Peru sets murder trial date for Van der Sloot

LIMA, Peru - A Peruvian judge has set Jan. 6 as the trial date for Joran van der Sloot in the killing of a Peruvian woman five years to the day after U.S. student Natalee Holloway disappeared.

The 24-year-old Van der Sloot remains the prime suspect in Holloway's 2005 disappearance on the Caribbean island of Aruba.

Peruvian prosecutors are seeking 30 years in prison for the Dutchman on first-degree murder charges in the killing of Stephany Flores.

Video: Van der Sloot detained
Van der Sloot's revenge on Holloways

Van der Sloot met the 21-year-old Lima student in a casino and took him to his hotel room.

He confessed to the killing but says he became enraged upon finding Flores reading about the Holloway case on his laptop. Flores' family and prosecutors contend he planned the killing in order to rob the young woman.

[Lerianis4]

It's about time..... jeez, it's been what.... a year since he was arrested? Personally, I think that this is going to be just like the allegations against him in Aruba: no real evidence = no conviction.

I hate to say that, but I've seen too many cases hyped in the papers where that happens.

[SoCal_Gridlock]

What a great episode of "Locked Up Abroad" this would make. What a small, pathetic, scumbag. May the young ladies rest in peace.