Birmingham, Ala (WIAT) Joran van der Sloot has been protesting his confession to killing Stephany Flores almost since the day the words passed his lips.
In fact, he's claiming those weren't the words that passed his lips.
Like all things van der Sloot it's both complicated and inconsistent.
The latest development are reports in Dutch newspapers that the translator used in his confession had days before referred to van der Sloot as a "psychopath" and later indicated that perhaps there would be "justice"...an apparent reference to the Natalee Holloway case.
According to the Dutch website MetroNews, translator Maurice Stein used the login name Mauriceje and Maurice S. to post comments on El Commercio like "It is very suspicious that he leave the country one day later. Let us hope that this time justice will be. "
Although van der Sloot is apparently willing to plead guilty to killing Flores, a 21 year old Peruvian student. in a fit of passion he isn't willing to plead guilty to murder.
He says he killed Flores in a rage after she found material about Natalee Holloway on his laptop. Peruvian police say he killed Flores to rob her.
Natalee Holloway is the Mountain Brook teen who disappeared on a graduation trip to Aruba. The prime suspect...Joran van der Sloot. Although he was questioned repeatedly by Aruban police, he was never charged in that case.
Fast forward five years. Flores corpse was found in van der Sloot's Lima hotel room five years to the day that Natalee vanished.
After van der Sloot was handed over to Peruvian police after fleeing to neighboring Chile, he was questioned and reportedly confessed to killing Stephany.
But van der Sloot and a string of defense lawyers have long claimed a variety of irregularities in the interrogation including the competence of the Dutch translator/interpretor used by the police.
Maurice Stein apparently called van der Sloot a "psycho" in the Peruvian daily El Commercio BEFORE Peruvian police used him as the interpretor/translator while questioning van der Sloot.
Stein's qualifications were part of a previous attempt to get the confession tossed out, but this is the first time his apparent prior bias against van der Sloot has been raised.
Van der Sloot is scheduled to stand trial in Lima January 6.
