened to the contents of the wallet happened after you had slain Stephany?

- Stephany I knew had money, but I did not know much and I knew not that fit. They exchanged their chips in before leaving the casino. After having killed her, I took after her and her money.

18. If after the murder further property (like jewelry) by Stephany stolen?

- She had no jewels. I've only her stolen jeep.

19. Why did you leave the jeep when passing Jorge Chavez-Surco?

I do not know, because I thought not clear and the city of Lima does not know.

20. What was the true motive for Stephany to murder?

- I do not know. But when she hit me on my head, I became lost control of my actions. I did not know what I did. I know now what I did, but the motive is unknown to me. It was an impulsive act after a blow to my head I had.

21. Why you fled to Chile after the assassination and gave you about the police, while that in Peru could have done?

- I'm not clear after. I would just as soon as possible away from the crime scene and leave the country. But when I arrived in Chile and saw my picture in the newspapers, I decided to surrender to the Chilean authorities.

22. Why did you room 309 after the murder to return with two cups of coffee in hand?

- I do not know. I simply do not know what I was thinking.

23. If after the murder at any time considered the victim's body to hide?

- Yes, that thought has gone through my head. But I could not stand it anymore, there was a lot of blood in the room.

24. How do you explain the wounds in the face and several parts of the body and skull fracture noted during the autopsy?

- I do not know how these injuries have been achieved.

25. As you have indicated you Stephany strangled with both hands. Specifies where the victim was found and what position you took time.

- They sat on the bed when I gave her a hard elbow. I think her head hit the wall backwards. Then she started to bleed. Then I immediately sat down on her and started to strangle her with two hands. I gave her one minute so held. Then I saw her on the floor. But she was still breathing. Then I turned off my shirt and pressed her face hard-n. I do not know how long but she stopped breathing. I think I got her so slain.

26. Is it true that you then have attracted her clothes and if so, why?

- I really do not know, but I think so. It was after her to have slain. It was her pants and her shoes, but nothing else. I do not know why I did it.

27. Where would you have the body of Stephany want to hide?

No idea, but it also occurred to me.

28. What attracted you garment after the murder, given that the shirt covered with blood?

- A red black striped shirt with a V-neck.

29. Do you have the blood of the floor swept and if so, which?

- Yes. With the duvet and sheets.

30. Give a description of the appearance of those flight to Arica possible.

Three men have driven me to Arica . The first was thin, hairy, small and had a dark skin. He brought me to Nazca Ica. The second was heavily built, dark hair, long and he brought me from Nazca to Arica and had a dark skin. The third was the brother of the first and looked at him, but his face was a bit fuller. He was the owner of the vehicle. She asked me money and have robbed me of my Nokia phone, garments, my Ferrari watch worth $ 7,000 and two perfumes which I forgot the brand. They said they would show me if I would not give money.

31. Are you for the championship of the Latin America Poker Tour casino Atlancic City came and, if so, standing before you enrolled?

- Yes, I came to this tournament. But I was not registered because the organization until June 1 would arrive.

32 - Which phone rang Stephany you and where is the phone?

- I had a Peruvian SIM card, but I ID. One of the taxi drivers, the phone, it is Carlos Alberto EURIB Pretil.

33. What things did you have with you when you left room 309 after the murder?

-A backpack with papers, laptop, clothes and a beige bag with clothing, books. The money I took from Stephany's wallet, when I added my own money.

34. Stephany won money when they played in the casino with you and if so how much?

- I do not think they would gain.

35. For what reason did you Stephany to Room 309?

In order to continue playing poker on the Inter net .

36. Stephany said what to you when they hit you on your head?

- I was explaining it to me five years earlier was accused of the suppression of a girl because I get a message through Facebook had received. She listened to me and suddenly it hit me. I do not know why.

37. Why did you kill Stephany?

- After I had given her a slap, I was afraid they would leave to the police and that she would hold me. It was an impulsive act. I think I killed her because I thought not.

38. According to the autopsy report had Stephany amphetamines in her blood. Have you given her something to drink that contained amphetamine?

- No

39. You drank together in the casino and if so, what and how much?

- I Pepsi, pisco sour whiskey and cola. Stephany and wine, I believe. I stole something from 18.00h to ten glasses of wine.

40. Where does the money come you left the country?

- I had $ 25,000 with me when I walked in Peru , but I have not declared. I Chile I pinned on June 2 $ 500. That was my Click2Pay account, an organization that facilitates payment via the Inter net . I have a pass but has remained in Chile with my belongings.

41. Where did that $ 25,000 come from and why has this not shown?

- I made a TV show about Inter net fraud, and for that information I received  $25,000 from Uri Geller from the Netherlands . First $ 10,000 in cash and then $ 15,000 in my bank account of SNS Bank in the Netherlands . I also have  an ABN account. Furthermore I had received $ 9,000 for providing information about the Holloway case one Quinsy John Kelly. A week before I arrived in Peru I had won $ 6,000 in casinos in Aruba . Moreover, I have some poker accounts. I travel around the world with a lot of money playing poker and I am never on. I do not see why I should be doing. It takes only time that questions about the origin of the money.

42. If you've already committed a serious offense or you've been involved? If so, why and where?

- The only event was the Holloway case in Aruba five years ago, for various suspicions.

QUESTIONS OF THE ADVOCATE

43. Have you voluntarily surrendered or were the brothers and Aparcana Pisconte EURIB Pretil who suggested that?

- Yes, I have voluntarily surrendered. It was my decision.

44. Do you have something to add or change to this statement?

"I want to read everything. And I wish to discuss the Natalee Holloway case. There are chances that if this process quickly and smoothly, I am extradited to Aruba . I want to talk about the case but not now. I want to talk with the police in Aruba . If there is a risk that the case be closed, then I am willing to assist in clarifying it."

And it has nothing to add.
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« Reply #283 on: June 21, 2010, 02:55:04 PM »

Van der Sloot: I was 'tricked' into confessing
Natalee Holloway suspect now denies he killed Peruvian woman, paper says

NBC News and news services
updated 3:29 a.m. PT, Mon., June 21, 2010


AMSTERDAM - A Dutch newspaper that interviewed Joran van der Sloot in his prison cell reported Monday that he has retracted his confession in the killing of a young woman in Peru.

According to De Telegraaf, the 22-year-old Dutchman said he only signed papers admitting killing Stephany Flores because he was intimidated during interrogation and had been promised he would be transferred to the Netherlands. Van der Sloot claimed he had been "tricked" into confessing.

"I was really scared during the interrogations, I was confused and just wanted it to end"  he told the newspaper. "They kept telling me, 'If you sign these papers you'll be extradited to the Netherlands'.

"I was in a blind panic and signed everything they put in front of me, I didn't even know what was in those papers."

Van der Sloot is the main suspect in Flores' May 30 killing in a Lima hotel, exactly 5 years after the still unsolved disappearance of U.S. teen Natalee Holloway on Aruba. Both women were last seen alive in his company.

He has several times given and retracted admissions of involvement in Holloway's disappearance.

During the De Telegraaf interview, van der Sloot also claimed that rats entered his cell at night.

He reportedly shares his cell block at the notorious Castro Castro prison with a Colombian assassin and a Peruvian general who has been jailed for corruption.

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« Reply #284 on: June 21, 2010, 02:58:54 PM »

Van der Sloot: 'I was tricked'By the CNN Wire Staff
June 21, 2010 12:19 p.m. EDT


Lima, Peru (CNN) -- Joran van der Sloot was "tricked" into confessing to the murder of a Peruvian student, Stephany Flores Ramirez, he says in a Dutch newspaper article published Monday.

