• Joran van der Sloot
• Natalee Holloway Case
• Natalee Holloway
• Stephany Flores Ramirez
• Peru

Timeline: Natalee Holloway case

Van der Sloot and Flores had returned to his hotel room after meeting at a casino. Officials say van der Sloot went out to get some coffee and found her reading his computer when he returned.

He became enraged, investigators said, and beat her to death. Her neck was broken.

The Dutch citizen broke down in tears when he offered his confession in front of investigators and his attorney, Peruvian officials said.

Van der Sloot’s attorney in Peru could not be reached for comment Tuesday.

Van der Sloot, 22, was arrested twice in connection with Holloway’s disappearance in Aruba but was released for lack of evidence. He has denied any involvement and has not been charged.

He is slated to take authorities on a re-enactment of the crime at the Hotel Tac, where he was staying. Flores’ body was found in the room registered to van der Sloot. Video from hotel security cameras show van der Sloot and Flores entering his room at 5:33 a.m. on May 30. Her emerged alone and left the hotel more than three hours later, the video shows.

He was arrested in Chile on Thursday and returned to Peru on Friday.

At van der Sloot’s first court appearance, the judge may set a hearing date and order additional investigations.

The Peruvian justice system often issues a lighter sentence in cases where the suspect confesses.

Van der Sloot could get up to 35 years in prison. There is no death penalty or life sentence in Peru.

A Peruvian police report leaked Monday said Flores was found in van der Sloot’s hotel room floor, half-dressed. The report also provides new details about the hours before Flores’ body was found.

According to the document, the Hotel Tac received a call from someone looking for van der Sloot about 11 p.m. June 1. The receptionist forwarded the call, but no one answered. The hotel worker assumed that van der Sloot was asleep because the room key was with him and not the front desk.

About an hour later, according to the police report, the receptionist noticed that van der Sloot owed money for two nights and went up to his room, where her knocks went unanswered. The television was blaring, so the hotel employee figured he was resting, the report says.

Afterward, the hotel supervisor told the employee to go back to van der Sloot’s room and enter using a spare key. When the employee went in, she found Flores’ body on the floor, dressed in a black T-shirt and red panties, half-covered with a piece of white clothing, the police report said.

Flores had bled from her nose, the report said.

The hotel employee became frightened and went to alert her supervisor and the police, turning off the television and lights on her way out of the room, the report said.

The developments in the van der Sloot case come as the Natalee Holloway Resource Center opens Tuesday in Washington. The nonprofit center is located at the National Museum of Crime and Punishment. Natalee’s mother, Beth Holloway, is scheduled to attend the opening.

The center says it will provide families of missing persons help with managing their crisis and to give students advice on traveling safely.