Joran van der Sloot: What the Dutch have to say

Do not miss this video:
Joran van der Sloot simuló como coartada no tener llaves del cuarto donde asesinó a Stephany Flores video is in spanish, but watch anyway...

Joran alleen in cel uit angst voor moord

The Prairie Chicken
12 June 2010

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Just a note--the Dutch translation for van der Sloot is "of the ditch", which makes me smile every time I read it. In the Netherland news agencies, he is called Joran of of the ditch.
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When van der Sloot was transferred from Miguel Castro Castro to the Palace of Justice, he got a head of rotten lettuce thrown at his head. In the heat of the battle, I wish I could come up with stuff like that. There is always something rotten in my frig. Note to self... van der Sloot now admits that he lured Stephany Flores to his room to play Internet poker after he was filmed on security tape with her both in the Atlantic City casino and in the lobby and hallway of this hotel. Now he says he broke Stephany's nose with the elbow shot, then strangled her while she was still stunned from the facial blow. I still have to wonder how he managed to dislodge her eye with a right hook, elbow to the nose and strangle to the neck.

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Afterwards he stole her change purse and drove away in her jeep. He stole money with a value of almost 250 euro (? 5,000 US dollars do not equal 250 euros), and two credit cards. The murder in conjunction with robbery can warrant the longest sentence allowed in Peru, life in prison. It is still unclear when its process starts...
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For five long years the Holloway family has suffered the lost of their daughter Natalee, an American on a group senior high school vacation. van der Sloot was never charged. He was never condemned, for lack of proof...
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Now Joran wants to admit to the murder of Natalee Holloway in Aruba in 2005. He is hoping that this will buy him a ticket back to the Netherlands where faces are a bit more friendly to him. I imagine Aruba will send a couple of guys over to Lima to interview him--but we must remember that as late as last week, the Aruban officials contended that there is no evidence that a crime ever happened at all.
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I'm afraid he now has to play the cards that were dealt to him. I can picture him cowering at Castro Castro. It's a much different visual than he being the big man, beating the hell out of small women, taking what he wants. Killing them.
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But the Netherlands/Aruba still consider him a golden son, for some odd reason. Maybe it's just anti-American sentiment. But if Aruban officials don't think a crime has been committed in Aruba, why would they want to fly all the way to Peru? To hear yet another version?
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One website (above) I read complained that it was cruel and inhumane to make Joran stand in front of the Peruvian press and let them photograph him to their hearts content. Check out the look on his face. He is pissed. He is not used to being treated with such a lack of respect. Poor Joran.

Joran van der Sloot: His Confession, or How can Dutch dweeb cause such international outrage?

The Prairie Chicken
June 12, 2010
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La confesión de Joran van der Sloot: “La tomé por el cuello y la estrangulé”
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The above link is the Spanish version of today's article in Peru's El Comercio.pe, which gives a bit more detail about Joran van der Sloot's confession to police concerning the homicide of Stephany Flores Ramirez in room 309 of the Hotel TAC.
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According to “90 Seconds” noticieron (news station), the admission was offered by the Dutch citizen in the presence of an appointed counsel and with the aid of a translator who transferred the questions to him from the authorities in his own language. In agreement with the narration, van der Sloot and Flores Ramirez entered his room about 5:30 a.m. of day 30 May after playing in the Atlantic City casino.
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As van der Sloot recounted, he suggested to Stephany that they could play poker on the Internet and for that reason they went to his room. Then - he says he received an e-mail that said “I am going to kill you mongolito (retard)”, which referred to the murder of Natalee Holloway, the young American whom he also admits to have assassinated in Aruba in 2005.
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Next, van der Sloot spoke to Stephany about the case and he told her they had stopped investigating the crime. She - according to Joran - had a strong reaction and he gave her a blow with his fist on the left side of her head. The Dutchman states that he reacted by hitting her with an elbow, leaving Stephany “in a faint”. He said in addition that the reaction of Stephany affected him so much that he took her by the neck with the two hands and strangled her “in the space of a minute”.
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Later, van der Sloot left the hotel in Stephany's SUV, but after leaving the vehicle parked in Furrow, he approached a taxi that took him to Ica and another taxi took him to Arica. According to his testimony, he told both taxi drivers that "they" were accusing him wrongly of murder.
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Both of the taxi drivers are under investigation for having aided van der Sloot in leaving the country.
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"mama!"

Joran van der Sloot moments after rotten lettuce was lobbed at his head. You have to love the passion of the Latinos!

