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Police: Joran Van der Sloot Admits Killing Peruvian Woman
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Jen Chung
Published Jun 8, 2010
Modified Jun 8, 2010
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Five years after being the main suspect in the Natalee Holloway disappearance, Dutch national Joran Van der Sloot has allegedly confessed to killing a 21-year-old Peruvian woman. Peruvian authorities say he confessed under police questioning to strangling Stephany Flores Ramirez in a Lima hotel room. ABC News adds, "The broadcaster America Television reported that Van der Sloot killed Flores in a rage after learning she had looked up information about his past on his laptop." This comes as Holloway's family is opening the Natalee Holloway Center in D.C., to counsel families whose loved ones go missing and to teach students about safe travel; Holloway went missing while vacationing in Aruba.
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