Officials: van der Sloot was paid by FBI
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100609/.../van_der_sloot
"WASHINGTON ? The FBI thought it was closing in on Joran Van der Sloot in the notorious Natalee Holloway missing-teenager case, paying him at least $15,000 in a sting operation, federal officials said Wednesday. But when the agency delayed his arrest to help build a murder case, he took the money and headed for Peru, where authorities say he now has confessed to killing a different young woman."
This case just gets weirder and weirder by the minute!