Peruvian police told him that if he signed the papers they gave him, he would be transferred to the Netherlands, he told De Telegraaf in a jail interview.

"In my blind panic I signed everything, but never knew what was written on them," he said.

He is scheduled to appear in a Peruvian court Monday for a hearing into the death of Flores, 21.

Van der Sloot was twice arrested over the disappearance of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway in Aruba in 2005, but never charged.

His mother said Saturday he was mentally unwell, De Telegraaf reported in what it called an exclusive interview with her.

Van der Sloot went to Peru to escape having to enter the high security section of a psychiatric hospital, Anita van der Sloot said.

She said he suffered severe psychological distress at the early death of his father, for which he blamed himself, she said, without giving further details.

She did not deny that he killed Flores.

She said she spoke to him shortly before Flores died and soon after and that he sounded paranoid, saying he was being "followed and watched," De Telegraaf reported.

Attorney Maximo Altez said van der Sloot's statement in court Monday will focus on how his rights were violated during the investigation.

Altez has maintained that the judge in the case should strike down van der Sloot's confession because he was not properly represented when he was interrogated.

But Peruvian police have defended the interrogation and said van der Sloot's confession was acquired legally.

According to transcripts of his confession, van der Sloot said he elbowed Flores in the face before strangling her and then suffocating her with his shirt.

The transcripts -- provided to CNN by a police source -- provide shocking details and give the public its first glimpse of why van der Sloot says the alleged murder took place. The source has not been named because he was not authorized to pass along the material.

"There was blood everywhere," van der Sloot said in the transcripts. "What am I going to do now. I had blood on my shirt. There was also blood on the bed, so, I took my shirt and put it on her face, pressing hard, until I killed Stephany."

Peruvian authorities have charged van der Sloot with murder.

Van der Sloot told authorities he attacked Flores on May 30 after she read an e-mail on his computer connected with the Holloway case.

In the transcript, van der Sloot said that after Flores read the e-mail, she punched him in the face.

"At that moment impulsively, with my right elbow I hit her in the face exactly on top of the nose," van der Sloot said. "I think she started to faint. It affected me so that I grabbed her from the neck and strangled her for a minute."

Van der Sloot said he had a quick thought to try and hide the body but instead fled.

He was arrested in Chile on June 3 and was returned the next day to Peru. Along with killing Flores, who had a broken neck, he took money and bank cards from her wallet, police said.

Van der Sloot told police in Chile a different story of how Flores died when he was arrested there, according to transcripts. He blamed the death on robbers who had waited for him at his hotel in Peru.

"There was a man coming from the access door with a knife in his hand," van der Sloot said. "The man with the knife hit her in the face, making her bleed through the nose."

But Peru authorities said they had overwhelming evidence pointing to van der Sloot, and when he was transferred to Peru, van der Sloot confessed to the crime, police said.

Van der Sloot said he was in Peru for a poker tournament and had met Flores while he was gambling.

Police have said they think van der Sloot killed Flores to steal money she won from gambling.

Van der Sloot offered a different motive.

"After I responded with hitting her, I feared that she would go to the police and they would detain me for what was an impulsive act," van der Sloot said. "I think I wanted to kill her because I wasn't thinking."

Van der Sloot is being held in a high-security area of the Miguel Castro Castro prison where only two of 10 cells are occupied, and he has no contact with inmates in the general prison population.

He is under guard 24 hours a day, authorities have said.

The only other inmate in the area is alleged Colombian hit man Hugo Trujillo Ospina. The two have spent some time together in a common area where there is a television set and weights made of broomsticks and soda bottles, authorities said.

There is the possibility that van der Sloot will be integrated with other segments of the prison population.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/06/21/peru.murder.case/index.html?hpt=C2
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« Reply #285 on: June 21, 2010, 03:26:01 PM »

June 21, 2010
Van der Sloot says, "I was tricked"


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Van der Sloot declines to give statement in court appearanceBy the CNN Wire Staff
June 21, 2010 3:25 p.m. EDT


Lima, Peru (CNN) -- Joran van der Sloot told a judge Monday that his rights and due process were violated after his arrest in connection with the killing of a Peruvian woman, his attorney told CNN.

The judge will decide on the legality of van der Sloot's incarceration by Wednesday, lawyer Maximo Altez said. If the ruling is unfavorable to van der Sloot, Altez said he is prepared to appeal to the highest court.

While in front of the judge, however, van der Sloot declined to give a formal statement on the facts of the case, according to the court. The reason he gave was the ongoing motion for habeas corpus, which he hopes will nullify the statements he gave to police that led to his imprisonment.

Van der Sloot's decision will not hold up the legal proceedings against from advancing, the court said.

Meanwhile, in a Dutch newspaper article published Monday, van der Sloot says he was "tricked" into confessing to the murder of a Peruvian student, Stephany Flores Ramirez.

Peruvian police told him that if he signed the papers they gave him, he would be transferred to the Netherlands, he told De Telegraaf in a jail interview.

"In my blind panic I signed everything, but never knew what was written on them," he said.

Van der Sloot was twice arrested over the disappearance of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway in Aruba in 2005, but never charged.

His mother said Saturday he was mentally unwell, De Telegraaf reported in what it called an exclusive interview with her.

Van der Sloot went to Peru to escape having to enter the high security section of a psychiatric hospital, Anita van der Sloot said.

She said he suffered severe psychological distress at the early death of his father, for which he blamed himself, she said, without giving further details.

She did not deny that he killed Flores.

She said she spoke to him shortly before Flores died and soon after and that he sounded paranoid, saying he was being "followed and watched," De Telegraaf reported.

Van der Sloot's attorney, Altez, has maintained that the judge in the case should strike down van der Sloot's confession because he was not properly represented when he was interrogated.

But Peruvian police have defended the interrogation and said van der Sloot's confession was acquired legally.

According to transcripts of his confession, van der Sloot said he elbowed Flores in the face before strangling her and then suffocating her with his shirt.

The transcripts -- provided to CNN by a police source -- provide shocking details and give the public its first glimpse of why van der Sloot says the alleged murder took place. The source has not been named because he was not authorized to pass along the material.

"There was blood everywhere," van der Sloot said in the transcripts. "What am I going to do now. I had blood on my shirt. There was also blood on the bed, so, I took my shirt and put it on her face, pressing hard, until I killed Stephany."

Peruvian authorities have charged van der Sloot with murder.

Van der Sloot told authorities he attacked Flores on May 30 after she read an e-mail on his computer connected with the Holloway case.

In the transcript, van der Sloot said that after Flores read the e-mail, she punched him in the face.

"At that moment impulsively, with my right elbow I hit her in the face exactly on top of the nose," van der Sloot said. "I think she started to faint. It affected me so that I grabbed her from the neck and strangled her for a minute."

Van der Sloot said he had a quick thought to try and hide the body but instead fled.

He was arrested in Chile on June 3 and was returned the next day to Peru. Along with killing Flores, who had a broken neck, he took money and bank cards from her wallet, police said.

Van der Sloot told police in Chile a different story of how Flores died when he was arrested there, according to transcripts. He blamed the death on robbers who had waited for him at his hotel in Peru.

"There was a man coming from the access door with a knife in his hand," van der Sloot said. "The man with the knife hit her in the face, making her bleed through the nose."

But Peru authorities said they had overwhelming evidence pointing to van der Sloot, and when he was transferred to Peru, van der Sloot confessed to the crime, police said.

Van der Sloot said he was in Peru for a poker tournament and had met Flores while he was gambling.

Police have said they think van der Sloot killed Flores to steal money she won from gambling.

Van der Sloot offered a different motive.

