Joran van der Sloot was the main suspect in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway five years ago on a class trip to Aruba, and is charged with trying to extort $250,000 from her family in exchange for information about the case.
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In this picture provided by Beth Holloway Twitty, missing Alabama teen Natalee Holloway, left, is seen posing with friends in a photograph taken with Natalee’s disposable camera on the beach in Aruba May 29, 2005, hours before she disappeared.
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Joran van der Sloot, who has confessed to killing a young woman in his hotel room in Peru, sits in a car with his father, Paulus Van Der Sloot, after being released from custody near Oranjestad, Aruba in the Natalee Holloway case.
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Joran van der Sloot poses in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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Van der Sloot enjoys a bike ride in the Nederlands, circa 2005.
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Joran van der Sloot arriving in Germany in April 2009.
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Joran Van der Sloot being licked by young women.
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Van der Sloot confessed to the May 30 murder in Peru of Stephany Flores in the presence of a prosecutor and a lawyer, La Republica newspaper reported. A high-ranking government official later confirmed the confession to NBC.
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In this undated family album photo provided by the Flores family, 21-year-old Stephany Flores poses holding stuffed animals.
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Joran van der Sloot confessed to snapping Stephany’s neck, enraged that she touched his computer without permission and found out he was suspected in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway in Aruba
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Stephany Flores, who was found dead in May in a hotel room in Lima, Peru.
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CCTV pictures from the early hours of May 30, 2010 show Joran van der Sloot with Stephany Flores moments before she was killed. She can be seen entering the Hotel Tac reception with Van der Sloot and then going into his hotel room. Van der Sloot can then be seen hours later leaving the hotel room on his own and then leaving through the hotel reception. The body of Stephany Flores was then found inside the room on June 2 after a savage beating.
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CCTV pictures from the early hours of May 30 show Joran van der Sloot leaving the hotel room on his own.
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Chilean police officers escort Joran Van der Sloot to “La Concordia,” a Peruvian police station, near the border with Chile, in Tacna, Peru.
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Van der Sloot was arrested after being on the run for five days, and dragged back to Peru, after which he confessed to snapping the neck Stephany Flores.
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