Showing posts with label Joran van der Sloot. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Joran van der Sloot. Show all posts

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.

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Dear God, Say It Isn't So: Aruba Police Pursue New Evidence in Holloway Case

This is one of those sad practical jokes that crop up annually. And just when I was beginning to take a shine to Greta. No, not in that fashion, but because she was having Sarah Palin marathons, dummies.
A new witness has come forward in the 2005 disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway in Aruba, and prosecutors said Tuesday they are seeking more evidence against the only remaining suspect.

A woman told Dutch police this month that Joran van der Sloot confessed to her years ago that he was involved in Holloway's disappearance, according to Ann Angela, a spokeswoman for the Aruba Prosecutors' Office.

But the Dutch Caribbean island's chief prosecutor said authorities still lack proof they need to convict Van der Sloot, who has been arrested twice and released for lack of evidence.

"After three years of investigating, it is very, very difficult to find that evidence," prosecutor Hans Mos told The Associated Press. "We have to be realistic."
And being realistic, this probably won't go anywhere. Don't get me wrong, I'd have no problem if that smug van der Sloot punk got what's coming to him, but anyone with their synapses properly firing can see incompetence and corruption rules the day in Aruba.

On the other hand, maybe we could get Megyn Kelly on the case.