A Dutch citizen has confessed to Peruvian authorities to killing a woman in a Lima hotel room last week.
Government authorities said Joran van der Sloot admitted under questioning late Monday that he murdered 21-year-old Stephany Flores. Reports say Flores was found dead last Tuesday with a broken neck.
A videotape showed her at a Lima casino with van der Sloot last month. Authorities in Peru say her body was discovered later in a Lima hotel where van der Sloot had stayed and that she had been stabbed.
Van der Sloot had traveled to Peru for a poker tournament.
The 22-year-old Dutchman also remains a suspect in the 2005 disappearance of an American teenager in Aruba.
Investigators say Flores was killed exactly five years after the May 30, 2005 disappearance of American Natalee Holloway during a school trip to the Caribbean island of Aruba. Her body has never been found.
Van der Sloot was twice arrested in the highly publicized disappearance of the 18-year-old American woman. Prosecutors said there was not enough evidence to charge anyone.
Some information for this report was provided by AP and AFP.
