Birmingham, Al  (WIAT)  Few familiar with the Holloway family's five year travail will be surprised by the reported findings of an evaluation of Joran van der Sloot ordered by a Peruvian court:  "psychopathic tendencies."   Van der Sloot is the prime suspect in the disappearance of Mountain Brook teenager Natalee Holloway on a graduation trip to Aruba. She was last seen in his company the night she disappeared five years ago. He was never charged by Aruban authorities but was questioned several times.

Today he's in a maximum security prison in Peru...accused of murdering twenty one year old Stephany Flores. She was found dead in his hotel room in Lima.   Van der Sloot initially confessed to killing Flores after she found material about Natalee on his laptop. He has subsequently recanted that confession claiming coercion and improper legal representation....an appeal already denied by a Peruvian judge.

The latest development is the AFP news service quoting the Peruvian newspaper El Comercio.  AFP says the paper's website reports van der Sloot was examined by doctors from Peru's Institute of Legal Medicine, who found him to be "impulsive and showing psychopathic tendencies."

The medical report was turned over to judge Carlos Morales Corcova, who is presiding over the case, the daily added.