Joran van der Sloot, the Dutch sociopath who killed Natalee Holloway and Peruvian student Stephany Flores, has filed a $10 million lawsuit against Flores's father. He once tried to extort $250,000 from Holloway's family for information about her remains.

Joran van der Sloot, the longtime main suspect in the 2005 disappearance of American student Natalee Holloway in Aruba, has been officially charged with murder in the death of Stephany Flores, who was murdered in Peru last year.

Here's some Nancy Grace-nip you'll be hearing a lot more about in the coming weeks: Robyn Gardner is a 35-year-old Maryland woman who took off recently on a vacation to Aruba with a man she barely knew: Gary Giordano, 50, also from Maryland, whom she had met online. Gardner has been missing since last Tuesday, and Giordano — who it turns out has a criminal record and a history of domestic violence—is now in custody.

Before suspected murderer and confirmed creep Joran van der Sloot allegedly killed 21-year-old Stephany Flores in Peru last year, he was tapped out from gambling and considered selling his services for some quick cash. The mad Dutchman was racking up debts with a hotel and "others," according to the National Enquirer. Things got so bad for van der Sloot that he allegedly wrote to a friend, "I'm in such a serious situation that I would prostitute myself in return for help."

Likely-murderous Dutchman Joran van der Sloot — facing a first-degree murder charge for killing a young Peruvian woman, Stephany Flores last year — intends to use a "violent emotion" defense. Van der Sloot's lawyer says he lost it when he caught Flores looking at Natalee Holloway stuff on his laptop. According to the AP:

The lady network has had success with the Holloway story before, so they're going again. Great. Also today: a show gets canceled, Paul Rudd is the king of Ireland, and Kim Kardashian takes a stab at legitimacy.

Accused murderer Joran Van der Sloot got a surprise this week when Natalee Holloway's mother, Beth Holloway-Twitty, snuck into Peru's Castro Castro Prison to see him. When asked about Natalee's murder, Van der Sloot handed her his lawyer's business card.

In an interview with Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf, Joran Van der Sloot says he extorted money from missing teen Natalee Holloway's parents for the location of their daughter's body, because they "have been making my life tough for five years."

The National Enquirer reports Joran Van der Sloot, who's practically confessed to two murders including American tourist Natalee Holloway in 2005, is also being investigated for the disappearance of girls he recruited as sex workers in Thailand. What a peach!

Joran van der Sloot is reportedly seeking $1 million for his first TV tell-all.

International playboy, and likely murderer Joran van der Sloot bragged to a Dutch newspaper that women are writing him letters in jail with marriage proposals and asking for his sperm. He also expressed no remorse at Stephany Flores' death.

Suspected murderer Joran van der Sloot told a Dutch newspaper that he was "tricked" into confessing to the murder of Stephany Flores Ramirez in Peru last month, and was promised he would be transferred to the Netherlands.

Want to know what it's like to spend a day in Joran van der Sloot's jailhouse slippers? He hangs his clothes on a rack and reads the Bible! He even sleeps on a mattress! CNN got an exclusive tour.

The suspect in the Natalee Holloway murder, Joran Van der Sloot, is looking for a new defense attorney after his Peruvian lawyer quit the case out of fear for his life: "I'm an older person. This isn't for me."

After confessing to murdering a Peruvian woman, Joran van der Sloot has all but confessed to killing Natalee Holloway in Aruba five years ago: He says he knows where her body is, but will only tell the Aruban police. [CNN]

Joran van der Sloot was a prime suspect in Natalee Holloway's 2005 disappearance in Aruba. Now he's confessed to murdering 21 year-old Stephany Flores Ramirez in Peru. Probably a good sign he was also involved in the Holloway case. [CNN]

Recently arrested Natalee Holloway murder suspect Joran van der Sloot, being held in Peru on a separate murder charge, was stabbed in effigy by seven Indian shamans as a "spiritual punishment" outside police headquarters in Lima today. [AP]

Two-time murder suspect Joran van der Sloot has been arrested in Chile.

ABC News is reporting that Joran van der Sloot—once a suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway, who went missing while vacationing in Aruba—is wanted for questioning in the murder of a 21-year-old Lima woman.

For some time we'd heard about someone named John Munson, though we'd never met him. Then on Friday we turned on Jeopardy and saw an ascot-wearing contestant with a phallic signature introduced as a "gadabout". It was John Munson.