Despite going broke, the Florida radiologist who has been funding Joran van der Sloot's legal bills is prepared to spend her last pennies on trips to Peru to fight for his freedom, RadarOnline.com can exclusively report.

Mary Hamer, 55, of Lake City, Florida, revealed to RadarOnline.com in an exclusive interview that she has spent so much of the salary from her part-time job footing the suspected killer's defense that she even had to dig into her retirement fund to make ends meet.

"It is a big financial burden for me," Hamer told RadarOnline.com. "I live in a small modest apartment, I drive an eight-year-old car. I buy my clothes from thrift shops.

Confessed killer Joran van der Sloot rejected a multi-million dollar interview offer from the media before making his startling decision to sue the government of Chile for $13 million, alleging his human rights were violated when they extradited him, RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned.

The Dutch man is currently in a Lima, Peru prison awaiting trial for the murder of student Stephany Flores in May 2010, and remains the prime suspect in the killing of an Alabama teen in Aruba exactly five years earlier.

As van der Sloot hopes to cash in with a big pay day, RadarOnline.com can exclusively reveal that he recently turned down a whopping $2 million for an interview with a Dutch media outlet.

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Joran Van Der Sloot has been held in a Peruvian prison since last June without ever going before a judge, and now his lawyer is demanding the Dutch murder suspect be heard or released, RadarOnline.com has learned.

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Van der Sloot was arrested on suspicion he murdered Peruvian student Stephany Flores just hours after meeting her.  He initially confessed to the crime but later recanted, saying he'd been coerced and had spoken to the police without the benefit of an interpreter.

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Under Peruvian law, the courts can take up to 18 months to bring an accused before a judge but that's not good enough for van der Sloot's lawyer Maximo Altez.

In an interview Friday with Radio Netherlands Worldwide, Altez says he's not confident that the court will come up with an interpreter even within that 18 month-long window.  He wants his client released now, pending whenever he's eventually called before a judge.

The demand is outraging Stephany's father Ricardo Flores, who told the radio network, "The murderer has not said anything up to now, so why does he think he can demand his release."

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Van der Sloot is also suspected in the 2005 disappearance of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway.  He was the last person known to see her alive in Aruba where she was vacationing with friends.

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As RadarOnline.com previously reported, Flores was murdered in Peru five years to the day of Holloway's disappearance.

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