Van der Sloot is the main suspect in this week’s slaying of 21-year-old Stephany Flores Ramirez, who was found Wednesday in a Lima, Peru, hotel room registered to the Dutch man. Chilean police told CNN that paperwork showed that van der Sloot entered Chile on Wednesday.
Peruvian Interior Minister Octavio Salazar Miranda said Thursday that Peru has made arrangements with Interpol to extradite van der Sloot. Van der Sloot, 23, was traveling alone in a taxi near the Chilean central coastal city of Vina del Mar when he was detained, said Douglas Rodriguez, spokesman for the Chilean Investigative Police.
Van der Sloot was transported Thursday afternoon to police headquarters in Santiago, Chile’s capital. TV images showed him emerging from a black police SUV at the police station. His hair, which had been black in previous images, was red and worn in a close-cropped crew cut.
In Peru, a wake was held Thursday in Lima for Flores, who was scheduled to be buried later in the day. An uncle of Natalee Holloway said he was saddened by the Flores family’s loss. “We are disappointed that Joran has been able to do this to another young girl,” Paul Reynolds told CNN. “He was not held accountable for what happened to Natalee and as a result has been able to repeat his actions. Sorry this other family has to go through the same thing we have.
The woman’s bludgeoned body was found in Room 309 of the Hotel Tac in the Miraflores section of Lima, police said. She suffered blunt trauma to the head, breaking her neck, and to her torso and back, Peruvian police said Thursday.Van der Sloot had been staying at the hotel since arriving from Colombia on May 14, police said. Room 309 was booked in his name, authorities said.
A hotel guest and an employee witnessed the pair entering the hotel room together at 5 a.m. Sunday, Guardia said. Police have video of van der Sloot and Flores together the previous night at the Atlantic City Casino in Lima, he said.
How will he worm himself out of this one…will daddy come to the rescue again?
His daddy died a year ago. So no help from him.
I hope by now his family is wise to him and cut him off. I’d really like to see him rotting in a peruvian prison.
I don’t know what else they need to put this moron behind bars.
If they don’t jail him, I predict he’s gonna be the recipient of a two-to-the-head award
This isn’t his country. He’s a long way from home. I don’t think any amount of money is going to get him out of this unless he has a few billion to part with for bribes and even then I think they’d just take his money and nail his bleep.
We really must find out why he did this. The poor tortured boy must have been abused in some way, or had a bad reaction to drugs. Perhaps he played too much Halo, or he was bullied in school. We should spare no expense to find out why, because he is a victim too. BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!
… oops.
Makes you wonder if there are other victims we’ve never heard about.
They will love this guy in a Peruvian PMITA prison.
If they don’t jail him, I predict he’s gonna be the recipient of a two-to-the-head award
Nancy Grace just won the lottery. She will be running with this on every show from now til Labor Day.
The Peruvian system doesn’t fuck around with gringos who come down and raise hell in their country. Just ask Lori Berenson.
PAR-TEE time tonight, send the Marines in at dawn to pinch hit during my battery change.
the “well duh!!!” crime story of the decade…
If this story is as it seems (and they often are not) then this guy is a real psycho.
He dodged a bullet once but couldn’t resist the compulsion to kill again. Like others have said, there could easily be more victims.
Clearly, Matt Damon needs to play him in the movie.
SlootMan already knows how to kill and get away with it: hide the body.
NOBODY would leave a dead body in a hotel room under their own name.
I mean, lets get real? OTOH, maybe he’s a thrill junkie wanting to see how many clues he can leave behind and still get away with it? Dead body in your hotel room would be the master play.
@ 15# bobbo
Hes a sociopath, probably flew into a rage killed the gal, then figured he was safe if he could flee the country before they found the body, no need to hide it. Worlds a big place, lots of hiding spots if you put in some effort.
The again, hes so narcissistic that he probably figures he can get away with anything.
Yea–I can buy sociopath but not iron clad as yet. Imagine the bad luck of dating two chicks who both OD on you? What’s a healthy horny guy to do?
I googled only a little bit. Not any info yet on victim number two. Drug fueled prostitute or drug fueled gal away from home? Who knows? But it is “nice to know” that even in Chile they have surveillance tape that can keep track of who you are hooking up with.
So much for carefree vacationing.
It makes you wonder how long you have been on this planet without accidentally becoming a suspect in several murders yourself.
Or–maybe this guy is into something.
A friend of mine who has spent some time in Aruba said the locals have a theory about what happened to the first girl.
On one side of the island there is an area that’s rough and without beaches. The resorts put meat in the water here to attract the sharks away from the tourist areas.
Aruba is home to a number of dangerous and illegal businesses. When somebody needs to disappear they are dumped out at the shark spot. The sharks are thus habituated to consuming dead people.
The area has tended to attract more sharks and dumped bodies over time. Pretty nice, huh?
Now, after hearing more deets on this case, something smells fishy.
Don’t get me wrong, I think this guy’s a douche that needs some punishment. But here are some things that make this whole thing fishy:
- The whole thing happened on the anniversary of the other girl’s murder;
- He was extorting the family of the first girl for details on their daughter’s whereabouts & seems the family gave him an advance (IOW, they gave him money);
- Seems they guy used this money to fly to a poker tournament in Peru and then they find the body of the girl in his room a day after he left (don’t they do housekeeping on that hotel?).
If I were a suspicious person, I’d say the family used his greed to get him where they wanted him to be & then framed him by planting a dead girl after he left.
Again, not that I would toss away the big possibility that he did kill the second girl (I already commented on that on a previous post), but these new facts are quite smelly.