Van der Sloot Confession: 'There Was Blood Everywhere'

Murder suspect's Peruvian defense lawyer quits
By Marie Morris,  Newser Staff
Posted Jun 14, 2010 6:45 PM CDT
Van der Sloot Confession: 'There Was Blood Everywhere'
Joran van der Sloot gets a medical check-up at a police station in Tacna, Peru, near the border with Chile, Friday, June 4, 2010.   (AP Photo)

Joran Van der Sloot described Stephany Flores Ramirez's death in grisly detail during his confession— "There was blood everywhere," he recalled—according to a transcript leaked to CNN. They were in his hotel room when Flores read one of his emails, then punched him, and "with my right elbow I hit her in the face exactly on top of the nose," Van der Sloot said.

"I think she started to faint," he said. "It affected me so that I grabbed her from the neck and strangled her for a minute." He continued, "After I responded with hitting her, I feared that she would go to the police and they would detain me for what was an impulsive act. I think I wanted to kill her because I wasn't thinking." Meanwhile, the accused murderer's Peruvian lawyer has quit, saying the case "has created many problems for me." (More Joran Van der Sloot stories.)

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