"After I responded with hitting her, I feared that she would go to the police and they would detain me for what was an impulsive act," van der Sloot said. "I think I wanted to kill her because I wasn't thinking."

Van der Sloot is being held in a high-security area of the Miguel Castro Castro prison where only two of 10 cells are occupied, and he has no contact with inmates in the general prison population.

He is under guard 24 hours a day, authorities have said.

The only other inmate in the area is alleged Colombian hit man Hugo Trujillo Ospina. The two have spent some time together in a common area where there is a television set and weights made of broomsticks and soda bottles, authorities said.

There is the possibility that van der Sloot will be integrated with other segments of the prison population.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/06/21/peru.murder.case/index.html?hpt=C1

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Peru police give Joran van der Sloot case to prosecutors
Updated 6/10/2010 6:00 PM


The case against the young Dutchman, who also remains the lone suspect in the Natalee Holloway missing-teenager case, goes to prosecutors Thursday so they can file formal charges, said the official, Gen. Cesar Guardia.

"We've practically closed the case," he told the Associated Press. "He's confessed with a wealth of details that have been corroborated through criminal investigative rigor."

Guardia denied any suggestion that Van der Sloot's confession was forced. He said a translator assigned by the Dutch Embassy was present, as was a state-appointed defense attorney.

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« Reply #288 on: June 21, 2010, 05:24:35 PM »

TELEGRAAF JOURNALIST - JOHN VAN DEN HEUVEL

John van de Hill meets Joran


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Van der Sloot charged with murder in PeruFrom Mayra Cuevas , CNN
June 17, 2010 9:28 p.m. EDT


Peruvian officials say Joran van der Sloot knows the location of Natalee Holloway's body but will only talk to Aruban officials. Get the latest tonight on "Nancy Grace," at 8 p.m. on HLN.

Lima, Peru (CNN) -- Joran van der Sloot was charged with murder Friday, acting "with ferocity and great cruelty" in the slaying of a 21-year-old student in Lima, Peru, according to court documents.

Van der Sloot also was charged with robbery in last week's slaying of Stephany Flores Ramirez, according to a release from the Lima Superior Court of Justice.

Judge Juan Buendia Valenzuela ordered that van der Sloot be detained and turned over to penal authorities while awaiting trial. He was transferred to a prison Friday afternoon, America TV showed in a broadcast.

The 22-year-old Dutch citizen was considered the main suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway in Aruba, where van der Sloot lived. He has been arrested twice in connection with the case but was released for lack of evidence.

Van der Sloot told authorities 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 Thursday.

The court also accused three men of failing to report the crime, the release said. Brothers John Williams Aparcana Pisconte and John Oswaldo Aparcana Pisconte, along with Carlos Alberto Uribe Petril, drove van der Sloot from Peru to Chile last week, police said.

Van der Sloot was arrested in Chile on June 3 and returned to the next day to Peru, where police say he confessed to killing Flores.

Police say that in addition to savagely beating and killing Flores, who had a broken neck, he took money and bank cards from her wallet before fleeing. The robbery charge is related to that accusation.

Flores and van der Sloot went to a hotel room registered in his name after playing poker at a nearby casino, police say. Hotel surveillance video shows them entering his room together and him leaving alone more than three hours later.

In the Holloway case, van der Sloot told investigators during an interrogation that he knows the location of her body, a Peruvian police official said. But van der Sloot would not identify the location or say what happened to her the night of her disappearance, said Miguel Canlla, head of the homicide division of the Peruvian national police investigative unit.

"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," Canlla said Thursday.

Canlla said Thursday that Aruban police were not currently in Peru and that he did not know whether Aruban and Peruvian investigators had been in contact.

Van der Sloot's lawyer, Maximo Alonso Altez Navarro, has said 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 defended his department's interrogation and said van der Sloot's confession was acquired legally.

"The statement was done within all the requirements stipulated by Peruvian law," he said.


Canlla said investigators were still waiting for judicial permission in order to investigate the contents of van der Sloot's computer.

But authorities have gathered significant evidence, he said.

Bloodstains found on van der Sloot's clothes match Flores' blood type, he said.

"We found bloodstains on the victim's clothes, and we found bloodstains 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 May 27 and had several encounters before driving together to van der Sloot's hotel 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 the evidence against van der Sloot includes his confession, forensic data, surveillance videos and fingerprints 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.

Although van der Sloot was never charged in connection with Holloway's disappearance in 2005, U.S. authorities have filed extortion and wire fraud charges against him.

A FBI affidavit says van der Sloot tried to extort money from Holloway's mother.

The FBI says a representative for Holloway's mother paid $25,000 last month for information on the whereabouts of her daughter's remains.

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, Alabama, arranged for a meeting in which van der Sloot was paid $10,000 in cash and another $15,000 in a wire transfer, the affidavit said.

The meeting took place last month, according to the U.S. attorney's office in Birmingham.

The FBI affidavit says the $15,000 was transferred to a personal bank account in the Netherlands.

In exchange for the money, the document said, van der Sloot showed the representative a house where Holloway's remains supposedly were buried. When records and aerial photography showed that construction had not started on the house at the time of the disappearance, van der Sloot admitted that he lied, the affidavit said.

John Kelly, an attorney for Holloway's mother, has said he is the unnamed person mentioned in the FBI affidavit as having taken the money to Aruba and met with van der Sloot.

A source with intimate knowledge of the case confirmed for CNN that Kelly is the cooperating witness named in the affidavit.

The money paid to van der Sloot came from Holloway's mother, Kelly said.

According to the affidavit, van der Sloot said his father helped him conceal Holloway's body and buried it under the house a few days later while van der Sloot waited in a car.

"Van der Sloot added that he had not actually seen his father inter the remains but was told and shown by his father where the body was buried," the affidavit states.

Van der Sloot's father, Paulus, died in February while playing tennis in Aruba. He was an attorney and judge and had been involved in his son's defense in the Holloway case.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/06/11/peru.murder.case/index.html?hpt=T3


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Van der Sloot charged with murder in PeruFrom Mayra Cuevas , CNN
June 17, 2010 9:28 p.m. EDT


Van der Sloot's lawyer, Maximo Alonso Altez Navarro, has said 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 defended his department's interrogation and said van der Sloot's confession was acquired legally.

"The statement was done within all the requirements stipulated by Peruvian law," he said.


Canlla said investigators were still waiting for judicial permission in order to investigate the contents of van der Sloot's computer.

But authorities have gathered significant evidence, he said.

Bloodstains found on van der Sloot's clothes match Flores' blood type, he said.

"We found bloodstains on the victim's clothes, and we found bloodstains on his clothes, which, according to biological testing, they correspond to the victim," he said.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/06/11/peru.murder.case/index.html?hpt=T3


Peru police give Joran van der Sloot case to prosecutors
Updated 6/10/2010 6:00 PM


The case against the young Dutchman, who also remains the lone suspect in the Natalee Holloway missing-teenager case, goes to prosecutors Thursday so they can file formal charges, said the official, Gen. Cesar Guardia.

"We've practically closed the case," he told the Associated Press. "He's confessed with a wealth of details that have been corroborated through criminal investigative rigor."

Guardia denied any suggestion that Van der Sloot's confession was forced. He said a translator assigned by the Dutch Embassy was present, as was a state-appointed defense attorney.

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« Reply #291 on: June 21, 2010, 10:44:00 PM »

Van Der Sloot Denies Murder
June 21, 2010 | 6:58am


As Joran van der Sloot retracts confessing to murdering Stephany Flores, his own mother admits he "may have" killed the young woman in Peru and her own "grave mistake."

