NATALEE HOLLOWAY - 19 yo (2005) - Mountain Brook AL/Aruba

On Thursday, more than four years after the Mountain Brook teen
disappeared while on a senior trip in Aruba, Natalee Holloway was added
to a list of missing children on the Alabama Department of Public Safety Web site.

Special
Agent Judy Orihuela, a spokeswoman with the Miami office of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation, said tonight that Holloway's family requested
that information be added to the site.

The notice describes her
as an "endangered" missing person and lists her current age as 23. It
asks that anyone with information call 1-800-228-7688.

Holloway disappeared on May 30, 2005 hours before she and classmates
from Mountain Brook High School were to return home from their trip.
Orihuela said she did not know what prompted the family to request
that her picture be posted alongside 13 other missing children and
teens from across Alabama, some who have been missing for more than 10
years and others who disapperared as recently as a few months ago.
In March, an investigator hired by Holloway's father, Dave Holloway,
who has said many times that he would not give up until all options
were exhausted, searched a pond in Aruba. Nothing was found. Holloway's
mother, Beth Holloway, has also continued to press for answers in the
case and in April ''Loving Natalee,'' a book about her family's ordeal,
was published.

Joran van der Sloot, the prime suspect in the disappearance of Natalee
Holloway, admitted that he was scared of prosecution and confessed to
disposing the American teen's body in the marshy waters of the
Caribbean off the island of Aruba, a Dutch tabloid newspaper reported
this morning.
According to De Telegraaf,
van der Sloot made these statements during an interview with RTL 5, a
German television station. A full interview is expected to air this
Sunday on the network.
This alleged confession comes almost two years after undercover tapes were released by Dutch crime reporter Peter R. de Vries,
in which van der Sloot appears to admit he was present when Holloway
died and that he helped dump her body in the ocean. De Vries, who sat
down for an exclusive interview with ABC News' Chris Cuomo back in 2008
after the tapes went public, says he is "totally convinced Joran is
telling the truth" on the tape.
"Joran is telling the truth about what happened to Natalee," De
Vries told Cuomo, adding that "she died in his arms on the beach that
night."
The chief prosecutor in the Holloway case, Peter Blanken, told
'De Telegraaf' that the so-called confession in 2008 resulted in a new
investigation into the disappearance of Holloway, but eventually
concluded without results. "It became clear that this statement is held
together by lies and fantasy," Blanken said. "Times are wrong and named
witnesses have denied."
Blanken said he finds van der Sloot's new alleged admission in
the RTL-5 interview also not credible. According to CNN, Blanken said
he tried to verify van der Sloots claims and ultimately that they "
couldn't be true." Blanken added that, "We talked with several
witnesses and reviewed several facts. The story is unbelievable and not
true, in my opinion."
De Telegraaf reports that Van der Sloot is expected to conduct another interview this week in Frankfurt, Germany.
Holloway went missing back in May 2005 during a high school
graduation trip to Aruba. Her disappearance received international
attention.
The Man Who Lured Van der Sloot to Talk


In the ABC interview in 2008 Patrick van der Eem,
described in detail how he painstakingly gained the young Dutch
suspect's trust, took his suspicions to Holland's leading investigative
reporter and began a sting operation that led to van der Sloot's
caught-on-camera admissions.
"I am telling you honestly, I know what happened to that girl,"
van der Sloot told Van der Eem, on the undercover video. He goes on to
say that Holloway died in his arms and that he called a friend to
dispose of her body.
On the tape, van der Sloot further describes to van der Eem that
Holloway suffered a seizure during a romantic encounter between the
pair, who had met hours before at a local nightclub.
At another point, he told van der Eem, "I tried to shake her,
and I was shaking the b****. I was like, 'What is wrong with you man?'
I almost wanted to cry."
Van der Sloot said he feels lucky the police were not able to
recover Holloway's body. "I think I am incredibly lucky that she's
never been found because if she had been found I would be in deep
[excrement]," van der Sloot also said on the tape.
De Vries dismissed van der Sloot's claim that he was lying on
the tape or that drugs affected his statement, saying "I don't buy
these allegations."
Joran Talks


