Joran van der Sloot

Joran van der Sloot is a Dutch college student who has been arrested twice in connection with the disappearance of Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway. On February 22, 2010, BreakingNewsOn reported that Van der Sloot had confessed on camera to dumping Holloway's body in Aruba.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/23/joran-van-der-sloot-confession-natalee-holloway_n_472617.html

Van der Sloot is the son of a prominent lawyer and has changed his story several times throughout the years.ABC News: Holloway Case Conviction No Slam Dunk (February 6, 2008) ABC News: Reporter Claims to Crack Natalee Holloway Case

In November 2008, Joran van der Sloot told Fox News host Greta Van Susteren that he sold Holloway to a man he met in a casino for $10,000. After the hour-long interview, he called the news station and said he had been lying.FOXNews.com: Joran van der Sloot Goes 'On the Record' with New Natalee... (November 25, 2008)

In June of 2010, van der Sloot was indicted on charges that he attempted to extort $250,000 from Beth Holloway, the mother of Natalee Holloway. According to a United States Department of Justice investigation, van der Sloot told Holloway that he would reveal the location of Natalee's body if she wired him the money.

Working with a government investigator, Holloway sent an initial payment of $15,000 to van der Sloot's bank account in Aruba. She then sent another $10,000 to an attorney in New York who was supposed to transfer the money to van der Sloot. Along with extortion, van der Sloot was also charged with wire fraud.http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jo3FF5IDpmWZkgw_RmivkXOz9D-w

Joran van der Sloot is the pirme suspect in the murder of 21 year old Stephany Flores Ramirez. She was found beaten and stabbed to death in the Hotel Pac in Lima, Peru in a hotel room registered to van der Sloot. Her body was found on June 2, 2010 by a hotel employee. It had been reported that van der sloot had been seen crossing the border into Chile.

He was arrested in Chile on Thursday June 3rd and returned to Peru on Friday June 4th. He went through a 7 hour interragation on Monday June 7th were he is reported to have confessed to Ramirez' murder. He is reported to have told authorities that he had left the room to get some groceries and when he returned had found her in his computer. He told authorities that she had found some things that connected him to the Natalee Holloway disappearance which he said angered him, because she had invaded his privacy. He told authorities that they argued as she was trying to leave and during the arguement she was fatally wounded.

Law enforcement officials have reported that van der Sloot has agreed to help with a re-enactment of the events that took Ramirez' life which may occur as early as Wednesday .June 9th Peruvian law has provisions for giving a lighter sentence if the suspect confesses and if convicted of this murder vander Sloot could serve as few as 35 years, as there is no proivision for the death penalty in Peru.http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/06/08/peru.murder.case/index.html

A hidden camera expose of van der Sloot was aired on Dutch television on November 10, 2008. The footage attempted to tie him to the sex trafficking of women from Thailand. The expose was produced by Peter deVries, a Dutch journalist.FOX News: Natalee Holloway Suspect Involved in Thai Sex Trafficking (November 10, 2008) This is the second videotape deVries has produced on van der Sloot. In 2007, van der Sloot was re-arrested in Amsterdam after deVries broadcast a tape of van der Sloot claiming to a friend on hidden camera that he was with Holloway when she died of a drug overdose, and that he dumped her body at sea.ABC News: Holloway Case Conviction No Slam Dunk (February 6, 2008) ABC News: Reporter Claims to Crack Natalee Holloway Case Van der Sloot subsequently denied the confession.Newsvine: Van Der Sloot Denies Holloway Connection (February 1, 2008)

The son of a prominent lawyer, Joran van der Sloot has been arrested twice but never charged with a crime in connection with Natalee Holloway's 2005 disappearance. On May 30, 2005, Holloway failed to show up for a return flight to the United States after a week spent celebrating her graduation from high school in Aruba. Van der Sloot and two Surinamese brothers, Deepak Kalpoe and Satish Kalpoe were initially questioned and held in conjunction with the disappearance, as they admitted they were the last people to see Holloway alive. However, Holloway was never found, and authorities had no evidence with which to hold them further.http://www.biography.com/articles/Joran-van-der-Sloot-573934?part=1