Joran van der Sloot Confession: Not the First Time He's Confessed

LIMA, Peru (CBS/AP) It seems familiar -- Joran van der Sloot suspected of a young woman's murder.

Now: Stephany Flores in a hotel in Peru. 2005: the disappearance of American Natalee Holloway in Aruba.

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And now both cases reportedly feature confessions from van der Sloot.

Van der Sloot was arrested twice in the Holloway case, but has never confessed to police. Over the years, however, he has given a number of conflicting confessions - including one for German television's RTL News claiming that he disposed Holloway's body in an Aruban swamp.

But prosecutors in Aruba have said his statements have not been "credible," and in one case "held together by lies and fantasy."

Van der Sloot gained a reputation for lying - even admitting an affinity for it in Dutch newspapers - and also exhibited an explosive temper. In one Dutch television interview he threw a glass of wine in a reporter's eyes. In another, he smashed a glass of water against a wall in a fury.

And now, according to newspaper La Republica, van der Sloot has admitted to police that he broke Flores's neck after Flores, without permission, took his laptop and found out he was involved in the disappearance of Holloway. 

"I did not want to do it," the newspaper reports Van der Sloot as saying about Flores's death. "The girl intruded into my private life."

Whether this new reported confession will lead to an actual conviction remains to be seen.

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