Joran van der Sloot is a Dutch convicted murderer who is serving a 28-year prison term in Peru for the 2010 murder of 21-year-old Stephany Flores Ramírez. He met her while he was in Peru for a poker tournament. He fled to Chile after committing the crime but was deported back to Peru where he pled guilty to the crime and was handed out his sentence in 2012. He is also the main suspect in the 2005 disappearance of an eighteen-year-old American woman Natalee Holloway in Aruba. In her case, Van der Sloot was arrested twice; however, he was never charged with the murder due to the lack of evidence. Instead, the US prosecutors formally indicted him on counts of extortion and wire fraud after he took $25,000 from Holloway's mother for providing information about Holloway’s body. The information turned out to be false. Holloway's body was never discovered and six years after her disappearance, she was officially declared dead. Both the cases attracted a lot of media attention with the American News magazine Time declaring his arrest as the top crime story of 2010.
