I don't think it was.
It's clear that Joran likes to prey on young women who are partying at the end of the school year.
He probably figured that he could pull off another rape/murder without too much trouble.
However, he probably encountered obstacles he did not anticipate and had to decide to either risk dumping the body and getting caught red-handed or to flee.
He chose flight and left the body behind.
I am sure that his intention was to kill her bloodlessly and to safely dispose of the evidence - not to leave a bloody corpse in his room.
Things clearly did not go according to plan.
There was one report that police located what they believe to be pills that are a date-rape drug.
So if that is true. He was planning at least a rape.
No one knows yet how it turned into murder. Obviously you dont take a girl you plan to kill back to your hotel room that is in your name, stab her multiple times, and then run out of the country leaving the body for the housekeeper to find. That makes no sense.
Something went wrong with whatever he was planning to do.
“...not to leave a bloody corpse in his room.”
I’ve been reading reports this morning that the girl was strangled, with no mention of blood.
And what about these recent news stories of suicide? I hope it’s not true and that he gets life in prison in Peru!
Found this in Dutch news:
International criminal law expert Geert-Jans Knoops told the Telegraaf on Thursday Van der Sloot would not get any special legal protection as a Dutch national in Peru. Nor is is likely the Netherlands ask for him to extradited to the Netherlands.
In addition, Van der Sloot would have to serve any jail term in Peru because there is no prisoner exchange treaty between the two countries,he said.
http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2010/06/police_in_chile_on_joran_van_d.php
I also wonder why this psychopathic jerk had the freedom to travel the world without any surveillance, that's just criminal, to unleash a psychopath into the poker party capitols....