Who Stephany Flores Ramírez was and her full tragic story, after Natalee Holloway Netflix doc

Netflix’s new Natalee Holloway documentary tells the story of the 18‑year‑old who went missing while on a high school graduation trip to Aruba in May 2005, but also covers another woman’s tragic murder: Stephany Flores Ramírez. 

The woman from Peru was killed by Joran van der Sloot in 2010, the same man who confessed to killing Holloway in 2023, 18 years after she disappeared. Van der Sloot is currently serving a 28-year jail sentence in Peru after being convicted of Ramírez’s death. 

Taken: Natalee Holloway only skims over Ramírez’s story. Here’s who she was, and all the details the documentary left out about her. 

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Who was Stephany Flores Ramírez?

Stephany was a 21-year-old business student from Lima, Peru, who was studying at the University of Lima at the time of her death. She was also working at her family’s events promotion business. 

Born on 22nd July 1988, she is the daughter of Ricardo Flores Chipoco, a well-known Peruvian businessman, entrepreneur, politician and former race car driver.

She was married to a man called Luis Felipe Antonio Vera Lomparte when she died. They got married on 1st March 2008, according to official records. 

Stephany has one brother, Enrique Flores, who described her as “friendly, sociable and cheerful”. He also said she loved football and would organise football games with friends in the garden of their family home. 

She met Joran van der Sloot at a Peru casino 

The 21-year-old was at a casino in Lima on 30th May 2010 when she met Joran van der Sloot while playing poker. Security footage from the night showed her cashing in chips worth $10,000. They then left the casino together and went to his hotel room at Hotel Tac. This was the last time Stephany was seen alive, exactly five years after Natalee Holloway disappeared. 

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According to Van der Sloot’s confession, the pair were playing poker together on his laptop when a message came up on the screen about the Holloway case, where someone said: “I’m going to kill you, you little Mongoloid.” He claimed she got upset about his connection to the case and “struck” him with her fist on the left side of his head. After that, he attacked her. 

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“In that moment impulsively, with my right elbow, I hit her in the face exactly on top of the nose,” he said in his confession, according to transcripts obtained by CNN. “There was a lot of blood everywhere. I think she started to faint. It affected me so that I grabbed her from the neck and strangled her for a minute.”

Van der Sloot continued. “At that moment I thought, ‘What am I doing?’ I got up thinking, ‘What am I going to do now?’ I had blood on my shirt. There was also blood on the bed, so, I took my shirt and put it on her face, pressing hard, until I killed Stephany.”

When asked what his motive was, he said: “I lost control of my actions. I didn’t know what I was doing.”

Joran van der Sloot was convicted of her murder

Van der Sloot pleaded guilty to Ramírez’s murder in January 2012, and also confessed to robbing her. He was sentenced to 28 years in jail on 13th January 2012, and this sentence was upheld on appeal in 2013. 

Joran has since received an additional 18-year prison sentence in Peru in January 2023 for trafficking cocaine while incarcerated. Peru has a 35-year maximum prison term, so he is due to be released in 2045. 

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