Dutchman Joran van der Sloot, suspected of involvement in the disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway, is the chief suspect in the murder of a young Peruvian woman, the foreign affairs ministry confirmed on Wednesday evening, according to the Telegraaf.

An international arrest warrant has been issued for Van der Sloot, who is suspected of killing Stephany Tatiana Flores Ramirez, 21. She disappeared on Friday and was found dead on Wednesday morning at a hotel in Lima.
The woman was last seen in the company of Van der Sloot, who was arrested and released twice in connection with the Holloway vanishing, according to local media reports.

Five years
According to local police reports, Flores was found beaten and stabbed in a room booked in van der Sloot’s name. ABC news said officials believe she was killed on on Monday. Holloway went missing five years ago on May 30.
Nos tv reports that Van der Sloot travelled to Peru via Colombia on May 14 and took part in a poker tournament last weekend. Van der Sloot is now thought to have been in Chile since Monday, the Telegraaf said.
Van der Sloot has made two alleged confessions about what happened to Holloway at the end of her holiday on the Caribbean island of Aruba where he lived. Earlier this year, he told a German tv show she fell over the balcony of a friend’s home.