In an exclusive interview with ABC News' Chris Cuomo in 2006, van
der Sloot said he planned to have sex with Holloway when they left a
bar together.
"We were planning on going to my house, because she said she
wanted to go to my house," he said. "My intention was to take her to
the house to have sex with her."
But the couple did not end up sleeping together, he told Cuomo.
"I asked her if she wanted to have sex, and she was fine with it," he
said. "I didn't have a condom with me though in my wallet, and I won't
have sex with a girl without a condom."
Holloway, who was visiting Aruba on a school trip, met van der
Sloot at a casino the night she disappeared. How they met and what went
on between them has been the focus of endless speculation by officials
and Holloway's friends and family.
"I
sat down there and within five minutes, there was a group of girls from
the Mountain Brook school that came up to me and sat down next to me
and they wanted to play as well," van der Sloot told Cuomo. "They'd
already been drinking that day and had drinks with them. We played
blackjack for a while, and I told them whether or not to hit."
'I Didn't Want Anyone to Know'


Van der Sloot admitted in the 2006 interview that he had a
reputation in Aruba as a ladies' man, but he said he has been portrayed
"unfairly" as a "murderer and a rapist and everything I'm not."
"In Aruba that was part of my lifestyle ... going out, being
single and picking up girls," he said. "Going out with them, having a
good time and then saying goodbye." Soon after admittedly lying to
police about having dropped Holloway off at her hotel, van der Sloot
became the main suspect in the case.
Van der Sloot -- along with Deepak Kalpoe and Satish Kalpoe --
were arrested June 9, 2005 on suspicion of involvement in Holloway's
disappearance. Van der Sloot admitted that he was with her but denied
any wrongdoing at the time. All were released after a court ruled that
there wasn't enough evidence to hold them. Van der Sloot said he didn't
want to tell the truth because he was scared.
"I didn't want anyone to know," he told Cuomo. "I didn't want anyone to know I left her at the beach."

The father of missing Alabama teen Natalee Holloway
has asked a Pennsylvania couple to share their assertions that an
underwater photo may show the remains of his daughter.
Patti and John Muldowney were
snorkeling off the coast of Aruba last October when they snapped
a photo of what appears to be a human skeleton.
The alleged remains went unnoticed until months later when the Manheim, Pa. couple was looking
over trip pictures with some friends.
"The first thing that my husband said was maybe that could be Natalee Holloway," Patti Muldowney said.



The couple showed the photo to friends, doctors and
their local law enforcement before passing it along to the feds in
February.
They also sent a copy to the missing teen's parents. And Thursday evening Dan Holloway called the
Lancaster County couple to discuss what they had found.
"He said he's in favor of it because it keeps the investigation going," John said after the conversation.
The couple also spoke to the man who wrote a novel about Holloway's 2005 disappearance.
"He called and said 'John,
you may have the final chapter to the biggest crime of the century,"
John explained.
Beth Twitty, Holloway's mother, is also aware of the photo,
but chose not to comment, her attorney said today.
Holloway was visiting the
island nation in the summer of 2005 during a class trip when she
disappeared. Much speculation has surrounded three men she was last seen
with -- Joran van der Sloot, the son of a Dutch diplomat, and Deepak
and Satish Kalope.
Van der Sloot has long been suspected in the girl's disappearance. He's made several
confessions to media outlets, been arrested twice and both times
released due to a lack of evidence.
The FBI will be visiting the Mundowneys in the next few days to further investigate the photo and
discuss the couple's claims, agents confirmed Thursday.
While some feel the photo
may just be a bunch of rocks, the elderly grandparents are sure of what
they see.
"This body is laying on its back," John said as he traced over the picture with his finger.
The couple hopes, if the alleged body turns out to be Holloways', that it will bring some closure
to her torn family.

Praying that this will be the final chapter for the Holloway's, my heart just breaks for this mother & father.
I've looked at the pic myself and really can't make out much but, hoping against hope that it is Natalie.

alwaysbelieve wrote: Praying that this will be the final chapter for the Holloway's, my heart just breaks for this mother & father.
I've looked at the pic myself and really can't make out much but, hoping against hope that it is Natalie.

I so agree with you Molly, this family has been through so many twists and turns, they need to put their girl to rest. Beth and Dave Holloway are wonderful parents, and have been so gracious and kind through this whole ordeal, may God give then peace ......I to do not see much from this picture but hope it is Natalee....

