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Van der Sloot Recants, Says He Was Tricked Into Confessing

They ought to release him into general population. He'll be tricked, alright.

Monday morning, Joran van der Sloot appeared in court in Peru for a hearing for the murder of Stephany Flores; his attorney focused on how van der Sloot’s rights were violated during the confession. Over the weekend, van der Sloot gave an interview to a Dutch newspaper and said that he was withdrawing his confession for Flores murder, and said that he was "tricked" into confessing.

Mob Confronts Van der Sloot For Brutal Murder Of Stephany Flores

Van der Sloot's offer to provide information on the Natalee Holloway case continues to look like a scam. For a payment monitored by the FBI, he told the Holloway's lawyer he killed Natalee and his father helped him bury her. He later claimed that wasn't the truth in an email. The guy's obviously a degenerate and a psychopath.

Police say Van der Sloot brutally murdered Flores three days after meeting her at a casino. He broke her nose, strangled her, threw her to the floor then emptied her wallet and drove away in her SUV, said Gen. Cesar Guardia, chief of the criminal police.

The 6-foot-3 (190-centimeter-tall) Van der Sloot took about $300 worth of Peruvian currency, two credit cards and Flores' national ID card, Guardia said. He said the suspect abandoned her car in a lower-class Lima neighborhood before fleeing south to Chile by bus.

But he's not in Aruba, now. Both the crowd and the judge sound like they are out for blood. My guess is you'll see the headlines a year or a few from now, Van der Sloot murdered in prison for something, by someone. Some Peruvian con might do it simply to make a name for himself, assuming he gets a chance.

LIMA, Peru (AP) -- Angry onlookers shouted "Disgrace!" and "Murderer!" at Joran van der Sloot on Friday after a judge ordered him jailed on first-degree murder and robbery charges in the beating and strangling death of a young Lima woman.

Police manhandled Van der Sloot as they ushered him to the judicial palace, a scarf around his neck and his hands cuffed behind him. The more virulent catcalls and bile - the sensational case has dominated Peru's news for a week - came from onlookers as he was taken from the prosecutor's office where he had been held since Thursday. One onlooker threw spoiled lettuce.

The Dutchman will have his own cell in a small block near the director's office. Rodriguez said Van der Sloot asked to be put in a cell by himself because he fears other inmates will kill him. The only other two prisoners on the block are a reputed Colombian hit man charged with strangling a Peruvian socialite and a provincial mayor charged with laundering drug money.

Van der Sloot To Discuss Natalee Holloway Case With Aruban Officials

The latest according to an AFP report. I'm still unconvinced, thinking the guy is fishing for a deal of some kind. Otherwise, why not just put it out there? I still think he's trying to get back to Aruba, figuring he'd be in a better position.

General Cesar Guardia, who is leading the investigation into Joran Van der Sloot’s role in the murder of a Peruvian woman, said the Dutch citizen had promised cooperation on the case of U.S. teenager Natalee Holloway.

“Yes, Joran is ready to discuss this whenever officials from Aruba can come to Peru,” Mr. Guardia told the US network ABC.

Van der Sloot, 22, was charged Friday with first-degree murder in connection with the May 30 death of 21-year-old Stephany Flores.

Van der Sloot Claims He Knows Location Of Natalee Holloway's Body

He may well know the location of her body, or at least where it was dumped. But I still call BS on this. He isn't giving it up, but he'll explain it all to Aruban authorities? It sounds to me like he's simply trying to play his last card to get back to a friendlier environment. Or, at least one where he won't spend the next few decades as house boy and boy toy for a bunch of Peruvian prison degenerates who like their women big.

The fact that he's playing this game suggests how twisted he is, with no remorse, or compassion at all. And he may try to play it time and again from prison over the years. If he's looking to cut a deal, which is what this looks like - at this point, they should just put him down and be done with it.

"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," said Miguel Canlla, head of the homicide division of the Peruvian national police investigative unit, on Thursday.

Van der Sloot, a 22-year-old Dutch citizen, is suspected of killing a 21-year-old woman in Lima last month. Stephany Flores Ramirez was found beaten to death in a hotel room registered in van der Sloot's name. Van der Sloot was captured in Chile and returned last week to Peru, where authorities say he confessed to killing Flores.

FBI Financed Van der Sloot Trip, Where He Murdered Stephany Flores Ramirez

So, the FBI paid Joran van der Sloot $25k and he promptly took off for Peru, where he has now confessed to killing a 21 year-old woman? Good grief. I'm not sure they would even have had jurisdiction, if they wanted to arrest him. He would have had to be arrested by another authority and extradited, unless he came to the states. I realize they were trying to solve the Holloway case. But, can you say botched? Imagine if this had happened during the Bush administration? The Democrats would already be calling for the FBI Director's head, along with the EPA chief's over the Gulf oil spill - and probably the Interior Secretary's too, for good measure.

WASHINGTON – The FBI thought it was closing in on Joran Van der Sloot in the notorious Natalee Holloway missing-teenager case, and he was videotaped and paid $25,000 in a sting operation. But when the agency delayed his arrest to help build a criminal case, he took the money and headed for Peru, where authorities say he now has confessed to killing a different young woman.

