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Mortal Poker
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Joran van der Sloot is charged with homicide, is punishable by 15 to 35 years in prison.
Joran van der Sloot (23) asked for a pack of cigarettes and a Coke for police officers guarding his cell. The atmosphere was quiet on the eighth floor of the Criminal Investigation Department (Dirincri), but down a swarm of reporters waiting for any new information.
That same morning of Monday July phoned his mother Anita, in Aruba, and then asked to meet with Colonel PNP Canlla Angel, head of Homicide.
"I will speak," he said.
His confession lasted over three hours and performed in the presence of a private attorney, a prosecutor and a translator from the Netherlands Embassy.
The Dutchman started saying she saw for the first time Stephany Ramirez Flores, 21, after 3 am on Sunday 30 during the "Latin American Poker Tour in Atlantic City Casino Miraflores. The contest, with prizes of between $ 2,000 and $ 10,000 per table, drew participants from across the continent.
Van der Sloot, who claims to be a professional player tournaments in Europe and Asia, arrived in Peru on 14 May. It came from Colombia and stayed in room 309 of Hotel TAC, in the block 61 of the Republic of Panama Avenue. He spent some time in Atlantic City, where in addition to the poker tables blackjack used to frequent. Planned to stay a month in Lima.
The casino was buzzing that night. Among the guests at the tournament included Claudio Pizarro, Argentine tennis player Mariano Zabaleta and Panamanian Roberto Blades Salsa.
Stephany was with two friends at a pub in Barranco until two o'clock in the morning and then will fly to the casino. I could not imagine it would have the fatal kind of cross with a psychopath in one of the tables.
The psychological profile prepared by the Dirincri indicates that Joran van der Sloot, 1.97 meters tall with a baby face is cold and calculating, able to appear docile and charming to seduce and deceive. Probably something of the latter it was Stephany.
At five in the morning the houses of Atlantic City's Register a two out of the casino. Jeep Cherokee approached the black, A1B, plate 533 of Stephany. The Dutchman says she won U.S. 6.000 U.S. dollars playing poker and he offered to pay at the hotel. Twenty minutes later, Joran and Stephany, it forward and she stepped back, enter the Hotel TAC. Medical tests show that did not have sex.
According to his version, three hours later at 8:20 in the morning, he left the room due to the tap Primax located across the street. He bought bread and two cups of coffee. The cameras do not record the output.
Police found in the nightstand of the room, next to a television and a stereo, an empty bottle of Coca Cola, two plastic cups and two glasses of Atlantic City, one in the bathroom trash and other on the ground.
Van der Sloot told Stephany that surprised manipulating his laptop and was angry because she had discovered incriminating information and photos about the American teenager Natalee Holloway (19), who disappeared in a macabre coincidence similar date, 30 May 2005 in Aruba (see separate release).
Stephany Flores.
The Dutchman said the two discussed, but nobody in the hotel heard screaming. Then he, enraged, began to beat her. The tomb of an elbow to the face and hit his head sharply up fracturing his neck. According to the autopsy, the cause of death was precisely "cervical cranial trauma." Van der Sloot giant, however, does not present a single scratch.
Before he left, at 9 and 30 am, Joran says he phoned the front desk to report that he was going out for a few hours and not disturbed in the room. He took the keys and never paid the bill of S /. 900.
Cool and calm, as it picks up the camera, went to the basement garage of the hotel and boarded the van Stephany and then leave in the passage Jorge Chavez, 30 meters from the checkpoint entrance to the Base of the FAP Las Palmas.
He subsequently tried to withdraw money from credit cards Stephany. When you do not boarded a bus to Ica and then a taxi to Arica by which claims to have paid $ 2,000. He crossed the border with Chile and arrived in Santiago on Monday 1.
The Find
On Sunday night 30, the entrepreneur Ricardo Flores, a former race car driver race, knew something bad had happened to his only daughter. She did not answer the Nextel and nobody knew his whereabouts. 'Rifle', as is known, called the police station and warned that Stephany Furrow might have been kidnapped. On Monday, after a very expeditious management, the strength of the police unit "concluded" that the girl left home because of family problems.
The next day Serenazgo staff found the Jeep.
Just two days later, early Wednesday in February, CT Hotel staff entered the room 309 and found a gruesome picture.
On the right side of the double bed on the carpeted floor, lying on his back the lifeless body of the young half-naked with her knees drawn up toward the wall. Had bruises on her face, neck and lower extremities. He wore the shirt of Van der Sloot.
The news was broadcast worldwide and Joran, famous for being the prime suspect in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway, was finally arrested by Chilean police when he was preparing to travel to Viña del Mar, on Thursday, 3.
Now says he acted brutally, prey to anger, and he is sorry. Some versions relate that his confession would be looking to be condemned for manslaughter and receive a sentence of between six and 20 years in prison.
Sources of the Homicide Division are convinced that he acted with premeditation and, given their backgrounds, say they will be condemned for murder, whose penalty is between 15 and 35 years in prison.
The crime shocked the world, but in Lima touched the heartstrings of parents living with young children. Stephany studied the ninth cycle of Business Administration at the University of Lima. It was the only woman among four siblings, expected to close to her father.
Her friends from Colegio San Silvestre remember her as a genius for mathematics and perhaps conclude that it was very quick in poker. His knack for winning in the game. But the stakes and the game came to turn the game. According to police information, a few months committed his truck to pay a debt in a casino. His father now regrets having given much freedom. The circuit of pubs, casinos and nightclubs became the route almost daily Stephany, like other young Lima without major economic concerns. That morning, his routine was cut horribly. And forever