God Bless the Holloway Family

ORANJESTAD, Aruba — Police found nothing but rocks and coral while
searching underwater for the remains of missing U.S. teen Natalee
Holloway, the Aruba prosecutors' office said Thursday.Police dove
several times on Wednesday and Sunday after an American couple turned
over an underwater photo of what they believed might have been her
remains, said spokeswoman Ann Angela. The couple were diving while on
vacation in Aruba last year.Divers didn't find any items in the
photo, Angela said."We looked at it seriously," she said. "It did
not prove successful."The 18-year-old from Mountain Brook,
Alabama, disappeared while on vacation in Aruba in 2005 and was last
seen leaving a bar with Joran van der Sloot on the final night of a high
school graduation trip.Van der Sloot has been detained several
times, but Aruban prosecutors say they lack evidence to charge him.Police
believe the couple from Manheim, Pennsylvania, likely zoomed in on some
coral, giving the impression that it might have been a skull and bones,
Angela said.The search was one of many launched to find
Holloway.

The prime suspect in the 2005 disappearance of American teen
Natalee Holloway in Aruba is now wanted by cops in Peru for
viciously murdering a 21-year-old woman — exactly five years to the day
that Holloway went missing.Joran van der Sloot, 22, is believed
to have brutally stabbed Stephany Flores Ramirez in his Lima hotel room
and then rolled her corpse into a blanket before checking out Sunday. Van
der Sloot fled Peru on a bus Monday, slipping into the neighboring
South American nation of Chile, authorities said.The
blood-splattered body of Flores — the daughter of a former Peru
presidential candidate — was discovered in van der Sloot’s hotel room
only today.




Stephany Tatiana Flores Ramirez was found murdered in
Peru.
The principal suspect in the case is Joran Van Der Sloot.

