Wednesday, June 02, 2010

'This Is My Daughter's Assassin'

Paging Greta van Susteren, come in, Greta.
The prime suspect in the 2005 disappearance of American teen Natalee Holloway in Aruba is now suspected of viciously murdering a 21-year-old woman in Peru on Sunday -- exactly five years to the day that Holloway went missing.

Joran Van Der Sloot, the 22-year-old suspect, is believed to be in Chile after fleeing Peru by land on Monday.

A day before, a woman named Stephany Flores was brutally stabbed to death in Van Der Sloot's room in the hotel TAC in Lima, Peru, authorities in that country said today.

An arrest warrant for Van Der Sloot has been issued by the international police agency Interpol.

"This is my daughter's assassin," Flores' dad, prominent Peruvian businessman and race-care driver Ricardo Flores told reporters today, according to CBS News.

Ricardo told a Peruvian TV station that Van Der Sloot was seen leaving a Lima casino with his daughter early Sunday morning. Flores also said there there is surveillance video showing them together.

Van Der Sloot, a Dutch national, was at the casino to play in a poker tournament.

Flores told reporters that his daughter was killed at about 8 a.m. Sunday in Van Der Sloot's room in the TAC.

The room -- which Van Der Sloot had rented May 14 -- was splattered with blood suggesting there was a struggle.

Van Der Sloot checked out of the hotel four hours after arriving there with the woman according to Police Chief General Cesar Guardia.

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

Ramirez's murder occurred exactly five years to the day that 18-year-old Alabama resident Holloway disappeared May 30, 2005, while on a high-school graduation trip to Aruba.

Holloway last was seen with then 17-year-old Van Der Sloot and two brothers, Deepak and Satish Kalpoe.outside a night club on that island nation, which is part of the Netherlands.

The mystery of what happened to Holloway generated a media firestorm.

Van Der Sloot was arrested in connection with her disappearance twice -- in June 2005, and again in 2007.

But Van Der Sloot never was charged in the Holloway case. Her body was never found.
The bumbling prosecutor in Aruba is shocked--shocked!--at this latest murder.

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