Van Der Sloot Confession

Joren van der Sloot made a confession in the murder of Stephany Flores in South America on June 7, 2010. Van der Sloot tearfully confessed to the murder of Peru woman Stephany Flores Ramiez, according to Peruvian authorities, according to CNN on June 8, 2010. Van der Sloot has been a longtime suspect I the disappearance of U.S. Teenager Natalie Holloway, but hehas been free to globe trot for lack of evidence in the Holloway care.

Van der Sloot reportedly killed Stephany Flores Ramiez because she accessed his laptop and found information about him and the Natalee Holloway case. The information proved deadly for the 21 year old woman, who was in his hotel room at the time.

The suspect confessed after an intense 10 hour interogation by police in Peru. Van der Sloot reportedly said, 'I did not want to do it. The girl intruded into my private life.'


Peruvian authorities said that Joren van der Sloot and Stephany Flores went to his hotel room after meeting at a casino in Lima, Peru. Van der Sloot to get some coffee and when he returned he found Flores reading his laptop computer. He became enraged and choked her.

The suspect is slated to take Peruvian authorities on a re-enactment of the crime at the Hotel Tac, where the crime occurred. Hotel videos showed van der Sloot and Flores entering his room at 5:33 a.m. On May 30. Joren emerged alone three hours later and left the hotel.

Joren van der Sloot fled to Chile, where he was captured and returned to Peru to face charges. He could be sentenced to up to 35 years for the murder of Stephany Flores.

The disappearance of Natalee Holloway in Aruba in still being investigated. Joren van der Sloot was arrested and released twice in the Holloway case. Natalee Holloway disappeared on May 30, 2010, almost exactly five years before the murder of Stephany Flores. Holloway is presumed dead, but her body has never been found.

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Stephany Flores

(June 8) -- Joran van der Sloot, the prime suspect in the disappearance of American teen Natalee Holloway in Aruba, has confessed to killing a young Peruvian woman in his Lima hotel room last month, according to police.

Peru's chief police spokesman, Col. Abel Gamarra, told The Associated Press that the 22-year-old Dutch playboy admitted the slaying of Stephany Flores during questioning. The 21-year-old business student was found beaten to death, her neck snapped and her body wrapped in a bloody blanket in van der Sloot's hotel room last Wednesday.

Van der Sloot will return to the hotel this afternoon to take part in a police reconstruction of the events leading up to Flores' slaying, Gamarra said. If convicted, the Dutchman could face 35 years in prison in Peru, although it is not clear if his sentence will be reduced by his reported confession.

While Peruvian police refused to say why van der Sloot killed the woman, the New York Post quotes La Republica newspaper as saying that authorities believe he flew into a rage after Flores looked at his laptop and saw that he was connected to Holloway's disappearance in 2005. "I did not want to do it. The girl intruded into my private life," the paper quoted him telling officers. "She had no right. She was scared, we argued, she tried to escape and I grabbed her by the neck and hit her."

Police said the two met while playing poker at a casino in Peru's capital, and this weekend released video footage of the pair entering his room in the early hours of Saturday, May 30. Van der Sloot left with his bags four hours later. He then paid the hotel in advance for another two weeks' stay and requested that workers kept out of the room. Soon after, van der Sloot got in a taxi, and paid the driver $600 to take him to Chile.

He was arrested by Chilean authorities on Thursday, and deported to Peru, where he was paraded in front of the media wearing a bulletproof vest. He initially told police that he had nothing to do with Flores' slaying, although he did admit to meeting her.

There are now suspicions that van der Sloot -- the son of a former judge and attorney on Aruba -- may have staged his attempted getaway using money raised through extortion. On the day that he was arrested in Chile, he was charged in the U.S. with trying to procure $250,000 from Holloway's family in return for revealing the location of her body and describing how she died. American prosecutors say $15,000 was transferred into a Dutch bank account in his name on May 10, four days before he arrived in Peru.

Van der Sloot has long been the main suspect in the disappearance of Holloway, 18, who vanished while celebrating her high school graduation on the Dutch Caribbean island. He told investigators that he left her on a beach, drunk. However, in 2007, a Dutch television crime reporter secretly recorded him saying that after Holloway passed out, he asked a friend to dump her body in the sea.

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Natalee Holloway

The 2005 disappearance of high school graduate Natalee Holloway in Aruba during a senior class trip set off a media frenzy that resulted in several books, a Lifetime network movie and hours and hours of coverage. But years have passed and there is still no word on what happened to Holloway.

Her mother, Beth Holloway, who has worked tirelessly to keep attention on her daughter's disappearance, will be in Washington in June to announce the opening of the Natalee Holloway Resource Center, a new nonprofit to assist families searching for missing relatives.

The center will be based at the National Museum of Crime & Punishment on Seventh Street NW near Chinatown and the Verizon Center. The museum features Holloway's disappearance in its "Cold Case" exhibit.

The nonprofit plans to serve as a crisis clearinghouse for families of missing persons in the United States and abroad, according to a statement from the museum. The nonprofit plans to give family members a plan, contact information, a media liaison and other services. It also will offer guidelines for children and adults to travel safely, including creating a national network of college volunteers who will promote the group's safe travel program to high school and college students.

The launch is scheduled for June 8. The museum will be open from 5 to 7 p.m. at no charge. More information can be found on the center's Web site.

“In creating this organization, we hope to prevent as many missing person cases as possible." Holloway said in a statement. "But if tragedy does strike and a person goes missing, we want to provide the families support and reduce the numerous challenges that I experienced, and hopefully lead to the rescue and recovery of many more missing persons across the globe.”

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