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Joran van der Sloot: "Temo que me maten en la cárcel" ("They will kill me in jail!)
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The confessed killer of Stephany Flores Ramirez is afraid that he will be killed in prison for revenge.
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The coward is asking to plead to a sentence in Aruba in an attempt to escape the Peruvian prison system. He has offered to give up the location of the remains of Alabama student Natalee Holloway and while his motive has not been announced, it's my belief that he is hoping for a prison sentence in Aruba with his fathers old cronies and his mother to bring him cookies. Then in the mean time, Daddy's lawyer friends could figure out what to do with Peru.
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Dutchman asked to plead to sentence in Aruba: The Dutch citizen Joran van der Sloot expressed fear that "they" will kill him after being committed in the penitentiary of maximum security Miguel Castro Castro. “I do not want to be imprisoned in Peru. I am scared...”, said between sobs during the confession to Police. He is also said to have cried and wailed on the telephone with his mother, claiming he was badgered into making a confession.
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van der Sloot was transferred in an ambulance to the carceleta of Palace of Justice under much security and with a great amount of journalists.
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Please forgive my rough translation

Joran van der Sloot New Hotel TAC Video!

The Prairie Chicken
June 12, 2010

Joran van der Sloot simuló como coartada no tener llaves del cuarto donde asesinó a Stephany Flores video is in spanish, but it's worth a thousand words...

In the above video, just released by El Comercio.pe, Joran van der Sloot is caught on the security camera of the Hotel TAC before his much publicized exit from the hotel.

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At 8:35 am, 30 May, AFTER Stephany Flores had been beaten to death, van der Sloot leaves his room with two empty disposable cups. He hesitates before he actually closes the door tight, engaging the lock.

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He then seemingly pretends to be just returning and performs some phony knocks on the door as though trying to gain entrance. I can say the knocks are phony because, at times, his fist does not even touch the door. About here is where he spots the camera.

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He then leaves the scene but returns two minutes later with a hotel employee who uses a pass key at 8:39 am to open the door.

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The employee simply pushes the door lightly and backs away, instead of entering to find the melee' inside the room.
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Finally, the Dutchman entered to the room where Stephany Flores body was, ate his breakfast, then left the country.

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Was Joran trying to manipulate the hotel employee into finding the body? Was his idea to claim someone must have killed her when he left the room for coffee? He has already changed clothes.

Jordan A Brown, 11, to be tried as adult for murder

Lawrence County Judge Dominick Motto on Monday, March 29, 2010 ordered the now 12-year-old boy to be tried as an adult.

AP via foxnews.com

March 29, 2010

NEW CASTLE, Pa.
Jordan A Brown, a Pennsylvania boy who was 11 when he allegedly killed his father's pregnant fiancee with a shotgun will be tried as an adult in the death of both the woman and the 8 month fetus. Jordan Brown is charged...in the death a year ago of 26-year-old Kenzie Marie Houk and the unborn boy in their western Pennsylvania farmhouse.

Lawrence County Judge Dominick Motto on Monday ordered the now 12-year-old boy to be tried as an adult. Per Pennsylvania law he could be convicted of anything from involuntary manslaughter to first-degree murder and could face up to life in prison...

A psychiatrist for the prosecution had argued the boy wasn't likely to be rehabilitated in juvenile court.

read entire article here

Boy faces adult trial in death of Pa. woman, fetus
A judge's ruling that a 12-year-old boy will be tried as an adult on charges of fatally shooting his father's pregnant fiancee is an unprecedented move, an advocate for defense attorneys says.
Joe Mandak AP March 30, 2010. This article has a bit more detail about the proceedings.

The disgrace of Arlington National Cemetery

Army inquiry finds 211 graves mishandled at Arlington Cemetery
cnn.com

By Mike Mount, Senior Pentagon Producer
June 11, 2010

Washington (CNN) -- Potentially hundreds of American veterans and their family members who were laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery were misidentified or mislocated...the investigation culminated in a change in leadership at the historic cemetery that has been home to U.S. veterans since 1864.

...Army investigators found a "lack of established policies and procedures, a failure to automate records, and long-term systemic problems..."

Arlington National Cemetery

Veterans' graves mislabeled at Arlington Cemetery, officials say

Misplaced Graves At Arlington National Cemetery Affect All

What about the other national cemeteries?‎

Can't we do anything right? It just does not seem too hard to make a note of who went in each grave and mark the location. It's not rocket science.