Joran van der Sloot faced charges in court before Judge Carlos Morales in a closed-door session on Monday morning and has reportedly retracted his confession to the murder of Stephany Flores in Lima, Peru on May 30.

Meanwhile, in Aruba, his mother has told a Dutch newspaper that her son needs psychological help and that he “may have” killed the young Peruvian woman.

Joran van der Sloot’s mother says she had booked a bed in a psychiatric hospital in Holland for her son just days before he left for Peru where he allegedly killed 21-year-old Flores. “My son is sick in the head,” Anita van der Sloot told De Telegraaf newspaper in an exclusive interview that ran in the Sunday edition. “He did not want help. He left to avoid hospitalization.”

Van der Sloot’s mother also told the Dutch paper that she would not be going to Peru to see him. And she would not speak to the American press, which she says vilified her son when he was accused of involvement in the disappearance of American teen Natalee Holloway in Aruba in 2005. She and her husband Paulus, who died of a heart attack at the age of 57 last February, were steadfast in their support when Joran was jailed in connection with Holloway’s disappearance. This time, van der Sloot’s mother is not so sure of her son’s innocence. “I will not visit him in his cell,” she said. “I cannot embrace him.”

The 22-year-old’s mother says her son is “not a monster.” Instead, she says he is “sick.” And she told De Telegraaf that she still honestly believed that Joran was not involved in Holloway’s disappearance, but conceded to the paper that she is not as sure about Flores. “I believed Joran even through his many lies,” she said about Holloway. “He left her on the beach. I still really believe that.” Flores, on the other hand, “he may have killed.”

She described to the paper how his psychological condition had deteriorated since his father’s death—for which she says he felt ultimately responsible. She said her son felt guilty about the stress he had put his father under, and that his heart attack was a direct result of Joran’s troubles. She described how he had a gambling addiction, and that he increasingly showed signs of mental illness. When she spoke to her son just days before Flores was murdered, he sounded “paranoid” and he told her that he was sure someone was following him. When he was on the run in Chile, she pleaded with him that he must turn himself into authorities and “bear the burden.”

Mrs. Van Der Sloot has admitted that she feels guilty for her son’s actions. She explained that she and her husband erred in sending their son to Holland after Holloway’s disappearance. He should have had psychological treatment then, she said, but her husband was worried that people would find out and it would make him appear guilty in Holloway’s disappearance. Instead, they sent him to Holland to study and later to Thailand where they helped him buy a coffee bar that he sold last year. “We made a grave mistake,” she says. “He already needed psychiatric help back then.”

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-06-21/van-der-sloot-retracts-confession/


Officials in Peru don’t agree. They say Van Der Sloot has undergone extensive psychological tests since his arrest June 3 near Santiago, Chile, and he is not mentally ill. He was extradited to Lima where he admitted murdering Flores, giving gruesome details including how, over breakfast, he contemplated dismembering her body to get rid of it. The details led Peruvian investigators to believe that Van Der Sloot was a venomous killer whose attempts to set up his alibi and his clear lack of remorse showed that he was cold and calculating—not a psychopath. "There was blood everywhere," Van der Sloot said, according to transcripts of the confession obtained by The Daily Beast. "What am I going to do now? I had blood on my shirt. There was also blood on the bed, so I took my shirt and put it on her face, pressing hard, until I killed Stephany."

Van der Sloot’s lawyer now says he was coerced into giving the confession. He says that the interrogation was tough — both physically and psychologically — and that he was promised that he would be returned to The Netherlands if he confessed to the crime. His lawyer will ask Judge Morales for an official retraction. In the meantime, several news organizations were given access to his cell in the infamous Miguel Castro Castro prison to see the conditions first hand. CNN and ABC report that it is a six-by-10 foot cell with a mattress on a cement frame, a hole in the floor as a toilet, and a sink. He was not in the cell at the time of the walk-through, and his lawyer says he will only grant interviews for a hefty fee. He will remain in solitary confinement away from the general population throughout the pre-trial investigation phase which could take a year or more.

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« Reply #292 on: June 22, 2010, 09:59:34 AM »

Van der Sloot Hotel Room Crime Scene

These evidence photos are from the Lima, Peru hotel room where Stephany Flores was found murdered. Police say Joran van der Sloot confessed to killing the 21-year-old on May 30, 2010, in the hotel room after the two met playing poker at a casino. The murder happened five years to the day after Alabama teen Natalee Holloway went missing, after last being seen leaving an Aruba bar with van der Sloot. The Flores crime scene photos were obtained by 48 Hours | Mystery from sources close to the investigation.

(Photo: CBS News/48 Hours | Mystery)

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Van der Sloot 'emotionally immature,' psych report saysBy the CNN Wire Staff
June 22, 2010 -- Updated 1351 GMT (2151 HKT
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Lima, Peru (CNN) -- Joran van der Sloot has a low tolerance for frustration and "doesn't value the female role," according to excerpts from a psychological investigation report given to a judge by prosecutors Monday.

According to the document, van der Sloot, suspected of killing a Peruvian woman late last month, "does not tolerate when someone tries to contradict him. It generates in him a challenging attitude."

The report calls him "emotionally immature," which elicits strong changes in behavior that can send him out of control.

"He reflects a certain dominance over the opposite sex. He doesn't value the female role," the document states.

Its adds, "he presents traits of an anti-social personality" and is "indifferent towards others' well being."

Despite this, the report says, "he doesn't show any psychopathological trauma that impedes him from perceiving and evaluating reality."

Also Monday, Van der Sloot told the judge that his rights and due process were violated after his arrest in connection with the killing of Stefany Flores Ramirez, his attorney told CNN.

The judge will decide on the legality of van der Sloot's incarceration by Wednesday, lawyer Maximo Altez said. If the ruling is unfavorable to van der Sloot, Altez said he is prepared to appeal to the highest court.

While in front of the judge, however, van der Sloot declined to give a formal statement on the facts of the case, according to the court. The reason he gave was the ongoing motion for habeas corpus, which he hopes will nullify the statements he gave to police that led to his imprisonment.

Van der Sloot's decision will not hold up the legal proceedings against him, the court said.

Meanwhile, in a Dutch newspaper article published Monday, van der Sloot says he was "tricked" into confessing to the murder of Flores.

Peruvian police told him that if he signed the papers they gave him, he would be transferred to the Netherlands, he told De Telegraaf in a jail interview.

"In my blind panic I signed everything, but never knew what was written on them," he said.

Van der Sloot was twice arrested over the disappearance of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway in Aruba in 2005, but never charged.

His mother said Saturday he was mentally unwell, De Telegraaf reported in what it called an exclusive interview with her.

Van der Sloot went to Peru to escape having to enter the high security section of a psychiatric hospital, Anita van der Sloot said.

She said he suffered severe psychological distress at the early death of his father, for which he blamed himself, she said, without giving further details.

She did not deny that he killed Flores.

She said she spoke to him shortly before Flores died and soon after and that he sounded paranoid, saying he was being "followed and watched," De Telegraaf reported.

Van der Sloot's attorney, Altez, has maintained that the judge in the case should strike down van der Sloot's confession because he was not properly represented when he was interrogated.

But Peruvian police have defended the interrogation and said van der Sloot's confession was acquired legally.

According to transcripts of his confession, van der Sloot said he elbowed Flores in the face before strangling her and then suffocating her with his shirt.

The transcripts -- provided to CNN by a police source -- provide shocking details and give the public its first glimpse of why van der Sloot says the alleged murder took place. The source has not been named because he was not authorized to pass along the material.

"There was blood everywhere," van der Sloot said in the transcripts. "What am I going to do now. I had blood on my shirt. There was also blood on the bed, so, I took my shirt and put it on her face, pressing hard, until I killed Stephany."

