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End the uncertainty
of the next of kin

                      Calendar 2018
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Cold Cases
F   ortunately, most murders and
    missing person cases are solved
in our country, but, sadly enough,
                                             to yourself for years. Sharing it may
                                             relieve you of a burden. Or maybe you
                                             wish to help the surviving relatives
not all. Children, partners, friends and     find out what happened to their loved
relatives keep asking themselves for         one, at last. Whatever you motive, it
years on end what happened to their          is never too late to tell your story, and
loved one. For them, it is very impor-       you will not be punished if you share
tant that the uncertainty is ended.          information that you have kept secret
Special cold-case teams focus on these       thus far. Any information may help to
unsolved crimes. They make every             solve a case. And who knows… Your             Sharing information
effort to give the surviving relatives the   information may lead to the successful        Using your information, the cold-case
peace they deserve.                          prosecution of a case, and you may be         teams will do all they can to solve
                                             entitled to a reward.                         cases. There are several ways in which
The calendar                                                                               you can share your information, also
In order to increase the chance that         Rewards                                       anonymously. The options are explain-
unsolved cases may still be solved, the      Any tip leading to the solving of a crime     ed on the next page.
cold-case teams, together with the sur-      for which a reward has been offered
viving relatives, publish this calendar.     may be eligible for this reward. The          Various languages
It contains cases that you may know          amount of the reward depends of the           The entire calendar is online availa-
more about.                                  gravity of the crime and is different         ble in Arabic, English, Russian, and
                                             forevery case. Please go to:                  Spanish.
Why would you help?                          www.politie.nl/coldcases. This website
It is possible that you have kept            is also available at the RIC (rehabilitati-
important information about a crime          on centre) within the penal institutions.
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Do you want to share information?
Police cold-case teams                      By post                                     The telephone numbers listed in the
You can contact the cold-case teams by      You can send information by post to         calendar are freephone numbers
e-mail.                                     the freepost number mentioned below         and are protected, which means that
E-mail to coldcase@politie.nl               (no stamp is required). Antwoordnum-        they are not tapped by the Custodial
Anonymous: no                               mer 2010                                    Institutions Agency and/or the penal
Reward: yes                                 2501 XR Den Haag                            institution where you are staying. Any
                                            Anonymous: possibly                         mail you send to the above-mentioned
The police tip-off line                     Reward: possibly                            freepost number will not be read by the
You can call the police tip-off line at a                                               penal institution and will be forwarded
freephone number.                           Police Criminal Intelligence Team           unopened to the police.
Telephone number: 0800-6070                 Do you wish to share information in
Anonymous: no                               a strictly confidential interview? If so,   Do you want to pass on information
Reward: yes                                 call the following number during office     and use a telephone in a separate room
                                            hours (Monday to Friday from 09:00 to       in your penal institution? Please tell
Meld Misdaad Anoniem (Crime-                17:00 hours) in order to get into contact   the staff at your penal institution, or
stoppers NL)                                with the Criminal Intelligence Team.        post an interview request form in the
You can call this line for anonymous        Telephone number: 0800-7060                 letterbox, addressed to the Teamleider
tips. You will not be talking with the      Anonymous: No, but your identity            Beveiliging (security team leader) of
police and you will remain anonymous.       will be protected. So as to ensure your     your penal institution. You can also ask
Telephone number: 0800-7000                 security, your personal details will be     the staff at your penal institution about
Anonymous: yes                              kept within the Criminal Intelligence       possibilities for sharing information.
Reward: no                                  Team and not made known to other
                                            parties within or without the police.
                                            Reward: possibly.
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Overview cases
coldcasecalender 2017
Below an overview of the 52 unsolved crimes included in the 2017 calendar. A full description of the cases can be found at
www.politie.nl/coldcases.

                 week 1                    week 2                     week 3                    week 4                       week 5
        Henri Nieboer               Cees Lieftink    Martien van der Meijs                 Derk Kiers         Miet van Bommel
                                                                                                                     van der Aa

                 week 6                    week 7                     week 8                    week 9                   week 10
   Lydia Baneke-Knap            Manon Seijkens             Glenn Crawfurd                Daan van Es              Pim Hornstra

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week 11           week 12                    week 13                     week 14                 week 15
Cornelia Brielsman     Hugo Charles              Sjakie Gerwig             Ronald Noteboren    Annie Visman-Venema

            week 16           week 17                    week 18                     week 19                 week 20
      Salah Tayebi    Henk gerritsen             Veronica Delia        Caroline van Toledo               Nazim Isik
                                                    Camarines

            week 21           week 22                    week 23                     week 24                 week 25
   Maarten Geurts     Marie Christine               Ger Bindi-                 Koos Drevijn        Hans Schonewille
                                                 van der Steeg

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week 26            week 27                    week 28                   week 29               week 29
 Jessica de Roij    Mark Kerssens              Dyora Bosgra         Claudia Yvette Edoo    Anandkoemar Koebar

         week 30            week 31                    week 32                   week 33               week 34
 Isabelle Pongs    Karim Bouhmala           Anna Heemenga                    Ine Wijnen                 Ellen

         week 35            week 36                    week 37                   week 38               week 39
Natascha Meijer    Folkert Veenstra     Hannes van Schaften         Johannes Schrijvers         Hugo Bootsma

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week 40                week 41                    week 42                     week 43              week 44
  Ineke Fleurke     Robert OberMeijer           Duncan Zwakke               Herman Ploegstra       Peter de Koster

        week 45                week 46                    week 47                     week 48              week 49
  Cor Booisma     Daan van Kranenburg             Ida Sjamsudin              Jan Groeneveld     Hans Alfred Meijer

        week 50                week 51                    week 52
Herman Jansen            Mariët Peters           Ricky Hok Ahin

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Den Bosch: Baby’s corpse                                1 January

near recreational lake
                                                        Tuesday

O     n 4 January 2007, a baby’s
      corpse was found on the bank
of Engelenmeer recreational lake
                                                        2 January

near Den Bosch. It was a full-term
                                                        Wednesday
baby, who had lived after birth.                        3 January
The girl was wrapped in a blue and
white plastic Albert Heijn shopping
bag. There is no trace of the
                                                        Thursday            Baby’s body found near Engelermeer in
mother. Do you know more about                          4 January                         ‘s-Hertogenbosch (2007)
                                                                    Maarten Nelisse found dead (1991) (see week 3)
this case? Then contact us via one
of the tip-off-off options.

