Van der Sloot showing ‘psychopathic tendencies:’ Peru doctors
AFP
July 19, 2010 6:15 PM
LIMA – Joran van der Sloot, the Dutchman indicted in the murder of a Peruvian woman and prime suspect in the disappearance of an American girl in Aruba, is showing “psychopathic tendencies,” a media-quoted medical report said Monday.
Van der Sloot, 22, is being held in a maximum security prison in Lima where he was examined by doctors from Peru’s Institute of Legal Medicine, who found him to be “impulsive and showing psychopathic tendencies,” El Comercio daily said on its website.
The medical report was turned over to judge Carlos Morales Corcova, who is presiding over the case, the daily added.
Van der Sloot is being held pending trial for allegedly beating to death 21-year-old Stephany Flores in his Lima hotel room in May. He is the prime suspect in the 2005 disappearance of 18-year-old Natalee Holloway in the Dutch Caribbean island of Aruba.
A U.S. grand jury in the southern state of Alabama, where Holloway lived, indicted van der Sloot on June 30 for wire fraud and extortion — he allegedly asked Holloway’s mother for 250,000 dollars to tell her where to find her missing daughter’s remains.
Van der Sloot was twice arrested in the Holloway case and spent three months in jail but was never charged. Holloway’s body has never been found.
He traveled in May to Lima, where he allegedly killed Flores when she stumbled on his computer files with information on the Holloway case.
