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Van der Sloot To Be Expelled From Chile

Based upon a comment elsewhere, he's to be expelled at 6 AM local time and should be in Lima, Peru by 12. If the comment is accurate, it's said he made no plea one way or the other, claiming he fled out of fear of not getting due process. I anticipated he may say that and pointed it out on a podcast with Fausta, yesterday.

Chile's government has decided to force Joran Van der Sloot to walk back across the border into Peru Friday, police sources said.

Van der Sloot Arrested At Chilean Checkpoint

Says he was traveling south from the border and they have to decide what to do with him. Hopefully, there aren't any extradition issues.

"He was found in a rented vehicle on highway 68 and is now being taken to police headquarters," said Douglas Rodriguez, head of investigation police in the northern city of Arica.

Rodriguez said the Chilean government now has to decide if it will send Van der Sloot back to Peru, where he is wanted in the murder of 21-year-old Stephany Flores in a Lima hotel room. He crossed into neighboring Chile on Monday.

Chile set up checkpoints along more than 250 miles of rugged border area. Police also checked hotels, guest-houses, restaurants and casinos.

More here:

Joran van der Sloot was escorted by three police officers as he was taken from a dark vehicle into a police office in downtown Santiago, Chile. He made no comment as he entered, walking calmly and without handcuffs as journalists shouted his name. It was not immediately clear where he was picked up.

Stephany Flores, shown in an undated photo from Peru's National Identitfication Registry. seen In Lima, police Gen. Cesar Guardia said the slain woman was found Wednesday in a room at a hotel where van der Sloot had been staying and that she had been seen with the suspect early Sunday, when she was killed.

Link: Podcast: Talking Holloway And Van Der Sloot With Fausta

Update: Here's the link to the podcast.

I'm slated to give Fausta a call at 11:00 AM.

Joran van der Sloot: Sociopath

There are some inescapable similarities between Stephany Tatiana Flores Ramirez and Natalee Holloway which suggest both would be vulnerable for targeting by a predator. Based upon interviews I did at the time, Natalee was as insecure, as she sometimes was flirtatious - and there was a certain element of substance abuse in her past. I'm not suggesting she had a deep issue with it, only that she was reported to have over-indulged at times, as well as having the ability to seek out the attention, or approval, if you will, from members of the opposite sex.

Sadly, that defines many young women today and in certain circumstances it makes them vulnerable. Please don't equate that with my saying any attack is their fault.

Flores, who was reportedly an out lesbian struggling with her sexuality, was found beaten and stabbed to death in a room at the Miraflores Hotel Tac in Lima booked in van der Sloot's name, police said. The two were seen on surveillance video leaving a casino together. A hotel employee told police that Flores entered the hotel early Sunday morning with van der Sloot.

As for Van der Sloot, if he did this, then it's impossible to include that he's anything but a serious sociopath. During the Holloway investigation, despite any charges of incompetence or corruption, top notch military interrogators were brought in to work on Van der Sloot while he was in custody. As I recall, one concluded there was no there there, as he felt positive he would have broken Van der Sloot given his experience with hard core criminals in the past.

Add to that his post investigation interview with Greta Sustern, a smart woman and an attorney. Even she came away feeling ambiguous about Van der Sloot's guilt based upon that. Point being, if he murdered two young women and is able to portray himself as innocent to professionals only interested in getting to the truth. It suggests a personality type that doesn't internalize guilt. And that, in a sense, is a working definition of a sociopath.

His lifestyle also fits the pattern. And, unfortunately, both Natalee and Stephany profile as potential victims. Given Stephany's lesbianism, it's at least possible she refused him sex, leading to a fatal confrontation in a hotel room.

It's purely speculative, but it is possible that in the end, Natalee's mistake was refusing him sex on a beach one night, leading to her tragic murder.

Joran van der Sloot Sought In Northern Chile

There's one story out there claiming to have an interview with a taxi driver who drove Van der Sloot out of the country. But after the suicide story, which I updated, as it appears to be bogus - I'm not linking the story on the taxi without confirmation.

For now, this looks to be the most recent information.

LIMA, Peru — Police in neighboring Chile are checking hotels for a young Dutchman long suspected in the 2005 disappearance of U.S. teen Natalee Holloway who is now being sought in the killing of a woman in Peru.

After Peruvian officials announced Wednesday that Joran van der Sloot is the prime suspect in the death of 21-year-old Stephany Flores in a Lima hotel, Chilean police confirmed he had entered their country two days earlier.

