Profiler Claims van der Sloot Is Hedging Against Extradition

(June 2) -- While many may have been shocked to learn that Joran van der Sloot, a longtime suspect in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway, is now the prime suspect in the slaying of a Peruvian woman, one top criminal profiler says today's news is not at all surprising.

"[Van der Sloot] is behaving in the manner this profiler would expect," Pat Brown, founder of the Pat Brown Criminal Profiling Agency, told AOL News. The Washington, D.C.-based profiler went on to allege that van der Sloot "has been circling the globe for years now, enjoying sexual adventures without any penalty."

Peruvian police are seeking van der Sloot in connection with the slaying of Stephany Tatiana Flores Ramirez, 21, who was found stabbed to death in a Lima hotel room this morning. The victim was reportedly seen with van der Sloot at a local casino on Saturday night, and hotel employees say they saw the couple together on Sunday, the day she is believed to have died.

The hotel room in which her body was found was also reportedly registered in van der Sloot's name.

Though a motive in the killing remains unclear, Brown believes the woman was likely slain because she "refused to cooperate" with the killer's desires, or somehow insulted him. The person responsible "may well have thought she deserved to die," Brown said.

Van der Sloot has not yet been arrested. According to ABC News, immigration officials say he departed Peru on Monday; he is believed to be en route to Argentina.

To Brown's mind, that suggests "he's likely running to where he feels the legal system there will prevent him from being extradited and prosecuted."

Even as authorities hunt for van der Sloot, Brown said, they should still be concerned: Whoever is responsible for Ramirez's death is "certainly predisposed to committing more crimes of the Natalee Holloway type," Brown said.

The day police say Ramirez was killed was also the five-year anniversary of the disappearance of Holloway, an 18-year-old woman from Mountain Brook, Ala., who vanished while on a trip to Aruba. She was last seen leaving an Oranjestad nightclub with van der Sloot, then a 17-year-old Dutch honors student living in Aruba. Her body has never been found.

From the outset, van der Sloot allegedly has made multiple confessions in the case:

• In June 2005, he told police he and two friends went for a car ride with Holloway and then dropped her off at her hotel, where they last saw her stumbling toward the lobby.
• Roughly five days later, van der Sloot gave a slightly different version to police, claiming he and Holloway had gone to a beach, but that she had insisted on being left on there when he decided to catch a ride home.
• In February 2006, a Dutch television station aired a hidden-camera confession that van der Sloot had made, claiming Holloway had died of a drug overdose at the beach, and that he and a friend had dumped her body at sea. Following the broadcast van der Sloot acknowledged making the comments, but said they were lies.
• In November 2008, van der Sloot told Fox News host Greta Van Susteren that he had sold Holloway for $10,000 to a man he met in a casino. After the interview, van der Sloot called Fox and said he had been lying.
• In March 2010, yet another statement van der Sloot had made to the media was made public. In a 2009 interview with the German news agency RTL, van der Sloot said Holloway "fell" from a balcony and was killed. He hid Holloway's body in a swamp because he was afraid of being prosecuted, according to reports of the interview, which never aired.

Why all the confessions? Brown believes it could be a sign of a "sexual psychopath" who is looking for attention.

In regard to the Peruvian case, the International Criminal Police Organization has issued an arrest warrant for van der Sloot. The victim's father, local businessman and race car driver Ricardo Flores, said he hopes it won't take authorities long to track down their suspect.

"I don't want to see more people suffering," Flores told BNO News.

But van der Sloot's attorney, Joseph Tacopina, told CNN that people should avoid jumping to conclusions in the case.

"If history teaches us any lesson from [the] van der Sloot-Holloway case, it's that there have been way too many false facts that have been leaked and rumors that have been proven untrue," Tacopina said.

"We need to take a step back," he said. "I have not been contacted and the family has not been contacted. Joran has not been asked by anyone to surrender."