An arrest warrant for the suspect, a Dutch national, has been issued
by the international police agency Interpol. Chilean police today were
scouring border areas, hotels, backpacker hostels and other places for
him. “This is my daughter’s assassin,” said Flores’ dad, Ricardo
Flores, a prominent circus operator, politician and former race-car
driver, according to CBS News.“We have all the evidence to show
that the killer is this man,” Flores, 48, told CNN en Espanol.But
van der Sloot’s New York lawyer, Joseph Tacopina, cautioned people not
to jump to conclusions.“Joran has a bulls-eye on his back, and
any time there is any foul play that could be connected to Joran, he’s
an automatic suspect,” Tacopina said. “It doesn’t mean he killed her.”
Tacopina said van der Sloot has not contacted him in the past several
days. He added that he did not know where the suspect is. Flores’
murder comes five years after Holloway, a blond, 18-year-old, Alabama
high-school student, disappeared on the Caribbean island after last
being seen with van der Sloot outside a nightclub — in frighteningly
similar circumstances to those involving the pretty, brunette, Peruvian
woman.Van der Sloot never was charged in Holloway’s
disappearance, despite being arrested and detained twice by authorities
in Aruba. It looks like he won’t be so lucky in the case of
Flores. The head of the criminal investigation unit of the Lima
police, Cesar Guardia Vasquez, told reporters there is “incriminating
evidence” linking van der Sloot to Flores’ savage murder. Van der
Sloot, who has gallivanted around the world since Holloway’s
disappearance, flew to Peru from Colombia to play in a poker tournament
at the Atlantic City Casino in Lima. It’s unclear if he was with any
friends at the time. He checked into the Milaflores Hotel Tac in
Lima on May 14.Guardia said police have surveillance video that
shows van der Sloot and Flores together in the casino Saturday night.
Flores’ dad said he did not think his daughter previously knew van
der Sloot and speculated that they began chatting in English, a language
they both knew, when they met, according to CNN. Flores left the
casino to drop off some girlfriends at 2:35 a.m. Sunday but then
apparently returned to the casino. Police said a guest and a
worker at the Miraflores Hotel Tac saw van der Sloot and Flores entering
his room there at about 5 a.m. Sunday. Van der Sloot then
checked out of the hotel alone around 9 a.m., four hours after arriving
there with Flores, Guardia said.It was not clear why it took three days for Flores’ body to be
discovered. Her corpse, which was clothed, was lying face down on the
room’s floor, with abrasions on her face and body and signs of trauma,
according to Guardia, who said officials are awaiting autopsy results. Flores’
father told reporters that authorities believe she was slain at about 8
a.m. Sunday in Van Der Sloot’s room.Ricardo Flores also said
police found Stephany Flores’ car about 50 blocks from the Milaflores
Hotel, and that inside that vehicle were pills similar to ones used in
cases of date rape, CNN reported. Ramirez’s murder occurred
exactly five years to the day Holloway disappeared May 30, 2005, while
she was on a high-school graduation trip to Aruba.Holloway was
last seen with then-17-year-old Van Der Sloot and two pals, brothers
Deepak and Satish Kalpoe, outside a night club on the island nation,
which is part of the Netherlands. The ensuing mystery as to what
happened to Holloway generated a media firestorm. Her body as never been
found.Van Der Sloot was arrested in connection with her
disappearance twice — in June 2005, and again in 2007. But he was never
charged.Still, the sensational case has continued to generate
headlines over the years, particularly over reports that van der Sloot
has occasionally revealed details about what actually happened to
Holloway that night.In 2008, a Dutch journalist claimed van der
Sloot had confessed to murdering her and then dumping her body in the
sea. Two years later, a Dutch newspaper reported that van der Sloot had
said Holloway fell off a balcony while drunk. Van der Sloot’s
prominent lawyer dad, Paulus, dropped dead while playing tennis in Aruba
at the age of 57 in February.Today, spokeswoman for the Aruba
prosecutor’s office said van der Sloot remains the main suspect in
Holloway’s disappearance. "What’s happening now is incredible,”
said the spokeswoman, Ann Angela, about the South American police search
for van der Sloot.“At the moment, we don’t have anything to do
with it, but we are following the case with great interest, and if
Peruvian authorities would need us, we are here.”Holloway’s
mother, Elizabeth Twitty, had no comment on the new case, according to
her spokeswoman, Sunny Tillman. Holloway’s dad, Dave Holloway,
did not return a call seeking comment.But the co-author of a book
that Dave Holloway wrote about his daughter’s case yesterday lashed out
at van der Sloot.“I’m not surprised by this new development. I
never doubted that Joran was capable of hurting women,” said R.
Stephanie Good, co-author of “Aruba: The Tragic Untold Story of
Natalee Holloway and Corruption in Paradise.” “I really hope
that he gets what’s coming to him,” Good said. “It’s long overdue.” Kathy
Drenga, a Connecticut phlebotomist and EMT who has traveled to Aruba to
research the Holloway case and who maintained a Web site that tracked
the search for her body, said of van der Sloot, “I really hope they
catch him.”“I’d really like to see him pay,” said Drenga. “His
father’s dead now . . . he was the one person who could save Joran from
all the bad things he did, and now he’s not there.”But van der
Sloot’s lawyer, Tacopina, said his client has been unfairly treated in
the past and suggested that might be going on now with Flores’ murder. “We
have to be wary of any stories that come out about Joran van der
Sloot,” Tacopina told The Post. “So many have been proved inaccurate or
out-and-out completely fabricated.”“There are a lot of facts that
have to be fleshed out before we can jump to the ‘I knew it’
conclusion,” the lawyer said.Tacopina said he last heard from Van
Der Sloot about a month ago in a phone call he made to the lawyer’s
Manhattan office.“He was really trying to get his life back on
track,” Tacopina said. “He called to say he was fine."

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/06/03/interpol-peru-chile-colombia-argentina-hunt-van-der-sloot/?hpt=T2

Interpol: Joran van der Sloot arrested in Santiago



Joran van
der Sloot is being investigated in connection with a woman's death in
Peru.

[Updated at 1:13 p.m.] Joran van der Sloot has been
arrested and is in police custody in Santiago, Chile, an Interpol
spokesperson in Santiago told CNN.
Joran van der Sloot is a suspect in a young woman's slaying this week
in Peru and was previously considered a suspect in the 2005
disappearance of Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway in Aruba.
[Updated at 12:33 p.m.] Chilean investigators have
told CNN Chile that Joran van der Sloot was spotted in Arica, Chile,
near the Peruvian border and they believe he may still be there.
[Posted at 11:59 a.m.] Peruvian authorities
investigating a young woman's slaying this week are working with
officials from Interpol, Chile, Argentina and Colombia in the search for
Joran van der Sloot, a Dutch man previously considered a suspect in the
2005 disappearance of Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway, the Peruvian
justice minister said Thursday.
There is "incriminating evidence"
linking van der Sloot to the killing of 21-year-old Stephany Flores
Ramirez, who was found with multiple stab wounds in a Lima hotel room
Wednesday, Cesar Guardia Vasquez, of Chile Interpol's criminal
investigations unit, said at a news conference.
The hotel room where Flores was found was registered in van der
Sloot's name, he said.
A hotel guest and an employee witnessed the pair entering the hotel
room together at 5 a.m. on Sunday, Guardia said.
Police have video of the previous night, May 29, of van der Sloot and
Flores together at the Atlantic City Casino in Lima, he said.
According to immigration officials, van der Sloot fled to Chile over
land on Monday, Guardia said.
"We have all the evidence to show that the killer is this man," the
victim's father, businessman and race-car driver Ricardo Flores told CNN
en Español.

