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The interview of a man speaking on-camera with Geraldo Rivera's brother, Craig, just aired. The man known as 'Jay' or "J" told Craig Rivera he saw Joran van der Sloot at the time of Natalee's disappearance. He eventually went to the police.
Paulus van der Sloot
Joran van der Sloot
In the early morning hours of the night Natalee Holloway disappeared, Jay says he was awakened by barking dogs. "Looking from the left side of my house," he saw a tall man with short hair, walking in the direction of his house. The man was missing a shoe and "hopping." He was soaking wet.
A short time later he believes he saw Paulus van der Sloot when he came to pick-up Joran. He was looking all around - left and right.
Rumors have been around for awhile that Paulus helped his son discard of Natalee's body, but no proof at this time.
Craig Rivera asked Jay if he went to authorities. He said he did not, at that time. The reason: Paulus van der Sloot had friends in high places, in the police department and the courts. He said after police arrested and falsely accused two black men three days after Natalee disappeared, he was concerned, again, for his own safety.
However, in 2008, Jay did go to the authorities and they did not believe him. He called Tim Miller of Texas Equusearch. Equusearch was involved in the search for Holloway. Miller had two polygraphs administered on Jay. He passed both with "no deception." Apparently, the Aruban police still were not interested. See the list below for background articles and a link to my Joran Chronicles - continual updates.
The story of Joran van der Sloot will be endless, I suspect. No telling how many missing women were murdered by Joran. This post will be an ongoing compilation of news about this Dutch man who seems to have no conscience about anything he does - a one-stop documentation of all of his psychotic and/or narcissistic behavior. His quest for money is also endless, and of course, it has been his undoing. See a video below. Latest Update 6-2-10 below.
The short review is (skip to The Rest of the Story below if you know the background), van der Sloot is the only serious suspect in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway on May 30th, 2005 in Aruba, Joran's home. He was the last person known to be in contact with her. He has told many stories, confessed numerous times and in numerous ways to her demise and to selling her. Joran was arrested twice in Aruba and was released each time.
Natalee Holloway - far left in blue/green dress - found on a friend's camera
In May 2010, Joran tried to extort $250,000 from Natalee's family in exchange for the location of her body. The FBI got involved, $15,000 was wired from a Birmingham, Alabama bank (Natalee's hometown), and another $10,000 came from somewhere, apparently an undercover FBI agent. Joran refused to give the information on Natalee's whereabouts until he had the whole $250,000.
Van der Sloot then showed the FBI agent a house where he said the remains were buried under the foundation. However, they then learned that the house was not even built when Natalee’s disappearance occurred. Van der Sloot then admitted he had lied.
It is important to note that the FBI now denies that they paid any extortion monies to Joran. Wherever the money came from, Joran took it and ran to Peru, arriving there four days after receiving the money. In those four days, authorities are not clear where he was, and Aruba is under much criticism for allowing him to leave the Island. The FBI is excoriated for not putting a tail on him, after videotaping him telling his attorney that he "pushed" Natalee "down, that she hit her head on a rock and died." Then he says he called his father, and Paulus van der Sloot helped him bury the Alabama teen.
In Lima, Joran hit the casinos, as in the case of Natalee Holloway. He met Natalee in the casino in Carlos and Charlie's. In the Lima casino, the Atlantic City Casino, he met 21-year-old Stephany Flores Ramirez. Some reports say they met two to three days earlier. Just hours after entering his hotel room, Flores-Ramirez was dead. About 4 hours after hotel security cameras show Stephany entering Joran's room, the same cameras show Joran leaving with suitcases.
Joran directed hotel staff not to clean the room. He had been the hotel for about two weeks and prepaid. It is not unusual for a hotel guest to forego the service, especially when they are on site for more than one or two nights. That was on Sunday. On Wednesday, the hotel staff found Stephany's body. Joran was no where to be found. It was assume he would make his way to Chile and then to Argentina, where his chances of extradition were lessened.
The story of Stephany's murder broke and two taxi drivers came forward with information. At least one said he drove Joran across the border into Chile. Within hours the Chile police had Joran in custody in Santiago. A couple of days later he arrived in Lima and was transferred to Peruvian police custody.
