[size=14pt]Joran van der Sloot manhunt continues [/size]
Chilean police continue their manhunt for Joran van der Sloot, the Dutch playboy and prime suspect in the 2005 Natalee Holloway murder who now stands accused of killing a 21-year-old woman in her hotel room in Peru.
Officials in Chile said van der Sloot, 22, entered their country a couple days after he is suspected of killing Stephany Flores in a Lima hotel, where he was staying.
Flores' body was found clothed, face down on the hotel room floor Wednesday, abrasions on her face and body, and signs of trauma, Peruvian Police Gen. Cesar Guardia said. An autopsy is in progress.
Van der Sloot was in Lima for a poker tournament, police said, and appears with Flores in a video at a casino. A hotel employee spotted the pair around 5 a.m.
"We have an interview with a worker at the hotel who says she saw this foreigner with the victim enter his room," said Guardia.
The police say van der Sloot fled the hotel, alone, four hours later.
Chilean authorities believe he is still in their country and are searching hotels in the tiny towns of its northern provinces.
The May 30 murder comes exactly five years after Natalee Holloway, an 18-year-old Alabama woman disappeared in Aruba, the Caribbean island where van der Sloot's now deceased father was a prominent judge.
Twice, Aruban police arrested van der Sloot only to release him over a lack of evidence.
In 2008, van der Sloot was caught on camera, confessing to a Dutch crime reporter that he dumped Holloway's drunk, unconscious body into the ocean.
The judge in the case, however, declined to re-arrest van der Sloot.
Holloway's mother, Beth Twitty, is aware of the latest murder rap against van der Sloot, but had no comment, a family spokeswoman told The Associated Press.
Chilean police continue their manhunt for Joran van der Sloot, the Dutch playboy and prime suspect in the 2005 Natalee Holloway murder who now stands accused of killing a 21-year-old woman in her hotel room in Peru.
Officials in Chile said van der Sloot, 22, entered their country a couple days after he is suspected of killing Stephany Flores in a Lima hotel, where he was staying.
Flores' body was found clothed, face down on the hotel room floor Wednesday, abrasions on her face and body, and signs of trauma, Peruvian Police Gen. Cesar Guardia said. An autopsy is in progress.
Van der Sloot was in Lima for a poker tournament, police said, and appears with Flores in a video at a casino. A hotel employee spotted the pair around 5 a.m.
"We have an interview with a worker at the hotel who says she saw this foreigner with the victim enter his room," said Guardia.
The police say van der Sloot fled the hotel, alone, four hours later.
Chilean authorities believe he is still in their country and are searching hotels in the tiny towns of its northern provinces.
The May 30 murder comes exactly five years after Natalee Holloway, an 18-year-old Alabama woman disappeared in Aruba, the Caribbean island where van der Sloot's now deceased father was a prominent judge.
Twice, Aruban police arrested van der Sloot only to release him over a lack of evidence.
In 2008, van der Sloot was caught on camera, confessing to a Dutch crime reporter that he dumped Holloway's drunk, unconscious body into the ocean.
The judge in the case, however, declined to re-arrest van der Sloot.
Holloway's mother, Beth Twitty, is aware of the latest murder rap against van der Sloot, but had no comment, a family spokeswoman told The Associated Press.
