Stephany Flores -- Found Deceased 5/30/10 UPDATE: Joran van der Sloot Confesses!!

Boo hoo.....

'Van der Sloot' Google search stuns slain woman's brother

By Ashley Fantz
June 7, 2010 1:10 p.m. EDT

(CNN) -- It was unlike Stephany Flores Ramirez not to come home on time. An avid poker player, the Peruvian 21-year-old lived with her father and knew he was expecting her after a night at a Texas Hold 'em tournament on May 30 in Lima.

"My father called me and said Stephany didn't come home, help me," Stephany's older brother Enrique Flores told CNN on Sunday. "So I went to the house and we started calling all the numbers of my sister's friends that I had and we called the police."

Eventually, authorities found surveillance video of the young woman at the hotel where the tournament was held. They found footage of Joran van der Sloot sitting next to Stephany, he said.

"At first, it was a relief because I saw her and that gave me hope," Enrique Flores said. "The people at the hotel told us, 'Yeah, she was with this guy. He seemed nice. He looked like Brad Pitt.'"

Van der Sloot is widely known as a suspect in the high-profile 2005 disappearance of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway in Aruba. The Dutch 22-year-old has repeatedly denied involvement in that case. He has twice been arrested and released but has not been charged.

Flores' battered body was found last week in a hotel room registered to van der Sloot. Hotel videotape clearly shows the two entering a room together May 30 at 5:16 a.m. local time. Three hours and 20 minutes later, he left the hotel by himself carrying a backpack, telling the hotel staff not to bother "his girl," police said.

The Flores family is well known in Peru. Patriarch Ricardo Flores is a politically connected former race car driver. The four Flores sons, including Enrique Flores, run a successful event-planning business.

After police showed Enrique and his father the surveillance tape, they again began trying to find out more from people at the hotel, and obtained information about the man on the tape.

"They gave us his social security number and his name," the brother told CNN. "We came back home and searched his name on the Internet. I cannot tell you the shock we felt."

"My wife typed 'Joran van der Sloot' into Google and started screaming for me to see," Enrique Flores told CNN on Sunday. "I couldn't believe it. How could it be that guy?"

"All I have been doing is reading about Natalee Holloway and what her family has gone through," Flores said.

Stephany Flores was a trusting young woman, her family said.

"My sister is very friendly ... always smiling, always nice to everyone," said Enrique Flores. "I think about how she felt with him, that she probably did not think ... and it is ... so hard to think about that."

"My sister was the only girl in our house, the queen of our family," he continued. "What she wanted, she got. She loved to play soccer" and would organize matches with her friends in the family's backyard.

She was in her third year studying business administration at University of Lima, and ran the merchandising arm of the family entertainment and event-promotion business, Enrique Flores said.

"She had a lot of friends," he said. "A lot of people are crying."

About an hour after Enrique Flores found out who the man on the videotape was, police called to say they had found his sister's body. Investigators believe a tennis racquet found in the room was used in the killing, said Carlos Gonzalo, a spokesman for Peru's Interior Ministry.

When authorities knew who they were looking for, they found van der Sloot traveling alone in a taxi in Chile. Authorities said he had bloody clothes with him. He was taken into custody and transported to Peru where he remains jailed.

A Peruvian judge extended for another week the investigation into van der Sloot and he will remain jailed in Lima, Gonzalo said.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/06/06/peru.victim.joran/

Alcohol and sexual motive ruled out in Peru van der Sloot case

7 June, 2010 [ 14:20 ]
LivinginPeru.com
Isabel Guerra

An autopsy determined that the 21-year-old homicide victim in Lima, Peru, Stephany Flores, did not have sexual intercourse prior to her death. Nor did she consume enough alcohol to prevent her from resisting an attack, reports local press.

Read more about the case, in which Dutch national Joran van der Sloot, pictured here, is the prime murder suspect.

La Republica reports that homicide investigators are considering robbery as the prime motive for the murder.

Peru has assigned a public defense attorney for van der Sloot, Rosa Luisa Camargo Madrid, but van der Sloot will ask for a lawyer from his country; he will also have a translator, Mauricio Stains.

Meanwhile, the suspect is currently jailed at the investigations building of Peru's national police, sharing his cell with another suspect of homicide and under the permanent surveillance of four agents, because there are fears that he could either try to commit suicide, or be killed.

Surveillance was assigned because van der Sloot deliberately hit his head against a wall last Saturday.

