Van der sloot getting married?

Birmingham, Ala (WIAT) Joran van der Sloot getting married? That's the tabloid buzz out of Peru where rumors are flying that the Dutchman doing time for killing a Peruvian student is about to get married. Last year the Peruvian media was abuzz with charges he had fathered a child behind bars while awaiting trial. The putative mother denied he was the father on local tv. In this latest behind bars romance, at least one website couldn't resist referring to van der Sloot as a "lady killer", a pretty grim pun considering he's doing 38 years for killing Stephany Flores. Her corpse was found in van der Sloot's Lima hotel room five years to the day of Natalee Holloway's disappearance on a graduation trip to Aruba. Van der Sloot confessed he killed Flores after she found material relating to the Holloway case on his laptop. Mountain Brook teen Holloway hasn't been seen since the night she walked out of an Oranjestad bar with van der Sloot and two of his friends back in 2005.

Van der Sloot sentence appeal under consideration

Birmingham, Ala (WIAT) Joran van der Sloot's 28 year murder sentence is under review by the Peruvian justice system. And any reduction of his prison term there could bring him to Birmingham to face federal charges he scammed the family of missing Mountain Brook teen Natalee Holloway. A court in Lima has accepted the paperwork in the case and turned it over to Peru's Supreme Court for review and evaluation. The crux of the appeal is that a former defense lawyer gave van der Sloot bad advice promising a guilty plea would get him 15 years. Instead he got 28. The Dutchman is serving a murder sentence in the death of a 21 year old Peruvian student. The corpse of Stephany Flores was found in van der Sloot's Lima hotel room five years to the day of Natalee Holloway's disappearance on a graduation trip to Aruba. Van der Sloot confessed he killed Flores in a fit of rage after she found material about Natalee on his laptop. A court convicted him instead of killing and robbing her...hence the longer sentence. Van der Sloot is considered the prime suspect in Holloway's disappearance back in 2005. Natalee was last seen leaving an Aruban bar with van der Sloot and two of his friends. He was questioned but never charged by Aruban authorities. But he does face wire fraud charges after he was indicted by a federal grand jury here in Birmingham. The feds say he promised information about Natalee's fate to the Holloway family, took their money, but only gave them bogus information. It's believed he used the Holloway money to travel to Peru for a poker tournament. That's where he met Flores. The U.S. tried to extradite van der Sloot to face those federal charges but Peru is insisting he serve his murder time there first.

Van der Sloot sentence appeal under consideration

Birmingham, Ala (WIAT) Joran van der Sloot's 28 year murder sentence is under review by the Peruvian justice system. And any reduction of his prison term there could bring him to Birmingham to face federal charges he scammed the family of missing Mountain Brook teen Natalee Holloway. A court in Lima has accepted the paperwork in the case and turned it over to Peru's Supreme Court for review and evaluation. The crux of the appeal is that a former defense lawyer gave van der Sloot bad advice promising a guilty plea would get him 15 years. Instead he got 28. The Dutchman is serving a murder sentence in the death of a 21 year old Peruvian student. The corpse of Stephany Flores was found in van der Sloot's Lima hotel room five years to the day of Natalee Holloway's disappearance on a graduation trip to Aruba. Van der Sloot confessed he killed Flores in a fit of rage after she found material about Natalee on his laptop. A court convicted him instead of killing and robbing her...hence the longer sentence. Van der Sloot is considered the prime suspect in Holloway's disappearance back in 2005. Natalee was last seen leaving an Aruban bar with van der Sloot and two of his friends. He was questioned but never charged by Aruban authorities. But he does face wire fraud charges after he was indicted by a federal grand jury here in Birmingham. The feds say he promised information about Natalee's fate to the Holloway family, took their money, but only gave them bogus information. It's believed he used the Holloway money to travel to Peru for a poker tournament. That's where he met Flores. The U.S. tried to extradite van der Sloot to face those federal charges but Peru is insisting he serve his murder time there first.

Joran Van Der Sloot Blames Lawyer, Begs Forgiveness for Murder in New Letters

Joran Van Der Sloot Blames Lawyer, Begs Forgiveness for Murder in New Letters n two letters, Joran van der Sloot blamed his lawyers for his nearly three-decade prison sentence, while he reiterated he had nothing to do with the 2005 disappearance of Natalee Holloway and begged for forgiveness for the murder of Stephany Flores. Van der Sloot, 24, is serving 28 years in a Peruvian jail for the murder and robbery of Flores, a -21-year-old business student whose body was found in a Lima hotel room in May 2010, five years after the disappearance of Holloway. "I ask God every day that Stephany's parents can find it in their heart to forgive me," he reportedly wrote in the letters released by his attorney. Van der Sloot, a Dutch citizen who spent the majority of his adolescence in Caribbean island of Aruba, is the main suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Holloway, an 18-year-old from Mountain Brook, Ala., who was last seen leaving Oranjestad nightclub with van der Sloot, then 17, while she was on a class graduation trip to the island. He was arrested but has never been charged with a crime relating to her disappearance. Karel Navarro/AP Photo Joran van der Sloot looks back from his seat... View Full Size Van Der Sloot Pleads Guilty Watch Video 'The View' on Casey Anthony, Van Der Sloot Watch Video Joran van der Sloot Pleads Guilty to Murder Watch Video The letters, in which he refers to himself as a "psychological mess," were written in June but released this week by van der Sloot's attorney Max Altez, according to Reuters. In the letters he asserts that he has "nothing to do with" Holloway's disappearance, while blaming poor legal representation for his long prison sentence. He says that a previous lawyer told him if he pled guilty he would only be jailed for 15 years. "My rights have been constantly abused," van der Sloot reportedly wrote. "After bad legal advice in which my lawyer promised me I would receive 15 years if I plead guilty, I did … I have a history of psychological problems which were never taken into consideration." The Peruvian Supreme Court last month ruled that van der Sloot can be extradited to the U.S. to face charges that he extorted $25,000 from Holloway's mother, allegedly telling her that he could give her information that would lead to her daughter's body. On Sept. 6, 2010 Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf reported that van der Sloot admitted to the extortion, saying, "I wanted to get back at Natalee's family. Her parents have been making my life tough for five years." Van der Sloot confessed to the murder of Flores in January. He said that Flores had been using his laptop without his permission and discovered information linking him to Holloway's disappearance. He is now appealing the 28-year sentence. Flores died after suffering blunt force trauma to her head, which led to a brain hemorrhage, cranial fracture, and a broken neck. According to court documents her body also showed signs of asphyxiation.