Joran van der Sloot has confessed to the murder of Peruvian Stephany Flores. According to MSNBC:
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.
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.
Amazing, a laptop for a life. Too bad Arbua didn’t apply the same interrogation techniques to extract a confession in the Natalee Holloway case. Van der Sloot could get up to 35 years in prison. Many Peru will let Beth Twitty at him for about an hour. Too bad they didn’t extract a confession about Natalee while they were at it.
One less scumbag out on the street and I don’t like name calling. I will make an exception in his case.
A shame that another woman had to die before justice was done.
Agreed, Starry.
Definitely okay to call this scum a scumbag.
Do we think they tortured a confession out of him?
This kid is good at lying. Greta even confirmed that. Why did he cave?
Not so sure that he confessed because of interrogation tactics. First of all, the evidence, including video in the hotel itself, was pretty damning. Secondly, and as I understand it, if you willingly confess to a crime in Peru you often have a much better chance of the judge giving you a shorter sentence than the maximum. I’m wondering if Van der Sloot’s lawyer might have told him that his best option under the circumstances was to confess.
No death penalty in Peru. But also something else which I had forgotten In Peru life sentences are not allowed no matter how heinous the crime.
Good, then we can try him for extortion and the murder of Natalee Holloway.
That boy should have stayed in Aruba.
Hopefully, that poor girl had friends that are convicted criminals………
Her father was a fairly big wig in Peru. Maybe he can buy some convicted criminals.
Well, I’ve heard that he could get a very light sentence, maybe as little as less than 15 years. But I will note that the jails in Peru are large rooms with upwards of 30 prisoners in one “cell”. You just know that his “cell-mates” are going to know who he is and what he did. My overwhelming thought is that even with a month in prison in Peru, Joran’s dance-card will be filled each and every night, and I’d be surprised to see him get out of prison alive. He’ll be popular to be certain. 🙂
I think I will have to say, whatever happens, he had it coming to him. May Joran always have a full dance card. 🙄