However, he has had meals and slept normally while on his cell; he is having the same meals that police officers receive while on duty.

Representatives from the Netherlands embassy have visited him, but it is still unclear if they will provide a lawyer for van der Sloot or not.

Lawyers consulted by LivinginPeru.com said that if the case reaches court, the whole trial may take two years.

Van der Sloot could be jailed either at Miguel Castro Castro Prison (aka "Lurigancho") or at Piedras Gordas High Security Prison.

http://www.livinginperu.com/news-12390-law-and-order-alcohol-and-sexual-motive-ruled-out-in-peru-van-der-sloot-case

I agree that robbery was probably the motive or at least part of it. There were reports that Stephany had a bunch of money on her from gambling winnings. I wouldn't put it past Joran to kill for money since he just got done extorting money from Beth Holloway before his trip to Peru.

I also think part of Joran's motive is that he gets pleasure out of killing since he has most likely killed more than once and I don't think Natalee Holloway was killed for money. If money was Joran's primary motive for Stephany's murder, I think he considered the pleasure of killing a bonus, and if the sick pleasure of killing was his motive, then I think he considered the money a bonus.

I'm getting confused.

Now they're saying it wasn't a baseball bat; it was a tennis racket.

And they are saying she had her pants off but not her undies.

The TV was blasting away and the lights were on.

Joran tells somebody at the hotel not to bother 'his girl'.

I'm getting the feeling Joran did this because it was May 30...started out in the casino, then lured poor Stefany to his room for whatever reason, but set about to kill her just because it was May 30.

Report: Van der Sloot Confesses to Peru Murder

Published June 08, 2010
FOXNews.com

An official in Peru says Joran van der Sloot has confessed to killing a 21-year-old female student who police say he met playing poker at a casino, the La Republica newspaper reported late Monday.

The Dutchman, who is also the prime suspect in U.S. teen Natalee Holloway's 2005 disappearance in Aruba, is being held in a seventh-floor cell with a bunk bed and blanket and gets three hot meals a day, said Maj. Jose Gamboa, spokesman for the Peruvian national police.

Van der Sloot is suspected in the May 30 killing — five years to the day after Holloway's disappearance — of Stephany Flores.

Police released video Saturday taken by security cameras at the hotel where van der Sloot had been staying since arriving from Colombia on May 14. It shows the two entering van der Sloot's room together and the Dutchman leaving alone four hours later.

The woman's battered body was found on the room's floor more than two days later, her neck broken.

This is a breaking news report. Refresh for the latest updates.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/06/08/report-van-der-sloot-confesses-peru-murder/

Updated:

Police: Van der Sloot Confesses to Peru Killing

Published June 08, 2010
FOXNews.com

An official in Peru says Joran van der Sloot has confessed to killing a 21-year-old female student from Lima, the La Republica newspaper reported late Monday.

According to the paper, Van der Sloot admitted he broke Stephany Flores' neck in a rage after she apparently used his notebook computer without permission and discovered he was involved in the disappearance of an American woman.

"I did not want to do it," La Republica quoted him as saying. "The girl intruded into my private life."

The Dutchman, who is also the prime suspect in U.S. teen Natalee Holloway's 2005 disappearance in Aruba, is being held in a seventh-floor cell with a bunk bed and blanket and gets three hot meals a day, said Maj. Jose Gamboa, spokesman for the Peruvian national police.

Van der Sloot is suspected in the May 30 killing — five years to the day after Holloway's disappearance — of Stephany Flores.

Police released video Saturday taken by security cameras at the hotel where van der Sloot had been staying since arriving from Colombia on May 14. It shows the two entering van der Sloot's room together and the Dutchman leaving alone four hours later.

The woman's battered body was found on the room's floor more than two days later, her neck broken.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/06/08/report-van-der-sloot-confesses-peru-murder/

Wow... I have to say Im a little surprised.. I wonder if the interrogations prompted it???
After all the lying he did while in and out of jail in Aruba, I guess Im surprised he cracked this easy..even without Pops..

On the other hand, I guess I wonder ifg he really had any kind of interrogating in Aruba, or if his jail stays were to appease the public.. Afterall, evidently, Aruba never helped and only help hurt the case...

I wonder how the sentencing will work, or if there will even be a trial.. If this is true, I suppose he cud still plead not guilty, and have his lawyer say the confession was coerced...?

Hi AJ, I'm pretty surprised too. That's a pretty lame excuse too for killing someone.

