5 years following Natalee Holloway’s disappearance-where Joran van der Sloot was detained for murder but never charged or prosecuted-Lima police say he’s murdered a race car driver’s daughter who was killed, May 30, the EXACT same date.
Joran van der Sloot is now wanted for murder in Peru, the prime suspect in a brand-new murder that occurred over the weekend and involves a 21-year-old woman whose body was found in a hotel room in Lima, Peru. Early June 1, Stephany Flores Ramirez was found dead, reports Peruvian newspaper El Comercio, her body discovered in a hotel room registered in the name of Joran van der Sloot. Lima police say that Ramirez had been brutally stabbed, found wrapped in a blanket, and in a pool of blood.
Murdered, Stephany Flores' body was found clothed and face down on a hotel room floor, abrasions on her face and body and including signs of trauma, say police. Asked if she had been asphyxiated, Guardia indicated police are awaiting autopsy results for the exact cause of death for Stephany Flores Ramirez.
The new Peru murder of Flores Ramirez occurred exactly five years to the date of Natalee Holloway’s seemingly permanent disappearance from Aruba, the Dutch Caribbean island, on May 30. Chief detective Colonel Miguel Canlla, in Peru, says the young woman was murdered 3 days prior to discovery of the body. Her father Ricardo Flores, circus empresario and former prominent race car driver in Peru, says says his daughter dropped off female friends at 2:35 a.m., then returned to the casino
Van der Sloot supposedly traveled to Lima in order to participate in a poker tournament.
The Dutchman van der Sloot appears with Flores’ daughter in video footage recorded at a Lima casino early June 1, the same day police say Flores Ramirez was murdered. Van der Sloot and Flores Ramirez were later seen entering the hotel, by one of its employees, where a room was registered in van der Sloot’s name. "We have an interview with a worker at the hotel who says she saw this foreigner [Dutchman van der Sloot] with the victim [Flores Ramirez] enter his room," says Guardia.Van der Sloot was seen leaving the hotel, alone, approximately four hours later.
Interpol international arrest warrant has been issued for van der Sloot, but police don’t know where he is exactly. Reports indicate that van der Sloot may be trying to run from police. The Dutch Foreign Affairs Department of the Netherlands has notified their contacts in Chile to be aware that Joran may physically be in the country of Chile, believing van der Sloot crossed into the country by bus transport.
Van der Sloot left Peru Monday by land, Guardia said, his exit from the country registered at the Santa Rosa border crossing. Van der Sloot had been staying at the hotel, where the girl was found murdered, for more than two weeks and since May 14. The Dutchman had entered Peru on an inbound flight from Colombia, say police.
May 2005, only five years ago, Alabama high school student Natalee Holloway went missing while on a senior class trip to Aruba. Holloway has last been seen while leaving a bar with Joran van der Sloot. Van der Sloot has been detained several times—even arrested--in relation to the Holloway murder, but never received murder charges related to the girl’s death. Van der Sloot was twice arrested in the disappearance and murder of Natalee Holloway but was later released for lack of evidence in the murder case. No trace of Holloway has ever been found but van der Sloot remains the main suspect in the case, says the Aruba prosecutor's office.
An attorney for van der Sloot in New York City, Joe Tacopina, claims he does not know his client's whereabouts and has not been in touch with him since the Peru murder allegations have emerged. Reports say the attorney “cautions a rush to judgment”, saying: "Joran van der Sloot has been falsely accused of murder once before. The fact is he wears a bull's-eye on his back now and he is a quote-unquote usual suspect when it comes to allegations of foul play," attorney Tacopina said.
Yeah, either that, or he got away with murder once, and felt arrogant enough to do it again. Let’s see, someone else wanted to murder someone, so made sure to dump the body in the registered hotel room under van der Sloot’s name--since he’s got that “bulls-eye” and all. It must be pure coincidence that two young women, of similar age, are believed to be murdered, both last seen with van der Sloot—also purely coincidental that the second of those two young women ends up murdered on the exact date that the first disappeared. It must also be coincidental that van der Sloot left the country of Peru by land, via bus, when he'd arrived into the country by airplane. And of course it’s also a coincidence that Van der Sloot's deceased father was a prominent judge in Aruba, the location where Natalee Holloway disappeared.
As recently as two years ago, a Dutch tv crime reporter captured hidden-camera footage of van der Sloot—complete with van der Sloot stating an admission, on video, that he [van der Sloot] was with Holloway when she collapsed on a beach, drunk; van der Sloot he said believed she [Holloway] was dead and asked a friend to dump her body in the sea. Aruba Judges subsequently refused to arrest van der Sloot on the basis of the tape (that also must be totally unrelated to van der Sloot’s father having been a Judge in Aruba prior).
Van der Sloot, who currently technically resides in the Netherlands, was interviewed by Aruban police in Rotterdam as recently as 2008; the Dutchman was soon after declared "persona non grata", meaning it's nearly impossible for him to return to Aruba.
Joran's lawyer says that the TV admission, by FOX News, was untrue; his client had only wanted to impress the man he was talking to, trying to gain some credibility in the crimininal world.
Late in 2008, FOX News broadcasted an interview with Joran van der Sloot, where he told interviewer Greta van Susteren that he had sold Natalee Holloway to a Venezuelan on the beach--for 10,000 dollars. According to van der Sloot, Venezueland man was apparently looking for a blonde sex slave. In the television interview, Joran Van der Sloot also claimed that his father Paul had bribed Aruba police for 50,000 dollars. None of those statements or admissions by van der Sloot have not been taken into account by the legal authorities.
Joran van der Sloot's father collapsed and died in February 2010--while playing tennis at the Tierra del Sol estate on the Dutch Caribbean island. Emergency service staff were unable to resuscitate him. Paul van der Sloot died at the age of 57.