A Dutch man suspected in the 2005 disappearance of Natalee
Holloway in Aruba was charged Thursday in Alabama with trying to
extort $250,000 in return for disclosing the location of her
body.

A criminal complaint by the U.S. Attorney in federal court in
Birmingham also accused van der Sloot in May 2010 of promising to
describe the circumstances of Holloway's death in return for the
money. According to a sworn statement, van der Sloot got a partial
payment of $15,000 wired to a Netherlands bank soon after.

Dutch citizen Joran van der Sloot arrives at
Chile's Investigative Police
headquarters in Santiago, Thursday, June 3,
2010. Peruvian police
are seeking Van der Sloot in connection with the
last May 30
killing of 21-year-old Stephany Flores at a Lima hotel.
Van der Sloot was previously arrested in the 2005
disappearance of U.S. teen Natalie Holloway,
but later released by Dutch authorities.


He has long been a suspect in Aruba in the disappearance of
Holloway, an 18-year-old from Mountain Brook, Ala., who was on a
graduation trip to Aruba with other seniors when she turned up
missing as they flew home. Her mother still lives in Alabama.

The name of the person paying the money was not given. A call to
U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance was not immediately returned. She said at
a news conference that her office would not be releasing any more
details.

Van der Sloot was arrested Thursday in Chile as a suspect in the
death of a 21-year-old Stephany Flores of Peru. Her neck was broken
Sunday, five years to the day after Holloway disappeared, and her
body found by a maid Tuesday in a Lima hotel room registered to van
der Sloot. Police believe he met the University of Lima business
student for the first time the previous night at a nearby
casino.

The two-count complaint in Alabama also charged van der Sloot
with wire fraud stemming from the $15,000.

A statement from Holloway's mother, Beth Twitty said that she
"extends her deepest sympathy to the family of Stephany Flores
Ramirez and prays for swift and sure justice." She said that she
was grateful for the prayers and support she's received.

A message left for Van der Sloot's attorney, Joe Tacopina of New
York City, was not immediately returned.

Aruban authorities didn't prosecute van der Sloot in Holloway's
May 30, 2005, disappearance even after he was caught on video
saying he had asked a friend to dump her body.

He told investigators he left her on a beach, drunk. That's the
last anyone saw of her. Van der Sloot was twice arrested in her
disappearance _ and twice released for insufficient evidence.

It's a case that captured worldwide attention, and five years later,
it's back -- the disappearance of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway in
Aruba. Suspicion has long centered on Joran van der Sloot, and now he's
under arrest for murder in Peru.

The sight of Joran van der Sloot once again in police custody does
little to comfort the family of Natalee Holloway.

Instead, by phone, her aunt, Linda Allison, says it adds to their pain.

"If they could have convicted him of wrongdoing in Aruba, then we
possibly would not have had the loss of Stephany in Peru," said Allison.


She was talking about 21-year-old Stephany Flores. Peruvian authorities
say she was murdered in a hotel room registered to van der Sloot this
past Sunday, which was also the five-year anniversary of Natalee
Holloway's disappearance in Aruba.

Both women were last seen alive with Joran van der Sloot.

"It's just a sad day that again another young woman's life is gone,"
said Allison, adding that her family knows firsthand the pain the Flores
family is now enduring. "It has been bringing up some of those raw
emotions and feelings from where we were five years ago with all this."

Allison says the similarities between Stephany's murder and Natalee's
disappearance are eerie, but there's one key difference that gives her
family hope.

"There's going to be forensic evidence," Allison said. "We had no
forensic evidence. We have nothing. We don't have a shred of anything to
go by; where Stephany's body, they can do an autopsy, determine the
cause of death, determine what role if any, if there's DNA evidence
linking Joran van der Sloot to her death."

