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Joran Van Der Sloot Update June 7: Peru Hotel Video With Flores

by Amy Judd | June 7, 2010 at 08:29 am

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Joran Van Der Sloot is Now in Custody in Peru and Police Have Released Surveillance Footage From the Hotel Showing Him and Stephany Flores Entering Van Der Sloot's Room Together

In the video footage that was released on Saturday, it shows Joran Van Der Sloot and Stephany Flores entering Joran's hotel room in Peru together and then Joran leaving by himself four hours later. Flores was found dead in the hotel room and it is now believed her neck had been broken.

"The only possessions of my daughter they found were her empty wallet and her cell phone," her father, circus empresario Ricardo Flores, said in TV interview Sunday night. "There wasn't a peso in her wallet."

On Sunday a video was broadcast on Peruvian TV of Van Der Sloot's belongings being searched by police in his presence. In his bag the police pull out a laptop, a number of bills in foreign currency and a business card holder. Van Der Sloot tells them that his credit cards and documents are in a hotel room in Chile. There are reports in the Lima newspaper El Comercia that Van Der Sloot said he was innocent of killing Stephany Flores but the chief homicide investigator said he does not know where that information came from.

"I don't know where that information came from," Canlla told The Associated Press. "We are still in the investigative stage."

He has reportedly admitted to meeting Flores and the hotel tapes is evidence they did know each other at least.

Van Der Sloot will spend all week being questioned about Flores' death. He is being held in a cell on the seventh floor and gets three hot meals a day according to KTLA News.

He has been asked to be allowed to hire his own lawyer, but for now he is represented by a state-appointed attorney. He reportedly spoke to his mother for the first time on the phone on Saturday but it is not known if his mother intends to travel to Peru. If he is tried and convicted of murder he could receive up to 35 years in prison. He has also been charged with extortion in the United States for trying to obtain money from Natalee Holloway's family in exchange for information.

Van Der Sloot has always been the main suspect in Holloway's death but there was never enough evidence to convict him.

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Mary M. (not verified)

at 13:00 on June 7th, 2010

Two went in. One came out. Joran went in and came out with black hair. Several days later he has changed his hair color and is 2000 miles away (driving like a bat out of hell). Hmmmm. He must have been on his way late, to his next date with destiny, with a new hairdoo? This guy knew what he was doing and he isnt some innocent victim of coincidence (three times!)?

Lizzie Jones (not verified)

at 05:58 on June 12th, 2010

The only good thing to come out of this,is now at least this monster will receive the punishment he deserves. After getting off scott free in the Natalie Holloway trial, he thought he was untouchable. but, in this day & age, not many stay 'untouched'. it happened to oj too....they get so conceited they think they can get away with anything. i hope the peruvian jail is horrible & he gets treated like sh*& every single hour!!!! and i pray for the victims families.

Ashley Evans (not verified)

at 17:14 on June 19th, 2010

This dude is sick. It's sad that people think that they can kill to get what they want. Poor Natalee and her family...she deserves justice as well. I hope this sicko gets what he deserves. Jail is not going to treat him well. He's going to get the crap kicked out of him on a daily basis...I just hope that he doesn't get killed before some solid information about Natalee can be obtained. After she's found, I hope the bastard dies and rots in hell.