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Suspect in Holloway case arrested in Peru killing
2010-06-03
A man once accused in the death of Natalee Holloway has been arrested on murder charges in a Peru killing, CNN reports. Peruvian officials announced Wednesday that Joran van der Sloot is the prime suspect in the death of 21-year-old Stephany Flores in a Lima hotel, Chilean police confirmed he had entered their country two days earlier.

Further details about the arrest weren't immediately available, but police in neighboring Chile had been checking hotels for the young Dutchman, long suspected in Holloway's 2005 disappearance.

In Lima, police Gen. Cesar Guardia said at a news conference that Flores was found Wednesday in a room at a hotel where van der Sloot had been staying and that she had been seen with the suspect early Sunday, when she was killed.

The killing occurred exactly five years after the May 30, 2005, disappearance of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway during a high school trip in Aruba, a Dutch Caribbean island where van der Sloot's late father was a prominent judge. Prosecutors said van der Sloot is still their main suspect in the case even though he was never charged.

The Dutch government said Interpol issued an international arrest warrant for van der Sloot in the Peru killing. But Rodriguez, the Chilean police official, said authorities there had received only a request to locate the suspect, not an arrest warrant.

Guardia, the Peruvian police general, said the 22-year-old Dutchman was in Peru for a poker tournament and appears with the dead woman in a video taken at a Lima casino early Sunday. The two were later seen entering the hotel by one of its employees about 5 a.m. and the Dutchman departed alone about four hours later, he said.

"We have an interview with a worker at the hotel who says she saw this foreigner with the victim enter his room," said Guardia.

The woman's body was found face down on the hotel room floor Wednesday, abrasions on her face and body, and signs of trauma, Guardia said. He said she was clothed.
Posted by:Fred

#2  That orgasm you heard was Greta Van Susteren, over not having to come up with new material til October
Posted by: Frank G   2010-06-03 19:36  

#1  maybe she heard him confess to killing Natalie, then he sobered up and killed her.
Posted by: HammerHead   2010-06-03 15:50  

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