Van der Sloot confesses to murder, Peruvian authorities sayBy the CNN Wire Staff

June 8, 2010 12:58 a.m. EDT

Lima, Peru (CNN) -- Joran van der Sloot has confessed to the murder of Stephany Flores Ramirez, Peruvian government authorities said late Monday.

Van der Sloot could be formally charged in the case as early as Tuesday and will likely be held at one of three maximum security prisons -- Castro Castro, Piedras Gordas and Lurigancho, authorities said.

At his first court appearance, the judge may set a hearing date for van der Sloot and could order additional investigations in the case.

The Peruvian justice system often issues a lighter sentence in cases where the suspect confesses. That may have influenced his alleged confession.

There is no death penalty or life sentence in Peru.

A Peruvian police report leaked Monday said Flores was found in his hotel room on the floor, half-dressed. The report provides new details about the hours before Flores' body was found.

Van der Sloot, who was twice arrested in connection with the disappearance of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway in Aruba in 2005, is in Peruvian custody as a suspect in the killing of Flores, 21.

According to the document, the Hotel Tac, where van der Sloot was staying, received a call from someone looking for him about 11 p.m. June 1. The receptionist forwarded the call, but no one answered. The hotel worker assumed that van der Sloot was asleep because the room key was with him and not the front desk.

About an hour later, according to the police report, the receptionist noticed that van der Sloot owed money for two nights and went up to his room, where her knocks went unanswered. The television was blaring, so the hotel employee figured he was resting, the report says.

Afterward, the hotel supervisor told the employee to go back to van der Sloot's room and enter using a spare key. When the employee went in, she found Flores' body on the floor, dressed in a black T-shirt and red panties, half-covered with a piece of white clothing, the police report said.

Flores was bleeding from her nose, the report said.

The hotel employee became frightened at the sight and went to alert her supervisor and the police, turning off the television and lights on her way out of the room, the report said.

CNN's Mayra Cuevas contributed to this report.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/06/08/peru.murder.case/?hpt=T1

snipped from above:

The Peruvian justice system often issues a lighter sentence in cases where the suspect confesses. That may have influenced his alleged confession.

There is no death penalty or life sentence in Peru.

Yep, sounds like it.. I wonder how much less? I dont know how much mercy will be shed on account of her high profile father..

Also..snipped from above..

"The hotel worker assumed that van der Sloot was asleep because the room key was with him and not the front desk."

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I wonder if this explains the video where we see monster asking the front desk for the key?

It appears registered guests may be required/expected to turn in your key when you exit, and pick it up upon re-entry.. This wud explain why they assumed he was in the room for so long without anyone noticing anything for so long..

awaiting justice wrote: I dont know how much mercy will be shed on account of her high profile father

Excellent point, I bet he didn't think of that, nor did they point it out to him.

Van der Sloot to attend re-enactment, Peruvian authorities say

By the CNN Wire Staff
June 8, 2010 -- Updated 0549 GMT (1349 HKT)

Lima, Peru (CNN) -- Joran van der Sloot, the longtime suspect in the disappearance of an Alabama teenager in Aruba, is slated to take Peruvian authorities on a re-enactment Tuesday at the hotel room where the body of a young woman he has confessed to killing was found last week, officials said.

Van der Sloot offered a tearful confession Monday night to killing 21-year-old Stephany Flores Ramirez, Peruvian authorities said.

The suspect told authorities Flores had found some information on his laptop computer that tied him to the disappearance of Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway five years ago.

"I did not want to do it," van der Sloot is said to have told authorities. "The girl intruded into my private life."

He could be formally charged as early as Tuesday, Peruvian authorities said.

Van der Sloot and Flores had returned to his hotel room after meeting at a casino. Officials say van der Sloot went out to get some coffee and found her reading his computer when he returned.

He became enraged, investigators said, and beat her to death. Her neck was broken.

The Dutch citizen broke down in tears when he offered his confession in front of investigators and his attorney, Peruvian officials said.

Van der Sloot's attorney in Peru could not be reached for comment Tuesday.

Van der Sloot, 22, was arrested twice in connection with Holloway's disappearance in Aruba but was released for lack of evidence. He has denied any involvement and has not been charged.

He is slated to take authorities on a re-enactment of the crime at the Hotel Tac, where he was staying. Flores' body was found in the room registered to van der Sloot. Video from hotel security cameras show van der Sloot and Flores entering his room at 5:33 a.m. on May 30. Her emerged alone and left the hotel more than three hours later, the video shows.

