Quality Time: van der Sloot Took Coffee, Drug Break Next To Corpse Of Woman He Just Murdered

[Amerigo Vespucci]

http://www.aolnews.com/crime/article/police-van-der-sloot-took-coffee-break-by-stephany-flores-corpse/19511108

(June 10) -- Joran van der Sloot has reportedly confessed to police in Peru that he enjoyed a cocktail of coffee and drugs in the minutes following a young Peruvian woman's slaying.

Police say the 22-year-old Dutchman told them he not only took time out for a coffee break but also sat next to her bludgeoned corpse munching on biscuits while contemplating how to dispose of her body.

"I was going to use one of my suitcases to take her out of the hotel, but I didn't do it because I was afraid someone would stop me carrying my luggage without paying," van der Sloot allegedly told police, according to the Peruvian paper La Republica.

Authorities say van der Sloot claims he was high on marijuana at the time of the murder. They also believe, according to the New York Daily News, that van der Sloot had thought about tossing Flores' body into the ocean. Police reportedly found maps charting currents in his backpack.

Police say that with the deed done and the realization that he could not hide Flores' body, van der Sloot showered, changed his clothes and grabbed a few belongings before fleeing the scene. Flores was found dead in van der Sloot's Lima, Peru, hotel room three days later, on June 2, setting off a police manhunt that ended with his arrest in Chile the following day.

Van der Sloot was in police custody less than a week before his alleged confession. Police in Peru plan to ask prosecutors today to formally bring murder charges against him, CBS News reports.

Meanwhile, the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant has quoted van der Sloot's lawyer in the Netherlands as saying his confession was "possibly fake" and may have been coerced.

"Joran told his mother crying Monday that he was being interrogated under reasonably barbaric conditions," the paper quoted Bert de Rooij as saying. "He said the police were trying to force him to confess."

In a second interview with CBS News, de Rooij said van der Sloot also told his mother that he was being interrogated in a "very rude way" and that he thought the Peruvian authorities were "aiming at a coerced confession."

[Texasgal]

1. What a poor excuse for

a human being.

He disgusts me.

[malaise]

6. You know the son of a Dutch judge

on an island full of 'natives' expects to be interviewed in a dignified way - he's so accustomed to being a fucking untouchable in those ABC islands that this must be an experience on steroids.

Good luck son - here's looking at the new rules for the rest of your life.
Cry to mommy you murdering SOB.

gr.

[Lil Missy]

2. he was being interrogated in a "very rude way"

Well, the way you murdered that woman was plenty rude as well.

[Bluebear]

3. van der Sloot also told his mother that he was being interrogated in a "very rude way"

Aww.

[Duer 157099]

4. High on pot? That's hard to believe.

Unless it was combined with something else. Like meth, or something.

I just can't envision someone stoned only on pot killing someone. Well, unless they were already a psychopathic killer, which I guess applies in this case.

:shrug:

[Webster Green]

5. "van der Sloot claims he was high on marijuana at the time of the murder"

Great. Reefer madness strikes again. :eyes:

[LisaL]

7. They have a video of him and the woman going into his hotel room.

He comes out, she does not (alive, anyway).
Whatever he takes his confession back or not, I don't think it's going to make much of a difference.