Thread: Joran Van Der Sloot Sent To Peru To Face Murder Charges

Joran Van Der Sloot Sent To Peru To Face Murder Charges


FRANK BAJAK and FRANKLIN BRICENO
Huffington Post
06/4/10


LIMA, Peru — Chilean police flew a young Dutch murder suspect to Peru on Friday to face charges in the slaying of a 21-year-old woman in his hotel room.

Joran van der Sloot said he is innocent but acknowledged having met Stephany Flores at a Lima casino, said deputy Chilean investigative police spokesman Fernando Ovalle.

Van der Sloot was to be handed over to Peruvian police at the border of the two countries Friday afternoon. He also remains the prime suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway on the Dutch Caribbean island of Aruba. Flores was killed five years to the day after Holloway disappeared. On Thursday, prosecutors in the U.S.. charged van der Sloot with extortion in connection with the Holloway case.

Wearing the same black-hooded sweat shirt and khaki pants in which he was arrested the day before, van der Sloot was handcuffed and placed aboard a police Cessna 310 in the Chilean capital, Santiago, on Friday morning. A fixture on television crime shows after Holloway's disappearance in Aruba, the 22-year-old did not speak to or look at reporters who called to him Friday as he was escorted onto the plane.



Van der Sloot, who was seen on video with Flores prior to her death, fled Peru on Monday, but was captured three days later by Chilean police as he was headed in a taxi from Santiago to the Pacific coastal city of Vina del Mar. Police said he had rented a room there.

Flores was found dead late Tuesday in the Lima hotel room where van der Sloot had been staying before he left the country. She had a broken neck. She was fully clothed, with multiple bruises and scratches on her body, but there were no signs she had been sexually assaulted, the chief of Peru's criminal police, Gen. Cesar Guardia, told The Associated Press.

"The room was a complete mess," he said in an interview. He added that no potential murder weapon was found.

Peruvian police say they have video of van der Sloot and Flores together in the casino and witnesses who saw the two enter the Dutchman's hotel room.

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

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

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

Also Thursday, van der Sloot was charged in Alabama with trying to extort $250,000 in return for revealing the location of Holloway's body and describing the circumstances of her death.

Federal prosecutors did not say who was allegedly extorted, but filed a sworn statement saying that van der Sloot received a partial payment of $15,000 wired to a Netherlands bank.

In the Netherlands, Dutch prosecutors on Friday said they had raided two homes hunting for evidence linked to the extortion charges. They seized computers, cell phones and data-storage devices in the raid, which was carried out at the request of U.S. authorities, said national prosecutor's office spokesman Wim de Bruin.

Holloway was an 18-year-old who was celebrating her high school graduation on Aruba when she disappeared May 30, 2005. Van der Sloot told investigators he left her on a beach, drunk. That's the last anyone saw of her.

Van der Sloot was twice arrested in her disappearance – and twice released for insufficient evidence.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Aparcana said van der Sloot appeared "worried, because he kept smoking cigarettes."

"He didn't have a cell phone but he had a laptop that he would take out, handle and then put back."

Lawyers for van der Sloot did not immediately comment.

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

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

Associated Press writers Eva Vergara in Santiago, Chile, Carla Salazar in Lima, Kendall Weaver in Montgomery, Alabama and Michael Melia in San Juan, Puerto Rico, contributed to this report.

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TO ME, this is what is the most disgusting part of this article

Also Thursday, van der Sloot was charged in Alabama with trying to extort $250,000 from Beth Twitty (Natalee's Mother) in return for revealing the location of Holloway's body and describing the circumstances of her death.

Federal prosecutors did not say who was allegedly extorted, but filed a sworn statement saying that van der Sloot received a partial payment of $15,000 wired to a Netherlands bank.

Joran van der Sloot is Back in the News in Aruba

Friday, May 12, 2023

Joran van der Sloot is Back in the News in Aruba


(l-r) Joran van der Sloot-Natalee Holloway

Everybody in America old enough recalls the tragic case of Natalee Holloway, the 18-year-old girl from Alabama who disappeared during a vacation in Aruba in 2005. For months, cable news covered the story. Fox News (Greta van Susteren) interviewed the editor of the Aruban newspaper, Diaro, Jossy Mansur, on a nightly basis. Aside from being a newspaper editor, historian, and expert on the history of Papiamentu, the language of Aruba, Curaçao, and Bonaire, Mansur was a prominent figure in Aruba and was as well placed as anyone to find out information.
A few years prior to the Holloway case, I interviewed Mansur in Aruba while researching my book on Papiamentu. (The Story of Papiamentu- A Study in Slavery and Language.) Mansur also published a Papiamentu-English dictionary. He died in 2016.
In spite of everything, Natalee's body was never found, and it is assumed she was murdered. Suspicion quickly fell on Joran van der Sloot, a young Dutchman and petty criminal, who was the last person to see her alive. The case was not only a sensation in the US and Aruba, but in the Netherlands as well. At one point, van der Sloot, back in his home country, was surreptitiously tape-recorded by famed investigative journalist Peter R. de Vries as he (Van der Sloot) made incriminating admissions to de Vries about the disappearance. (In 2021, de Vries was shot and killed, allegedly by the Moroccan Maffia in Amsterdam.)
Ultimately, Van der Sloot escaped justice-at least until 2010 when he murdered a young woman in his hotel room in Peru. For that crime, he is serving 28 years in prison.
Now Peru has agreed to temporarily hand him over to US authorities in order to try him for extortion and fraud against the mother of Natalee, Beth Holloway. Van der Sloot allegedly promised Beth where her daughter's body could be found. Obviously, he never fulfilled that promise.
So now the story comes back to haunt Aruba. I was wondering how they are reporting this story on that island. Thus, I have translated the below article from today's Diario, which is a Papiamentu-language newspaper.
https://diario.aw/categories/noticia...ca-for-di-peru
Joran van der Sloot will be extradited to America from Peru
May 12, 2023
The government of Peru lending Joran to America to try his crimes
Peru: Joran van der Sloot is the last person who saw the young 18-year-old American, Natalee Holloway, here in Aruba in 2005 before her disappearance.
Currently, Joran is locked up in prison in Peru where he was condemned to a sentence of 28 years (to June 10, 2038 for the 2010 murder of Stephany Flores Ramirez, whom he met in a casino, and then took to his hotel room to steal from her, and killed her, for which he decided to flee to Chile, the country from where he was expelled and sent back to Peru.
In relation to this crime, as soon as he completes his sentence in the prison of Challapalca, Joran must be expelled from Peru. In addition, he must pay 200,000 soles to the family of the young woman.
But now, he must be delivered to America in relation to the crimes of extortion and fraud against Elizabeth Ann Holloway (known in Aruba as Beth Holloway), mother of Natalee, in exchange for revealing where the body of Natalee could be found.
After Joran got what he wanted, he sent back an email in which he denied everything.
The Peruvian government has now agreed to deliver Joran temporarily in response to a request from America for purposes of trying him for the aforementioned crimes against Beth Holloway.
This decision was made by the Cabinet Council of Peru last Wednesday.
Natalee Holloway was seen for the last (time) in the early morning hours of 30 May 2005 when she was leaving a nightclub with Joran van der Sloot and two other men. Till now, no person has been prosecuted for her disappearance.


FOUSESQUAWK: Joran van der Sloot is Back in the News in Aruba (garyfouse.blogspot.com)

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