But Allison says even if van der Sloot is convicted of Flores' murder,
it will do little to comfort her family.

"Not really knowing what happened to Natalee is always going to be one
of those things that will always be in the back of our minds," she said.


Joran
van der Sloot was taken into custody Thursday afternoon near Vina del
Mar in Chile. It's about 1,500 miles away from where the murder
occurred in Lima, Peru. Van der Sloot did not talk to reporters as he
walked into a police station in Santiago.

Chilean authorities say he has been calm while in custody, and they are
awaiting instructions from their counterparts in Peru.

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 was arrested a day earlier in Chile while fleeing to a
seaside resort. He had been on the lam for five days.
The suspect ignored shouted questions from reporters before he was
led away. He told investigators in Chile that he did not kill Stephany Flores.
The 22-year-old is suspected of snapping the woman's neck inside his
Lima hotel room on Sunday - the fifth anniversary of Alabama teen
Natalee Holloway's disappearance in Aruba.
In both cases, the women were last seen alive late at night in Van der Sloot's company.
His flight was possibly funded by $5,000 in casino winnings stolen
from Flores, South American authorities said. He paid $620 for a cab
ride from Lima to neighboring Chile.
The Dutch national was carrying two bags of luggage and chain-smoking
as he departed the morning after the Flores killing, his cabbie said yesterday.
The father of the latest victim echoed Salazar's concerns about Van
der Sloot's appetite for violence.
"This isn't a coincidence; this is murder," said Ricardo Flores, a
former racecar driver. "There's a matter pending in Aruba, and we don't
know how many more remain unpunished."
Flores, 21, was beaten so brutally that her neck was broken, and her
battered body bore multiple bruises and scratches. No weapon was found,
indicating the killer used his bare hands.
(Poster's Note: Some sources are indicating that there WAS a weapon used,
a baseball bat. The bat was reportedly found at the crime scene)
While Van der Sloot was in custody, Alabama prosecutors accused him
of promising to provide the location of the long-missing teen's body for a $250,000 payoff.
Court papers didn't identify the target of the extortion plot, but
did charge Van der Sloot collected $15,000. Holloway's family lives in Mountain Brook, AL

Moist-Eyed Dutch Murder Suspect InterrogatedFormer Holloway Suspect Wanted In New Murder

