Joran van der Sloot was in Peru to take part in the Latin American Poker Tour – which began yesterday – but had to pull out of the tournament due to murder. Unfortunately, it was not his murder, but the murder of another young woman.

You might remember Joran van der Sloot. Almost everyone on this planet is convinced that he murdered Natalee Holloway in 2005. Van der Sloot, who is a Dutch citizen, was arrested twice and once confessed to murdering her while she was on a cruise to Aruba. He later retracted the statement. No charges were ever filed against van der Sloot due to insufficient evidence.

Now, five years to the day after Holloway’s disappearance, 21-year-old Stephany Flores was murdered in a Lima hotel. Shortly before her death, Ms. Flores can be seen with van der Sloot in video footage taken at a Lima casino.

Lima’s police chief General Cesar Guardia says that “homicide personnel are convinced, due to the incriminating evidence we’ve found, that this Dutch citizen is the person responsible for killing Stephany Flores.” Guardia also said that van der Sloot fled the country to Chile the day after the murder.

In addition to being sought by Peruvian police, Interpol has issued an international arrest warrant for van der Sloot. Once he is in custody, you can bet that the Dutch will try to take another shot at him for the Holloway murder as well (Aruba is a territory of the Netherlands).

Back in 2005, van der Sloot first met Holloway while at an Aruba casino for a poker tournament. It seems that playing poker, meeting young women at casinos, and then fleeing after they are murdered are tough habits for van der Sloot to break.

Online gambling mogul and founder of Pokerlistings.com was found shot dead while visiting Sweden last Monday. Police are unaware of the motivation or the number of assailants involved.

“At this point, we do not have any details other than he was found dead in his bed on the morning of August 3^rd. He had been shot.” said a statement from PokerListings.

Oscarsson, who was only 36, was found shot dead at his family home in his bed on Tuesday morning. He had been on vacation with some relatives, his two-year old son included in Sweden. Police say that the attacker entered through an open window and forensics suggest it was most definitely a murder. According to some online poker blogs and media reports, Oscarsson had received numerous threats on his life. He was known in the world of online gambling for being a “tough negotiator.”

“For all of us who began building PokerListings with Andreas several years ago, he was a close friend and we will miss him dearly,” read a statement from Pokerlistings. “Andreas left the operational side of PokerListings just over two years ago, shortly after the birth of his son, and had moved into an advisory role, drawing on his vast experience to lead the current team when needed.”

Perhaps the most upsetting detail of all in the online gambling tycoon’s murder is that authorities are suggesting that the murder may have been witnessed by Oscarsson’s own son. Despite several relatives being in the house at the time, all have been questioned but none are suspected in the murder. Currently it is believed that the murder was a result of a business dispute, but details are still fuzzy.