Bracketed by crimes: Van der Sloot's last 5 years (AP) | J-H Post

At age 22, Van der Sloot is now a caged animal. He sits in a bleak Peruvian prison, where he fears his fellow inmates. After requesting isolation, he shares a cellblock with a reputed Colombian murderer-for-hire. .... Separately, Amesz said on his blog that a close friend of Van der Sloot's told him Joran had run out of money, didn't know how he'd pay his hotel bill and was hungry. In the Peru confession, Van der Sloot says he took the equivalent of $300 from Flores' ...