Where Will Joran van der Sloot Be Sent Next? Wanted in Peru for Stephany Flores Murder and US for Natalee Holloway Case
LIMA, Peru (CBS/AP) Where will Joran van der Sloot be sent next?
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That's the big question for the Dutchman long suspected in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway and now wanted for the murder of Peruvian woman Stephany Flores.
He was apprehended in Chile on Thursday after eluding Peruvian police for two days. According to investigators he snapped Flores' neck and left her in a Lima hotel room in a pool of her own blood.
Authorities planned to fly van der Sloot back to the Peruvian border Friday morning, according to a Chilean police spokesman who asked not to be named.
But the same day he was arrested in Chile, Van der Sloot was also charged in Alabama with trying to extort $250,000 in return for giving the location of Holloway's body and describing the circumstances of her death.
Van der Sloot has long been a suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Holloway, an American student vacationing in Aruba. He even confessed to throwing her body into the sea, but Aruban prosecutors always maintained they did not have the evidence to charge him.
This time around it's clearly different.
On Tuesday, Stephany Flores' body was found in a hotel room registered to van der Sloot. Her neck was broken, but Gen. Cesar Guardia, chief of Peru's criminal police, say there was no sign of sexual assault.
"The room was a complete mess," he said in an interview. He added that no potential murder weapon was found, indicating the killer may have used his bare hands.
Flores' father, Ricardo Flores, a former Peruvian racecar driver and television personality who dabbles in politics, was outraged as he buried 21-year-old daughter.
"It's not just about my daughter," he said. "There's a matter pending in Aruba, and we don't know how many more remain unpunished."
Van der Sloot's lawyer Joe Tacopina saw it differently.
"Joran van der Sloot has been falsely accused of murder once before. The fact is he wears a bull's-eye on his back now and he is a quote-unquote usual suspect when it comes to allegations of foul play."
