Joran van der Sloot, the prime suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Natalee Holloway, cracked under police questioning and confessed to murdering Stephany Flores in his Lima hotel room, according to a police official.

According to newspaper La Republica, Van der Sloot admitted to police that he broke Flores’s neck after Flores, without permission, took his laptop and found out he was involved in the murder of an American. “I did not want to do it,” the newspaper reports Van der Sloot as saying. “The girl intruded into my private life.”

The 22-year-old Dutch national could be charged as soon as today, though he may face a reduced prison sentence because he came clean.

Peru does not have the death penalty or life sentences, but Joran still may serve up to 35 years behind bars for his crime.
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