FRANK BAJAK, Associated Press Writers
POSTED: Saturday, June 5, 2010
UPDATED:
9:20 pm EDT June 5, 2010
LIMA, Peru -- The lone suspect in the
disappearance of U.S. teen Natalee Holloway was paraded -- moist-eyed
and looking stunned -- before reporters Saturday as Peruvians denounced
him and detectives began interrogating him about the killing of a Lima
student. Joran van der Sloot arrived at criminal
police headquarters in a brown Interpol SUV and was escorted across an
auditorium crowded with shouting, shutter-snapping journalists three
times. Wearing a green bulletproof vest, his hands
handcuffed behind him, the husky 22-year-old stared straight ahead and
didn't respond to reporters' questions or make eye contact.
Outside, seven Indian shamans in brightly colored ponchos
repeatedly stabbed a cloth doll representing van der Sloot in a
"spiritual punishment" ritual. "We're punishing him so that all the
forces of evil are purged," one shouted. About an
hour earlier, onlookers yelled insults at the man who has dominated
Peruvian front pages as police switched cars south of the foggy coastal
capital. His interrogation began almost immediately,
Gen. Cesar Guardia, chief of Peru's criminal police, told The
Associated Press. Van der Sloot is suspected of killing 21-year-old
Stephany Flores on May 30 at his hotel room in the Peruvian capital
Police in neighboring Chile caught van der Sloot on
Thursday and expelled him across the border a day later. He was then
driven 17 hours north in a police caravan. Chilean
police spokesman Fernando Ovalle said the Dutchman told them he did not
kill Flores, who was found battered with a broken neck.
But van der Sloot did acknowledge that "he met her and at some point
they went to a casino," Ovalle said. Police
released video Saturday taken by hotel security cameras showing van der
Sloot and his alleged victim entering his hotel room together.
Flores trails van der Sloot, her head bowed, after he is
given his room key. She is in the same attitude when she follows him
into the room. Van der Sloot is wearing a white,
long-sleeved button-down shirt and jeans in the video. Flores wears a
dark sleeveless T-shirt and jeans and has her hair up.
Later video shows the Dutchman leaving the hotel alone with his bags.
He is in a patterned shirt and carries a day pack on his back and a gym
bag in his hand. Guardia, the police chief, said
that at 8:10 a.m., nearly an hour and a half before leaving the hotel,
van der Sloot walked across the street alone, bought bread and two cups
of coffee at a supermarket and returned to his hotel room.
Peru's interior minister, Octavio Salazar, reminded reporters
that the murder investigation was not over: "We can't rush the matter,
nor can we give details concerning the event or that investigation
itself," he told a brief news conference. "In two
weeks we'll know if the girl had sexual relations or if there is alcohol
in her blood," Dr. Cesar Tejada, the deputy Lima medical examiner, told
The Associated Press in an interview. He said toxicological reports
should also be able to tell whether she was given a so-called "date
rape" drug. Flores' father, Ricardo, told The Associated Press he
believes van der Sloot drugged his daughter. The
girl's father told the AP that video cameras had also tracked the couple
as they walked before dawn Sunday to van der Sloot's hotel from a
casino in Lima's upscale Miraflores district where the two met playing
poker. She had dropped two girlfriends off at their
homes several hours earlier. El Comercio, citing a police report, said
she sent a text message to one to tell her she was "walking up the
stairs to my bedroom." Guardia said he could not
confirm that report. Flores, a 48-year-old circus
promoter and former race car driver, said he doesn't want the death
penalty for van der Sloot, only justice. In Peru, murder carries a
prison sentence of up to 35 years. Van der Sloot
remains the prime suspect in the May, 30, 2005 disappearance of Alabama
teen Holloway on the Dutch island of Aruba. He was arrested and released
in that case, and faces no charges. Flores told the
AP in an interview at his home that the loss of his daughter may ensure
that van der Sloot is punished for that death. "My
daughter was an instrument for this girl (Holloway), so that there can
be justice," he said. "He's going to have to talk now."
Van der Sloot also now faces criminal charges in the United States
of trying to extort $250,000 from Holloway's family in exchange for
disclosing the location of Holloway's body and describing how she died.
U.S. prosecutors charged van der Sloot with the crime on
Thursday, saying $15,000 was transferred to a Dutch bank account in his
name. In the Netherlands on Friday, prosecutors acting on a U.S. request
raided two homes seeking evidence in the case, seizing computers, cell
phones and data-storage devices. Peruvian President
Alan Garcia told reporters on Friday that van der Sloot would have to be
tried in Stephany Flores' death before any extradition request could be
considered. A college business student less than a
year from graduation, Flores was found late Tuesday in the Lima hotel
room where van der Sloot had been staying since arriving in Peru on May
14 from Colombia. She was fully clothed, with
multiple bruises and scratches on her body but no signs she had been
sexually assaulted, Guardia told the AP. A tennis
racket was found in the room "that could have been the murder weapon but
that's so far not been proven," said Tejada. "My
daughter resisted," Flores told the AP. "Under the fingernails of my
daughter there are traces, evidence. That's why they didn't permit her
cremation." Flores said he expected her to be exhumed for DNA testing,
and Tejada said that was likely. Holloway's uncle,
Paul Reynolds, told NBC's "Today" show Friday that the family hopes to
see van der Sloot behind bars and the Aruba case reopened.
Holloway, 18, was celebrating her high school graduation on Aruba
when she disappeared. Van der Sloot told investigators he left her on a
beach, drunk. That's the last anyone saw of her. Van der Sloot was
twice arrested in her disappearance -- and twice released for
insufficient evidence. Two years ago, a Dutch
television crime reporter captured hidden-camera footage of van der
Sloot saying that after Holloway collapsed on the beach he asked a
friend to dump her body in the sea. But judges in Aruba ruled it
insufficient to re-arrest him. The same journalist, Peter de Vries,
reported later in 2008 that van der Sloot was recruiting Thai women in
Bangkok for sex work in the Netherlands.

The Natalee Holloway Resource Center is set
to open in Washington on Tuesday.

The center will help families of missing
persons, and give advice to students on traveling safety.

Natalee Holloway from Mountain Brook,
Alabama disappeared in May 2005 while on a graduation trip in Aruba.

Holloway's mother is working with the museum
to develop the center.

