After confessing to the murder of 21-year-old Peruvian business student Stephany Flores, Joran van der Sloot has recanted his confession Monday, citing that investigative authorities tricked him into saying he committed the murder.
“I was very scared and confused during the interrogations and wanted to get away,” van der Sloot told a Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf from his prison cell. “In my blind panic, I signed everything but didn’t even know what it said.”
22-year-old van der Sloot said authorities promised him a transfer back to the Netherlands if he confessed, and intimidated him into confessing to the May 30th murder of Flores in Lima, Peru.
“I was really scared during the interrogations, I was confused and just wanted it to end,” van der Sloot told De Telegraaf. “They kept telling me, ‘If you sign these papers you’ll be extradited to the Netherlands’.”
His mother Anita van der Sloot spoke with the same Dutch newspaper, as well, and said, “He is not a monster. He’s sick in the head but wanted no help.”
van der Sloot’s mother admitted that her son was set to be held in a psychiatric hospital before heading to Peru and added that he had “nothing to do with the disappearance of Natalee Holloway in 2005.” But, “Stephany, he may have killed.”
van der Sloot’s mother told the newspaper that her son was addicted to poker, told lies and had psychological stress issues following the heart attack death of his father.
Anita van der Sloot supported her son through his double arrests after Holloway’s disappearance, though, admits that now, she “will not visit him in his cell … I cannot embrace him… I believed Joran, despite his many lies.”
Joran van der Sloot reportedly shares a cell at the infamous Castro Castro prison with a Peruvian general charged with corruption, as well as a Columbian assassin.
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