                                                        Friday
                                                        5 January

                                                        Saturday
                      Site where the body was found     6 January

                                                        Sunday
                                                        7 January

                                                                                                                week 1

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                                                                                Monday               Fatal shooting that killed Chris Boelsen (1989)
                                                                                                                                       (see week 5)
                                                                                8 January
Koekange: Foster daughter
disappeared from the face of the earth
                                                                                Tuesday

T    he foster parents of Willeke
     Dost (15) from Koekange did
not find her in her room in the
                                           place frequently. In 2010, a major
                                           search was conducted at her foster
                                           parents’ farm at Dwarsdijk 41 in
                                                                                9 January

morning of 15 January 1992.                Koekange. However, all attempts to
                                                                                Wednesday
They thought Willeke had probably          find her were in vain.               10 January
taken her bike and had gone off to
school already. But Willeke did not        Willeke Dost’s next of kin and
come home that afternoon.                  acquaintances of would like to end
                                                                                Thursday      Unknown man found dead at Oude Zijdsvoorburgwal
When they checked, it turned out           their uncertainty about the girl’s   11 January               143 in Amsterdam (1982) (see week 4)

that she had never made it to              fate. Your tip-off-offs may give
school that day. Late that evening,        them the peace of mind they have
the foster parents reported her            been trying to find for years.
                                                                                Friday
missing. Willeke Dost had a
                                                                                12 January
dramatic childhood. She lost both
parents in a car accident before she
was one. She subsequently stayed
                                                                                Saturday
with relatives, with foster parents
                                                                                13 January
or in children’s homes.

Initially, her disappearance was
                                                                                Sunday                               Willeke Dost last seen (1992)
thought to be voluntarily, but                                                               Marian Kusters reported missing (2010) (see week 42)
                                                                                14 January
was later seen in a different light.
Searches to find the girl took                        Willeke Dost
                                                                                                                                                  week 2

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Rotterdam:                                                                     15 January

Pub employee found dead
                                                                               Tuesday

I n the morning of Friday 4 January
  1991, Maarten Nelisse was
found dead at ’t Abattoir pub in
                                        was no conviction. It is unclear
                                        what happened at ’t Abattoir
                                        after closing time. Please pass on
                                                                               16 January

Crooswijk, a district of Rotterdam.     any tip-offs that could clarify this
                                                                               Wednesday
The 64-year-old pub employee was        matter.                                17 January
probably the victim of a robbery,
as money had been taken.

                                                                               Thursday
Maarten Nelisse usually worked in                                              18 January
the pub two nights a week.
The night in question had not been
busy, with mainly a few regulars
                                                                               Friday
at the bar. As usual, the pub
                                                                               19 January
closed its doors at around 1 a.m.                 Maarten Nelisse
Witnesses said that the last guests
left the pub at around 1:15 a.m. It
                                                                               Saturday
is well possible that Nelisse stayed
                                                                               20 January
behind after closing time to play the
gambling machine, as he did more
often.
                                                                               Sunday
                                                                               21 January
Two suspects were arrested in the
context of the murder, but there
                                                                                                week 3

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Amsterdam: Unknown man                                                            22 January

with striking tattoos found
                                                                                  Tuesday
On 11 January 1982, the remains          (the devil should be my leader in        23 January
of an as yet unknown man were            German).
found under a heap of rubbish in
Amsterdam. He was wrapped in             In all these years we have not
                                                                                  Wednesday
a piece of cloth on the premises         managed to identify this man.            24 January
at Oudezijds Voorburgwal 143.            Do you know who he is?
To find out this man’s identity,
investigations were carried out in
                                                                                  Thursday
a number of European countries,                                                   25 January
unfortunately to no avail.

The man in question was white
                                                                                  Friday
and 1.83 m tall. The victim had a
                                                                                  26 January
number of striking tattoos on his
body. On the inside of his right
leg he had a butterfly tattoo. On
                                                                                  Saturday
his right forearm was a tattoo of a
                                                                                  27 January
small heart. He had a small Native
American’s head on his left forearm
and on his back a tattoo of a hand
                                                                                  Sunday
with a burning candle on top.
                                                                                  28 January
The text on the candle read: ‘Der
Teufel soll Mayn Führer sein!’                            Images of the tattoos
                                                                                                   week 4

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Rotterdam:                                                                      29 January

The murder of ‘Bolle Chris’
                                                                                Tuesday      Martien van der Meijs found dead (2002)

A     t the time, Chris Boelsen, also   practices and should we look for the    30 January                             (see week 44)

      known as Bolle Chris (Fat         perpetrators elsewhere?
Chris), was active in the illegal       As yet, the police cannot answer
lottery in Rotterdam. He often          these questions.
                                                                                Wednesday
carried a lot of money. This is                                                 31 January
what got him killed in the night of     Chris Boelsen was the father of
Saturday 7 to Sunday 8 January          two children. They and his other
1989. That night, Chris Boelsen (38)    relatives would be incredibly
                                                                                Thursday
had visited one of his ‘runners’ to     relieved if the case could be solved    1 February
collect money and pay out prize         after all these years. Do you have
money. He was shot when he left         the tip-off that can help us do this?
the house at Berkelstraat, which
                                                                                Friday
fatally injured him.
                                                                                2 February

Chris Boelsen, who was also known
in Rotterdam window cleaners’
                                                                                Saturday
circles, earned a lot of money
                                                                                3 February
from illegal lotteries. Competition
in this illegal sector was fierce.
Therefore it is quite conceivable
                                                                                Sunday
that the shooter or shooters came
                                                                                4 February
from illegal gambling circles. Or
was Chris involved in other obscure                Chris Boelsen
                                                                                                                                  week 5

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                                                                                Monday        Roelof Steinvoorte found dead (1993)

Leeuwarden:                                                                     5 February

Single man murdered
                                                                                Tuesday

