BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) - The strange tale of an American doctor who financially supports Joran van der Sloot took yet another twist Monday night on Dutch television.
According to Radio Netherlands Worldwide, radiologist Mary Hamer says the murder of Stephany Flores on 30 May 2010, exactly five years after the disappearance of US teen Natalee Holloway, is an "anniversary reaction caused by PTSD".
Natalee is the Mountain Brook teen who vanished on a graduation trip to Aruba in 2005. She was last seen with van der Sloot who was questioned but never charged.
Stephany Flores was a 21 year old Peruvian student whose corpse was found in van der Sloot's Lima hotel room five years to the day of Natalee's disappearance. Van der Sloot told Peruvian investigators he killed Flores in a fit of rage after she found material about Natalee on his laptop. Peruvian prosecutors say that's just another lie and that van der Sloot killed her after robbing her.
To Lake City Florida doctor Mary Hamer those charges are just more elements of a "conspiracy" against van der Sloot by everyone from Natalee's parents to the FBI. Hamer addressed those issues in a July 2010 blog that re-surfaced in connection with the Dutch television interview.
In that blog, addressed to President Barack Obama, she refers to the FBI investigation and eventual indictment of van der Sloot for wire fraud and extortion as entrapment. The federal indictment charges that van der Sloot asked the Holloway family for money in exchange for information about Natalee's fate, took the money, but never gave the information. His arrest and imprisonment on the Flores death charges followed soon afterwards.
There is a blog post dated July 10, 2010, apparently posted by Mary Hamer, M.D., making a series of strange claims against everyone from the Holloways to the feds to the media. That posting is copied below.