Peruvian authorities have charged van der Sloot with murder.

Van der Sloot told authorities he attacked Flores on May 30 after she read an e-mail on his computer connected with the Holloway case.

In the transcript, van der Sloot said that after Flores read the e-mail, she punched him in the face.

"At that moment impulsively, with my right elbow I hit her in the face exactly on top of the nose," van der Sloot said. "I think she started to faint. It affected me so that I grabbed her from the neck and strangled her for a minute."

Van der Sloot said he had a quick thought to try and hide the body but instead fled.

He was arrested in Chile on June 3 and was returned the next day to Peru. Along with killing Flores, who had a broken neck, he took money and bank cards from her wallet, police said.

Van der Sloot told police in Chile a different story of how Flores died when he was arrested there, according to transcripts. He blamed the death on robbers who had waited for him at his hotel in Peru.

"There was a man coming from the access door with a knife in his hand," van der Sloot said. "The man with the knife hit her in the face, making her bleed through the nose."

But Peru authorities said they had overwhelming evidence pointing to van der Sloot, and when he was transferred to Peru, van der Sloot confessed to the crime, police said.

Van der Sloot said he was in Peru for a poker tournament and had met Flores while he was gambling.

Police have said they think van der Sloot killed Flores to steal money she won from gambling.

Van der Sloot offered a different motive.

"After I responded with hitting her, I feared that she would go to the police and they would detain me for what was an impulsive act," van der Sloot said. "I think I wanted to kill her because I wasn't thinking."

Van der Sloot is being held in a high-security area of the Miguel Castro Castro prison where only two of 10 cells are occupied, and he has no contact with inmates in the general prison population.

He is under guard 24 hours a day, authorities have said.

The only other inmate in the area is alleged Colombian hit man Hugo Trujillo Ospina. The two have spent some time together in a common area where there is a television set and weights made of broomsticks and soda bottles, authorities said.

There is the possibility that van der Sloot will be integrated with other segments of the prison population.

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Report: Van der Sloot boasts of marriage offers
Associated Press
Published: June 22, 2010


AMSTERDAM (AP) - A Dutch newspaper reports that murder suspect Joran van der Sloot has boasted of receiving marriage proposals in his Peruvian jail cell.
   
De Telegraaf quotes Van der Sloot as saying one woman even asked him to get her pregnant. He is suspected of killing 21-year-old Stephany Flores in his hotel room on May 30 and is also the main
suspect in the 2005 disappearance of U.S. teenager Natalee Holloway in Aruba.
   
The paper says Van der Sloot would not answer questions about Flores, on orders from his lawyer. He expressed no remorse at her death, the paper said in the interview published Tuesday.
   
The 22-year-old Dutchman told police in Peru he killed Flores, but he told the paper the confession was coerced. He refused to speak to the judge handling his case Monday.

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I have translated the interview a reporter had with Joran, as printed in today's De Telegraaf.


"IF ONLY I HAD LISTENED TO MY MOTHER"

by our special reporters John van den Heuvel and Bert Huisjes

LIMA (Peru), Tuesday

Patience is usually rewarded. After two and a half hours of waiting in an endless row of Peruvian family members of prisoners, finally the solid steel door of the infamous Castro Castro prison in Lima swings open. Followed by passport control, body scans and two body searches. After passing two gates follows a courtyard adjacent to a cell block.
 
Under prying eyes and shouts in the distance another gate opens. Then there is the sudden confrontation with the most hated man of the moment: Joran van der Sloot. He gives a firm handshake and we sit at a plastic table. The guard steps aside discreetly.
 
What's it like in here? Is the tentative opening question. Dressed in a red polo and khaki pants ("got it from the embassy") Van der Sloot is being cautious. "It's ok. I'm managing. Since a few days I have a mattress so I sleep a bit better. At night, rats crawl from the toilet hole into my cell. To counter that I put a thick layer of wet newspapers on top of the hole. I can't bear the thought of a rat gnawing on my ear."
 
Yet he will not complain, he says. "The fact that I'm here, is my own fault. My lawyer told me that I have to stay here at least two years. That's how long it takes for the trial to begin. I try to make the best of it."
 
He is happy with the clothes and toiletries that his mother arranged for him. "It's autumn and occasionally it gets cold ... so a few sweaters were very welcome." When he hears that his mother is not planning to come and visit, he nods subdued. "I understand, I caused her and many others too much pain. If only I had only listened to her."

During the conversation the Colombian neighbor of Van der Sloot behind bars, looks interested. "He is suspected of six contract killings," says Van der Sloot. "Sometimes he jokes that he'll kill me too for $75,000. But we get along fine and sometimes we play cards together. When asked if he killed Stephany Flores, the answer is short. "I will say absolutely nothing about that. My lawyer doesn't allow me to." But is it correct that he has made a confession? "All the papers that the Peruvians are showing now, they made me sign with false promises. If I signed them, I would be extradited to the Netherlands. I was so panicked that I signed everything they put in front of me. In Chile they have lied to me and told me I had to go to Peru. In retrospect, I could have just gotten on a plane in Chile to the Netherlands."

Van der Sloot said that he hadn't been mistreated during interrogations. "But there was a big bowl of water next to the desk during one of the hearings. They said they would put my head in if I was not cooperating." The embassy visits him once a week and they pay him 30 euros a month for shopping in a little prison shop. The food is almost literally bread and water, says Van der Sloot. "In the morning, watery tea and a dry bun. In the afternoon we get rice and beans. I can buy something extra at a small restaurant, but you must also pay the guards to get it into your cell." Grinning, he says that his lawyer has received letters with marriage proposals of Peruvian women. "One wants to get pregnant by me," said Van der Sloot. But he realizes full well that many Peruvians want to drink his blood, even in prison. "That's why I would rather stay in this hallway," says van der Sloot. "The director said that it's better for my own safety."

Regret
He has not used the word regret in relation to the murder of Stephany. About the disappearance of Natalee Holloway, he is completely done talking, says Van der Sloot. However, looking back now he has "great regret" that he went to Peru from Aruba. In the police file it seems that one of his fellow poker players, Elton Garcia, has all the papers of an American federal agent with him. On one of the casino images he can be seen as a handsome man with dark sunglasses. Garcia was the one who on Tuesday night caused the body of Stephany (21) to be found. Van der Sloot was already on the run. He had the manager of the Atlantic City casino call the hotel to ask if Van der Sloot was in his room.
 
According to him, because he had a diner appointment with Van der Sloot, who besides he "barely knew". When nobody answered the hotel room door and a 'smell' was observed, the porter came in with the manager. They found Stephany.

In fact, Garcia has a more important role. He arrived eight days before Van der Sloot in the Peruvian capital Lima and took up residence there in Hotel Tac, a low budget hotel, which also can be booked per hour.
He had met Van der Sloot as "a poker player" and asked him to come to Lima for a poker tournament. There would be a lot of money to be won. He also ensured that Van der Sloot moved into the Hotel Tac, where Garcia was staying already.

Worries

Van der Sloot says about that: "That Garcia had arranged and paid everything for me. In retrospect I just want to hit myself in the head that I let him lure me. I barely knew the guy. It was just a setup. "
 
In the file, Garcia is also questioned by the police. He declares that he is one of the hundred best professional poker players in the world. He says he knew Van der Sloot from the internet and had met him at the casino, where he and Stephany played poker. When he heard that Stephany was missing, he was said to be worried about the both of them. He told the police he feared that both probably were "abducted", which is why he had someone call Van der Sloots room. Did the FBI have an interest to continue the operation after the sting operation in Aruba? Without a doubt. In Aruba the private detective of the Holloways paid $ 25,000 to Van der Sloot, while filmed by the FBI. Ten thousand in cash, 15,000 was wired. But Van der Sloot would have to be away from Aruba, in order to arrest him. For extortion, he could not be extradited at that moment because Aruba only extradites for drug offenses.

