Joran Van der Sloot

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The FBI paid Joran van der Sloot $25,000 in an undercover investigation of a plot to extort money from Natalee Holloway's mother, a federal law enforcement official told CNN Wednesday.

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WASHINGTON — The FBI thought it was closing in on Joran Van der Sloot in the notorious Natalee Holloway missing-teenager case, and he was videotaped and paid $25,000 in a sting operation.

But when the agency delayed his arrest to help build a criminal case, he took the money and headed for Peru, where authorities say he now has confessed to killing a different young woman.

The investigation of van der Sloot in the Alabama teenager's case simply was not far enough along to have him arrested, the FBI and the U.S. attorney's office in Birmingham said Wednesday. Holloway disappeared on the island of Aruba on May 30, 2005.

Van der Sloot is being held in Peru in connection with the killing, exactly five years later, of 21-year-old business student Stephany Flores, the daughter of a Peruvian circus promoter and former race car driver. Flores was found beaten to death.

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Murder suspect Joran van der Sloot was moved from his jail cell to a prosecutor's office as his lawyer said he'd ask a judge to toss out his client's confession. FULL STORY | VIDEO | BLOG: Peru's harsh prisons

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As prosecutors in Peru prepare charges against Joran van der Sloot in the death of a 21-year-old woman, police told NBC News that he admits knowing the location of the remains of Natalee Holloway in Aruba.





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Joran van der Sloot told investigators during an interrogation that he knows the location of Natalee Holloway's body, but he would neither identify the location nor say what happened to her the night of her disappearance, a Peruvian police official told CNN.

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Joran van der Sloot was so desperate for money that $100 — with only a promise of more to come — was all he needed to further an FBI sting operation and spark a chain of events that ended with him confessing to a Peruvian woman's savage death, according to the lawyer who provided the funds.

In a TODAY exclusive, John Q. Kelly, an attorney for Natalee Holloway's mother, offered new details about the sting operation that likely allowed van der Sloot to flee Aruba for Peru.

Van der Sloot has been suspected almost from the beginning of being responsible for Natalee Holloway’s disappearance in Aruba five years ago, and Thursday, Peruvian police told NBC News that he admitted knowing the location of Holloway’s remains. They added that he was willing to tell authorities in Aruba where to find the Alabama teenager’s remains.


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Bracketed by crimes: Van der Sloot's last 5 years

Murder suspect Van der Sloot, a five-year slide of world travel, poker and lies

LIMA, Peru (AP) -- For all of his garrulous charm, Joran van der Sloot didn't do himself any favors in his online interactions, where his generation tends to reveal a lot about itself.


"If I would have to describe myself as an animal it would be a snake," he wrote on his YouTube page. Perhaps wistfully wishing the past undone, he continued: "however, I want to be a lion and one day I will be a lion."
At age 22, Van der Sloot is now a caged animal. He sits in a bleak Peruvian prison, where he fears his fellow inmates. After requesting isolation, he shares a cellblock with a reputed Colombian murderer-for-hire.


Van der Sloot's journey from the quiet comfort of Aruba to being escorted briskly in handcuffs past Peruvian crowds screaming "murderer" is a tale of dissolution, deception and increasing desperation, according to friends and people who have chronicled his life.


Bracketing that journey are the May 30, 2005, disappearance of Natalee Holloway in Aruba and, five years later to the day, the strangling death of Stephany Flores in his hotel room in Lima, Peru.


Bred in privilege on a Caribbean tourist island, a high school soccer and tennis star, the handsome, physically imposing young Dutchman has fallen about as far as a young man can fall. But between the disappearance of Holloway, one year his senior, and the death of Flores, one year his junior, where was Joran Van Der Sloot? What journey led him from the ashes of one missing-persons case to the heart of a murder?
Who, really, is he?

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As an angry crowd shouted insults, Joran van der Sloot was lead away to prison to wait his trial after being officially charged with first-degree murder and robbery of a 21-year-old Peruvian woman.

The chief suspect in the disappearance of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway in Aruba, is now charged with the beating and strangling death of Stephany Flores.



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Joran van der Sloot said he elbowed Stephany Flores Ramirez in the face before strangling her and then suffocated her with his own shirt, according to transcripts of his confession.

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Joran Van der Sloot described Stephany Flores Ramirez's death in grisly detail during his confession — "There was blood everywhere," he recalled—according to a transcript leaked to CNN . They were in his hotel room when Flores read one of his emails, then punched him, and "with my right elbow I...

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