Joran Van Der Sloot's Admirer: Dr. Mary Hamer Says She's The Accused Killer's 'Guardian Angel'

Joran van der Sloot -- who's accused of killing a woman in his Peruvian hotel room last year and was a suspect in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway exactly five years before that in Aruba -- has a not-so-secret admirer.

A radiologist from Florida, Dr. Mary Hamer, 55, has flown to Lima several times to support and counsel the jailed Dutch 24-year-old, because she's his "guardian angel," The Daily Beast reports.

"I'm here to support him spiritually. I'm here to fight for his civil rights and to help him in any other way I can," Hamer said in the Daily Beast interview this month, "because I'm his guardian angel."

Hamer took pity on van der Sloot last year, believing that the young man was framed, according to The Daily Mail, even though he's admitted to the beating and strangling death of 21-year-old Stephany Flores on May 30, 2010.

Van der Sloot -- who was arrested twice for Holloway's disappearance, but released due to lack of evidence -- claims he ended Flores' life, because he found her using his laptop to read about the case that made him infamous.

The day Flores died coincided with the fifth anniversary of the night Holloway went missing while on a high school graduation trip to the Caribbean island. Hamer believes that van der Sloot lashed out violently because he suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, according to her interview with Radar.

Prison apparently had a salutary effect on van der Sloot's disposition. Hamer told Radar that the other inmates were his friends, sending him birthday cakes and that he has few wants.

She realizes that he's not a perfect man. She mentions that she doesn't like that he smokes cigarettes.

After the accused killer's mother and attorney gave their approval, Hamer mailed her first care package to van der Sloot last year.

She's kept up the correspondence and reportedly flew to Lima this month to try to meet van der Sloot. But her hope for a face-to-face meeting was thwarted twice, as she was rebuffed by guards at the prison gates, according to The Daily Mail.

The Daily Mail reported that van der Sloot didn't want to see his guardian angel.

PHOTOS FROM THE UNSOLVED NATALLE HOLLOWAY CASE:

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• Joran van der Sloot

  Joran van der Sloot attends the continuation of his murder trial at San Pedro prison in Lima, Peru, on Jan. 11, 2012. Van der Sloot pleaded guilty on Wednesday to the 2010 murder of a 21-year-old Peruvian woman he met at a Lima casino who was killed five years to the day of the unsolved disappearance in Aruba of an American teen in which he remains the main suspect. (Karel Navarro, AP)

• Joran van der Sloot

  Judges Victoria Montoya, center, Otilia Vargas, left, and Pilar Carbonel speak before the continuation of Joran van der Sloot's trial at San Pedro prison in Lima, Peru, on Jan. 11, 2012. Joran van der Sloot pleaded guilty on Wednesday to the 2010 murder of a 21-year-old Peruvian woman he met at a Lima casino who was killed five years to the day of the unsolved disappearance in Aruba of an American teen in which he remains the main suspect. (Karel Navarro, AP)

• Joran van der Sloot

  Men protest against Joran van der Sloot outside San Pedro prison where his murder trial is held in Lima, Peru, on Jan. 11, 2012. Van der Sloot pleaded guilty on Wednesday to the 2010 murder of a 21-year-old Peruvian woman he met at a Lima casino who was killed five years to the day of the unsolved disappearance in Aruba of an American teen in which he remains the main suspect. The sign at center reads in Spanish "Dutch assassin." (Karel Navarro, AP)

• Joran van der Sloot

  Joran van der Sloot, left, enters the courtroom for the continuation of his murder trial at San Pedro prison in Lima, Peru, Jan. 11, 2012. The Dutch citizen pleaded guilty to in the murder of 21-year-old Stephany Flores on May 30, 2010. (Karel Navarro, AP)