Chilean Police Inspector Douglas Rodriguez in Arica told The Associated Press there was no record of van der Sloot leaving Chile and authorities were searching the country's dry, sparsely populated northern provinces for him.

In Lima, police Gen. Cesar Guardia said at a news conference that the slain woman was found Wednesday in a room at a hotel where van der Sloot had been staying and that she had been seen with the suspect early Sunday, when she was killed.

Joran van der Sloot Found Dead, Apparent Suicide?

Update: The latest on the confession is here.

Update: The latest at top - he appears to be in northern Chile, possibly headed for Argentina. It's unclear if the blood splatter in the room was from a beating, or a stabbing. One item I found alleges Stephany Flores Ramirez, age 21, was stabbed. But I'm not seeing confirmation of that.

Update via Twitter: van der Sloot story has been pulled from FR. Sorry if I mislead you.

That's why I posted it with the question mark. Oh well, too bad. There's still hope, or maybe it'll give him an idea.

h/t RoseDanna on Twitter to a Freeper link.

BREAKING NEWS: Some reports say that Joran van der Sloot, longtime suspect in the disappearance of 18-year-old Natalee Holloway five years ago and prime suspect of the brutal stabbing death days ago of 21-year-old Stephany Tatiana Flores Ramirez, has been found dead near the Peru border after allegedly committing suicide.

Joran Van Der Sloot Sought In Second Murder

In email via Ace. I'm on my laptop while the desktop's being repaired, so I hadn't been surfing the web. Guess it was a bad day to stop sniffing glue.

A young Dutchman previously arrested in the 2005 disappearance of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway is the prime suspect in a weekend murder of a Peruvian woman, police said Wednesday.

My archives are here. I've recently exchanged a few emails with like the 4th or 5th author who wanted to discuss the case. Thing is, I just tip them to the archives, now, because I'm unaware of any of them who have acknowledged any help.

Developing, as we say.

Underwater Photo of Natalee Holloway's Remains?

Hmm, I saw this a bit earlier. Seems plenty of folks are looking for it. For once, it would be nice to see some development in the case that wasn't mostly more one mystery.

"We did receive the photo, and it was sent to the lead agent down in Miami who handles that area in the Caribbean," Special Agent Frank Burton Jr., a spokesman for the FBI's field office in Philadelphia, told the newspaper.

However, it's a mystery as to what happened to the photo after that.

The Miami office and the FBI's legal attache in Barbados, which has control over the Aruba area, both told the newspaper they have no record of getting it.

Joran Van Der Sloot Confesses In Natalee Holloway Disappearance

Updated the headline as the story indicates he confessed to disposing of her body, not killing her.

h/t AGB on Twitter. Wow! I wonder if the death of his father has something to do with this? My full category of old Natalee Holloway posts here. Not sure what to make of this just now. He likely has some reason for doing it at this point and I'm not sure it's only about coming clean.

This report via a news link.

AMSTERDAM (BNO NEWS) -- Dutch suspect Joran van der Sloot has confessed to disposing the body of missing American student Natalee Holloway while on the Caribbean island of Aruba, a Dutch newspaper reported on Tuesday. He made the statements in front of an RTL television camera.

The statements by van der Sloot follow a similar confession more than two years ago during an undercover operation by Dutch crime reporter Peter R. de Vries, which prosecutors said did not constitute new legal evidence.

'De Telegraaf' newspaper reported that - in the new confession - Van der Sloot said he is still scared of being prosecuted and admitted to disposing Holloway's body in a marsh on Aruba. The report said the chief prosecutor on Aruba confirmed the story, but said Van der Sloot could be attempting to give multiple false versions to hide the truth.

Natalee Holloway Remains Found?

Update: Being denied according to CNN.

Update: Just so happens a new TV movie to air? Is this a bad PR stunt?

Spotted via Tammy Bruce on Twitter - here's the story via Fox. Here's the original story - I don't know how reliable that is.

The officer accompanying the dog reportedly told the airline employee that they were going to retrieve what was believed to be Holloway's remains.

"They think they've found where Natalee Holloway's remains are, and they're taking the dog down there to confirm that," the flight attendant told the paper. "They're not telling anybody because Aruba's trying to keep this quiet."

In January, Aruban prosecutors said their investigation into the disappearance of Holloway was nearing the end and appealed for anyone with information to come forward.