The investigation of van der Sloot in the Alabama teenager's case simply was not far enough along to have him arrested, the FBI and the U.S. attorney's office in Birmingham said Wednesday.

Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Patrick Leahy asked FBI Director Robert Mueller for an explanation of "exactly what happened in this case and the basis for all actions taken by the FBI."

Two Netherland's Homes Raided In Van der Sloot Extortion Investigation

See posts below for information on the recent murder and subsequent confession by Joran van der Sloot. It appears the investigation into the extortion charges is moving forward, as well.

Van der Sloot was charged Thursday in the United States with trying to extort $250,000 from Holloway's family in exchange for disclosing the location of her body and describing how she died.

U.S. prosecutors say $15,000 was transferred to a Dutch bank account in his name. In the Netherlands on Friday, prosecutors raided two homes in the case, seizing computers, cell phones and data-storage devices.

Peruvian President Alan Garcia told reporters Friday that van der Sloot would have to be tried in Flores' death before any extradition request could be considered.

Joran Van der Sloot: Stephany Flores Ramirez Murder Details Emerge

Update: Also, more details here, in addition to those below.

LIMA, Peru - Joran van der Sloot confessed to the slaying of a 21-year-old woman in a Lima hotel room, a high-ranking Peruvian government official told NBC News on Monday.

According to La Republica newspaper, van der Sloot said he broke Stephany Flores' neck after she grabbed his laptop without his permission and found out that he was involved in the disappearance of an American woman.

The paper quoted van der Sloot as saying, "I did not want to do it. The girl intruded into my private life."

The news of the confession is in a previous post. CNN has additional details of the murder in Peru from a leaked police report. It appears the confession would get him a lighter sentence. It's reported he could be looking at 35 years.

According to the document, the Hotel Tac, where van der Sloot was staying, received a call from someone looking for him about 11 p.m. June 1. The receptionist forwarded the call, but no one answered. The hotel worker assumed that van der Sloot was asleep because the room key was with him and not the front desk.

About an hour later, according to the police report, the receptionist noticed that van der Sloot owed money for two nights and went up to his room, where her knocks went unanswered. The television was blaring, so the hotel employee figured he was resting, the report says.

Afterward, the hotel supervisor told the employee to go back to van der Sloot's room and enter using a spare key. When the employee went in, she found Flores' body on the floor, dressed in a black T-shirt and red panties, half-covered with a piece of white clothing, the police report said.

Flores was bleeding from her nose, the report said.

The hotel employee became frightened at the sight and went to alert her supervisor and the police, turning off the television and lights on her way out of the room, the report said.

Joran van der Sloot Murdered Stephany Flores Over Natalee Holloway Connection

Wow! Bizarre that something relating to Natalee Holloway would result in a second murder, to which he has now confessed. So, the question is, is whatever she supposedly saw still on the PC. And is it incriminating in the Holloway case? Or, did it have to do with the alleged extortion attempt?

According to Peruvian police, Dutchman Joran van der Sloot, 22, confessed Monday to the murder of Stephany Flores.

Authorities say that he admitted to murdering the Peruvian woman because she saw “something” about Natalee Holloway on his laptop computer.

Van der Sloot met Flores at a Lima casino and the two were captured on surveillance video as they entered the hotel where he was staying.

Stephany, 21, was found on May 30 in his room in pool of blood. She had been stabbed and severely beaten with a baseball bat found in the hotel room.

Van der Sloot reportedly told police “I did not want to do it… The girl saw private things. She had no right. I approached her and she was scared.”

He continued, “We discussed it and she tried to escape, and I took her neck and hit her.”

Peruvian Interior Minister: Van der Sloot Probably A Serial Killer

Something tells me this is not the Aruban, or Dutch justice system.

A top Peruvian official suspects the Dutch playboy linked to two high-profile murders committed precisely five years apart is a serial killer.

"We are probably talking about a serial killer," said Interior Minister Octavio Salazar as Joran Van der Sloot was returned Friday to face murder charges in Peru.

The suspect arrived aboard a Chilean police Cessna 310, with authorities grabbing him at the border town of Tacna.

Van der Sloot's Mother "Shocked" At New Charges

Lady, come on. Let's see, he's apparently traveling around playing in poker tournaments. If the new extortion charges have merit and aren't simply a ploy to get him to come to the US for a civil suit, I'd say your boy is a stone cold loser. Beth Holloway has issued a statement. Apparently, multiple authorities are working together on the extortion probe.

NEW YORK (CBS) Anita van der Sloot is "shocked" by the latest allegations against her son, Joran van der Sloot, in connection with yet another young woman's death, according to the family's lawyer Bert de Rooij.

De Rooij says that Anita van der Sloot spoke to her son via telephone Thursday but would not give details about the conversation except to say that Joran "certainly did not" confess to killing 21-year-old Stephany Flores, according to the Dutch News.

The young woman's body was found in a Lima hotel room in a pool of blood. The room was registered to Joran van der Sloot, according to Peruvian newspaper El Comercio.

"I am advising him to find a lawyer who knows something about laws affecting foreigners in South American," de Rooij told Dutch radio station Radio I.