W       hen she arrived, the
        housekeeper noticed
straightaway that something was
                                        that he kept a lot of money in the
                                        house and that he had homosexual
                                        contacts, but these stories were
                                                                                6 February

off. The curtains in the house of       never substantiated.
                                                                                Wednesday
Roelof Steinvoorte were still closed                                            7 February
in the morning of 5 February 1993.      Steinvoorte’s next of kin are
Once she had entered the house          completely in the dark about what
at Mr. P.J. Troelstraweg 88 in          happened that evening. Do you
                                                                                Thursday
Leeuwarden, she realized why the        have more information about this        8 February
curtains were closed. She found         case? Then help us to successfully
the lifeless body of the 62-year-old    conclude this investigation after all
Steinvoorte. The victim had been        these years.
                                                                                Friday
stabbed in the chest multiple times
                                                                                9 February
and had several head injuries.
Steinvoorte had probably been
killed the evening before.
                                                                                Saturday
                                                                                10 February
Mr Steinvoorte came from a wealthy
family and owned a number of
premises in Leeuwarden, which he
                                                                                Sunday
rented out. After his parents’ death,
                                                                                11 February
he continued to live on his own in
the parental home. The story went               Roelof Steinvoorte
                                                                                                                                week 6

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Monday
Amsterdam: Woman missing                                                      12 February

since Valentine’s Day
                                                                              Tuesday

S    he told her husband that she
     would go to the methadone
provision at Weesperplein
                                      money. In addition to Bijde she used
                                      the last names Geigl and Amiti.
                                                                              13 February

in Amsterdam, and would               Do you have tip-offs that can take
                                                                              Wednesday     Stefanie Blijd last seen (2011)
subsequently visit a friend in the    away the uncertainty Stefanie Blijd’s   14 February
Bijlmer district. Stephanie Blijd,    relatives have about her fate?
aged 28, then left her home in De
Pijp, but on that day, 14 February
                                                                              Thursday
2011 (Valentine’s Day), would never                                           15 February
arrive at either destination.

Her mother, whom she called all the
                                                                              Friday
time, never heard from her daughter
                                                                              16 February
again. Stefanie Blijd had agreed
with her husband that she would
always let him know how she was
                                                                              Saturday
doing after a few days. He has not
                                                                              17 February
had any sign of life from her since
14 February 2011. Stefanie Blijd
originally came from Germany, but                 Stefanie Blijd
                                                                              Sunday
had lived in Amsterdam since 2005.
                                                                              18 February
She was a drug addict and worked
as a prostitute when she needed
                                                                                                                         week 7

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Helmond: Woman killed while                                                     19 February

walking dog
                                                                                Tuesday

A    t about 10:00 p.m. on 22
     February 2016, Mariëlle
Markgraaff, who was walking her
                                          other next of kin cannot find peace
                                          of mind before the perpetrator has
                                          been found. Do you know who was
                                                                                20 February

dog, was suddenly attacked on             behind this attack?
                                                                                Wednesday
Bakelsedijk in Helmond. Someone                                                 21 February
knocked the 37-year-old woman
on the head with a heavy object.
Mariëlle did not survive the attack.
                                                                                Thursday      Mariëlle Markgraaff killed (2016)
The brutal attack took place on                                                 22 February
the bicycle path directly adjacent
to the trailer park at Bakelsedijk in
Helmond.
                                                                                Friday
                                                                                23 February
Mariëlle was the mother of two
daughters and was in the middle
of a divorce. Together with her                  Mariëlle Markgraaff            Saturday
daughters she was temporarily
                                                                                24 February
staying with her mother at the
trailer park. The police did all they
could to find the perpetrator of
                                                                                Sunday
this attack with deadly outcome.
                                                                                25 February
Despite all their efforts, they did not
succeed. Her two daughters and
                                                                                                                             week 8

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Haarlem: Deadly stabbing after                                                   Monday
                                                                                 26 February

a visit to the cafeteria.
                                                                                 Tuesday

D    aniël Manion (28) left the De
     Tempelier cafeteria in Haarlem
after an argument with three boys.
                                        The smallest olive-skinned boy had
                                        distinctively small, pinched eyes
                                        and very short black hair. He wore
                                                                                 27 February

That night of 27 March 1994 he          a baseball cap. They probably had
                                                                                 Wednesday
had visited the cafeteria together      been at the Plaza disco at Houtplein/    28 February
with his neighbour. He was soon         Tempeliersstraat until briefly before
to be followed by the tree guys. On     the stabbing.
the corner of Tempelierstraat and       They may
                                                                                 Thursday
Wijde Geldelozepad, a fight broke       also have                                1 March
out and Manion was stabbed twice.       been
When the victim’s wife interfered,      involved in
the perpetrators fled on a white        a fight at
                                                                                 Friday
granny’s bike and a moped.              Houtplein
                                                                                 2 March
A month and three operations            square at
later, Manion died as a result of the   around 1:15
stabbing.                               a.m. If you       Daniël Manion
                                                                                 Saturday
                                        know who these boys were, please
                                                                                 3 March
Two of the boys were olive-skinned,     let us know via one of the tip-off
one was white. One of the olive-        options. The victim’s next of kin will
skinned boys was a lot taller than      be very grateful.
                                                                                 Sunday
the other. The white boy had
                                                                                 4 March
strikingly light blond, almost white
hair. All three were aged 16 to 18.
                                                                                                    week 9

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Bakel: Portuguese woman                                                       5 March

vanished into thin air
                                                                              Tuesday

S    he lived in a chalet at a
     recreation park in Bakel.
This is where the Portuguese Rosa
                                         are very worried about her.
                                         You could relief a major part of
                                         their worries with tip-offs that
                                                                              6 March

Maria Venda Da Silva (25) was last       would lead to the solution of this
                                                                              Wednesday
seen alive around midnight on 10         case.                                7 March
March 2008. She worked for a meat
processing company in Someren,
where she hadn’t shown up since
                                                                              Thursday
12 March. Five days later she was                                             8 March
officially reported missing

Further investigation showed that
                                                                              Friday
the Portuguese woman never again
                                                                              9 March
contacted her relatives in Portugal.
Another striking fact was that all her
clothes and other belongings were
                                                                              Saturday    Rosa Maria Venda Da Silva last seen (2008)
still in the chalet.
                                                                              10 March

We are in the dark about what
happened to this woman.
                                                                              Sunday
Given the circumstances of her
                                                                              11 March
disappearance, a crime cannot be
ruled out. Her relatives in Portugal          Rosa Maria Venda Da Silva
                                                                                                                                week 10

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Den Haag: Man dead in a                                                          12 March

house for over a week
                                                                                 Tuesday

O     n Friday 16 March 2007, the
      remains of Maarten Redeker
(29) were found in his home at
                                        information leads to the solution of
                                        this case, you will render his next of
                                        kin a major service.
                                                                                 13 March

Schoutendreef 342 in The Hague.
                                                                                 Wednesday
It is highly likely that the man died                                            14 March
as a result of a crime.
The investigation showed that
someone had injured him so
                                                                                 Thursday
seriously in the early hours of 7                                                15 March
March 2007 that he died of his
injuries a while later.

