FBI cash funded Sloot 'slay' trip

NY Post ^ | June 9, 2010 | DAN MANGAN

[Scanian]

Federal agents trying to build an extortion case against Joran van der Sloot secretly gave him the cash that wound up funding his trip to Peru, where he killed a young woman exactly five years after the disappearance of Natalee Holloway, The Post has learned.

Van der Sloot tried to shake down Holloway's mother by offering information about her daughter's 2005 disappearance, and agents decided to set him up with a $25,000 payoff, a source told The Post yesterday.

An intermediary acting under the direction of the FBI gave van der Sloot the dough in Aruba on May 10 -- and four days later, he flew to Peru, where he allegedly murdered 21-year-old Stephany Flores in his Lima hotel room.

Van der Sloot was free to travel because after the money was given to the 22-year-old Dutch national, the feds didn't promptly file charges against him. US authorities also did not ask that he be detained in Aruba, even after officials there warned that he was about to leave the island, the source said

[trisham]

Agreed. Imho, he took the girl to his room to have sex with her (or rape her) and kill her. That was the plan, and everything else is him playing with the police and media.

[Joe 6-pack]

To validate your suspected version of events, on has to accept that the girl's death was not premeditated, and that he had taken her back to his room on the 5th anniversary of the Holloway disappearance with no ill-intent, and she just happened to end up dead over a spontaneous altercation.

That's just a stretch I'm not willing to make at this point.

[maine-iac7]

A possible scenario is that he wanted to “remain silent” but that was just laughed at. The authorities may have told him that he was going to get convicted, it was a matter of degree. If he admitted to killing her in a crime of passion, he would get a certain amount of time. However if he did it with pre-mediation it would go very very badly for him in prison. I think they offered him a deal and he took it.

the "crime of passion" thing is from his lawyer.

I doubt he was offered a plea-down by the authorities for 4 reasons: They have no Miranda; he killed the daughter of a high ranking Peruvian; they have him dead to rights. (which is why even his lawyer isn't bothering with 'innocent.') In his delusional mind, he has gotten out of so many other close calls over the Halloway case that he may have figgured he could do it again - his serial lying has served him well all his life. But this time: GAME.

He was presented with the facts: "You ain't going nowhere, laddie, look at all this evidence." And their interrogation was probably no picnic. Psychos like him that bludgeon women to death are sissies when it come to even the slightest of violence threatened on themselves. He folded.

[Enterprise]

That is very possible, probably even more than my scenario. When confronted by real men with real anger, he folded.

[dead]

It's really a bit of stretch to say that the FBI money enabled him to get to Peru. Unless the Post knows more about his financial situation, that claim is just fabrication.

He seemed to travel all the time, and I doubt it was all on FBI money.

[hennie pennie]

The FBI did NOT fund the sting operation with the 25 thousand dollars; statement of the Birmingham, Alabama FBI located here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2526320/replies?c=927

[BradyLS]

I think this guy wanted an “anniversary party” and she wouldn’t go along. So he beat her up and tried to render her unconscious but killed her instead. Then he took off.

I’l bet you that’s how Natalee went. Gave her a mickey so she couldn’t resist him but she still wouldn’t go along. He had his way then figured she was dead and that’s when the cover-up began.