• Joran van der Sloot

  Police officers escort Joran Van der Sloot, second right, during a press conference at a police station in Lima, on June 5, 2010. The young Dutchman wanted in the murder of a 21-year-old Peruvian woman, and who also remains the lone suspect in the 2005 disappearance of U.S. teen Natalee Holloway, arrived in Peru's capital to face justice, after being handed over by Chilean police at the two countries' border. (Karel Navarro, AP)

• Joran van der Sloot

  Joran van der Sloot, center, enters the courtroom for the start of his murder trial held at the San Pedro prison in Lima, Peru, on Jan. 6, 2012. Van der Sloot, 24, stands trial Friday for the 2010 murder of the 21-year-old Stephany Flores, of Peru, nearly seven years after he became the prime suspect in the unsolved disappearance of an American teenager on holiday in Aruba. (Karel Navarro, AP)

• Joran van der Sloot

  Joran van der Sloot, front right, sits in court for the continuation of his murder trial at San Pedro prison in Lima, Peru, Jan. 11, 2012. The Dutch citizen pleaded guilty to in the murder of 21-year-old Stephany Flores on May 30, 2010. (Karel Navarro, AP)

• Joran van der Sloot

  Joran van der Sloot sits in the courtroom as he waits for the continuation of his murder trial to start at San Pedro prison in Lima, Peru, Jan. 11, 2012. Van der Sloot pleaded guilty on Wednesday to the 2010 murder of a 21-year-old Peruvian woman he met at a Lima casino who was killed five years to the day of the unsolved disappearance in Aruba of an American teen in which he remains the main suspect. (Karel Navarro, AP)

• Joran van der Sloot

  Joran van der Sloot was charged with killing and robbing Stephany Flores, a woman he met while gambling at a Peruvian casino. Flores was killed on May 30, 2010 -- exactly five years after Natalee Holloway vanished in Aruba. Van der Sloot has been linked, but never charged to her disappearance. (Domingo al Dia, America Television Channel / AP)

• Stephany Flores

  Stephany Flores in an undated photo from Peru's National Identitfication Registry. Her dead body was found June 2, 2010 in Joran van der Sloot's hotel room. (Registro Nacional de Identificacion y Estado Civil / AP)

• Joran van der Sloot

  Ricardo Flores, father of slain Stephany Flores, arrives to San Jorge prison for the trial of Joran Van der Sloot in the Lurigancho area of Lima, Peru, on Jan. 6, 2012. Van der Sloot, 24, stands trial for the 2010 murder of the 21-year-old Flores, of Peru, nearly seven years after he became the prime suspect in the unsolved disappearance of an American teenager on holiday in Aruba. (Karel Navarro, AP)

• Joran van der Sloot

  This image from security footage provided by the Lima police alledgedly shows Joran van der Sloot, left, and Stephany Flores as they enter his hotel room May 30, 2010. (Lima Police Handout / AP)

• Joran van der Sloot

  This image from security footage provided by the Lima police alledgedly shows Joran van der Sloot, as he leaves his hotel room May 30, 2010 -- the day Stefany Flores was allegedly killed in his hotel room. (Lima Police Handout / AP)

• Joran van der Sloot

  A shaman performs a ritual for the spiritual punishment of Joran van der Sloot, whose picture is posted on the wall, before van der Sloot's trial outside San Pedro prison. (Karel Navarro, AP)

• Joran van der Sloot

  Posters of Joran van der Sloot, right, and Stepahny Flores, left, sit among items from a shaman ritual outside San Pedro prison to punish the Dutchman's spirit. Van der Sloot, 24, is charged with killing 21-year-old Flores in his Lima hotel room on May 30, 2010, after the two left a casino together in the day's wee hours. The poster of Flores reads in Spanish "Stephany Flores asks for justice" and the poster of Van der Sloot reads "Spiritual punishment." (Karel Navarro, AP)

• Joran van der Sloot

  Chilean authorities escort Joran van der Sloot, center, in Santiago, Chile on June 4, 2010. The Dutch man was detained after crossing the border from Peru, where authorities said he killed Stephany Flores. Van der Sloot was previously arrested in the 2005 disappearance of U.S. teen Natalie Holloway, but later released by Dutch authorities. (Aliosha Marquez, AP)