                                                                                 Friday      Maarten Redeker found dead (2007)
We know that Maarten Redeker
                                                                                 16 March
was gay. He had casual sexual
contacts and was active online
on the well-known gay sites. On
                                                                                 Saturday
6 March he talked to his relatives
                                                                                 17 March
for the last time, and on 7 March
he failed to show up at work at De
Schildershoek.
                                                                                 Sunday
                                                 Maarten Redeker                 18 March
Do you know anything about
Maarten Redeker’s murder? If your
                                                                                                                           week 11

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Teteringen: Young woman                                                        19 March

found dead in woods
                                                                               Tuesday

O     n Christmas Day 1990, an
      unsuspecting family took
a walk around noon through
                                         Several people were arrested after
                                         the body was found, but it is still
                                         unknown who the young woman
                                                                               20 March

Cadettenkamp, a wood near                was and under what circumstances
                                                                               Wednesday
Teteringen. They were horrified          she was killed. Do you more           21 March
to suddenly come across human            information about this case that
remains. The body was wrapped            could help us solve the crime?
in a brown blanket and was hidden        Please let us know.
                                                                               Thursday
behind a hedgerow. The body had                                                22 March
been covered with a green blanket
and a large section of carpet. There
was a red cloth over her head.
                                                                               Friday
                                                                               23 March
Local inquiries showed that the
wrapped up body had possibly
already been seen on 23 December.
                                                                               Saturday
The woman was between 15-18
                                                                               24 March
years old, 1.63m tall and had shoe
size 36. She was dressed in a red
turtleneck (size L) and red velvet
                                                                               Sunday
trousers, size 3, brand Carine. At the
                                                                               25 March
time, this brand was solely for sale
in Belgium.                                      Unknown woman
                                                                                             week 12

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Arnhem:                                                                      26 March

Retired colonel killed
                                                                             Tuesday     Daniel Manion attacked after a visit to the cafeteria

F   riends who came to came to pick    Blüml was a retired colonel of the                                               (1994) (see week 9)
                                                                             27 March
    up Hans Blüml for a Freemasons     Royal Dutch Army. He was not and
meeting on the night of Monday 29      had never been married and lived
March 1999 found themselves faced      alone. He was gay and regularly
                                                                             Wednesday
with a closed door.                               visited gay meeting        28 March
The front door of the                             places in and around
house at Goyenstraat                              Arnhem.
13 in Arnhem stayed                               He also took men
                                                                             Thursday                         Hans Blüml found dead (1999)
closed, even after                                home quite frequently.     29 March
they repeatedly rang                              Several suspects came
the bell. They called                             to the fore during the
the police, because                               investigation, but their
                                                                             Friday
they didn’t trust                                 involvement in the
                                                                             30 March
the situation. After                              murder of the retired
officers had gained                               colonel could never be
access by forcing              Hans Blüml         proven.
                                                                             Saturday
a window, they found the 65-year-
                                                                             31 March
old man in the hall, where he lay at   Blüml’s next of kin have lived in
the bottom of the stairs, bathing in   grave uncertainty about who killed
blood. Hard blows on his head had      him for many years now. Can you
                                                                             Sunday
killed him.                            help them with your tip-offs?
                                                                             1 April

                                                                                                                                          week 13

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Roermond: Attack with deadly                                                 2 April

outcome at a cemetery
                                                                             Tuesday

I n the night of 22 July 2003,
  a terrible crime took place
at ‘Tussen de Bergen’ general
                                       His next of kin find the murder of
                                       Piet Mergelsberg very hard to take.
                                       Your tip-offs may help them cope
                                                                             3 April

cemetery in Roermond. While            with this tragic event.
                                                                             Wednesday
visiting his deceased wife’s grave,                                          4 April
75-year-old Piet Mergelsberg was
suddenly attacked. Piet was hit on
the head with a hard object, after
                                                                             Thursday
which the perpetrator(s) took off                                            5 April
with a loot of a few ten euro notes
from Piet’s wallet.

                                                                             Friday
An ambulance rapidly took the
                                                                             6 April
injured Piet Mergelsberg to the
hospital in Roermond. Initially, it
seemed as if he could be released
                                                                             Saturday
from hospital in a few days’ time.
                                                                             7 April
But then his condition deteriorated
to such an extent that he had to
be taken to the University Medical
                                                                             Sunday
Centre in Maastricht, where he died
                                                                             8 April
on 25 July 2003, as a result of the
violent attack.                                 Piet Mergelsberg
                                                                                          week 14

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                                                                             Monday                            Ria de Vries found dead (1991)

Enschede:                                                                    9 April

Missing girl found dead
                                                                             Tuesday

O    n 3 May 1990, Ria de Vries
     (13) left her mother’s house
in Enschede between 08:00-
                                       Ria de Vries’ relatives avidly hope
                                       that her death will be solved
                                       after all these years. If you have
                                                                             10 April

08:30 p.m., never to return. After     any information that may lead to
                                                                             Wednesday
five months of intensive police        this solution, they will be hugely    11 April
investigation did not produce any      grateful.
results, it was decided that the
investigation would be stopped.
                                                                             Thursday
Until Tuesday 9 April 1991, when                                             12 April
parts of a skeleton were found at
De Hoge Veluwe National Park.
These turned out to be the remains
                                                                             Friday
of Ria de Vries.
                                                                             13 April

After the find, a new large-scale
investigation was launched. Various
                                                                             Saturday    Unknown man found dead in Arkersluis lock in Nijkerk
suspects came to the fore, but until                                                                                  (1999) (see week 28)
                                                                             14 April
today it is unclear what exactly
happened to Ria de Vries.

