The MEDIA made him snap that woman's neck. Now we know.
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Joran van der Sloot's mother still believes her son is innocent, insisting in an email obtained exclusively by ABC News that "he is not a murderer."
Anita van der Sloot hasn't spoken publicly since her son's arrest in Peru, until now.
"I am not giving interviews to any American media station because I don't trust them. Stay safe and pray for Joran. He is not the monster they like the world to see. he is traumatized, depressed an has an addiction. He is not a murderer. It stinks and feels like a big trap set up for him."
Anita van der Sloot's email, apparently typed out quickly, was sent to close confidant and ex-girlfriend of Joran's, Melody Granadillo.
ABC News' Chris Cuomo sat down exclusively to talk to Granadillo about the man she knew in an interview that airs tonight on 20/20.
Granadillo, 23, met van der Sloot when she was 16 and their teenage love affair blossomed.
"It was real," Granadillo told Cuomo. "We liked looking into each other's eyes."
http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/article/exclusive-joran-van-der-sloots-mother-speaks-time/story?id=10935217