Aruba disappearance suspect held in Peru killing (Joran van der Sloot Arrested)

AP via Drudge ^ | 6/3/2010

[GVnana]

Van der Sloot was arrested the same day he was charged in Alabama with trying to extort $250,000 in return for giving the location of Holloway's body and describing the circumstances of Holloway's death. Federal prosecutors did not say who was allegedly extorted but filed a sworn statement saying that van der Sloot got a partial payment of $15,000 wired to a Netherlands bank.

A model sociopath.

[Mr. Mojo]

I suspect the jails in Aruba are like country clubs compared to those in Peru.

[hoosierham]

Too bad he didn’t get the greeting the police gave Che.

[Havisham]

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.

[xzins]

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.

[Carry_Okie]

They should toss his daddy in the clink with him. The guy is an accessory if there ever was one.

[Travis McGee]

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.

[StarFan]

Didn’t his father die not too long ago?

[wideawake]

They should toss his daddy in the clink with him.

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.

[Bronzy]

What if he was with a woman who saw him on TV as the murder happened on the anniversary of the Holloway murder.

[Vigilanteman]

I have heard that Peru, unfortunately, does not have the death penalty.

You are correct. But they do have a lot of unsuccessful prison escapes, if you get my drift.

[wideawake]

Indeed.

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.

[Palladin]

Good point.

Joran will not be coddled by Peruvian authorities, as he was in Aruba.

[richmwill]

Yep. Daddy can’t protect him this time.

[StarFan]

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.

[cherry]

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....

[xzins]

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.

[wardaddy]

they actually have white boys in Peru.

(they have most of the money actually)

[Havisham]

Not implausible but I think Sloot is just a fiend, a serial one.