Investigators believe that the two met during a poker tournament in which Flores-Ramirez was a big winner. Van der Sloot watched her play and soon approached her and asked her to go to his room with him to celebrate her winnings. They left the casino allegedly in Flores-Ramirez’s car, one that was later found some 50 blocks from Van der Sloot’s hotel. The car had evidence of date rape drugs.

Witnesses and surveillance cameras place the two in the hotel, where other witnesses state they heard the two argue inside of Van der Sloot’s hotel room. After a few hours Van der Sloot left the hotel room, placing a do not disturb sign on the hotel room door and telling hotel employees he did not want anyone entering his room, telling one such employee “don’t bother my girl.” He evidently had a good reason for this request, for inside of the room lay the broken, bloodied and dead body of Flores-Ramirez. Investigators have indicated she had been beaten, perhaps with a tennis racket found by police inside of the room, her neck was broken, and she was initially reported to have been stabbed. At least one relative said one of her eyes had been knocked out of it’s socket. Her body was not found for almost three days, and by that time even those who knew the victim found it hard to recognize the remains of the onetime attractive young woman.

Media reports suggest that the victim’s $1,755 cash winnings were also missing, indicating the likelihood that her killer also stole her money prior to departing the murder scene. Van der Sloot’s whereabouts were unknown until he entered Chile, this on the same day the victim’s body was found. Then the hunt for her killer was officially on.

Van der Sloot had made his way south along the western coast of South America and was finally located traveling alone in a cab, one he had paid the drivers almost $800 for a ride. He allegedly had bloodied clothing with him and he had cut his dark hair in a short crew cut and dyed what was left red, something like Scott Peterson did in 2002 after killing his pregnant wife Laci as he prepared to flee the U.S. Van der Sloot has been turned over by Chilean authorities to Peruvian police who chose to drive the 18 hours back to Lima instead of a quick airplane ride. This decision, of course, gave the authorities plenty of time to talk to Van der Sloot, to build their case against him, and to tell him in graphic terms of the conditions he will face in a Peruvian prison. They may have even tried to work out some kind of deal with him, perhaps a slightly limited sentence if he also confessed to the believed murderof Natalee Holloway in Aruba some five years below. But have no doubt, their first job is to lock him into the murderof Flores-Ramirez and that they will surely do. In the meantime a local judge has ruled that he must remain in police custody at least another week, giving authorities time to complete their investigation before they need to formally charge him with the murder of Flores-Ramirez.

Trying to Extort the Holloways

Independent of the murder of Flores-Ramirez, so we’re told, is a separate indictment has been returned this week by the FBI and the US Attorney in Birmingham, Alabama, Holloway’s home. In that case we’re told that in April and May of this year Van der Sloot allegedly made contact with Natalee’s mother or another relative, demanding a payment of $250,000 to provide the family with information concerning Natalee’s death and the whereabouts of her remains. (This is something like a Chinese firing squad charging a victim’s family for the bullets used to kill their loved one…) Anyway, between the Holloways and the FBI, an agreement was struck with Van der Sloot and a down payment of $15,000 was wired to a Holland bank account, one that Van der Sloot had access to. It is sadly ironic that maybe, just maybe this $15,000 may have been used by Van der Slootto finance his trip to Peru, thus enabling his contact with Flores-Ramirez. Did one woman need die to get this suspected killer off the street – Flores-Ramirez’s family sadly believe this to be the case.

Unlike the case of the missing and presumed dead American teenager some five years to the day of the murder of Flores-Ramirez, there is a body, a crime scene, a murder weapon, and a lot of forensic evidence that will likely link the victim’s murder to her killer, currently assumed to be Van der Sloot. If convicted, this smug, narcissistic, sociopathic killer will not be afforded any of the considerations he was given in Aruba. His arrogance and his lack of anger management skills have all contributed to his now facing charges of murdering the daughter of an extremely well known, and well wired political and public figure in Peru. The whole country will be watching and, perhaps like O.J. Simpson before him, he will be tried for one crime in criminal court but he will be convicted for multiple crimes in the more important court of public opinion. The man who said he never lost a night’s sleep over Holloway’s disappearance and assumed death may now find reason to consider everything he’s done over the past five years.

How does someone do these things?

Many know that teenagers can show the characteristics of the sociopath, psychopath or antisocial personality, traits that allow someone to ignore the pain and needs of others while their only concerns in life center around meeting their own needs, and keeping themselves stimulated while they live on the edge of life and society. We know that Van der Sloot was raised in a privileged home where he was treated as more than special. While it was illegal to gamble in a casino in Aruba if you were younger than 18, the FBI determined that his parents had set him up with a $50,000 line of credit when he was but 17, the age that he met Natalee Holloway in a local casino. Nature and nurture form the personality of an individual, and in Van der Sloot’s case, both appear to have contributed to the monster many now believe him to be.

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