Lima, Peru (CNN) -- Joran van der Sloot said he elbowed murder victim Stephany Flores Ramirez in the face before strangling her and then suffocating her with his own shirt, according to transcripts of his confession.
The transcripts -- provided to CNN by an anonymous police source -- give shocking details of the murder van der Sloot is accused of and also give the public its first glimpse of why van der Sloot says the alleged murder took place. The source has not been named because he was not authorized to pass along the material.
"There was blood everywhere," van der Sloot said in the transcripts. "What am I going to do now. I had blood on my shirt. There was also blood on the bed, so, I took my shirt and put it on her face, pressing hard, until I killed Stephany."
Meanwhile, van der Sloot's Peruvian attorney resigned from the case, according to reports Monday from Peru's Foreign Press Association. Earlier, Maximo Altez Navarro told CNN that he didn't want to be van der Sloot's attorney anymore.
Peruvian authorities charged van der Sloot with murder last week in the death of Flores, a 21-year-old student. Van der Sloot, a 22-year-old Dutch citizen, has also been considered the main suspect in the well-publicized 2005 disappearance of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway in Aruba.
In the transcript, van der Sloot said that after Flores read the e-mail, she punched him in the face.
"At that moment impulsively, with my right elbow I hit her in the face exactly on top of the nose," van der Sloot said. "I think she started to faint. It affected me so that I grabbed her from the neck and strangled her for a minute."
Van der Sloot said he had a quick thought that he might try to hide the body but instead fled.
He was arrested in Chile on June 3 and was returned the next day to Peru. Along with killing Flores, who had a broken neck, he took money and bank cards from her wallet, police said.
Van der Sloot told police in Chile a different story of how Flores died when he was arrested there, according to transcripts. He blamed the death on robbers who had waited for him at his hotel in Peru.
"There was a man coming from the access door with a knife in his hand," van der Sloot said. "The man with the knife hit her in the face, making her bleed through the nose."
But Peru authorities said they had overwhelming evidence pointing to van der Sloot, and when he was transferred to Peru, van der Sloot confessed to the crime, police said.
Van der Sloot said he was in Peru for a poker tournament and had met Flores while he was gambling.
Police have said they think van der Sloot killed Flores to steal money she won from gambling.
Van der Sloot offered a different motive.
"After I responded with hitting her, I feared that she would go to the police and they would detain me for what was an impulsive act," van der Sloot said. "I think I wanted to kill her because I wasn't thinking."
Before he resigned from the case, Van der Sloot's lawyer said he planned to ask the judge to strike down van der Sloot's confession because he was not properly represented when he was interrogated.
Peruvian police have defended the interrogation and said van der Sloot's confession was acquired legally.
What an idiot. This guy is cleared of murdering the American girl in Aruba, yet he goes to Peru and does this again. I'm glad he's not using his connections to wiggle his way past justice again.
06-14-2010, 21:26
Beskar
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He probably thought he could have got away with it, since he did before.
06-14-2010, 21:45
Tellos Athenaios
Re: Van der Sloot Confessses
Or he just did not think.
06-14-2010, 23:00
Louis VI the Fat
Re: Van der Sloot Confessses
I would assume he will confess to anything when faced with Peruvian interrogation techniques.
But the authorities don't need just a story, they need the truth. So I hope they are clever about their interogation methods - and will brutally beat out of him where the body of that American girl is.
Which, I am sorry to say, does make me question the Western justice system. So very frustrating that named psychpaths can go about killing and raping for years on end, before they are finally stopped.
(And Fragony - you know I've got a long memory. What about your theory that the American girl ran away and is now working in a brothel in Venezuela?)
06-14-2010, 23:24
Subotan
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Which is the greater evil? That a tiny number of psychopaths are allowed to kill unchallenged, for a period of time, or for a number of innocent people to undergo "Peruvian interrogation techniques"?
06-14-2010, 23:27
Crazed Rabbit
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I hope he spends a long, long time in third world prisons.
He has years ahead of him and a bright future of being a senorita at the Lima prison.
06-17-2010, 18:17
Fragony
Re: Van der Sloot Confessses
Still not sure, he's a scumbag but Hollaway probably overdosed on GHB, a known rapedrug happens all the time there. Absolutely deadly with alcohol. Dunno about Peru girl but he can play the peruprison pan-flute for trying to extort money from Nat's mum for telling where her daughter's body is. Sick puppy.
06-17-2010, 20:49
Ice
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He has years ahead of him and a bright future of being a senorita at the Lima prison.
That's assuming someone doesn't shank him for $50.
06-18-2010, 10:35
Fragony
Re: Van der Sloot Confessses
He's supposedly already best buddies with one the most notorious prisoners, say what you want but he is a survivor
06-18-2010, 12:32
Vladimir
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He's supposedly already best buddies with one the most notorious prisoners,
Birds of a feather or future bride?
06-18-2010, 20:39
Seamus Fermanagh
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Birds of a feather or future bride?
Either can be a valid route to surviving a hazardous environment. I really am not feeling a lot of sympathy either way. With luck, however, I won't have to hear Greta talking about him for too much longer.
06-18-2010, 20:42
Vladimir
Re: Van der Sloot Confessses
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Originally Posted by Seamus Fermanagh
Either can be a valid route to surviving a hazardous environment. I really am not feeling a lot of sympathy either way. With luck, however, I won't have to hear Greta talking about him for too much longer.
I'm glad you used the word "hear" because watching her speak is more frightening than the prospect of serving time.
06-18-2010, 21:09
PanzerJaeger
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Originally Posted by Vladimir
I'm glad you used the word "hear" because watching her speak is more frightening than the prospect of serving time.
If it was a CIA front, would they really have 'CIA' in the title?
:rolleyes:
CR
Pah!
Because everybody would expect a CIA front not to have CIA in its name, means the name CIA is an excellent smokescreen to trick enemies into thinking it obviously can't be the real thing.
The CIA is that cunning. :book:
06-22-2010, 21:56
Subotan
Re: Van der Sloot Confessses
Even the CIA knows to use WIFOM.
06-22-2010, 22:16
drone
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Even the CIA knows to use WIFOM.
Then why are we involved in a land war in Asia? ~;)
06-23-2010, 00:13
Louis VI the Fat
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Then why are we involved in a land war in Asia? ~;)
You're not, duh.
It's a ploy to move government funds to Nicaragua, to fight the War on Drugs. The troops you see on Fox have really been send to the dry mountanous regions of Peru, to battle the local drug lords. (Devout Islamic Taleban growing drugs? :laugh4: You're all being had)