When Van der Sloot was preparing to have himself admitted in the Netherlands, as his mother says, the fear was that he would be out of the picture completely. Peru was a better destination. This would explain the invitation of Garcia.

Did Van der Sloot commit his crime under the eyes of the FBI? What could an FBI agent do when he discovers a dead Stephany? He would have to find a way to tell the police.
 
And was the hotel prepared by the FBI? Very remarkable are the images of the door of his hotel room. It is striking that one and possibly even two cameras were pointed right at his door, in one of the images the doorknob is on the other side.

For Van der Sloots attorney Maximo Altez it is crystal clear. The FBI lured him to Peru to have him arrested and extradited. But Altez doesn't want to anticipate his tactics. However he denies that he has resigned from the defense. "My family had to go underground and the windows of my office were smashed, but I will keep fighting," said Altez, himself an ex-policeman, later after the interview with Van der Sloot in a hotel in Lima. "The police and law enforcement made huge mistakes and that's what I will now have a few procedures about. After that is over, that's when the trial will start. That is, if that will still go ahead because I think that I can get Joran out of prison.
 
These are all straws that Van der Sloot are grasping. He shudders at the thought of a long stay in Castro Castro, he says. "I don't want to think too much about it," he said when we said goodbye. A cleaner, the assassin and Van der Sloot watch as the gates open again for the visiters to leave and then slam shut. The endless waiting will begin again.

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Joran :'Had ik maar naar mijn moeder geluisterd'

door John van den Heuvel en Bert Huisjes

 
LIMA (Peru) -  Joran van der Sloot heeft er begrip voor dat zijn moeder hem niet komt opzoeken in de zwaar bewaakte Castro Castro-gevangenis in Lima. „Ik begrijp het, ik heb haar en veel andere mensen te veel pijn gedaan. Had ik maar naar haar geluisterd.”

Joran zwijgt tegen rechter

De Nederlander doet zijn uitspraken tegenover twee Telegraaf-verslaggevers die hem voor het eerst en als enige te spreken kregen in zijn cel.

Hij betuigt in het gespek geen spijt maar wil ook niet klagen. „Dat ik hier zit, is mijn eigen schuld. Mijn advocaat heeft me gezegd dat ik hier minstens twee jaar moet blijven. Zo lang duurt het voor het proces begint. Ik probeer er het beste te maken.”

Maandag weigerde Van der Sloot elke vraag te beantwoorden van de Peruaanse onderzoeksrechter Carlos Morales. Hij werd aan de rechter voorgeleid in zijn cel, in bijzijn van zijn advocaat Máximo Altez.

Het tweedelige interview dat De Telegraaf had met Joran, leidde gisteren in de Amerikaanse media al tot een stortvloed aan publicaties. De meeste grote nieuwszenders openden met de verklaring dat Joran zegt te zijn misleid en zijn verklaringen intrekt.

Hij zou een bekentenis hebben afgelegd, met de belofte dat hij dan snel zou worden uitgeleverd. Ondertussen rijzen er vragen over de rol van de Amerikaanse FBI. Er is een groeiend aantal aanwijzingen dat de federale politie rond de dood van Stephany Flores een undercoveroperatie tegen Joran uitvoerde. In het hotel waar het meisje werd gevonden, blijken bijvoorbeeld in het geheel geen bewakingscamera's te hangen die gericht waren op kamer 309.

De camera's hebben er niet standaard gehangen en zijn in elk geval verwijderd, zo bleek gisteren bij een bezoek aan het Hotel Tac in Lima.

De Chinese familie, die het hotel runt, heeft een spreekverbod. In het hotel verbleef tegelijk met Joran een pokerspeler, mogelijk een Amerikaanse agent, die hem overhaalde naar Lima te komen. Hij was het ook die het hotel indirect erop attendeerde dat Joran weg was en de kamer diende te worden geopend. Het vermoeden is dat de Peruaanse politie van de FBI ook de observatiebeelden ontving. Joran verklaarde tegenover De Telegraaf dat deze man, Elton Garcia alles voor hem "had geregeld en betaald".

Lees het hele interview met Joran vandaag in De Telegraaf

Volg de Twitterfeed van De Telegraaf met altijd het laatste nieuws

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« Reply #296 on: June 22, 2010, 11:01:20 AM »

FBI INVOLVEMENT?

Joran van der Sloot spreekt voor het eerst na dood Stephany Flores
’HAD IK MAAR NAAR MIJN MOEDER GELUISTERD’
Liep Nederlander in val van FBI?
LIMA (Peru), dinsdag

 
Geduld wordt meestal beloond. Na tweeënhalf uur wachten in een eindeloze rij Peruaanse familieleden van gevangenen zwaait eindelijk de massief stalen deur van de beruchte Castro Castro-gevangenis in Lima open. Daarna volgen nog paspoortcontroles, bodyscans en twee fouilleringen. Na het passeren van twee traliepoorten volgt een binnenplaats grenzend aan een cellengebouw.
 
Onder nieuwsgierige blikken en gejoel van afstand gaat nóg een hek open. Dan is er plotseling de confrontatie met de meest gehate man van dit moment: Joran van der Sloot. Hij geeft een stevige hand en we nemen plaats aan een plastic tafeltje. De cipier trekt zich discreet terug.
Hoe is het hier? Is de voorzichtige openingsvraag. De in een rode polo en kakibroek („van de ambassade gekregen”) geklede Van der Sloot kijkt de kat uit de boom. „Het gaat. Ik red me. Ik heb sinds een paar dagen een matras, waardoor ik wat beter slaap. ’s Nachts kruipen ratten uit het toiletgat in mijn cel. Om dat tegen te gaan heb ik een dik pak natte kranten op het gat gelegd. Ik moet er niet aan denken dat er plotseling een rat aan mijn oor knaagt.”

Toch wil hij niet klagen, zegt hij. „Dat ik hier zit, is mijn eigen schuld. Mijn advocaat heeft me gezegd dat ik hier minstens twee jaar moet blijven. Zo lang duurt het voor het proces begint. Ik probeer er het beste te maken.”

Hij is blij met de kleding en toiletspullen die zijn moeder voor hem heeft geregeld. „Het is hier herfst en af en toe waterkoud… dus een paar truien zijn welkom.” Als hij hoort dat zijn moeder niet van plan is op bezoek te komen, knikt hij berustend. „Ik begrijp het, ik heb haar en veel andere mensen te veel pijn gedaan. Had ik maar naar haar geluisterd.”