Joran van der Sloot is suspected in her
disappearance.

He's currently facing extortion charges in
Alabama, accused of offering information about Natalee's remains in
exchange for money.

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 announced 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... she didn't have any right.
"I went to her and I hit her. She was scared,
we argued and she tried to escape. I grabbed her by the neck and hit her."
A lawmaker confirmed that van der Sloot confessed to a
police officer during interrogation. However, the source did not know
the circumstances under which the confession was allegedly obtained.
The Dutchman, who is also the prime suspect in U.S. teen Natalee Holloway's 2005
disappearance in Aruba, is being held in a seventh-floor cell with a
bunk bed and blanket and gets three hot meals a day, said Maj. Jose
Gamboa, spokesman for the Peruvian national police.
On Tuesday, police planned to take van der Sloot back to the hotel where Flores' body was
found to participate in a reconstruction of the events leading to her
slaying, Col. Abel Gamarra, head of the Information Directorate of Police, said.
Members of van der Sloot's family, including his mother, were planning to travel to Lima
on Tuesday.
Poker
Van der Sloot is suspected in the May 30 killing — five years to the day
after Holloway's disappearance — of Flores, a business student who
police say he met playing poker at a casino.
On Saturday, police released video taken by security cameras at the hotel where van der
Sloot had been staying since arriving from Colombia on May 14. It shows
the two entering van der Sloot's room together and the Dutchman leaving
alone four hours later.
Thewoman's battered body was found on the hotel room's floor more than two
days later, her neck broken. Van der Sloot had by then crossed into
Chile, where he was arrested Thursday.
In video taken of the husky 22-year-old Dutchman
that was broadcast Sunday by a TV channel, Peruvian police search van
der Sloot's belongings in his presence.
They pull out of his backpack a laptop, a
business-card holder and 15 bills in foreign currency. Van der Sloot
tells police the money includes Thai, Cambodian and Bolivian currency.
He is asked for credit cards and documents and appears to say — his
Spanish is very rudimentary — that they are in a hotel room back in
Chile.
Earlier denial
Earlier, Peru's chief homicide investigator, Col. Miguel Canlla, would neither
confirm nor deny a Sunday report in the Lima newspaper El Comercio that
van der Sloot told his Peruvian questioners he was innocent of the Flores killing.
"I don't know where that information came from," Canlla told The Associated
Press. "We are still in the investigative stage."
Chilean police had said that van der Sloot declared himself innocent in the Lima slaying but
acknowledged having met Flores.
Van der Sloot was represented by a state-appointed lawyer during Saturday's questioning.
Until he hires his own counsel, "the guys prosecuting
him will decide which attorney he's going to get," van der Sloot's U.S.
attorney, Joseph Tacopina, told reporters.
Tacopina said the suspect's family "is trying to
find competent counsel."She said Peruvian authorities have assured the
Dutch government they are treating him well. "They are taking this case
very seriously," she added. "The world is watching."
The suspect spoke to his mother by telephone for the first time Saturday, Lowe said.
Van der Sloot's father, a former judge and attorney on the Dutch Caribbean island of Aruba, died
in February. The suspect has two brothers.After a 17-hour journey up the Pan-American
Highway from Chile in a police caravan Saturday, the young Dutchman was
paraded, sheathed in bulletproof vest and handcuffed, before reporters
at criminal police headquarters in Lima.
He was then submitted to an initial interrogation. A
judge subsequently granted prosecutors' request to extend van der
Sloot's preliminary detention order seven more days, said Gamboa, the
national police spokesman.
Iftried and convicted of murder, van der Sloot faces a potential prison term of 35 years.
Heremains, meanwhile, the prime suspect in the disappearance in Aruba of
Holloway, an Alabama teen who hasn't been seen since May 30, 2005. He
was arrested and released in that case, and faces no charges.
Extortion charge
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.
Holloway, 18, was celebrating her high school graduation on Aruba when she disappeared.
Van der Sloot told investigators he left her on a beach, drunk. That's
the last anyone saw her.
Twoyears ago, a Dutch television crime reporter captured hidden-camera
footage of van der Sloot saying that after Holloway collapsed on the
beach he asked a friend to dump her body in the sea.
The same journalist, Peter de Vries, reported later in 2008 that van der Sloot was recruiting
Thai women in Bangkok for sex work in the Netherlands.