vander sloot is now officially charged with murdering a young woman in peru. the crime took place five years after natalee holloway mysteriously disappeared in aruba. parading him before the cameras like a prize, police in peru locked up van der sloot last may many the brutal killing of stephanie flores. but no charges until now. prosecutors have officially charged him with murder seeking 30 years in prison. flores was a beautiful 21-year-old business student, daughter of a prominent local businessman. prosecutors say he was after her cash and credit cards targeting her in a casino. the most powerful evidence police say is this surveillance
he s most well known for his involvement in the natalie holloway case. but this time, joren van der sloot has been charged with murder of another woman who was killed five years to the day after natalie holloway vanished. parading him before the cameras like a prize, police in pure rue locked up van der sloot last may in the brutal killing in stephanie florez. but no charges until now. prosecutors have officially charged van der sloot with murder, seeking 30 years in prison. floress was a beautiful, 20-year-old business student, lawyer of a prominent businessman. prosecutors say van der sloot was after her credit cards and photo. you say joran and stephanie walk
of this is because so many civilians are being targeted by the cartels, you are starting to see victims groups, families, relatives of murdered people, starting to form together and starting to pressure politicians in mexico to get more serious about the only real solution to this problem, which is police and judicial reform. we were looking at some of the pictures from your article. one was of that graveyard, just cross upon cross upon cross. give us a sense of the threshold of killing, how that has been lowered quite significantly in mexico. well, as i said, a lot of it has to do with the fact that you re seeing innocent people, for example, there s a movement that has sprung up in the past few months in mexico led by one of mexico s foremost poets. his 24-year-old son, a business student, was murdered with six friends by a group of drug cartel hoodlums and that has really begun to coalesce this
x incapac incapac tated. they re not going to pursue charges. hopefully it s a wake-up call. thank you. for the latest entertainment news scoop.todayshow.com or be a fan on facebook. time for today s news nation gut check. the application for $500 scholarship is turning heads today. the texas-based nonprofit offering a scholarship says that applicants must be, quote, male, and no less than 25% caucasian. the former majority association for equality is the group behind the scholarship, which is exclusively for men though there are women in the picture. members of the group say they are not racist and they don t want to promote racial bigotry. they want to promote financial aid to white men who might not receive it otherwise. william lake is a board member of the organization and business student at texas state university. he joins me live from austin, texas. thank you so much for joining
though, he never really says anything related to either of those two awful cases in which he s suspected. in the case of natalee holloway he says he knows nothing. in the case in peru in which he s suspected of killing a young business student, he says it s not in his best interest to talk about it. he did, plain that he felt he was railroaded into a confession. so when the journalist questioned him and said, okay, does that mean that your confession was false that you murdered this girl? did you kill her? he just wound not answer that question. and that is, i guess, partly to be expected. he says that when the time is right, he will tell the full truth, the absolute truth, he says, before a judge. one thing he did admit to was extortion, of take 25g$,000 from natalee holloway s family in exchange for the location of natalee lol way s holloway s re. he said i wanted to get back at gnat thr