’Vrouwen hier willen met me trouwen’

Tijdens het gesprek kijkt de Colombiaanse buurman van Van der Sloot vanachter tralies geïnteresseerd toe. „Hij wordt verdacht van zes huurmoorden”, vertelt Van der Sloot. „Af en toe maakt hij geintjes dat-ie mij voor 75.000 dollar ook best wil vermoorden. Maar ik kan het wel met hem vinden en af en toe kaarten we wat.” Op de vraag of hij Stephany Flores heeft vermoord, is het antwoord kort. „Daar zeg ik helemaal niets over. Dat mag niet van mijn advocaat.” Maar klopt het dan dat hij een bekentenis heeft afgelegd? „Alle papieren waarmee de Peruanen nu komen, hebben ze mij met valse beloftes laten tekenen. Als ik mijn handtekening zette, zou ik worden uitgeleverd naar Nederland. Ik was zo in paniek dat ik alles tekende wat ze me voorlegden. Ook in Chili hebben ze me voorgelogen en is me verteld dat ik naar Peru moest. Achteraf had ik in Chili gewoon op het vliegtuig naar Nederland kunnen stappen.”
Van der Sloot zegt niet te zijn mishandeld tijdens de verhoren. „Wel stond er tijdens een van de verhoren een grote bak water naast het bureau. Ze zeiden dat ze mijn hoofd erin zouden stoppen, als ik niet meewerkte.” Van de ambassade krijgt hij één keer in de week bezoek en ze betalen hem 30 euro per maand om wat boodschappen te doen in een gevangeniswinkeltje. Het eten is bijna letterlijk water en brood, zegt Van der Sloot. „Ín de ochtend waterige thee en een droog broodje. ’s Middags krijgen we rijst met bonen. Ik kan bij een restaurantje wat extra eten kopen, maar dan moet je ook de bewaarders betalen om het in je cel te krijgen.” Grijnzend vertelt hij dat bij zijn advocaat al brieven zijn binnengekomen met huwelijksaanzoeken van Peruaanse vrouwen. „Eén wil er zelfs zwanger van me worden”, aldus Van der Sloot. Maar hij realiseert zich ook heel goed dat er veel Peruanen zijn die zijn bloed wel kunnen drinken, óók in de gevangenis. „Daarom blijf ik zelf ook liever in deze cellengang”, zegt Van der Sloot. „De directeur heeft gezegd dat dit voor mijn eigen veiligheid beter is.”

Spijt

Het woord spijt in relatie tot de moord op Stephany komt niet over zijn lippen. Over de verdwijning van Natalee Holloway is hij helemaal uitgepraat, zegt Van der Sloot. Wel heeft hij achteraf „enorme spijt” dat hij van Aruba naar Peru ging. Want was Van der Sloot doelwit van een FBI-operatie, die in feite nog doorliep vanaf Aruba? Er zijn opmerkelijke omstandigheden voor en na Van der Sloots arrestatie die daarop wijzen.
In het politiedossier lijkt een van zijn medepokerspelers, Elton Garcia, over alle papieren te beschikken van een Amerikaanse federaal agent. Hij is op een van de casinobeelden te zien als een knappe man met donkere zonnebril. Garcia was degene die op dinsdagavond ervoor zorgde dat het lichaam van Stephany (21) werd gevonden. Van der Sloot was toen al op de vlucht. Hij liet de bedrijfsleider van casino Atlantici City naar het hotel bellen, om te vragen of Van der Sloot op zijn kamer was.
Naar zijn zeggen, omdat hij een afspraak had om met Van der Sloot, die hij „verder nauwelijks kende”, te dineren. Toen de deur in het hotel niet werd geopend en er een ’geur’ werd waargenomen, trad de portier met de bedrijfsleider binnen. Zij vonden Stephany.
 
In feite had Garcia nog een veel belangrijker rol. Hij arriveerde acht dagen voor Van der Sloot in de Peruaanse hoofdstad Lima en nam daar zijn intrek in Hotel Tac, een lowbudgethotel, dat ook per uur kan worden geboekt.
 
Hij had kennis gemaakt met Van der Sloot als ’pokerspeler’ en vroeg hem naar Lima te komen vanwege een pokertoernooi. Daar zou veel geld te verdienen zijn. Hij zorgde er bovendien voor dat Van der Sloot zijn intrek nam in het Hotel Tac, waar Garcia toen dus al verbleef.

Zorgen

Van der Sloot daarover: „Die Garcia had alles voor me geregeld en betaald. Achteraf kan ik me wel voor mijn kop slaan dat ik me door hem liet lokken. Ik kende die vent amper. Het was gewoon een setup.”
In het dossier wordt Garcia ook gehoord door de politie. Daar verklaart hij dat hij behoort tot de honderd beste professionele pokerspelers ter wereld. Hij zegt dat hij Van der Sloot kende van internet en in het casino had ontmoet, waar hij samen met Stephany pokerde. Toen hij hoorde dat Stephany vermist was, zou hij zich zorgen zijn gaan maken over beiden. Tegenover de politie verklaarde hij dat hij vreesde dat beiden wellicht waren „ontvoerd”, vandaar dat hij naar Van der Sloots kamer liet bellen. Had de FBI een belang om de operatie voort te zetten, na de sting operatie op Aruba? Zonder twijfel. Op Aruba betaalde de privédetective van de familie Holloway 25.000 dollar aan Van der Sloot, daarbij gefilmd door de FBI. Tienduizend contant, 15.000 werd overgemaakt. Van der Sloot zou echter van Aruba weg moeten, om hem te kunnen arresteren. Voor afpersing kon hij op dat moment niet worden uitgeleverd, want Aruba levert alleen uit voor drugsdelicten.

’De politie dreigde mijn hoofd in een bak water te stoppen’

Toen Van der Sloot aanstalten maakte om zich te laten behandelen in Nederland, zoals zijn moeder zegt, dreigde hij helemaal uit beeld te raken. Peru was een betere bestemming. Dit zou de uitnodiging van Garcia verklaren.

Pleegde Van der Sloot daarmee zijn misdrijf onder de ogen van de FBI? Wat kon een FBI-agent doen, als hij tot de ontdekking van een dode Stephany zou komen? Hij zou een manier moeten vinden om dit aan de politie kenbaar te maken.
 
En was het hotel geprepareerd door de FBI? Heel opmerkelijk zijn de beelden van de deur van zijn hotelkamer. Daaruit valt op dat recht op zijn deur één en mogelijk zelfs twee camera’s waren gericht; in een van de beelden zit de deurknop aan de andere kant.

Voor Van der Sloots advocaat Maximo Altez is het zo klaar als een klontje. De FBI lokte hem naar Peru om hem daar te arresteren en te laten uitleveren. Maar ook Altez wil niet vooruitlopen op zijn tactiek. Wel bestrijdt hij dat hij de verdediging heeft neergelegd. „Mijn gezin heeft moeten onderduiken en de ramen van mijn kantoor zijn ingegooid, maar ik blijf vechten”, zegt Altez, zelf een ex-politieman, later na afloop van het interview met Van der Sloot in een hotel in Lima. „Er zijn door politie en justitie enorme fouten gemaakt en daar voer ik nu eerst procedures over. Pas daarna zal het proces plaatsvinden. Als dat nog doorgaat tenminste, want ik denk dat ik Joran vrij krijg.”
 
Het zijn voor Van der Sloot strohalmen waar hij zich wanhopig aan vastklampt. Hij gruwt bij de gedachte aan een jarenlang verblijf in Castro Castro, zegt hij. „Daar wil ik nu ook nog niet te veel aan denken”, vertelt hij bij het afscheid. Een schoonmaker, de huurmoordenaar en Van der Sloot kijken toe hoe de hekken weer even opengaan om het bezoek uit te laten en daarna dichtslaan. Het eindeloze wachten gaat weer beginnen.

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« Reply #297 on: June 22, 2010, 11:39:06 AM »

June 22, 2010 7:48 AM
Joran van der Sloot Exclusive: Stephany Flores Crime Scene Pictures


NEW YORK (CBS) Crime scene photos obtained by 48 Hours | Mystery and published exclusively by Crimesider show the crime scene in the Lima, Peru hotel room where Stephany Flores was murdered.

PICTURES: Van der Sloot Hotel Room Crime Scene

The crime photos shows the 21-year-old's body lying on the floor next to the bed with her arms extended and legs against the wall.

Police say Joran van der Sloot confessed to killing Flores in the hotel room after the two met playing poker at a casino.

