Van der Sloot challenges extradition

Joran van der Sloot, the suspect in the killing of a young woman in a Peruvian hotel room who has also been linked to the disappearance of American Natalee Holloway in Aruba, will appear in court Wednesday morning.

AP - A newspaper has quoted the Dutchman charged with killing a 21-year-old Peruvian woman and suspected in the disappearance of U.S. teenager Natalee Holloway as confessing to extorting money from Holloway's parents.

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 Dutchman suspected in the murder of a Peruvian woman and the disappearance of a US teenager in Aruba five years ago is guaranteed a fair trial in Peru, the country's interior minister said Saturday.The suspect, Joran Van Der Sloot, 22, appeared handcuffed and wearing a bullet-proof vest at the criminal police headquarters in downtown Lima.Van der Sloot was detained in Chile on Thursday, and police handed him over to the Peruvians at the border town of Tacna on Friday.Interior Minister Octavio Salazar thanked the Chileans for promptly arresting the suspect.

A Dutch man linked to a US teenager's disappearance in Aruba five years ago will be turned over to authorities in Peru where he is wanted for the murder of a Peruvian woman, Chilean police said.Joran van der Sloot, 22, was taken into custody Thursday after being stopped in a taxi that was driving him from the coastal resort of Vina del Mar to Santiago, a police source told AFP.Local television aired images of a serious looking van der Sloot as he arrived at Chile's immigration offices in Santiago, accompanied by police but not in handcuffs.

The Dutch suspect in the killing of a US teenager on holiday in Aruba five years ago will go before a judge Monday to face questions about the killing of a young Peruvian woman in May.Joran Van der Sloot, who confessed to killing 21-year-old Stephany Flores, found beaten to death in his Lima hotel room, has been held at the Miguel Castro Castro prison since June 11 after confessing to the crime.His Peruvian lawyer Maximo Altez has told local media that Van der Sloot plans to avoid responding to the judge's questions in a bid to invalidate the police investigation.

A Dutchman has confessed to the murder of Peruvian woman Stephany Flores Ramirez and could be charged as early as Tuesday, police officials told local media.Joran Van Der Sloot, 22, confessed Monday before a prosecutor and his attorney to the May 30 murder of Ramirez, the 21-year-old daughter of a Peruvian former race car driver. Her badly beaten body was found just two days after her murder, in a hotel room in an upmarket area of Peru's capital.Her neck was broken.

A Dutchman suspected of murdering a Peruvian woman last week and linked to the disappearance in Aruba of a US teen five years ago was in custody Friday in Peru after being deported from Chile, an AFP journalist said.Joran van der Sloot, 22, was handed over to Peruvian police by Chilean officials at the border after being flown from the Chilean capital Santiago one day after his arrest.