Former Natalee Holloway Suspect Sought in Murder in Peru

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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.

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

Joran van der Sloot is being sought for Sunday's killing of 21-year-old Stephany Flores in a Lima hotel, police chief Gen. Cesar Guardia told a news conference. He said the suspect crossed into Chile the next day by bus.

Authorities in Chile confirmed that van der Sloot entered their country on May 31 and there is no record of him leaving. Police inspector Douglas Rodriguez in Arica told The Associated Press that police are searching hotels and residences in northern Chile for the suspect.

The Dutch government said Interpol has issued an international arrest warrant for van der Sloot.

Guardia said the 22-year-old Dutchman, in Peru for a poker tournament, appears with the young woman in a video taken at a Lima casino early Sunday and the two were later seen entering the hotel by one of its employees.

The victim's father, circus empresario and former race car driver Ricardo Flores, says his daughter dropped off some girlfriends at 2:35 a.m. then apparently returned to the casino. She and van der Sloot were seen entering the hotel room about 5 a.m., said Guardia, and the Dutchman departed alone about four hours later.

"We have an interview with a worker at the hotel who says she saw this foreigner with the victim enter his room," said Guardia.

Stephany Flores' body was found face down on the hotel room floor on Wednesday, abrasions on her face and body, and signs of trauma, the police general said. He said she was clothed.

Asked if she had been asphyxiated, Guardia said he was awaiting autopsy results for the exact cause of death.

The killing occurred exactly five years after the May 30, 2005, disappearance of Holloway in Aruba, a Dutch Caribbean island.

Van der Sloot left Peru on Monday by land, Guardia said, his exit registered at the Santa Rosa border crossing. He had been staying at the hotel since May 14, having entered on a flight from Colombia, the police general added.

The victim's father is a 48-year-old former president of the Peruvian Automobile Club who won the "Caminos del Inca" rally in 1991 and brings circuses and foreign entertainers to Peru. He ran for vice president in 2001 and for president five years later on fringe tickets.

Interpol has issued an international arrest warrant for van der Sloot, Dutch Foreign Ministry spokesman Bengt van Loosdrecht told The Associated Press in The Netherlands.

He cited as his sources Peruvian police and the Dutch Embassy in Lima. The embassy's head of consular affairs, Angela Lowe, told the AP she could not comment on the case.

But Rodriguez, the Chilean police inspector, said authorities there had so far only received an order to locate his whereabouts, not an arrest warrant....
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What is so sad about this story, other young woman is murdered thanks to failed law. She would have been alive if he was put in jail for the first time. shame shame shame on those government.
 
The articles seem fishy. Being on marijuana can make one kill?

I like that how Chile moved Joran van der Sloot back quickly to Lima in less than 24 hours. Roman Polanski is still not extradited in Switzerland. I doubt he will last in the Peruvian prison.
 
Barbaro said:
The articles seem fishy. Being on marijuana can make one kill?

I like that how Chile moved Joran van der Sloot back quickly to Lima in less than 24 hours. Roman Polanski is still not extradited in Switzerland. I doubt he will last in the Peruvian prison.
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Each country handles extradition differently. Also, I believe there is a difference in process between expelling and extraditing. Chile expelled van der Sloot rather than going thru extradition.

Is this true?

"In Peru, if a defendant confesses to the crime, it can greatly reduce the amount of time to which he is sentenced. The system also allows for reduced sentences if there are mitigating circumstances. In Peru, being drunk or stoned on drugs is considered a mitigation circumstance."

Van der Sloot Killed Peruvian Woman in a Rage
 
Reba said:
"In Peru, being drunk or stoned on drugs is considered a mitigation circumstance."
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Gosh, I hope that's not true. What kind of idiot would decide that someone should be held less responsible for a crime because they chose to get hammered beforehand? That seems like a great incentive to shoot up and then go on a crime spree.

But hey, it's their country. I guess they can do what they want. It's not as if our country has a shortage of dumb policies.
 
Reba said:
Each country handles extradition differently. Also, I believe there is a difference in process between expelling and extraditing. Chile expelled van der Sloot rather than going thru extradition.
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Yeah, I know. My point is Roman Polanski is dragging the Swiss court through the mud. I guess the police did not want to wake up Chilean judge in the middle of the night, and decided to escort him to Peru. "Here he is. He's yours."

Reba said:
Is this true?

"In Peru, if a defendant confesses to the crime, it can greatly reduce the amount of time to which he is sentenced. The system also allows for reduced sentences if there are mitigating circumstances. In Peru, being drunk or stoned on drugs is considered a mitigation circumstance."

Van der Sloot Killed Peruvian Woman in a Rage
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Probably true, but I would be glad to be wrong. The Peruvian judicial system is based on the Napoleonic code. I was reading a bit about it, and death penality was abolished in 90s If the date is correct.

Peruvian newspaper, Le Republica, reported a few days ago Joran will be held at Castro Castro. There is no way Joran will escape from Castro Castro Prison. There are many land mines around it.
 
darkdog said:
Gosh, I hope that's not true. What kind of idiot would decide that someone should be held less responsible for a crime because they chose to get hammered beforehand? That seems like a great incentive to shoot up and then go on a crime spree.

But hey, it's their country. I guess they can do what they want. It's not as if our country has a shortage of dumb policies.
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I agree. That policy sounds crazy......but who are we as Americans to judge.... lol
 
TXgolfer said:
I agree. That policy sounds crazy......but who are we as Americans to judge.... lol
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You might want to check the law books for American cases in which intoxication has been cited as a mitigating circumstance. Happens all the time here.
 
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