Van der Sloot ‘hid Natalee body in coffin’

Magazine article claims Dutch murder suspect has stabbed three men in a Peruvian jail

Joran van der Sloot, implicated in the deaths of Stephany Flores, Natalee Holloway

One of the most celebrated crimes in America could be a step closer to being solved after reports that the prime suspect in the disappearance of teenager Natalee Holloway had admitted killing her and hiding her body in a coffin - alongside the corpse of another man - on the Caribbean island of Aruba.Joran Van Der Sloot, a Dutch national who was arrested over Holloway's disappearance but never charged, apparently made the confession while in prison in Peru. He is being held there over the murder of 21-year-old Stephany Flores, who was found dead in a hotel room in Lima last year with a broken neck.

The claims come from the pages of the American supermarket tabloid National Enquirer which says Van der Sloot gave away details of the crime to other inmates in Peru's Miguel Castro Castro jail.

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