                                                   Ria de Vries              Sunday
                                                                             15 April

                                                                                                                                         week 15

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Boxtel: Baby’s corpse near the                                                     16 April

A2 motorway
                                                                                   Tuesday

O    n 22 April 2012, a baby’s body
     was found at a dry bank of the
River Dommel near the underpass
                                                                                   17 April

of the A2 motorway (Eindhoven-
                                                                                   Wednesday
Den Bosch) at Boxtel. The full-term                                                18 April
baby – it was a girl – had lived after
birth. The body was found in a grey
garbage bag and was wrapped in a
                                                                                   Thursday
towel. If you have any information                                                 19 April
that may lead us to this baby’s
mother, please contact us via one
of the tip-off options.
                                                                                   Friday
                                                                                   20 April

                                                                                   Saturday
                                                                                   21 April

                                                                                   Sunday      Baby’s body found along A2 motorway near Boxtel
                                                                                                                                        (2012)
                                                                                   22 April

                                              Location where the baby’s body was
                                                                           found                                                          week 16

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Haarlemmermeer:                                                                     23 April

Chained man in canal
                                                                                    Tuesday

D   ressed solely in boxer shorts
    and tied up in a foetal position
with over five metres of iron
                                        Do you know who this man is? Or
                                        do you maybe have other tip-offs
                                        about this case?
                                                                                    24 April

chain around his neck, wrists and
                                                                                    Wednesday
ankles. This is how the body of                                                     25 April
a man was found in a canal near
Zwanenburgdijk (underneath the
overpass of the A9 motorway,
                                                                                    Thursday
municipality of Haarlemmermeer)                                                     26 April
on 27 April 1999. A day later, divers
from the fire brigade found a t-shirt
on the bottom of the canal.
                                                                                    Friday      Unknown man found dead in the water of the ringvaart
                                                                                                                  canal at Zwanenburgerdijk (1999)
                                                                                    27 April
To prevent the body from floating,           Location where the unknown man was
the chain had been weighted                                                found
with six padlocks and two weight
                                                                                    Saturday                Leon Kok shot dead (2001) (see week 30)
plates of 15kg each. The man had
                                                                                    28 April
been dead for several months; his
body was in an advanced state
of decomposition. Despite this, it
                                                                                    Sunday
could be determined that he had
                                                                                    29 April
died as a result of violence.
                                                    Chain and one of the padlocks
                                                                                                                                                week 17

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‘I don’t hate the killer’
J    ust a quick walk with the dog and
     then in bed. Things went very
differently for 72-year-old Martien
                                            to survive in the nightmare. She did not
                                            want to leave her children behind now
                                            that they had already lost their father.
                                                                                       cope with it in a way. In the end, my
                                                                                       children were what saved me.

van der Meijs on 30 January 2002.           She died four and a half months later.     The murder of my father had a major
He was stabbed near his apartment                                                      impact on the entire family. For my
in Hilversum. He succumbed on the           That specific night, phones kept ringing   girls the innocence in their lives had
doorstep of his home. His daughter          in the house. When I talked to my          died with their grandpa. They were very
Wicky van der Meijs still shivers when      brother, I already knew what he had        scared for a very long time and were
she thinks back to that night.              to say: daddy is dead. But hearing that    afraid to sleep alone. It cost me my
                                            he was murdered was horrific. Talking      marriage: I started working really hard,
‘My father was a good, sweet person.        about it still gives me the shivers.       built up a company. I know, in essence
As a baker, he had worked hard all                                                     it was a flight from reality.
his life. Bread, cakes, pies; he put his    It took two weeks before I was able to
heart and soul into baking. I vividly       cry. Countless police investigations,      Yet, I don’t hate the perpetrator. Hate
remember the smell of Christmas loaf        my father’s funeral, his birthday, my      poisons you. I try to see him from a
in the house. An enjoyable time of year.    mother and three small children in the     humane perspective. I believe everyone
                                            house: I was completely exhausted.         can make a clean slate. Whatever it
Until his death, dad was in love with       This is why I wrote the murderer a         is you have done, admit to it. If the
my mom. She was the most beautiful          letter. I had so many questions. Who       perpetrator had the courage to come
woman in the world to him, even when        are you? Why did you do it? Why don’t      forward and say “I’m sorry”, that would
she had lost her hair as a result of        my children have a grandpa anymore?        mean the world to me, to all of us. Then
chemotherapy. He was so positive.           The Gooi-en Eemlander and the              you give something back to the next of
This is what carried her during her         Telegraaf newspapers published my          kin.’
illness. After his death, my mother tried   letter. Writing it all down helped me
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Rothem:                                                                           30 April

Child dead after arson
                                                                                  Tuesday

I n the night of Saturday 2 to
  Sunday 3 May 2009, a fire
broke out in a house at Pastoor
                                         clarify matters? The relatives of
                                         6-year-old victim Rein Weehuizen
                                         will be eternally grateful if you have
                                                                                  1 May

Geelenplein 17 in Rothem                 tip-offs that would bring the police
                                                                                  Wednesday
(municipality of Meerssen). At the       closer to the solution of this case.     2 May
time, eight people were staying
at the house: three adults and five
children. They were all injured
                                                                                  Thursday    Fire that killed Rein Weehuizen two days later (2009)
and were rapidly taken to various                                                 3 May
hospitals. Among them was 6-year-
old Rein Weehuizen, who was
visiting with his parents and his
                                                                                  Friday
sister. In the night of 5 May 2009,
                                                                                  4 May
he succumbed to his injuries at
the Maastricht Academic Medical
Centre.
                                                                                  Saturday
                                                                                  5 May
Investigation has shown that the
fire in the house had been lit on
purpose. For the rest there is not
                                                                                  Sunday
much clarity about the incident
                                                   Rein Weehuizen                 6 May
with deathly outcome. Can you

                                                                                                                                               week 18

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Vuren: The murder of ‘Rooie                                                   7 May

Jeannette’ (Red Jeanette)
                                                                              Tuesday

A    few hunters had quite a shock
     in the morning of Saturday
10 May 2003. In a ditch near
                                       at some time between 08:00-08:30
                                       p.m..
                                                                              8 May