• Joran van der Sloot

  Police show a photo of Joran van der Sloot at a news conference in Lima, on June 2, 2010. (AP)

• Peruvian Newspapers

  A man displays Peruvian newspapers with front pages allusive to the murder of 21-year-old Peruvian Stephany Flores in Lima. (Cris Bouroncle, AFP / Getty Images)

• Joran van der Sloot

  In this Dec. 7, 2007 photo, Joran van der Sloot, right, sits in a car with his father, Paulus Van Der Sloot, after Joran was released from custody near Oranjestad, Aruba. For all his garrulous charm, Joran van der Sloot didn't do himself any favors in his online interactions, where his generation tends to reveal a lot about itself. (Pedro Famous Diaz, AP)

• Joran van der Sloot

  In this Sept. 6, 2005 photo, eighteen-year-old Joran van der Sloot, a resident of Aruba who had been held by police on the Caribbean island in connection with the disappearance of American tourist Natalee Holloway, exits Schiphol airport accompanied by unidentified relatives in Amsterdam, Netherlands. For all his garrulous charm, Joran van der Sloot didn't do himself any favors in his online interactions, where his generation tends to reveal a lot about itself. (Peter Dejong, AP)

• Joran van der Sloot

  Joran van der Sloot, center, the Dutch teen detained in connection with the disappearance of Alabama high school graduate Natalee Holloway on May 30, arrives to the hospital for DNA tests in Oranjestad, Aruba, on July 20, 2005. Investigators said that they planned to conduct DNA tests on blond hair attached to duct tape that was found along the coast to see if it came from Holloway - in a possible break to the six-week-old mystery. (Dino Tromp, AP)

• Natalee Holloway

  An undated photo of Natalee Holloway that was released by her family after her disappearance. (Family Photo / AP)

• Joran van der Sloot

  Joran van der Sloot, 20, takes a walk to the local supermarket near the house of his parents in Oranjestad, Aruba, in Dec. 2007. (Raul Henriquez, AFP/Getty Images)

• Joran van der Sloot looks over his shoulder as he leaves the courtroom after his murder trial was postponed at the San Jorge prison in Lima, Peru, Friday, Jan. 6, 2012. Dutch citizen Joran van der Sloot asked for more time Friday to decide how to plead in his trial for the 2010 murder of a 21-year-old Peruvian woman. His case was postponed until Jan. 11.

• Joran van der Sloot

  Joran van der Sloot looks back from his seat after entering the courtroom for the continuation of his murder trial at San Pedro prison in Lima, Peru, on Jan. 11, 2012. The Dutch citizen pleaded guilty to in the murder of 21-year-old Stephany Flores on May 30, 2010. (Karel Navarro, AP)

• Joran van der Sloot

  People protest against Joran van der Sloot as they hold up an enlarged picture of his police mug shot outside San Pedro prison where his murder trial is held in Lima, Peru, on Jan. 11, 2012. Van der Sloot pleaded guilty on Wednesday to the 2010 murder of a 21-year-old Peruvian woman he met at a Lima casino who was killed five years to the day of the unsolved disappearance in Aruba of an American teen in which he remains the main suspect. (Karel Navarro, AP)

• Joran van der Sloot

  Joran van der Sloot arrives to the courtroom for his sentence at San Pedro prison in Lima, Peru, on Jan. 13, 2012. Van der Sloot will be sentenced Friday for the 2010 murder of Stephany Flores, a young woman he met at a Lima casino. Prosecutors have asked for a 30-year sentence for first-degree murder and theft. (Karel Navarro, AP)

• Joran van der Sloot

  Joran van der Sloot sits in the courtroom before his sentencing at San Pedro prison in Lima, Peru, on Jan. 13, 2012. Van der Sloot will be sentenced Friday for the 2010 murder of Stephany Flores, a young woman he met at a Lima casino. Prosecutors have asked for a 30-year sentence for first-degree murder and theft. (Karel Navarro, AP)

