van der Sloot broke and desperate when he met Flores

Birmingham, Ala (WIAT) Joran Van der Sloot was broke and desperate hours in a hotel room he couldn’t pay for. His luck had run out at a nearby casino. And then he met a young woman who had just cashed in.

Van der Sloot spent almost an hour on the phone with a Dutch friend on May 28, 2010….two days before he met and killed Stephany Flores.

Van der Sloot told his friend he was broke and couldn’t pay his hotel tab at Lima’s TAC hotel where he had been for five days playing in a poker tournament. The call to Stan Pluijmen was later listened to by Dutch police.

During the forty four minutes the two talked about business plans that apparently involved $25,000 van der Sloot got from the Holloway family in exchange for information about Natalee’s fate. It had been just days shy of five years since Natalee disappeared on a graduation trip to Aruba. The Mountain Brook teen was last seen leaving an Oranjestad bar with van der Sloot.

Van der Sloot never came across with any information after taking the Holloway’s money. That’s the basis of the U.S. charges of wire fraud and extortion handed down by a grand jury here in Birmingham.

The call ended with van der Sloot asking Pluijmen to send him money saying his own mother and brother had turned him down saying all he’d do with it was play and lose at poker.

Sometime in the next two days, van der Sloot met a 21 year old Peruvian student named Stephany Flores who had just won almost 1800 euros at the casino. She mentioned to a friend that she had also met “a gringo”…who turned out to be van der Sloot.

Hotel security cameras show the two of them going into van der Sloot’s room. Flores never came out until her corpse left on a gurney.

Van der Sloot has admitted he killed Flores. But was it a crime of passion or a robbery/murder?

His story is that they argued after she saw Natalee-related material on his laptop. His legal defense is she was killed during an argument in the heat of the moment. If prosecutors accept a plea bargain on manslaughter, van der Sloot could serve as little as three years.

But the Peruvian newspaper El Commercio says the High Technology Division of the National Police have examined van der Sloot’s laptop and say the access to the Holloway information was between 1:25 pm and 6:45 pm the day before Flores died.

If that analysis holds up, it raises the ante considerably for van der Sloot. Murder in the course of a robbery can carry a life sentence in Peru.

There is a hearing scheduled at the Castro Castro prison June 8 where Stephany’s father, Ricardo Flores, is expected to identify objects that were owned by his daughter and were in van der Sloot’s possession at the time of his arrest in Chile.

Van der Sloot’s trial is expected within two months. The question is will it be for manslaughter or murder in commission of a robbery.
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vandersloot news

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Under an agreement signed Thursday, Dutch murder suspect Joran van der Sloot could serve part of his sentence in the Netherlands if he is convicted of murdering a Peruvian student nearly a year ago.

The foreign ministers of the two countries agreed that Dutch prisoners in Peru and Peruvians jailed in the Netherlands can apply to complete their prison terms in their homeland once their appeal process has been completed.
Peruvian prisons now hold 117 Dutch citizens, mostly serving time for drugs offenses. It was not immediately clear how many Peruvians are in Dutch jails.
Van der Sloot is awaiting trial on a first degree murder charge in the slaying of 21-year-old student Stephany Flores on May 30.
Van der Sloot, 24, also is a key suspect in the 2005 disappearance of U.S. teenager Natalee Holloway on the Caribbean island of Aruba.
Flores was killed five years to the day after Holloway disappeared. Her body was found in Van der Sloot's Lima hotel room, and a coroner's report said she had been bludgeoned and asphyxiated.
Under the accord, if a prisoner received a longer sentence in Peru than the maximum under Dutch law, the sentence would be reduced, the Dutch ministry said. But each country has the right to deny the prisoner's transfer request.
The deal signed must be approved by both countries' parliaments.

Judge Oks trial against Dr. Phil in Holloway suit

Judge Oks trial against Dr. Phil in Holloway suit

Associated Press - May 5, 2011 11:44 PM ET

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Two brothers who were among the last people to see Natalee Holloway before her disappearance in Aruba can move forward with their defamation lawsuit against talk show host Phil McGraw.

City News Service reports Thursday that a Los Angeles Superior Court judge ruled that brothers Deepak and Satish Kalpoe can take their lawsuit to trial and set a trial date for Oct. 12.

The Kalpoes allege that following an interview for the "Dr. Phil" show, they were wrongly portrayed as drugging Holloway, having group sex with her and later helping kill her and dispose of her body.

The Alabama teen disappeared in the Caribbean island during a 2005 trip with friends and is presumed dead.

The Kalpoes were arrested and later released in the Holloway case.