Molenweg, between Achterdijk           Who is guilty of this murder? Was
                                                                              Wednesday
and the southern lane of the A15       it her last client or was it someone   9 May
motorway near Vuren (municipality      else? Do you have tip-offs that
of Lingewaal), they spotted the        could help us solve the murder of
body of a woman. They reported         Jeanette Derksen and provide her
                                                                              Thursday    Jeanette Derksen found dead (2003)
their lugubrious find to the police.   next of kin with the peace of mind     10 May
The woman turned out to be             they deserve?
29-year-old Jeanette Derksen, also
known as ‘Rooie Jeanette’. She had
                                                                              Friday
been killed by strangulation.
                                                                              11 May

She was severely addicted to drugs
and had worked as a prostitute
                                                                              Saturday
since she was 16. She had started
                                                                              12 May
working the streets when she was
22. The investigation showed that
on Friday 9 May 2003, Jeanette
                                                                              Sunday
worked late at the tolerance zone on
                                                                              13 May
Oude Veerweg in Arnhem. She had
registered before she started work              Jeanette Derksen
                                                                                                                        week 19

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                                                                                 Monday      Cornelis Regter found dead (2005)

Rotterdam:                                                                       14 May

Single man killed at home
                                                                                 Tuesday

O     n 14 May 2005, a woman
      checked on her neighbour,
Cornelis Regter, at Vijverhofstraat
                                          entry. The common entrance
                                          door and the front door of his
                                          apartment were not damaged.
                                                                                 15 May

131A in Rotterdam. She had a              This may indicate that the victim
                                                                                 Wednesday
major shock when she found                himself opened the door for the        16 May
80-year-old Cornelis Regter’s             perpetrator(s). The victim’s next
lifeless body. It is highly likely that   of kin would like to find out who
Cor, as he was called, had been           is responsible for this murder. All
                                                                                 Thursday
killed the previous the night or in       tip-offs that can shed some light on   17 May
the night of 14 May. We suspect           this case are more than welcome.
that money was taken, as well as
some jewellery.
                                                                                 Friday
                                                                                 18 May
Cornelis Regter was a single man
who could regularly be found
in local pubs. Once in a while,
                                                                                 Saturday
he bragged about his money.
                                                                                 19 May
According to acquaintances, he was
keeping this money in the weirdest
places, in his socks, for instance.
                                                                                 Sunday
                                                                                 20 May
His apartment on the ground floor
did not show any traces of forcible                Cornelis Regter
                                                                                                                          week 20

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Winschoten: Elderly man killed                                             21 May

in his own home
                                                                           Tuesday

O     n Saturday 22 August 2016,
      a worried home care aide
called the police. Sietze Grave,
                                       Do you know anything about this
                                       crime with deadly outcome? Then
                                       contact us via one of the tip-off
                                                                           22 May

the inhabitant of the house at         options.
                                                                           Wednesday
Hyacintstraat 28 in Winschoten,                                            23 May
failed to answer the home care
aide’s attempts to contact him.
Police officers went to investigate
                                                                           Thursday
Grave’s house and found his lifeless                                       24 May
body in the bedroom. The 82-year-
old had died as a result of a crime.
A sum of money had been taken
                                                                           Friday
from the house.
                                                                           25 May

The house of the elderly man
showed signs of having been
                                                                           Saturday
searched. Sietze Grave was a dealer
                                                                           26 May
in silver and gold, among other
things. As a result, he was visited
frequently by all sorts of people.                 Sietze Grave
                                                                           Sunday
                                                                           27 May

                                                                                       week 21

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Rotterdam: Man from                                                         28 May

Rotterdam vanished into thin air
                                                                            Tuesday

T    hat night he had an
     appointment with a friend
at his home in the Rotterdam
                                    number 25-ZD-PK. That car too
                                    vanished into thin air. Remco was
                                    1.90m tall, of normal to stout build.
                                                                            29 May

district of Zevenkamp. But when,    On the day he disappeared he
                                                                            Wednesday
at around 11:00 p.m.                            probably wore black         30 May
on Wednesday 10                                 trousers and a black
September 2008, the                             coat.
friend rang the bell
                                                                            Thursday
of Remco van der                                Several suspects were       31 May
Torre’s (30) home,                              arrested in connection
he did not open the                             with this missing
door. Investigation                             persons case, but had
                                                                            Friday
has shown that he                               to be released again
                                                                            1 June
was probably killed                             for lack of evidence.
in his own home,                                Remco’s relatives still
after which fire was     Remco van der Torre find his disappearance
                                                                            Saturday
set to the house. Up to the present very hard to take. They daily wrestle
                                                                            2 June
day, Remco’s body appears to have   with the question what could have
vanished without a trace.           happened to Remco van de Torre.
                                    If you have any tip-off, we may be
                                                                            Sunday
At the time, Remco drove a rented   able to end their uncertainty.
                                                                            3 June
black Volkswagen Golf with white
number plates and registration
                                                                                        week 22

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                                                                              Monday
Twijzelerheide:                                                               4 June

The murder of ’t Ikeboerke
                                                                              Tuesday

O    n 30 September 1996, fire
     broke out in a small free-
standing farm at Popels 58 in
                                       what happened at the farm on that
                                       fatal day. Your tip-offs may help
                                       Lulofs next of kin find an answer to
                                                                              5 June

Twijzelerheide. After the fire had     that question.
                                                                              Wednesday
been extinguished, officers found                                             6 June
the remains of 87-year-old Reinder
Lulofs in the ground floor bedroom.
Though the farm had been on fire,
                                                                              Thursday
evidence could still be examined.                                             7 June
The investigation showed that the
house had been burgled and that
items had been stolen from the
                                                                              Friday
house.
                                                                              8 June

Reinder Lulofs, also known as ’t
Ikeboerke, lived a sober life. His
                                                                              Saturday
farm was not connected to gas,
                                                                              9 June
water and electricity, for instance.
He had been living there by himself
since his brother had died in 1990,
                                                                              Sunday
but was able to manage fine with
                                                                              10 June
help from the people around him.
Until the present day it is unclear               Reinder Lulofs
                                                                                           week 23

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Blerick:                                                                    11 June

Liquidation in criminal circles
                                                                            Tuesday

O    n 15 June 2001, 28-year-old
     Dogan Manan in Blerick
(municipality of Venlo) was
                                       case. Do you have these answers
                                       for them? If so, they will be very
                                       grateful to you.
                                                                            12 June

shot dead. Dogan Manan came
                                                                            Wednesday
from Turkey. We know that he                                                13 June
moved in drugs circles in Venlo
and Eindhoven. In light of this,
we strongly suspected from the
                                                                            Thursday
beginning that the murder had                                               14 June
settled a score in drugs circles.