Here's the rest of the story:
Then the confessions began again. Peruvian newspaper La Republica reported that Joran had a court-appointed attorney when he said he returned to his hotel room after going for coffee and bread, and found Stephany on his laptop computer, looking at articles about him and Natalee Holloway:
Van der Sloot tearfully confessed, in the presence of a prosecutor and a state-appointed attorney, to grabbing Flores by the neck and hitting her because she had viewed images about the Aruba case on his computer while he was out buying coffee.
In the video of his interrogation, van der Sloot can be seen calmly explaining where he's been and what he's carrying, including a laptop, cash from different countries and photos. He even seemed friendly with the officers on his long drive back from Chile to Lima.
When investigators asked him where his credit cards were, van der Sloot answered in broken Spanish.
"I have those back in my hotel in Santiago," he said on the video. "I went up to my hotel room and I saw these things on the Internet and I had to leave quickly."
Stephany's neck was broken. Her father is a former presidential candidate in Peru, and a well-known race car driver.
Stephany Flores-Ramirez
Van der Sloot reportedly told authorities that he "sipped an espresso" after he killed Stephany, and mused over what to do with her body.
The 22-year-old ate several biscuits and reportedly took several amphetamine pills as he considered what to do with his alleged victim.
Fearing he would be caught, the paper reports, Van der Sloot showered, got dressed - leaving his clothes from the night before on the bed - and fled at 8:45 a.m. on May 30, less than three hours after he'd arrived at the hotel with Flores.
Authorities believe Van der Sloot had possibly thought to get rid of the body in the ocean, based on maps charting currents found in his backpack when he was arrested in Chile.
Stephany Flores
This article says van der Sloot went across the street alone at 8:10 a.m., "bought bread and two cups of coffee...and returned to his hotel room." He left the hotel with suitcases an hour and a half later.
Today, June 11th, Peru charged Joran with first-degree murder and robbery. There are reports that Stephany won several thousand dollars in the casino that night. That van der Sloot knew it and targeted her for the money. This information has not been confirmed, but if he has been charged with robbery, it sounds plausible.
Joran van der Sloot returning to Peru from Chile
Police say Van der Sloot smashed in the face of Lima business student Stephany Flores, whom he met playing poker at a casino, after taking her to his hotel room on May 30. They say he then strangled her, threw her to the floor, emptied her wallet.
Flores was killed three days after meeting Van der Sloot, police say, and five years to the day after Holloway disappeared.
Lima criminal police chief Gen. Cesar Guardia told the AP on Thursday night that when Van der Sloot confessed to killing the Lima business student, investigators asked him about the Holloway case and "he let slip that he knew the place where this person was buried."
Someone, maybe Joran's mother, Anita, hired a new attorney for him, Maximo Altez. Of course, he is asking that Monday's confession be declared void. Altez said Anita will be arriving in Peru next week with the "family's "media advisor."
Guardia said Van der Sloot's confession was legal - that a government-appointed lawyer and an interpreter approved by the Dutch Embassy were present. He also said that Peruvian interrogators had restricted their questioning to the death of Flores, the daughter of a circus promoter and former race car driver.
The general said Van der Sloot took Flores' cash, about $300 worth of Peruvian currency, two credit cards and her national ID card. Police say he also took her car, abandoning it in a lower-class Lima neighborhood before fleeing south to Chile.
It is interesting that some inside the Lima police believe he may have lied about the time of Stephany's death. They think he may have killed her before going for espresso.
So today, Joran wants to get back to Aruba, don't cha know? Of course he does. This from The Zeitgeisty Report, as well as the telling photo of Joran above.
In a bid to get back to Aruba, Joran Van Der Monster has told authorities that he will reveal where he buried the body of his first victim Natalee Holloway. The caveat is, that he will do so only in home country.
View Greta van Susteren's in depth interview with Joran November 2008 - an intriguing look into his psyche. I believe this is around the same time it became obvious that Greta somewhat believed Joran's lies. In her defense, that didn't last long. The U.S. charges of extortion and wire fraud are not even on the horizon.
Reports say that van der Sloot will be sentenced to Peru's terrifying Lurigancho Prison, one of the worst in the world." The U.S. charges of extortion and wire fraud are not even on the horizon.