He was arrested in Chile on Thursday and returned to Peru on Friday.

At van der Sloot's first court appearance, the judge may set a hearing date and order additional investigations.

The Peruvian justice system often issues a lighter sentence in cases where the suspect confesses.

Van der Sloot could get up to 35 years in prison. There is no death penalty or life sentence in Peru.

A Peruvian police report leaked Monday said Flores was found in van der Sloot's hotel room floor, half-dressed. The report also provides new details about the hours before Flores' body was found.

According to the document, the Hotel Tac received a call from someone looking for van der Sloot about 11 p.m. June 1. The receptionist forwarded the call, but no one answered. The hotel worker assumed that van der Sloot was asleep because the room key was with him and not the front desk.

About an hour later, according to the police report, the receptionist noticed that van der Sloot owed money for two nights and went up to his room, where her knocks went unanswered. The television was blaring, so the hotel employee figured he was resting, the report says.

Afterward, the hotel supervisor told the employee to go back to van der Sloot's room and enter using a spare key. When the employee went in, she found Flores' body on the floor, dressed in a black T-shirt and red panties, half-covered with a piece of white clothing, the police report said.

Flores had bled from her nose, the report said.

The hotel employee became frightened and went to alert her supervisor and the police, turning off the television and lights on her way out of the room, the report said.

The developments in the van der Sloot case come as the Natalee Holloway Resource Center opens Tuesday in Washington. The nonprofit center is located at the National Museum of Crime and Punishment. Natalee's mother, Beth Holloway, is scheduled to attend the opening.

The center says it will provide families of missing persons help with managing their crisis and to give students advice on traveling safely.

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/06/08/peru.murder.case/

After thinking about his confession for a few minutes, what comes to mind is that I dont know that I believe it...

I do believe he killed her becasue he was angry, but Im not sure it had anything to do with a notebook search of him....

I think he is serial killer/rapist .. It was clearly easier to make up some lame excuse where leniency is his motive..

The reports of date rape drugs and seeing Stephany's demeanor, along with her alleged preferences being women, dont match his story at all.Attempting to rape her sounds more accurate..Why wud she have been partially dressed? Sounds like she tried fighting him off just like what Natalee prolly did and they both ended up dead..

I suspect it was he who did the search of himself, after he killed her. Prolly to see how Chile looked for an escape for him.. He may have wanted to see if there was anything new pending against him knowing he took the 15k from Birmingham and that there was an investigation going on in the U.S... I doubt Stephany looked him up at all..

LE wud have been confronted him, as to this search, as they wud have done forensics on his computer and seen the search.. LE's questions prolly helped him come up with this excuse ..

On account of his lack of attempt to cover ths one up, tells me he definitley had lots of help in hiding Natalee's murder...

I wonder if there are any unsolved similar murders in Thailand? I believe he spent lots of time there... Looks like this is habitual ...

AJ-Your theories all make sense to me. Will they be able to detect date rape drugs in her system? If so, this would be even more plausible. He obviously does have anger issues. I read where after a lie detector test, he was mad and threw a glass of water across the room in a rage.

I do think it may be possible that she did Google his name though, just to see what kind of a guy she was in a hotel room with, but....don't you think she would have heard of him by now? Joran has been on the news quite a bit since Natalee's disappearance. If some dude told me his name was Joran Van der Sloot, I'd run in the other direction.

Yes, I saw that too... and also I just read from ppl who were supporters, in Aruba ..now saying that he is a sociopath and and he led his parents.. It said something like they were afraid of him.. Of course now this being said is a day late and a dollar short.. These are ppl who protected him until now.. and until his father passed..

Also, I do believe the drug wud show up .. here's hoping.. Not that it wud really prove anything as he cud say they both took it for some strange reason but hopefully his reasons fro murder will be challenged tooth and nail..

A confession like that almost makes me think he will try and plead some kind of temporary insanity...or ... he will say that it was self defense.. he will say she flipped on him when she saw who he was and he had to defend himslef .. He will say it was her who used the raquet..This confession stinks but I am confidant that he will have the book thrown at him.. I cant see getting out of this one..

Hmm, should get interesting over the next few days, with all these updated
reports coming out.

Official: Van der Sloot confesses to Peru slaying
'I did not want to do it,' paper quotes Natalee Holloway suspect as saying

NBC News and news services
updated 23 minutes ago

LIMA, Peru - Joran van der Sloot confessed to the slaying of a 21-year-old woman in a Lima hotel room, a high-ranking Peruvian government official told NBC News on Monday.

