Joran van der Sloot in Tac Hotel Hallway

“El Comercio,” a Peruvian newspaper, has a video (thanks, Jade!) of Joran in the hallway of the Tac Hotel the day Stephany Flores was believed to be murdered at 8:35 am. The narrator speaks in Spanish, however, but it is still interesting to watch his behavior. The headline for the story in the paper translate to something like, “The Dutch citizen wanted to cover up his crime with a trick that involved the TAC hotel staff.” You can see the translated article here.

Joran comes out of the room with two cups of coffee in his hand, and appears to check the door a couple of times immediately after exiting the room to make sure the door is locked. Then watch Joran act like he is knocking at the door, though he never touches it. He then looks around and pulls hard on the door again, as if to check that is it in fact locked. He never acts as if he is surprised or mad, like you would expect, if he locked himself out of the room by accident.

Watch as he continues to fake knocks again and looks around only to check the door again. Joran finally leaves and at one point, and we can see him look straight into the security camera, which tells us he knew it was there. Perhaps he thought it would be grainy and not clear? If so, he underestimated it, didn’t he?

After two minutes, Joran appears once more, and this time he has the hotel staff let him in the room. She doesn’t appear to even look in the room and then Joran enters.

By the article title, I suspect they believe Joran was contemplating pulling some shenanigans and perhaps hoping to have the staff discover Stephany’s body, but he decided against it, perhaps when she didn’t discover Flores.

It’s fascinating to see inside the mind of a liar, isn’t it? And yet very creepy!!

I’ve written extensively on Joran van der Sloot. In the search box to the right, type in his name to see all of my posts come up in Google.