After a while, a number of suspects
                                                                            Friday      Dogan Manan shot dead (2001)
were arrested in connection with
                                                                            15 June
this case, but none of them was
ever convicted for this murder,
though they were all convicted on
                                                                            Saturday
drugs charges.
                                                                            16 June

Dogan Manan’s friends and
relatives have been waiting for
answers in this possible liquidation              Dogan Manan               Sunday
                                                                            17 June

                                                                                                                week 24

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Tilburg: Woman dead after                                                       18 June

opening a bomb letter
                                                                                Tuesday

W       hen she came home after
        a day out with her friends
on 2 July 1993, Jenneke de Wind
                                       Jenneke de Wind had told her son
                                       that lately she had not felt safe at
                                       home. She had also changed her
                                                                                19 June

from Tilburg found                                   telephone number
                                                                                Wednesday
an envelope in her                                   twice in the past six      20 June
living room. When                                    months, because
she opened it, a                                     someone had been
lighter fell out, which                              harassing her by
                                                                                Thursday
was followed by                                      calling her. She told      21 June
an explosion. The                                    friends that she did not
53-year-old inhabitant                               know who made the
of Tilburg was                                       calls.
                                                                                Friday
seriously injured and
                                                                                22 June
died as a result of her       Jenneke de Wind        Up to the present day,
injuries a short while after           the victim’s son and her other next
                                       of kin are wondering who was
                                                                                Saturday
It turned out that the bomb letter,    behind the bomb letter that cost
                                                                                23 June
personally addressed to Jenneke        Jenneke de Wind her life. They
de Wind, had been hand-delivered       would welcome any tip-offs that
at her home that day. Her son,         may answer this question.
                                                                                Sunday
who happened to be home, saw
                                                                                24 June
the letter and put the envelope on
the table. A striking fact was that
                                                                                             week 25

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Berg en Terblijt: Deadly                                                       25 June

conclusion of a brutal robbery
                                                                               Tuesday

O     n Saturday 14 August 2004,
      the Leukels, a married couple,
spent a quiet evening in the living
                                          Your information on the case would
                                          be a great help.
                                                                               26 June

room of their home at Lindenstraat
                                                                               Wednesday
2 in Berg en Terblijt in the province                                          27 June
of Limburg, until an unknown man
suddenly stormed into the room.
He assaulted the couple with a club
                                                                               Thursday
and a saw. Mr Leukel (68) died of                                              28 June
his injuries there and then. Despite
her serious injuries, Mrs Leukel (69)
managed to alert the police.
                                                                               Friday
                                                                               29 June
After having been in a coma for days,
Mrs Leukel came to again. After
an intensive rehabilitation period
                                                                               Saturday
she gradually went on with her
                                                                               30 June
life. The extremely violent robbery,
but especially the tragic loss of her
husband, have left deep marks on
                                                                               Sunday
her. Solving this brutal robbery may
                                                      Sjef Leukel              1 July
possibly help her cope a little better.

                                                                                            week 26

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                                                                                    Monday     Explosion at Jenneke de Wind’s home (1993) (see week 25)

Amsterdam:                                                                          2 July

Strangled unknown man
                                                                                    Tuesday

I n the evening of Wednesday 8
  July 1998, the remains of a white
man were found in the water at
                                         Dutch currency, Swiss and German
                                         money was found in his clothes.
                                                                                    3 July

Bosplaat in Amsterdam-Noord.             Investigation showed that the
                                                                                    Wednesday             Unknown woman found dead in the dunes near
The man, who was 25 to 40 years          man probably came from Eastern-            4 July
                                                                                                                     Wassenaar (2004) (see week 31)

old, turned out to have been killed      European/Baltic countries and
by strangulation with a cord.            had travelled to the Netherlands
The victim was 1.79m tall and of         via Switzerland and Germany.
                                                                                    Thursday
average build. He had black hair –       He had only been staying in the            5 July
long in the neck – and had a slight      Netherlands for a short period of
growth of beard and moustache            time. Investigation into the man’s
(black).                                 identity has not produced any
                                                                                    Friday
                                         results. Do you have information
                                                                                    6 July
On his chest and stomach, the            that may be important? Please
man had a striking, large tattoo         share this information with us.
of a dragon. In addition, he had
                                                                                    Saturday
a sizable scar underneath his rib
                                                                                    7 July
cage on the right hand side. He
was dressed in in black Levi’s a
blue-black sweater, brand: State of
                                                                                    Sunday          Unknwon man found dead in the water of Bosplaat in
Art, and a red T-shirt reading EGO.                                                                                         Amsterdam-Noord (1998)
                                                                                    8 July
With that he wore a decorated silver
ring with a blue stone. In addition to               The victim’s ring and tattoo
                                                                                                                                                   week 27

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Nijkerk:                                                                         9 July

Dead man in Arkervaart canal
                                                                                 Tuesday

T    he lock keeper of the Arkersluis
     lock in Nijkerk found it hard to
believe his eyes. But on Wednesday
                                         Despite extensive investigation
                                         this case was not solved. Do you
                                         have more information about this
                                                                                 10 July

14 April 1999 he really did see a        man’s identity? Or do you have any
                                                                                 Wednesday
body floating in Arkervaart canal.       information about this unknown          11 July
Police investigation showed that it      man’s murder?
was a man who had probably been
in the water for several weeks.
                                                                                 Thursday
It also became clear that the man,                                               12 July
who was probably of Chinese des-
cent, had died as a result of a crime,
because he had iron chains with a
                                                                                 Friday
padlock around his neck and waist.
                                                                                 13 July

The victim was aged between 35
and 48. He had a striking 30 x 30cm
                                                                                 Saturday
tattoo on his back with an image
                                                                                 14 July
of a large multi-coloured dragon.
The victim was dressed in a blue-                              Victim’s tattoo
grey sweater, brand: Nino Cerutti,
                                                                                 Sunday
a black T-shirt, brand: Eminence,
                                                                                 15 July
and brown-beige trousers, brand:
Matinique.
                                                                                             week 28

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Groningen: Never returned                                                      16 July

after a night out on the town
                                                                               Tuesday

B    etween 20:00 and 22:00 p.m.
     on the evening of Wednesday
16 July 1986, Wijtske (pronounced
                                       Wijtske Hiemstra was married and
                                       mother of two children. Her family
                                       is completely in the dark about
                                                                               17 July

as Weetske) Bauer-Hiemstra from        what happened to her that night.
                                                                               Wednesday
Leeuwarden left her home. She          If you have information about her       18 July
was on her way to the Groningen        death, this will definitely help them
nightlife district, and said she       cope.
would be home the next day before
                                                                               Thursday              Wijtske Hiemstra found dead (1986)
dinner. But she never returned to                                              19 July
her family.

