Joran van der Sloot is a sick man with a bad case of the munchies.
The details of his alleged confession to the murder of a 21-year-old woman inside a hotel room in Peru included sipping an espresso and chowing down on sponge cake while the bloodied body of Stephany Flores lay on the floor just a few feet away, according to a chilling new report.
Van der Sloot had even debated whether to take the body with him and dump it in the ocean.
“I was going to use one of the traveling bags to take the body out of the hotel, but I didn’t do it because I was afraid that I would be detained leaving the hotel with my baggage and not paying the bill,” Van der Sloot told police, according to the Peruvian daily newspaper La Republica. “I didn’t because I was too afraid to be confronted.”
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The 22-year-old also swallowed several amphetamine pills as he pondered what to do next.
Van der Sloot then showered, got dressed and fled the room, just three hours after he’d arrived at the hotel with Flores, and fled, according to surveillance video released by authorities in Peru.
Van der Sloot had thought about getting rid of the body by dumping it in the ocean, cops believe after finding maps charting currents in his backpack when he was arrested in Chile a few days later.
This comes as two federal law enforcement officials say US authorities paid van der Sloot $15,000 in a sting operation and delayed arresting him because they were trying to help build a murder case against him in the 5-year-old unsolved slaying of Natalee Holloway in Aruba.
During that delay, van der Sloot arrived in Lima, Peru, on May 14 from Colombia and authorities said he has confessed to last week’s killing of a 21-year-old business student in his hotel room there.
The law enforcement officials say the investigation into Holloway’s unsolved murder was revived about six weeks ago when van der Sloot reached out to an individual close to Holloway’s mother in Alabama and requested $250,000 in exchange for disclosing the burial site of Holloway’s body on the island of Aruba.
Van der Sloot apparently killed Flores after she had snooped on his lap top information that tied him to Holloway’s disappearance.
With AP