Van der Sloot tells Chile police that robbers assaulted and murdered Stephany Flores, not him--in a police report that couldn't vary more drastically than Peru police's murder confession from van der Sloot.
In the Chilean version, Joran van der Sloot told police in Chile that it was supposedly an unidentified robber who beat Stephany Flores to death in the hotel room registered in his name. Van der Sloot has now officially been charged with murder in Peru and jailed--to receive a maximum of 35 years if convicted of the Flores murder.
Police in Peru claim Joran van der Sloot, suspected for years in the 2005 disappearance of U.S. teen Natalee Holloway, has confessed to killing 21-year-old Stephany Flores on May 30 after they met playing poker. Flores was a business student in Peru. The Chilean police report holds a different story than what Peru police say is a direct confession to the Flores killing.
While in custody in Chile, after fleeing to the country following Flores' murder, Van der Sloot gave a different account of events to police there before he was quickly extradited. Van der Sloot told Chile police that he and Stephay Flores were surprised in the early morning, by two robbers, in what Joran van der Sloot described to police as an assault.
"A man [robber] came out of the bathroom blocking the access door with a knife in his hand. On the bed was another man [robber] with a gun," the police report quotes van der Sloot. "The man with the knife said to be quiet, but Stephany began talking in a loud voice and he hit her in the face, making her nose bleed."
The Chilean police report says van der Sloot told Chilean agents that the previous day, he and Flores had been extorted by Peru police officers who demanded $4,000 and a wristwatch he owns and purchased in Thailand.
Chilean police told the Peru police department that Joran van der Sloot gave the declaration in English when being questioning, but that he refused to sign it after being told he would be extradited to Peru. Friday, a Peruvian Judge ordered van der Sloot to be jailed in the country, with filing and allegations of first-degree murder and robbery charges.
Police in Peru say van der Sloot confessed to beating Stephany Flores to death when she found out details pertaining the missing girl from Aruba, Natalee Holloway. Van der Sloot says Flores accessed his laptop to research him, that he became enraged and killed her. Flores was badly beaten. Peru police allege that Van der Sloot broke Flores' nose, strangled the girl, threw her to the floor, and then stole contents from her wallet and stole her vehicle--an SUV.
Van der Sloot left Peru by bus, originally flying into the country by airplane, travel, traveling by bus to exit the country through the south. The maximum sentence Van der Sloot can get, if convicted is 35 years, and as little as 15 years prison.
Van der Sloot has a new attorney in Peru, Maximo Altez, who has now asked the Peruvian judge to declare his client's confession void--on the grounds that van der Sloot's confession was made in the presence of a defense lawyer appointed by police.