Van der Sloot charged with 1st-degree murder, now claims he knows the location of Natalee Holloway’s body

[HMG] – In a heartening blend of skillful police work and long-delayed karma, Joran van der Sloot has now been charged with the murder of Stephany Flores Ramirez, whose body was discovered last month in a Lima hotel room booked in van der Sloot’s name.

We reported on Tuesday that van der Sloot was suspected of killing the 21-year old who disappeared last month. He also remains the prime suspect in the murder of Alabama High School senior, Natalee Holloway [seen here,] who died in Aruba in May 2005.

Canlla says van der Sloot’s confession in this latest case was acquired in accordance with Peruvian law, but the attorney representing the Dutchman, Maximo Navarro, now wants a Judge to dismiss it because his client did not have counsel present when it was made.

The evidence, however, is growing — van der Sloot met the victim at a poker tournament on May 27.On May 30th they drove to the hotel where van der Sloot was staying on May 30. There, Police say he killed Flores, then tried to wipe up the evidence before fleeing the hotel with all of Flores’ money and bank cards, and even her Jeep.

The Police now have van der Sloot’s confession, plus forensic data, surveillance videos and fingerprints lifted from both the scene of the crime and Flores’ stolen Jeep. He faces charges of homicide, robbery and obstructing justice.

In a twist to the story – which he’ll doubtlessly use to avoid the full blame – 22-year old van der Sloot told the police he knows the location of Natalee Holloway’s body, but would not reveal either that information, nor what happened to Natalie the night she was killed in 2005.

“He says he knew the location of the corpse, but that he was going to explain everything to Aruban police,” Miguel Canlla, chief of the Peruvian police department’s homicide division told CNN.

Aruban police are not currently on the scene, and Canlla had no idea if their respective law enforcement divisions had even made contact.

He had previously contacted Natalee’s mother and demanded $250,000 for information he claimed to have on the location of her daughter’s body. An undercover FBI agent met van der Sloot and gave him $10,000 in cash. Another $15,000 was then wired to his personal bank account in Holland.

In exchange, van der Sloot showed the man a house where Natalee’s body supposedly was. But records proved it was not even built when she died. Faced with this fact, van der Sloot admitted he lied.

The FBI have now filed extortion and wire fraud charges against him.