Now begins the possibility that Joran is a serial killer. Is he a "homicidal maniac," as private investigator Bo Dietl says?
This post will be continually updated with the latest attempts of Joran van der Sloot to fool all the people all the time. See a Fox News video detailing Joran's latest confession of killing Stephany with a local Peruvian reporter. Stay tuned for ongoing Joran updates as they happen.
Update 6-12-10: I'm hearing that Joran used his own shirt to suffocate Stephany when he realized she was not dead. Didn't he say he did not intend to kill her? Yeah, he did.
This is one of the most interesting things I've heard about Joran and the Natalee Holloway case: Geraldo Rivera's show interviewed a man who saw Joran, soaking wet, with one shoe and hopping along - in the early morning hours of Natalee's disappearance. Details coming.
Joran van der Sloot's Peruvian Confession (video from Lima Peru)
Fox News is this minute reporting that Peruvian newspaper La Republica says Joran van der Sloot has confessed to breaking the neck of Stephany Flores Ramirez. See ongoing updates - a one-stop documentation of Joran van der Sloot.
Joran van der Sloot
During a police interrogation, van der Sloot reportedly said Stephany got on his computer without his permission, and found that he was implicated in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway. He said he "didn't want to do it." La Republica quoted him saying "The girl intruded into my private life."
Stephany Flores
According to La Republica newspaper, [via MSNBC], he said that his anger exploded and 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 woman's battered body was found on the room's floor more than two days later, her neck broken.
Fox News is this minute reporting that Peruvian newspaper La Republica says Joran van der Sloot has confessed to breaking the neck of Stephany Flores Ramirez. Updates when available.
Joran van der Sloot
During a police interrogation, van der Sloot reportedly said Stephany got on his computer without his permission, and found that he was implicated in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway. He said he "didn't want to do it." La Republica quoted him saying "The girl intruded into my private life."
Stephany Flores
According to La Republica newspaper, [via MSNBC], he said that his anger exploded and 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 woman's battered body was found on the room's floor more than two days later, her neck broken.
Joran van der Sloot was arrested in Chile today, after being on the run from Lima, Peru. Stephany Tatiana Flores Ramirez was found dead in a hotel room in Lima, said to be registered to Joran van der Sloot. Continuing updates. See the arrest video below. See ongoing updates - a one-stop documentation of Joran van der Sloot.
Update 6-8-10: Joran van der Sloot has confessed to the murder of Stephany Flores Ramirez. Read that story here.
Joran van der Sloot
Van der Sloot was in a taxi near the city of Vina del Mar when apprehended by police. He was taken to police headquarters in Santiago, Chile. He was escorted by three Chilean police officers. You'll see in the video below that he is not handcuffed, which is astonishing. Someone is shouting his name. His hair is very short and seems to be reddish in color.
Peru's Interior Minister, Octavio Salazar Miranda, said the country has made arrangements with Interpol to extradite van der Sloot from Chile back to Peru, which officials say could take up to five days.
A taxi driver, Oswaldo Aparcana said a man bearing Joran's description paid him to drive him from Lima to the other side of the Chilean border.
Cesar Guardia Vasques, Chile Interpol, said there is "incriminating evidence" linking Joran to the brutal stabbing death of Stephany Flores Ramirez, who was found in a pool of blood, wrapped in a blanket in room 309 in Hotel Tac in the Miraflores section of Lima on Wednesday morning, June 2nd. It is believed she had been murdered on Sunday.
Joran was seen with Stephany by hotel employees, and reportedly hotel guests, entering his room at about 5 a.m. Previously, they were seen at a casino and police have video-taped evidence.
Stephany Tatiana Flores Ramirez
The father of Ms. Flores-Ramirez, Ricardo Flores, said "We have all the evidence to show that the killer is this man."
Five years ago Joran van der Sloot darkened history when the disappearance of Alabama teenager, Natalee Holloway, haunted the news for months. Joran was the last person known to be with Natalee when she disappeared. Eerily, Van der Sloot and Natalee were also together at a casino just before her disappearance. Her body has not been located. According to Mr. Flores, his daughter was murdered about 8 a.m. Sunday morning, May 30th, which is exactly the five year anniversary of the disappearance of Natalee Holloway.
