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Former Holloway Suspect Named In Peruvian Woman’s Murder

Joran Van der Sloot, the 22-year-old who was suspected in Natalee Holloway’s disappearance, is now the prime suspect in a young Peruvian woman’s murder.

The Peruvian National Police confirmed to AMW that they are looking for Van der Sloot in relation to 21-year-old Stephany Flores Ramirez’s murder. Authorities said she was last seen with him at a hotel and casino located in the Miraflores district in Lima around 5:15 a.m. on Sunday, May 30, 2010.

Stephany’s body was found inside of a hotel room later that same morning. Police said her car was abandoned in a neighboring district.

Peruvian officials believe Van der Sloot crossed into Chile on May 31 and have alerted authorities there.

Natalee Holloway’s Disappearance

Natalee, 18, vanished in May 2005 just before she was due to fly home to Alabama, at the end of her high school graduation trip to Aruba.

Natalee, of Mountain Brook, Ala., was last seen in public leaving a bar with Van der Sloot and two Surinamese brothers — Deepak and Satish Kalpoe — hours before she was due to board a flight home.

Van der Sloot was initially arrested in June 2005, then released, and then arrested again in 2007. That time, he was questioned but never charged.

In 2008, a series of conversations between Van der Sloot and a man he believed to be his friend were recorded in a Range Rover that had been rigged with three hidden cameras by Peter R. de Vries, a Dutch television crime reporter. They were shown on Dutch television. In the footage, Van der Sloot said he was with Natalee when she collapsed on a beach in Aruba. He said he believed she was dead and asked a friend to dump her body in the sea.

“She’ll never be found,” he said.

But Van der Sloot later said he was lying in those taped conversations and denied having anything to do with the Alabama teenager’s disappearance.