• Joran van der Sloot

  Members of the media take pictures of Joran van der Sloot, right, sitting in the courtroom at San Pedro prison in Lima, Peru, on Jan. 13, 2012. Van der Sloot will be sentenced Friday for the 2010 murder of Stephany Flores, a young woman he met at a Lima casino. Prosecutors have asked for a 30-year sentence for first-degree murder and theft. (Karel Navarro, AP)

CORRECTION: An earlier version of this article referred to Hamer as a "pathologist." She is a radiologist.

Comments

[ncrespi]

08:53 AM on 06/05/2012

pattihr June 5, 2012 at 3:42am wwrote:
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And to make matters worse, a mental case in denial. She was interviewed on the Anderson tv talk show stating that she is not sexually attracted to Joran, yet her cd song is titled: " haven't Kissed Him Yet"

[AzGalDreamin]

07:05 PM on 05/20/2012

How did all that work out for ya Mary? LMBO ... sooo many crazy peeps in this world.

[wooki]

01:02 PM on 01/29/2012

SHE is a nut case..She wants Joran to LIVE with her,has sent over $116,000 to him & his attorneys,plus care pkgs.She's butt ugly & really must be hard up so she's trying to BUY a convicted killer who confessed to the crime.Maybe SHE should be put away someplace.

[Jack in Columbia MD]

08:51 AM on 01/26/2012

A little too much time in the x-ray room, Doc?

[pattihr]

03:27 AM on 06/05/2012

Ha Ha Ha Ha!

[Don McCoy]

12:01 PM on 01/24/2012

Whack job.

[michaelcarson352]

11:21 PM on 01/23/2012

She appears a bit disturbed.

[nocstreet]

08:52 PM on 01/23/2012

Some people have no common sense. This woman isn't even sane. Time for her employer to check her out. I wouldn't want this person any where near me or mine.

[WILLIEMOJORISIN]

10:56 AM on 01/24/2012

She is a Dr. , scary huh?

[pattihr]

03:28 AM on 06/05/2012

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0:56 AM on 01/24/2012
She is a Dr. , scary huh?

Very scary! Good Grief!

[MCFeel]

04:36 PM on 01/23/2012

That is one crazed Cougar.

[Harleysg]

01:42 PM on 01/13/2012

Has anybody checked out this Dr. Mary Hammer? Why would anybody have any type of personal or finacial interest in someone like Joran van der Sloot? Possible connection with Natalee Holloway's disappearance???? Natalee was living in Mountain Brook, AL before her disppearance and it is known that Dr. Hammer has additional practice locations in Alabama. Also Mountain Brook, AL is one of the wealthiest towns in the state of AL. Good place for a doctor to have connections with. Just makes you wonder why a person would have this much interest in someone, that she claims did not know before all this went down, that is possibly involved in a disappearence and a murder. Just something to think about!!!!

[DJmore]

10:36 PM on 01/06/2012

You know she is on his D

[pipbriz]

03:37 PM on 01/06/2012

that woman has absorbed a few too many rays....take her medical license away please

[Kelly Rich]

06:49 PM on 12/21/2011

Did anyone see this woman on the TODAY show this morning? She looked like she had not had a shower in several days, her hair was super greasy and was in bad need of it being colored. She had about 6-8 inches of her natural color grown out from where she had colored it light blond. Yuck!.

[spongeworthy06]

03:13 AM on 12/18/2011

her medical career is over

[yahooserious]

01:48 PM on 12/17/2011

Somebody needs to get her some batteries.

[macman237]

12:20 AM on 12/17/2011

I bet she voted for Obama. LMFAO

[bbmcrae]

02:50 PM on 01/06/2012

Huh? Why? And why does that make you LYAO? Are you not used to actual jokes?