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AP – FILE -- In a June 4, 2010 file photo Dutch citizen Joran van der Sloot is escorted by police officers …

By LUCIEN CHAUVIN / LIMA Lucien Chauvin / Lima – Thu Jun 10, 2:10 am ET

Might Joran van der Sloot's confession be the Dutchman's key to getting a more lenient sentence from Peru's justice system?
According to police investigators in Lima, van der Sloot, 22, told them that he had met Stephany Flores Ramirez, 21, at a casino and ended up with her in a room he was renting in a low-budget hotel in Miraflores, one of Lima's swankier neighborhoods. After Flores and he awoke early on May 30, van der Sloot said that he went out to get coffee and rolls. When he returned, he said Flores was using his laptop. Van der Sloot, according to police sources, said Flores had pulled up information relating to his alleged involvement in the case of Natalee Holloway, a young American who went missing in Aruba in 2005. Van der Sloot, who had been the prime suspect in the Holloway case, said Flores' snooping sent him into a rage. "It was an invasion of my privacy. She had no right," he allegedly told the investigating officers. He said they fought and he beat her repeatedly, breaking her neck. 

Rage is a key element in the confession that could conceivably get van der Sloot a lighter sentence. "The confession is part of a strategy to show that the murder was not premeditated to keep the sentence to a minimum," says Luis Lamas Puccio, a well-known criminal lawyer in Lima. Indeed, detectives are furious that van der Sloot's court-appointed lawyer, Rosa Camargo, has "manipulated the case and planted the idea of a crime of passion," in the words of one detective.

In Peru, a crime of passion could lead to a sentence as low as seven years, which could mean that van der Sloot walks in three or four years.

This man confesses to killing an innocent woman and could possibly walk in 3 or 4 years!?! If I stole bread from Big Y I think I'd face a longer sentence (I may be exaggerating but you catch my drift...)

The deets on Joran's Confession

By Lucien Chauvin Lucien Chauvin – Tue Jun 8, 10:05 am ET

Lima, Peru – Joran van der Sloot, a Dutchman under arrest in Peru, has confessed to murdering university student Stephany Flores Ramirez here last week.
Peru’s news radio station, Radio Programas, reported late Monday night that Mr. van der Sloot admitted to police investigators that he killed Stephany Flores, 21, early in the morning on May 30.
An officer in the National Police’s criminal investigation unit confirmed to the Monitor that van der Sloot confessed to the crime.
Van der Sloot told officers that he had briefly left the room in the Hotel Tac at 8:10 am to buy breakfast. He returned with two coffees and bread to find Flores Ramirez surfing the Internet on his laptop.
Don't mess with my laptop!Van der Sloot related to officers that Flores was reading details of the case involving Natalee Holloway, the Alabama teen who disappeared five years earlier on the same day. Van der Sloot had been arrested twice in that case, but released for lack of evidence. Holloway has never been found.
Flores and van der Sloot argued and he struck her to retrieve his computer. The beating continued for several minutes. Officers say there is no evidence that Flores fought back.
"I did not want to do it. The girl intruded into my private life," he told investigators, according to Peru's La Republica newspaper. "She had no right."
"I confronted her," he continued. "She was frightened, we argued and she wanted to get away. I grabbed her by the neck and I hit her."
Van der Sloot's escape to ChileThe daily El Comercio reported on Tuesday that van der Sloot said everything happened quickly and within 10 minutes of having returned with breakfast he was out the door again. He grabbed a bag and decided to leave Peru, eventually traveling by land throughout Sunday and crossing the border into neighboring Chile, 650 miles south of Lima, the following day.
Video from hotel security cameras show Van der Sloot and Ms. Flores Ramirez entering Van der Sloot's hotel room together at 5 a.m. Saturday and Van der Sloot leaving alone four hours later with his bags.
He was detained in Chile on June 3 and quickly expelled to Peru.
Peruvian investigators have been questioning him since Saturday. They have possession of the computer he claimed Flores had been searching when he killed her.
Round-the-clock surveillanceOfficers say that van der Sloot has remained calm in the holding cell where he is being kept in the offices of the investigative police. He is under 24-hour observation. The confession means that he will likely be transferred to one of two maximum-security prisons in Lima while the investigation continues and authorities determine how to charge him.
If charged with homicide, that would take off the table the potential charge of aggravated robbery, which carries a life sentence here. Officers had been investigating leads that van der Sloot had killed Flores to steal her winnings (about $1,000) from a hot streak at the local casino where they had met.
Van der Sloot could face between 15 and 30 years for murder, with the severity depending on how the prosecutor views the evidence.
First degree murder would get him the maximum sentence and few opportunities for parole.
The five-year old disappearance of Holloway could play a big part in van der Sloot receiving the maximum sentence even though he was not charged in that case and has not confessed to her death, say legal experts.
Parole benefits?A lesser charge could mean 15 years and two-for-one benefits in which each day served counts as two if the inmates works, studies, and is generally well-behaved.
The question of such benefits is a top-of-mind issue in Peru these days in the wake of another high-profile case involving Lori Berenson, the American woman paroled in late May after serving three-fourths of her 20-year sentence. There have been calls from lawmakers for the Justice Ministry to eliminate benefits for heinous crimes.

After initially denying involvement, Dutch national Joran van der Sloot has admitted to Peruvian police that he killed Stephany Flores in a Lima hotel room, according to reports.

The 22-year-old, previously a suspect in U.S. teen Natalee Holloway's disappearance, confessed to the murder of the Peruvian woman late Monday, CNN reports. He could be charged as early as Tuesday and faces up to 35 years in prison.

The country does not have the death penalty or life sentences. According to CNN, Van der Sloot might have been influenced by Peru's practice of handing down lighter sentences in the case of confession.