Natalee Holloway
Van der Sloot was arrested twice in connection to the Holloway suspected murder, but was released each time. He has confessed a couple of times, claiming differing methods of doing away with Holloway's body, but the right people have never taken him seriously. Now another young woman is dead.
Joran van der Sloot, an Aruban man considered a suspect in the disappearance and murder of Natalee Holloway has been named the prime suspect in the murder of a Peruvian woman, Stephany Tatiana Flores Ramirez. More details here as they become available. See a video below. See ongoing updates - a one-stop documentation of Joran van der Sloot.
12:15 EDT June 2nd: There are reports tonight that Joran has been found dead near the Peru border. There is no confirming information. It may be true. It may be a hoax. Read what I know here.
6-8-10: Joran van der Sloot confesses in Peru to the murder of Stephany Flores Ramirez. Read that story here.
Joran van der Sloot
Ms. Ramiraz, 21, was found dead in a hotel room at the Tac hotel in the Miraflores district of Lima, Peru. She was found wrapped in a blanket, lying in a pool of blood, brutally stabbed. Hotel employees said they saw Joran van der Sloot, 22, with Stephany over the weekend, and her friends said they left her in a Lima casino at about 2:45 a.m. At 5:16 a.m. she was seen leaving the casino with Van der Sloot. Her car was found at another location in the city. Her father is race car driver Ricardo Flores.
Stephany Tatiana Flores Ramirez
Natalee Holloway was also seen on videotape leaving a casino with Van der Sloot on May 30th - exactly 5 years to the day of Natalee's death. Van der Sloot was arrested by Aruban police numerous times in Natalee's murder, but her body has not been found. He was eventually released.
Van der Sloot arrived in Peru from Argentina on May 13, according to this report. Fox News just reported that Joran left Peru by car, heading for Chile and is believed to be going on to Argentina.
The following video is believed to be Stephany's father, Ricardo Flores. The video is in Spanish. Hopefully, it will be translated shortly.
Ricardo Flores - Stephany's Father (video)
Update 6-2-10 - 11:30 EDT:
Heard Greta van Susteren say that the hotel room at Hotel Tac was registered to Joren van der Sloot. She also said she spoke with Beth Holloway Twitty, Natalee's mother, who was extremely distraught that Joren had the opportunity to take the life of another young woman.
Paulus van der Sloot, the father of Joran van der Sloot, collapsed and died after a tennis game today. Updates as available. See 2-12-10 update below. Update 6-2-10 on Joran and the murder of Stephany Flores Ramirezhere.See ongoing updates - a one-stop documentation of Joran van der Sloot.
6-8-10 Update: Joran van der Sloot has confessed in Peru to the murder of Stephany Flores Ramirez. Read that story here.
Paulus van der Sloot
His son, Joran, is a suspect in the disappearance of 18-year-old Natalee Holloway while on Spring Break in Aruba in May 2005.
It has been a while now since we've heard anything about Joran, but watch this chilling video about Joran "selling Natalee Holloway." The second video is Joran confessing to a friend that something happened to Natalie on the beach. He called a friend, an older man, who took her two miles or more out to sea. He said she would never be found.
Update 2-11-10:
ScaredMonkeys has talked to Jossy Mansur, the editor of DIARIO, which
was the only publication in Aruba to try help the Holloway family find
their daughter. His comment about Paul van der Sloot:" Yes, Paul died
playing tennis yesterday afternoon. God forgive him!"
One of my commenters says Joran is living in Thailand and owns a coffee shop.
Update 2-12-10:
Peter R. de Vries, the crime reporter Joran confessed to in the second video below says that Joran remains a suspect, and the death of his father complicates the Natalee Hollowya case.
Joran has said an older friend dumped Natalee's body out at sea, that he sold her to a Venezuelan on the Aruba beach for a sex-slave and that his father bribed a Aruban policeman to make the crime go away.
Great Van Susteren - Paulus van der Sloot (video)
Joran van der Sloot tells Peter R. de Vries how he disposed of Natalie (video)
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