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Manhunt. >> reporter: when guzman the notorious kingpin was arrested in february of last year after a 13-year manhunt, mexican authorities bragged, they were cracking down hard on major drug traffickers. and promised he would never escape from their maximum security prison. but he did escape in a daring highly sophisticated scheme involving a mile long tunnel beneath the prison wall a major embarrassment for the mexican government. >> they have no control over the powerful drug cartels that oper...

>> reporter: absolutely they are trying to lay most of the blame on tamerlan and make sure he gets life instead of death, painting a picture of a teenager in the tlal of his angry brother. he was a good kid really and were it not for tamerlan none of this would have happened. they showed picture of super max ads, the high security prison where he would go if he gets life in prison. send him here, forget about him. he wont be able to hurt anybody. if you give him the death penalty, youll hear abo...

>> larry: we are back. joran van der sloot arrest in peru is generating all kinds of incredible news. here to talk about it is jean casarez, our correspondent from "in session" our sister network trutv, and she is reporting from lima. what is the latest now? >> reporter: well, the latest, it is official, joran van der sloot goes before a judge next monday. as for the first time a defendant in a murder in a case. and what is going to be happening is that under peruvian law, he has to make a forma...