He disgusts me. He killed 2 women and is only getting 35 years in prision!!

UPDATE ON THE SCUMBAG

Lima, Peru – Peruvian police officers are itching for the opportunity to grill Joran van der Sloot, a Dutchman accused of murdering a young woman here earlier this week.
Mr. van der Sloot was detained by Chilean police Thursday, a day after the body of 21-year-old Stephany Flores was discovered in a hotel room in Lima.
Police investigators have determined that Ms. Flores, a university student, and van der Sloot, who is 23, met last weekend at a casino. Police have film footage from the Atlantic City Casino in Lima showing the couple leaving together. Police say that Ms. Flores was killed in the early morning hours of May 30; van der Sloot entered Chile the following day at a overland border crossing.
This is the second time van der Sloot has been implicated in a high-profile murder case – with both happening, eerily, on the same day five years apart. He was arrested, but released twice, for the May 30, 2005 murder of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway on the island of Aruba. Her body was never located.
Peru’s police claim that while evidence was sparse in the Holloway case, the same is not true for the crime here.
Evidence of a struggleInvestigators say Flores’s body showed obvious signs of struggle and has provided evidence. There is also the casino video – van der Sloot was in Peru for a poker tournament – and the fact that he rented the room in the Hotel Tac where the murder took place. While unable to provide details, Peruvian police General Cesar Guardia said there was “ample evidence implicating the suspect in this murder.”
Peru’s Interior Ministry has asked Chilean authorities to transport van der Sloot to the border and that he be deported to Peru. Sources in the police department said officers from the National Criminal Investigation Unit were dispatched to the border on Thursday night. They expect van der Sloot to be transferred back to Lima this weekend, at the latest.
The murder of the Peruvian college student has touched the National Police in a particular way. Ricardo Flores, the young woman’s father, is president of the civic committee that supports the police’s internal affairs division. “He is a great man who has always been loyal to the police. We have no doubts that we will solve this case,” says one officer who has worked with Mr. Flores on events organized to help officers in need.
Victim's father is well-know figureFlores is also a well-known figure in other Peruvian circles. He is a former race car driver, event promoter, entrepreneur, and occasional politician. He has run for local, legislative, and national office, but has never been elected. He was also implicated, like thousands of other businesspeople and politicians in Peru, in the corruption web that brought down former president Alberto Fujimori’s regime (1990-2000) nearly 10 years ago.
Once back in Peru, van der Sloot will be held for an initial 24-hour arrest warrant. The police can then request that the judge assigned to the case extend the detention for seven to 14 days to further the investigation. The judge will determine whether to keep the suspect behind bars or release him while he awaits trial. The investigative police say van der Sloot is unlikely to be let out on bail.
There was also a new twist in the five-year-old Holloway case as events were unfolding in Peru and Chile. The US Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama charged Van der Sloot with fraud as he was being arrested in Chile. The Associated Press reported that the charges relate to him having offered information on the Holloway case in exchange for $250,000.
By Lucien Chauvin Lucien Chauvin – Fri Jun 4, 8:12 am ET

YAY!! Let's put him where he belongs!

June 3, 2010

Breaking News: Joran van der Sloot arrested

Posted: 01:46 PM ET

(File photo)

An Interpol spokesperson tells In Session former Natalee Holloway case suspect Joran van der Sloot has been apprehended in Chile.

Van der Sloot is the main suspect in the stabbing death of 21-year-old Stephany Flores Ramirez. The victim’s father told our sister network, CNN en Español, that Ramirez was last seen alive leaving a casino in Peru with van der Sloot.
Right now van der Sloot is on his way to Santiago, and will be extradited as soon as possible.
Tune in to In Session for the latest reporting.

ANOTHER MURDER?!?

Natalee Holloway Suspect Joran Van der Sloot Wanted for Woman's Murder

By Eunice Oh

Wednesday June 02, 2010 03:20 PM EDT

Joran van der Sloot

AP

Joran Van der Sloot, the Dutch national who was arrested twice and later released in the disappearance of U.S. teen Natalee Holloway, has been named the prime suspect in the murder of a Peruvian woman, according to local reports.

Stephany Flores Ramirez, 21, the daughter of racecar driver and businessman Ricardo Flores, disappeared Friday and was found dead Wednesday morning in a hotel room in the country's capital, Peruvian newspaper El Comercio reports.

Peruvian police and Ramirez's father said she was last seen with Van der Sloot, 22, whose name was registered under the hotel room where Ramirez's body was found. According to police reports, she was brutally stabbed and wrapped in blanket.

"I hope that this crime does not go unpunished," Flores said outside his home Wednesday. He also pleaded with police to locate Van der Sloot, who left Peru on Monday and is now in Chile, according to Interpol officials.

Arrested and Set Free

Natalee Holloway

Courtesy of Beth Twitty / AP

Van der sloot, who was named a suspect after Holloway disappeared during a May 2005 graduation trip in Aruba, was arrested and charged with her murder. But without evidence to detain him further or bring him to trial, police released him. He was re-arrested in November 2007 – charged with manslaughter that time – but quickly set free.

Despite his apparent confession to the crime – a video back in February 2008 allegedly showed Van der Sloot telling a friend he disposed of Holloway's body – Van der Sloot says he lied during the secret recording, which had been arranged by a Dutch crime reporter.

Though police have never been able to locate Holloway, the Alabama teen's mom, Beth, says she's still holding out hope for justice and a resolution.

"I feel like more information could certainly come at any time," Beth recently told PEOPLE. "Hopefully one day I won’t have to speculate. I just can't wait for that day."


-this is from people.com.



I really hope he gets put away. What do you guys think?