LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peruvian police say the Dutchman Joran van der Sloot has confessed to killing a young woman in his Lima hotel room last week.
Police Colonel Abel Gamarra told The Associated Press early Tuesday that van der Sloot confessed during an interrogation.
Van der Sloot was also the prime suspect in the 2005 disappearance of an American teenager on the Caribbean island of Aruba.
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