IS JORAN VAN DER SLOOT A CRAZY PSYCHOPATH?

Joran Van der Sloot is accused of killing Stephany Flores on the 5th anniversary of the disappearance of Natalee Holloway.

May 30th. The date cannot be a coincidence.

The date had to have been chosen.

Five years. To the day. The fifth anniversary.

Beth Twitty, Natalee Holloway's mother, arrived in Aruba on May 31st. For an innocent person, that might be the day his nightmare began. That's the day he was first confronted about the whereabouts of Natalee. The day he became a suspect.

Or he might remember the day he was first arrested.

Or the day he was set free.

Or the day his father died.

There are so many dates to remember, some with sadness, some with a celebration.

Yet the date when Natalee was last seen alive seems to be the one seared into his memory.

Why, if he had nothing to do with it?

He was in Peru for a poker tournament. It seems he bankrolled his gambling in the tournament with $25,000. he received as a downpayment for promising to tell about how Natalee died and where her body is.

Obviously, he was quite anxious to be in that casino in that country on that day.

(Anita Van der Sloot, his mother, told the press through her lawyer that she spoke with him after he was arrested in Chili. He "certainly did not confess", she said, and expressed her shock that he's being accused of this murder.)

Five years previous, to the day, he left a casino in Aruba with Natalee and she was never seen again.

He left the casino in Peru with Stephany and she was never seen alive again.

Remember the original story Joran told about taking Natalee to his house, where he had a separate apartment? Maybe that was true.

He took Stephany to his room in a hostel.

Where she was later found dead. Murdered.

The latest reports are that Stephany's neck had been broken. Doctors report it is not easy to break someone's neck, that it takes a lot of strength. One doctor suggested that to break someone's neck, you'd wrap your arm around her neck and then bend it.

Joran Van der Sloot is 6'3" tall. Much taller than most women. It is easy for him to wrap his arm around a woman's neck. In fact, it is very common for men as tall as he to playfully put his arm around a woman in that manner.

Might he have broken Natalee's neck, in his room, and then run to his father for help in disposing of the body? His father was widely quoted as saying if there's no body they don't have a case. He seemed quite confident Natalee's body would never be found.

Joran Van der Sloot has confessed, according to Peruvian authorities. He is reported as saying he didn't want to do it.

His defense seems to be that he left to get coffee and Stephany used his computer to learn who he is and of his involvement in the Natalee Holloway case.

He claims that when he returned, she confronted him and he was angry because she had invaded his privacy. And oh, yes, she hit him first.

How did she know his password to get his computer up?

If the police learn there'd been a computer search about him, they might also consider he'd decided to 'play' with his victim, terrorizing her before killing her. Showed her who he is. Told her he'd killed Natalee. Told her how he'd killed Natalee. By breaking her neck. Like this...

And where does privacy begin and end? It was his room. He'd invited her in.

Also, if Stephany had been able to use his computer to learn about him, and she'd read about his involvement in the Natalee Holloway disappearance, would she have stayed right there to confront him, or would she have run out of there as fast as she could?

Psychopaths think they won't get caught. They think they're smarter than everyone. Joran Van der Sloot will continue to believe that, even as he sits in a Peruvian jail. He thinks he'll find a way out of this. His mother is reportedly in Peru now. A Peruvian newspaper is reporting he told his mother his confession is not true, that he was coerced into confessing.

When is it a mother's responsibility to consider the victims? When is a mother supposed to realize her son is a danger to society? As awful as it is for a mother to see her son in prison, should she admit that's where he belongs?

And was Joran Van der Sloot celebrating the anniversary of Natalee's death? By repeating it? By killing another woman in as close a manner as circumstances allowed?

More information is coming out of Peru. From a transcript of Van der Sloot's confession is his statement that Stephany went to his room with him to play poker on line.

He also admits: "I was explaining to her that five years ago I was accused in the case of a missing girl...all of a sudden she hit me."

I wrote earlier, and left it in, a few paragraphs back, that maybe he was 'playing' with Stephany, cat and mouse, enjoying himself by torturing her. The quote above makes that seem likely.

The reports that Anita Van der Sloot was in Peru  turned out to be false. It seems she had planned to go to Peru, then changed her mind.

In an interview for Dutch TV, she is reported as saying Joran, even as a young boy, often snuck out of the house at night. That statement provokes a question: Then why did his parents give him his own separate apartment, away from the house?

Certainly they didn't for a moment imagine he was a psychopath capable of murder; certainly Anita Van de Sloot is not responsible for her son's crimes. Giving Joran his own separate apartment was their solution to a problem.

They could not control him. They could not make him obey family rules. Instead, they thought the solution was to let him come and go from his own apartment, rather than leaving the family home. He was probably leaving the house unlocked.

It wouldn't be surprising to learn Joran Van der Sloot himself suggested having his own apartment would solve the problem. He seems to have been quite manipulative.

"My son is sick in the head", Anita is also reported to have stated, though she wrongly believes it was the stresses of the Natalee Holloway disappearance which caused his 'sickness'.

If he killed Stephany Flores, Anita said, "He'll have to pay the price". It seems she's accepting the truth, little by little.

She also stated, "I can't cry for Joran like I did for Paul. I hope he gets psychological help".

Joran once showed his temper on film when he threw a glass of wine into the eyes of a reporter who'd been interviewing him on TV.

Joran had left Aruba and hadn't seen his parents for a long time before his father died. He went home to Aruba for the funeral and stayed. Within four months he was off to Peru and another dead girl.

His mother has said he was scheduled to go to a hospital for psychiatric help when he, instead, left his mother a note and took off for the poker tournament.

It sounds as though he was giving his mother a hard time, and she was insisting he get help. Maybe his father had always shielded her from Joran.

Could it be that his father was the only one who knew the truth about where Natalee Holloway's body is, and when his father died, he was free? Free to kill again. Because the only one who knew he had killed once was dead.

It only took him a short time to come up with the idea to continue torturing Natalee's family by saying he'd sell them the information about her death.

On Good Morning America, Anita Van der Sloot said, "I'm not going to visit Joran in Peru. I don't have any feeling that it can add up to anything. I want to keep distance. I think it will bring emotions up that I'm not ready for right now. I'm not a police officer. I'm a Mom."

She knows; she knows.

Commentators continue to ask, "What was his motive? Was it robbery? Was it rape?"

Why don't they realize his 'motive' was murder? There are people who murder because that is what they like to do.

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