Joran van der Sloot was charged with murder Friday, acting “with ferocity and great cruelty” in the slaying of a 21-year-old student in Lima, Peru, according to court documents.

Van der Sloot also was charged with robbery in last week’s slaying of Stephany Flores Ramirez, according to a release from the Lima Superior Court of Justice.

Judge Juan Buendia Valenzuela ordered that van der Sloot be detained and turned over to penal authorities while awaiting trial. He was transferred to a prison Friday afternoon, America TV showed in a broadcast.

The 22-year-old Dutch citizen was considered the main suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway in Aruba, where van der Sloot lived. He has been arrested twice in connection with the case but was released for lack of evidence.

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Peruvian officials say Joran van der Sloot knows the location of Natalee Holloway’s body but will only talk to Aruban officials. Get the latest tonight on “Nancy Grace,” at 8 pm Eastern on HLN.

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A Dutch man who is the prime suspect in the disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway and detained in Chile in connection with the murder of a young woman in Peru, was accused on Thursday of extortion in Alabama, authorities said.

Joran van der Sloot was accused of offering $250,000 in exchange for information about the whereabouts of Natalee Holloway remains in Aruba, according to the U.S. Attorney in Birmingham.

American teenager Natalee Holloway went missing on May 30, 2005 during a high school graduation trip to Aruba. The case received international media attention, but her body was never found.

Van der Sloot remains the prime suspect in her disappearance, and made several ‘confessions’ during interviews with hidden cameras. Real evidence, however, was never found.

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An Alabama woman accidentally set herself on fire when she and her father were setting a Jeep Liberty on fire that had been repossessed, and the incident was caught on video.

The woman allegedly poured gasoline on the Jeep and set it on fire while it was parked at a residence on Carlisle Cut-Off Road in the Mountainboro community, sheriff’s office investigator Shane Hartley said.

The person who had repossessed the car lives at the residence.

The 2003 Jeep Liberty had been Haleigh Boland’s and was apparently set on fire in retaliation for the repossession. During the incident, she accidentally set herself on fire.

The victim told authorities a video camera had been set up at the residence and captured the incident on tape, Hartley said.

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A U.S. cage fighter ripped out the heart of his training partner while he was still alive after becoming convinced he was possessed by the devil, it was alleged today.

Jarrod Wyatt also cut out Taylor Powell’s tongue and ripped off most of his face in a brutal assault that police said looked like a scene from a horror film, officers said.

They claim they found the 26-year-old standing naked over his friend’s body with parts, including an eyeball, strewn around the blood splattered room in Klamath, California.
Wyatt allegedly told police he had drunk a cup of tea spiked with hallucinogenic mushrooms and became convinced Powell was possessed.

According to an autopsy Powell, 21, bled to death after his heart was ripped out.
The coroner said Powell had been alive when the organ was ripped out after his chest had been sliced open with a knife.
Wyatt told the police he thrown the heart into a fire along with other organs that he had removed from the body, it was claimed.

He allegedly told investigators he cooked the body parts because he was fearful Powell was still alive and he ‘needed to stop the Devil’.

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A Houston, Texas man freed last year after spending 23 years in prison for a rape he did not commit cleared another hurdle this week in his quest to be declared “actually innocent.”

DNA test results released in court Tuesday show that Ernest Sonnier, 47, was not involved in a second rape, which ended in a murder for which he was a suspect in 1985, said Alba Morales, the Innocence Project staff attorney handling the case. She said the test excluded Sonnier from being involved.

In the rape for which he was convicted, DNA testing over the past two years implicated two convicted felons as the perpetrators of the 1985 crime.

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