Natalee Holloway's Suspected Killer ... Kills again.

[Metalhead]

http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-general/20100602/LT.Peru.Van.der.Sloot/

LIMA, Peru — A Dutch man long suspected in the disappearance of an Alabama teen in Aruba was arrested Thursday in the murder of a young woman in Peru. Stephany Flores, 21, was killed in a Lima hotel Sunday, five years to the day after Natalee Holloway disappeared.

The suspect, Joran van der Sloot, was escorted by three police officers as he was taken from a dark vehicle into a police office in downtown Santiago, Chile. He made no comment as he entered, walking calmly and without handcuffs as journalists shouted his name.

Van der Sloot was detained while traveling in a taxi, about halfway to the coast on Route 68, said Prefect Alfredo Espinosa, chief national spokesman for Chile's investigative police. The suspect did not resist and has been calm in detention, Espinosa said.

Chilean police are awaiting instructions from their counterparts in Peru, Espinosa added.

In Lima, police Gen. Cesar Guardia said Flores, who had been seen with the suspect early Sunday, was found Wednesday lying face down on the floor of van der Sloot's hotel room. Her neck was broken, and she was fully clothed, with no signs of having been sexually abused, Guardia told The Associated Press.

Authorities found no potential murder weapons in the room, Garcia said.

Flores was killed exactly five years after the May 30, 2005, disappearance of Holloway during a high school trip in Aruba, a Dutch Caribbean island where van der Sloot's late father was a prominent judge.

Prosecutors said van der Sloot is still their main suspect in the case even though he was never charged.

Guardia said the 22-year-old Dutchman was in Peru for a poker tournament and appears with the dead woman in a video taken at a Lima casino early Sunday. The two were later seen entering the hotel by one of its employees about 5 a.m. and the Dutchman departed alone about four hours later, he said. "We have an interview with a worker at the hotel who says she saw this foreigner with the victim enter his room," Guardia said.

The victim's father, Ricardo Flores, 48, is a former president of the Peruvian Automobile Club who won the "Caminos del Inca" rally in 1991 and brings circuses and foreign entertainers to Peru. He ran for vice president in 2001 and for president five years later on fringe tickets.

A lawyer for van der Sloot in New York, Joe Tacopina, cautioned against a rush to judgment.

"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," Tacopina said.

Van der Sloot was twice arrested but later released for lack of evidence in the 2005 disappearance of Holloway in Aruba.

No trace of her has been found and van der Sloot remains the main suspect in the case, Ann Angela, spokeswoman for the Aruba prosecutor's office, said Wednesday.

"What's happening now is incredible," she said. "At this moment we don't have anything to do with it, but we are following the case with great interest and if Peruvian authorities would need us, we are here."

The mystery of Holloway's disappearance garnered wide attention on television and in newspapers in Europe and the United States.

Two years ago, a Dutch television crime reporter captured hidden-camera footage of van der Sloot saying he was with Holloway when she collapsed on a beach from being drunk. He said he believed she was dead and asked a friend to dump her body in the sea.

Judges subsequently refused to arrest van der Sloot on the basis of the tape.

A spokeswoman for Holloway's mother, Beth Twitty of Mountain Brook, Alabama, told the AP the family was aware of the development in Peru but would have no comment.

[Smith]

How dumb can this guy be. Hope they finally get him.

[Guest 6.8 AR]

Looks like he lost that poker hand.

[Guest Lester Weevils]

As Joe Tacopina said, surely this is just an unfortunate coincidence. Even if he actually committed this murder, it could only be because of suppressed rage from being falsely accused in the Holloway case!

No Dutch legal system this time. Wonder if Peruvian justice will as enlightened as the Dutch version?

[Guest TargetShooter84]

Caught the bass-turd in Chile...how about that?

[Garufa]

I just heard on the radio that he has been charged with extorsion in the US as of today.

[Guest Sgt. Joe]

Five years exactly from the date of the first disappearance? I dont think that is just a coincidence but rather some sort of sick celebration on his part.

Pretty darn stupid to rent the room and then kill someone in it, then start to run away.

He may well have got away with the first one but I think this girls dad has the connections to serve his own justice if needed.

[Guest Lester Weevils]

Five years exactly from the date of the first disappearance? I dont think that is just a coincidence but rather some sort of sick celebration on his part.

Pretty darn stupid to rent the room and then kill someone in it, then start to run away.

He may well have got away with the first one but I think this girls dad has the connections to serve his own justice if needed.

Yes it does seem an extremely farfetched coincidence.

I'm surprised the dude is still alive from the Holloway incident. Natalie's parents looked like they had enough resources to hire a bad guy, and perhaps there are plenty who would have done it for free.

I just assumed that at some point there would be a minor news announcement that Joran had been found dead in an alley with his privates crammed in his mouth.

[Raoul]

Yes it does seem an extremely farfetched coincidence.

I'm surprised the dude is still alive from the Holloway incident. Natalie's parents looked like they had enough resources to hire a bad guy, and perhaps there are plenty who would have done it for free.

I just assumed that at some point there would be a minor news announcement that Joran had been found dead in an alley with his privates crammed in his mouth.

Lost at sea. Only seems fitting. I know what it would have been if it was my daughter.

[eapking]

Saw something on Nightline last night where somebody got this guy on film admitting to the Holloway murder.

[Metalhead]

Update:

He just confessed to killing the girl.

FOXNews.com - Police: Van der Sloot Confesses to Peru Killing

[DavidM]

Update:

He just confessed to killing the girl.

FOXNews.com - Police: Van der Sloot Confesses to Peru Killing

That bulletproof jacket makes his head a sweet target! I'm just sayin'....

[Smith]

Update:

He just confessed to killing the girl.

FOXNews.com - Police: Van der Sloot Confesses to Peru Killing

Now granted it's in a Peruvian prison, but murder in Peru has a maximum of 35 yrs! WOW!

[Volzfan]

35 years would be a good start. He may not live that long in prison. That's better than he got for killing Holloway.

[Guest db99wj]

He is saying he killed her because she got into his business, she got on his computer and found out that he was involved in the Holloway case, so he snapped her neck.