Video from hotel security cameras shows Flores and van der Sloot entering his room together at 5 a.m. Sunday and then shows van der Sloot leaving alone four hours later with his bags. Police say van der Sloot also left the hotel briefly at 8:10 a.m. and returned with two cups of coffee and bread purchased across the street at a supermarket. Coffee cups are visible in some of the crime scene photos.

Flores' murder occurred on May 30, exactly five years after American teenager Natalee Holloway disappeared in Aruba. Van der Sloot has long been considered the prime suspect in Holloway's disappearance by authorities on the Dutch Caribbean island.

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« Reply #298 on: June 22, 2010, 01:01:23 PM »

Joran van der Sloot Says He Is 'Surviving' in Prison
Accused Dutch Killer Suggests the FBI Lured Him to Peru
 
By JOHN QUINONES
June 22, 2010


Accused killer Joran van der Sloot blames himself for landing in a rat-filled Peruvian prison cell  , but he suggests that the FBI lured him to Peru in a botched sting operation.

Van der Sloot's interview with the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf is the latest in a series of startling comments from the Dutch playboy charged with the murder of Stephany Flores , 21, of Peru, and the prime suspect in the 2005 disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway.

He is also charged with extorting $25,000 from Holloway's mother, Beth Twitty, promising to show her where Natalee's body was buried in exchange for the money.

After receiving payment, he claimed the body was buried in the foundation of a building that didn't even exist at the time of her disappearance, according to the federal indictment. When confronted with the fact, van der Sloot admitted that he lied, the document states.

The 22-year-old Van der Sloot is now suggesting to the newspaper that he was lured to Peru by the FBI to facilitate extraditing him to the U.S. He claims a man named "Garcia" invited him to a poker tournament in Lima, Peru, where van der Sloot met Flores.

"Garcia arranged and paid for everything for me. Looking back, I can't believe I let myself be lured. I hardly knew that guy. It was just a setup," the paper quoted him as saying.

Van der Sloot met Flores at a gambling table, and he has signed a confession admitting killing her while back at his hotel room in rage after she discovered his connection to the Holloway case and allegedly struck him.

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/joran-van-der-sloot-blames-landing-peru-prison/story?id=10978347


He has since refuted his confession, saying he was tricked into signing it, believing he was just signing an acknowledgement of his legal rights. He is demanding that the confession be thrown out of court.

Nevertheless, he admitted to De Telegraaf that he should have listened to his mother.

"I am surviving," he told the paper. "It's my own fault I am here."

Van der Sloot said he understands why even his mother, Anita van der Sloot, told the paper that she can't visit him in prison and was quoted as saying, "Joran could have killed Stephany."

"I have caused her and many other people too much pain. If only I had listened to her," van der Sloot said.

Former FBI  investigator and ABC News consultant Brad Garrett scoffed at the suggestion that the FBI would lure van der Sloot to Peru in order to extradite him on the extortion charge.

"I think the question is, could they have done it? Of course they could have done it," he said. "The real question is would they have done it, and the logical answer is probably, no."

 Federal agents would need the approval of the Justice Department as well as Peru to operate in Lima, and have the cooperation of local police, he said.

"I'm not convinced it is even the type of case the FBI would put the energy into," Garrett said.

Van der Sloot has behaved erratically since his arrest in Chile and his return to Peru. On Monday, he refused to speak to the judge in his case who traveled to the notorious Castro Castro prison to take a statement from van der Sloot.

After allegedly giving a detailed statement on how and why he killed Flores, he claims to have been tricked into signing it.

"During the interrogations I was very frightened and confused, and I wanted to leave," van der Sloot told the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf in the notorious Castro Castro jail in Lima, Peru.

"'If you sign these papers you will be extradited to the Netherlands,' they were telling me all the time. In my blind panic I then signed everything, but I did not even know what was written down," he told the newspaper.

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/joran-van-der-sloot-blames-landing-peru-prison/story?id=10978347&page=2


When asked by a reporter about the murder of Flores, van der Sloot replied, "I have been framed. What happened exactly, I will explain later."

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/joran-van-der-sloot-blames-landing-peru-prison/story?id=10978347&page=3

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« Reply #299 on: June 22, 2010, 01:07:38 PM »

June 22, 2010
Van der Sloot Clams Up with Peruvian Judge

Judge Tried to Question Him in Prison; Dutchman Insists Again His Confession Was Coerced and Formally Asks that It Be Tossed


(CBS)  Three weeks after the murder of Stephany Flores, Joran van der Sloot was expected to answer questions from a Peruvian judge Monday about his involvement in her death.

Instead, reports CBS News Correspondent Jeff Glor, the 22-year-old Dutchman refused to discuss the case and recanted his original confession.

Van der Sloot is also the chief suspect in the 2005 disappearance in Aruba of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway.

The Peruvian judge went to the infamous Miguel Castro Castro Prison to interrogate van der Sloot about the death of Flores, a 21-year-old business student, in his Lima hotel room May 30.

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But according to court documents, van der Sloot not only refused to discuss his case, he repeated his claim that his original confession was coerced, and formally requested it be declared invalid.

"He is certainly delaying the process," says former prosecutor Beth Karas. "He's going to fight every battle that he can under Peruvian law."

Graphic crime scene photos obtained exclusively by CBS News show a severely beaten Flores, her body badly bruised, her clothes stained with blood.

Investigators claim surveillance video from the day of the murder shows van der Sloot trying to establish an alibi. He's seen leaving the hotel room, returning minutes later, coffee cups in hand, and asking a porter to open the door for him. Peruvian police allege he was hoping the porter would discover Flores' body, enabling van der Sloot to claim she was murdered while he was out getting the coffee.

Of his confession, van der Sloot contended to a Dutch newspaper, "In my blind panic, I signed everything, but didn't even know what it said."

Still, legal experts say the case against van der Sloot is strong, even without the confession. "There's a lot of evidence," says Karas, "tying him to the room, which was in his name, to the woman he's seen on video with, to the actual scene -- so, it looks like there can be a case proven even without a statement."

In addition, a Dutch newspaper says van der Sloot is bragging in prison about all the marriage proposals he's been getting.

International Criminal Defense Attorney Dan Conaway explained on "The Early Show" Tuesday that van der Sloot refusing to talk to the judge isn't actually as bad as it sounds: Peru has an inquisitorial justice system, which means the judge acts in much the same capacity as the prosecutor, asking questions, investigating, etc. So van der Sloot keeping tight-lipped is really just his lawyers correctly telling him to keep quiet during the investigation.

Conaway says he doesn't understand why his lawyers are fighting to get his confession thrown out. Considering all the circumstantial evidence, Conaway points out, it seems like this is pretty much a done deal, and at least the confession shows that van der Sloot is co-operating with authorities. And that would help him if this comes to a deal -- it would help with his sentence.

Ultimately, though, Conaway says he doesn't think the confession will be thrown out, because van der Sloot did have counsel present when he made it, though the counsel was court-appointed and not his own.

But, Conaway adds, his lawyers are being wise in having him stop talking in general, as evidenced by him not answering the judge's questions Monday. There are so many rumors and stories circulating, some of which have apparently come from van der Sloot himself (regarding both Holloway and Flores), so it's important that his lawyers put a cap on that.

Conaway also points out the process isn't going to be short -- in Peru, things move very slowly. He says he doesn't expect the next step, whether it's a plea deal or a trial date being set, to happen for at least another six months. And if it goes to trial, that probably wouldn't get started for roughly a year-and-a-half.

It's also important to remember, Conaway notes, that in the Peruvian system, the standard for guilt is different - there's a lower threshold there for proving guilt than in the United States.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/06/22/earlyshow/main6605947.shtml
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