Authorities in Santiago, Chile detained Joran van der Sloot as the prime suspect in the killing of a 21-year-old Peruvian women, Stephany Tatiana Flores Ramirez. She was found dead Wednesday morning in a Lima hotel room registered under van der Sloot’s name, according to ABC news.

Authorities believe van der Sloot escaped Peru via bus into Chile just a few hours after police accused him of the murder. Van Der Sloot is primarily known for being the main suspect in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway in Aruba, May 2005.

Authorities in Chile confirmed that van de Sloot had entered the country Monday with no record of him leaving. Police had been searching hotels and homes throughout northern Chile before detaining him in Santiago. The Dutch government said Interpol had issued an international warrant for van der Sloot’s arrest.

Peruvian police General, Cesar Guardia said in a conference that van der Sloot was in Peru for a poker tournament. Van der Sloot and Flores were spotted in a video taken at a Lima casino early Sunday morning and one of the hotel employees reported seeing the two together entering the hotal around 5:00am. Van der Sloot departed the hotel solo four hours later.

Peruvian authorities found Flores lying face down, fully clothed on the hotel room floor. Police said she had been beaten and stabbed.

Stephany Flores’ is believe to have been murdered exactly 5 years after the disappearance of Natalee Holloway in Aruba on May 30, 2005.The Huffington post reported that a spokeswoman for Holloway’s  family told the Associated Press that the family was aware of the development in Peru but would have no comment.

Many believe Stephany Tatiana Flores Ramirez murder could have been avoided had Joran van der Sloot been arrested 5 years ago for Natalee Holloway. As many believed before that he had gotten away with murder (even confessed on tape to it), van der Sloot may now be out of  ‘get out of jail free’ cards.

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   velveteena16 Joran van der Sloot should have been in prison 5 years ago after what happened to Natalee Holloway! 03 Jun 2010 from Twitter for BlackBerry®
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   Candirenee So glad that Joran van der Sloot is locked up. Too bad he didn’t get locked up 5 years ago, this young lady would still be alive. 03 Jun 2010 from Echofon
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   LisaBloom Joran van der Sloot apprehended. Killings exactly 5 years apart? He may be a serial killer. Only this time police have a crime scene. 03 Jun 2010 from web
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   laurenpetrowski Joran van der Sloot taken into police custody in Chile. Exactly 5 years after disappearance of Natalee Holloway 03 Jun 2010 from OpenBeak
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   Rhymestyle So Joran Van Der Sloot, guy who murder Natalie Holloway 5 years ago and got away with it in Aruba, murdered a new girl? #LifeFail 03 Jun 2010 from Twitter for BlackBerry®
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   FOX29philly The woman who may have been killed by Joran van der Sloot in Peru died almost 5 years – to the hour – after Natalee… http://bit.ly/bxqRdp 03 Jun 2010 from Facebook

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It doesn’t take much to see where news is breaking these days.

In the latest instances of a growing trend, a shooting in Washington, D.C. Wednesday, and explosions in Jakarta Friday were reported on Twitter by several accounts more than 15 minutes before traditional media reports.

Not only is mainstream media losing its edge, but the “breaking news” phenomenon in general is losing its value, according to Frédéric Filloux of Monday Note.

Filloux writes:

Therefore, the equation becomes clear-cut: either the Mainstream Media (MSM) recapture breaking news by twittering, or microblogging in some fashion, or the crowd will take care of business. Examples abound. As the internet pundit Clay Shirky recalls it in this TED presentation, the recent (last May) earthquake in China was widely reported by inhabitants using their cell phone for taking pictures, video and sending tweets. “The BBC got their first wind of the Chinese quake from Twitter, says Shirky. Twitter announced the quake several minutes before the US Geological Survey had anything online. The last time China had a quake, it took officials three months to admit it had happened”.

In other words, despite the immediacy of the 24/7 news cycle, traditional outlets are being trumped by a real-time Web — Twitter users reporting from the scene, Web sites that aren’t afraid to run on a single source, and blogs that may have questionable ethics yet break news anyway.

Exclusives are hard to come by, and when someone does break news, it’s usually seconds or minutes before the next outlet reports it (if Twitter hasn’t already). That means that MSM outlets are losing the edge on breaking news they’ve held for so long.

Without quick adaptation, they may lose viewers and readers altogether, who will go elsewhere for their breaking news fix. And that could be a problem.