Hotel security camera footage released by Peruvian police on Saturday, June 5. It shows Joran van der Sloot entering his hotel room with Stephany Flores, whom he is accused of murdering. He is later shown leaving the hotel alone carrying two bags.
van der Sloot is the prime suspect in the murder of 21-year-old Stephany Flores, whose body was found in a Lima hotel room on Wednesday. He could face at least 25 years in prison, if found guilty of murdering the daughter of a wealthy businessman.
Peruvian police said they were "convinced" van der Sloot was responsible for killing Flores, a business student. He was stopped by police in central Chile on Thursday after traveling hundreds of miles from the border to a beach resort city near the capital, Santiago.
Chilean police said van der Sloot has denied he was involved in the murder of Flores. van der sloot, in his early 20s, travels the world to participate in poker tournaments and was in Peru for that reason, local media reported.
Police said van der Sloot and Flores met at a casino in Lima, and they may have played poker together. The murder probe has brought renewed attention to the case of Natalee Holloway. An 18-year-old American from Alabama, who disappeared during a high school graduation trip in the Dutch Caribbean island of Aruba.
Van der Sloot was arrested twice in the Holloway case, which was much publicized in here in the United States. But he was never charged, due to insufficient evidence.
Peruvian President Alan Garcia declared van der Sloot must face justice in the Andean country. Alabama authorities issued an arrest warrant for van der Sloot on extortion charges linked to Holloway's disappearance.
Peruvian police said Flores was killed on May 30, the same date that Holloway disappeared in 2005.
