Posted on 06/03/2010 7:08:05 PM PDT by GVnana
LIMA, Peru – He was the last person to see two young women alive — one in Aruba, one in Peru exactly five years later, police say. Joran van der Sloot was caught in a taxi Thursday, several days drive and a country away from the Lima hotel room where the second woman was found face down with a broken neck.
A fixture on TV true-crime shows after Natalee Holloway's disappearance in Aruba, the 22-year-old Dutchman did not speak or even turn his head when photographers shouted his name as Chilean police escorted him, without handcuffs, into a Santiago office for questioning.
Aruban authorities didn't prosecute van der Sloot even after he was caught on video saying he had asked a friend to dump Holloway's body. The Alabama woman's family was outraged by how Aruban authorities handled the case, and now the family of another young woman wants justice.
"This isn't a coincidence, this murder," Stephany Flores' anguished father, Lima entertainment impresario Ricardo Flores, told reporters after van der Sloot's arrest.
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A model sociopath.
I suspect the jails in Aruba are like country clubs compared to those in Peru.
Too bad he didn’t get the greeting the police gave Che.
Sloot is sociopath with many victims, I have no doubt. He goes after women who are too young to recognize his face from the Holloway murder.
I have heard that Peru, unfortunately, does not have the death penalty.
Is Peru a country in which money speaks so loudly that one can buy his way out of an obvious murder? I have no idea; I hope not.
This girl’s father apparently has some status in Peru....not sure what.
We’ve not heard the last gasp yet from Van der Sloot. His jet-setting ways suggest money.
His killing this girl exactly on May 30, the date of Holloway’s death, would cause me to look for any other May 30 deaths in his familiar haunts.
He’s going to wish he had been arrested and jailed for the Aruba murder. A Dutch jail would be a Holiday Inn compared to what he will endure in a Peruvian prison.
Didn’t his father die not too long ago?
I agree. Since his father has been dead and buried for four months, he'd make a perfect cellmate for young van der Sloot.
However, his only role as an accessory to this particular murder is providing opportunity and means by dying.
You are correct. But they do have a lot of unsuccessful prison escapes, if you get my drift.
He had the opportunity to spend 10-15 years (the most any minor ever actually serves for murder in Dutch jurisdictions) in a country club prison on a Caribbean island with access to friends and family.
Instead, he'll now spend life in prison in a filthy hellhole in the freezing/baking Andes far from anyone he knows.
This is good for Holloway's parents.
Had he been sent to Aruban prison for their daughter's murder he would have been free and clear before his 30th birthday and far more careful about concealing his activities.
Good point.
Joran will not be coddled by Peruvian authorities, as he was in Aruba.
Yep. Daddy can’t protect him this time.
Article discusses how he tried to extort $250,000 from someone promising to reveal where Holloway’s body was. Greta just reported the $15,000 down payment was made by Natalie’s mom and had the FBI arrested him several weeks ago as planned, this poor woman would be alive today.
I can not see a nation of machismo Latinos letting an arrogant rich white boy get away with murdering one of their dtrs.....just can’t see it....
Money talks in some places, but I can’t imagine where van der Sloot would go next. I doubt anyone would accept him.
If he hits a peruvian prison, I don’t think he’ll last long.
they actually have white boys in Peru.
(they have most of the money actually)
Not implausible but I think Sloot is just a fiend, a serial one.
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