Joran van der Sloot Retracts Confession, Claims He Was "Tricked"
Posted on Jun 21, 2010 @ 08:42AM
Joran van der Sloot has retracted his murder confession, saying he was “scared and confused” during his interrogation and was “tricked” into saying he killed Stephany Flores Ramirez.
In an interview from his prison cell in Lima, Peru, Joran reportedly told Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf that he was conned into the confession and led to believe he could return to his native Netherlands if he told investigators what they wanted to hear.
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"I was tricked," the 22-year-old Dutchman, who was the prime suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway in Aruba, said. Previously, he admitted to Peruvian authorities that he killed 21-year-old Peruvian business student Stephany on May 30. "I'll explain later how it all happened... in my blind panic, I signed everything, but didn't even know what it said.
"I was very scared and confused during the interrogations and wanted to get away."
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True or not, even those closest to him are doubting his tales. His mother Anita told De Telegraaf on Sunday that her son "lied so much, that we became desperate... He said to me too, 'Mom, I sometimes don't know any more if something is a lie or the truth.' Joran is sick in his head, but he didn't want any help."
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His former girlfriend Melody Granadillo told 20/20 that van der Sloot would often "lie for no apparent reason at all."
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Posted Tue, 07/06/2010 - 4:47pm
Joran is lieing again - he speaks some Spanish and had a translator there when he signed the confession. Maybe he should try breaking the rats neck since he's so good at it! I think this was just another lie - "Poor me" says He!
Posted Tue, 06/22/2010 - 12:45am
Mr. Holloway is on the right track and should continue to scour Aruba,since it is only 6 blocks long, leaving no stone unturned, no person uninterviewed, ...there are those who know and will probably spill the 'beans".
Posted Mon, 06/21/2010 - 6:51pm
If he is cying about a few rats in and out of his toilet, which isn't shared, I wonder how he will feel when the rats are in his butt!!!! and they put him into general population with the tough "hombres".
Posted Mon, 06/21/2010 - 6:46pm
what happens if the judge decides in his favor about his confession? Does this mean they must let him go on a technicality? If appealed, how longwillthat process take? Which has precedence..the murder case or the appeals case?
Posted Mon, 06/21/2010 - 6:43pm
never gonna happen. the murder case has first dibs on his azz.
Posted Mon, 06/21/2010 - 6:55pm
jvs, how does it feel to be "tricked"???? Ask anyone who has ever known you...
Posted Mon, 06/21/2010 - 6:38pm
I seriously doubt that someone who's father was one of his countries most successful lawyers signed off on stuff he didn't bother to read. I think The Peruvian courts will do a good job successfully prosecuting this guy. And good riddance
Posted Mon, 06/21/2010 - 6:10pm
He needs to get his story straight with his mother. Now he is denying it. Mommy is saying he is sick in the head. Will they both flip flop their stories again tomorrow?
Posted Mon, 06/21/2010 - 4:45pm
yes. they're both pathological liars.
Posted Mon, 06/21/2010 - 5:43pm