Birmingham, Ala (WIAT) Joran van der Sloot is looking at up to 28 years in a maximum security prison in Peru...but he's still looking for ways, and people, who can help him live the good life even there.
During his year and a half in Lima's Castro Castro prison awaiting his murder trial, van der Sloot made news for everything from mugging with hitmen and other murderers to allegedly buying and selling drugs to accusations he had fathered a child while in prison.
Ricardo Flores, the father of murder victim Stephany Flores, said van der Sloot was "living like a king" in prison.
Is that over now that he's been moved to Ancon 1, Peru's maximum security lockup? Not if van der Sloot can help it. Prison records show that after being transferred after his trial, he withdrew an additional $500 for his own use behind bars. And from Jan. 3-11, he retrieved more than $1,400 in cash, spent $1,500 in legal fees for December, and used $40 on calling cards.
Even though self proclaimed "Guardian Angel" Mary Hamer has cut ties and asked for her money back, van der Sloot continues to send Hamer notes pleading for both attention and support.
The Daily Beast quotes a series of letters.
“You will always be in my heart, but this, what you are doing to me now I do not comprehend. Why do you want to hurt me?” Van der Sloot, 24, writes in the first handwritten letter.
He also describes his guilty plea as a tactical move and is banking on an appeal involving procedural issues in his arrest, extradition and interrogation...all issues the trial court rejected.
But van der Sloot begs Hamer to stick with him. “I beg you to hold on until that time so I can explain everything to you. I will show you that you have always been right about me.”
Not only does he ask for continued financial support for his legal bills, but also asks for $1000 for a new cell phone. The Ancon 1 prison apparently has a cell phone jammer as part of it's security system.
Van der Sloot is still facing a wire fraud and extortion indictment brought by a federal grand jury here in Birmingham. The FBI says he promised Natalee Holloway's family information about how she died and where to find her body. The feds say he took the families money but gave them no real information. The Mountain Brook teen vanished while on a graduation trip to Aruba. She was last seen leaving a bar with van der Sloot.
Natalee's case was also pivotal in van der Sloot's murder trial in Peru. He confessed he killed Stephany Flores after she found material relating to Natalee on his laptop. Stephany's corpse was found in van der Sloot's Lima hotel room on the fifth anniversary of Natalee's disappearance.