According to La Republica newspaper, van der Sloot said he broke Stephany Flores' neck after she grabbed his laptop without his permission and found out that he was involved in the disappearance of an American woman.

The paper quoted van der Sloot as saying, "I did not want to do it. The girl intruded into my private life... she didn't have any right. I went to her and I hit her. She was scared, we argued and she tried to escape. I grabbed her by the neck and hit her."

NBC News reported that a lawmaker confirmed that van der Sloot confessed to a police officer during interrogation. However, the source did not know the circumstances under which the confession was allegedly obtained.

The Dutchman — also the prime suspect in U.S. teen Natalee Holloway's 2005 disappearance in Aruba — is suspected of killing Flores, a business student who police say he met playing poker at a casino, on May 30 — five years to the day after Holloway's disappearance.

On Saturday, police released video taken by security cameras at the hotel where van der Sloot had been staying since arriving from Colombia on May 14. It shows Flores and van der Sloot entering his room together and the Dutchman leaving alone four hours later.

The woman's battered body was found on the hotel room's floor more than two days later, her neck broken. Van der Sloot had by then crossed into Chile, where he was arrested Thursday.

Natalee Holloway, of Alabama, hasn't been seen since May 30, 2005. Van der Sloot was arrested and released in that case, but faced no charges.

'End of the line'
Dave Holloway, Natalee Holloway's father, told ABC's "Good Morning America" Tuesday that he hoped van der Sloot would reveal what happened to his daughter and said search teams were standing by to look for her body.

"He's confessed to this one," Holloway said of Flores' death, "and I'd like for him to tell everyone what happened."

"I would just like to say that, you know, all the pain and suffering that we've gone through, hopefully justice is served this time," he added, speaking to the show by telephone. "We're hoping this is the end of the line for him."

Van der Sloot was charged Thursday in the United States with trying to extort $250,000 from Holloway's family in exchange for disclosing the location of her body and describing how she died.

U.S. prosecutors say $15,000 was transferred to a Dutch bank account in his name. In the Netherlands on Friday, prosecutors raided two homes in the case, seizing computers, cell phones and data-storage devices.

Holloway told ABC that only his ex-wife Beth Twitty had been told about the case by the FBI until shortly before the charges were made public.

"That was handled by the FBI and I knew nothing about it. I think the only person that was involved in this incident was Beth. The FBI indicated that only the people involved in it should know," Holloway told ABC.

Holloway described the Flores murder as being like "deja vu."

Holloway, 18, was celebrating her high school graduation on Aruba when she disappeared. Van der Sloot told investigators he left her on a beach, drunk. This was the last time she was seen.

Two years ago, a Dutch television crime reporter captured hidden-camera footage of van der Sloot saying that after Holloway collapsed on the beach he asked a friend to dump her body in the sea.

The same journalist, Peter de Vries, reported later in 2008 that van der Sloot was recruiting Thai women in Bangkok for sex work in the Netherlands.

Van der Sloot's father, a former judge and attorney on the Dutch Caribbean island of Aruba, died in February.

After Van der Sloot traveled from Chile to Peru in a police caravan Saturday, he was paraded, sheathed in bulletproof vest and handcuffed, before reporters at criminal police headquarters in Lima.

He was then submitted to an initial interrogation. A judge subsequently granted prosecutors' request to extend van der Sloot's preliminary detention order seven more days, said Gamboa, the national police spokesman.

If tried and convicted of murder, van der Sloot faces a potential prison term of 35 years.

Police planned to take him back to the hotel where Flores' body was found to participate in a reconstruction of the events leading to her slaying, Col. Abel Gamarra, head of the Information Directorate of Police, told The Associated Press.

Members of van der Sloot's family, including his mother, were planning to travel to Lima on Tuesday, a lawmaker told NBC News.

Earlier denial
Chilean police had said previously that van der Sloot declared himself innocent in the Lima slaying, but said he had acknowledged having met Flores.

Dutch Embassy chief consular officer Angela Lowe said her government was providing van der Sloot with "regular consular assistance, which means an occasional consular visit, and we will make sure he is being treated decently, just like any other inmate."

She said Peruvian authorities have assured the Dutch government they are treating him well. "They are taking this case very seriously," she added. "The world is watching."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37542848/ns/world_news-americas//