That day she was last seen in
                                                                               Friday
De Schakel pub at Peperstraat in
                                                                               20 July
Groningen. On Saturday 19 July
1986, a passer-by saw a body
floating in the water of Damsterdiep
                                                                               Saturday
near the village of Garmerwolde in
                                                                               21 July
the Province of Groningen. It turned
out to be the body of Wijtske, who
had been reported missing.
                                             Wijtske Bauer-Hiemstra            Sunday      Piet Mergelsberg robbed (2003) (see week 14)
                                                                               22 July

                                                                                                                                   week 29

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Nijmegen: Shot dead in front                                                      23 July

of his family
                                                                                  Tuesday

T    hey had visited friends on
     the night of Saturday 28 April
2001. Afterwards,
                                          took place in front of his girlfriend
                                          and their children.
                                                                                  24 July

Leon Kok (34),                                          We know that Leon
                                                                                  Wednesday
together with his                                       Kok was involved in       25 July
girlfriend and their                                    the cannabis business
two children, drove                                     – he had allegedly
back to their home                                      cultivated cannab
                                                                                  Thursday
at Malvert 87 in                                        is himself at some        26 July
Nijmegen, Nijmegen.                                     stage – and had large
When, at around                                         sums of money at
10:45 p.m., Leon                                        his disposal. Despite
                                                                                  Friday
unsuspectingly                                          extensive investigation
                                                                                  27 July
got out of his car,                                     this case is still
a man holding a                                         unsolved.
firearm suddenly
                                  Leon   Kok                                      Saturday
approached him.                                          The attack was a
                                                                                  28 July
The man fired a close range shot          horrible experience for Leon’s
at Leon, who attempted to flee            girlfriend, children and other
after this first shot. The perpetrator    relatives. Arresting the perpetrator
                                                                                  Sunday
went after him, however, and fired        may help them cope with his death.
                                                                                  29 July
several more shots. Leon did not          This is why your tip-offs would be
survive these. The deadly attack          highly appreciated.
                                                                                              week 30

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Monday
Wassenaar: Unknown dead                                                      30 July

woman in the dunes
                                                                             Tuesday

O    n 4 July 2004, the lifeless body
     of an unknown woman was
found in the dunes near Wassenaar.
                                        Do you know this woman or do you
                                        suspect who she is? Please pass on
                                        this information.
                                                                             31 July

The body was located near
                                                                             Wednesday
Wassenaarse Slag, a remote beach                                             1 August
entrance of the Meijendel dunes
north of The Hague. The woman,
aged 30-50, had scars on her brow,
                                                                             Thursday
chin and right upper and lower leg.                                          2 August

The white woman was dressed in a
black T-shirt, a short black jacket,
                                                                             Friday
a white fleece cardigan, a blouse                       Victim’s clothes
                                                                             3 August
with paisley pattern (leaf-like
shapes), and dark grey trousers.
The victim was 1.68m tall, had
                                                                             Saturday
blond hair, blue eyes and weighed
                                                                             4 August
60kg.

There must be someone who
                                                                             Sunday
misses her. Acquaintances, her
                                                                             5 August
husband, brother, sister or parents.
                                                Unknown woman
                                                                                         week 31

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                                                                              Monday          Maria van der Zanden last seen (1994) (see week 43)

Egmond-Binnen: Elderly                                                        6 August

citizens attacked in their home
                                                                              Tuesday

E   ngelbertus Swart (71) and his
    two sisters Elisabeth (80) and
Johanna (85) unsuspectingly played
                                       Many people knew that Engelbertus
                                       Swart had a lot of money, also at
                                       home. Various people had borrowed
                                                                              7 August

a game of cards in the evening of      large sums of money from him.
                                                                              Wednesday
Friday 11 August 2006, when around                                            8 August
midnight four darkly clothed men       Engelbertus Swart and his sisters
wearing balaclavas and weapons         Johanna and Elisabeth are
forced their way into their home       deceased by now, but their relatives
                                                                              Thursday
at Noorderveldweg 1A in Egmond-        would like to have this case solved.   9 August
Binnen. Three of them asked for        They would be very grateful if you
money in Dutch, one of them spoke      are willing to share any information
German.                                you have.
                                                                              Friday
                                                                              10 August
The elderly trio was taped to their
chairs. The men searched the house,
but failed to find anything. They
                                                                              Saturday    Four men forcefully entered the home of the Swart family
subsequently beat and threatened                                                                                                           (2006)
                                                                              11 August
the three defenceless elderly people
and kept asking where the safe was.
Around 6:00 a.m., the four men left
                                                                              Sunday
the house, carrying valuable goods
                                                                              12 August
and money.

                                                                                                                                              week 32

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Loenersloot: Unknown                                                     13 August

Chinese man murdered
                                                                         Tuesday     Sjef Leukel attacked and killed (2014) (see week 26)

O     n 18 August 2003, the remains
      of an unknown man were
found in the Amsterdam-Rijnkanaal
                                       prior to his death? Then please
                                       contact the police.
                                                                         14 August

canal in Loenersloot, somewhere
                                                                         Wednesday
between Utrecht and Amsterdam.                                           15 August
It turned out the man had been
shot dead. Investigation showed
that the man came from China,
                                                                         Thursday
and that he had arrived in the                                           16 August
Netherlands only two weeks prior
to his death.

                                                                         Friday
When it was found, the body
                                                                         17 August
had been in the water for quite
a while. This had rendered the
man unrecognizable. A facial
                                                                         Saturday    Unknown man found dead in Amsterdam-Rijnkanaal
reconstruction could still be made,                                                                       canal in Loenersloot (2003)
                                                                         18 August
however. Hopefully this will offer
the necessary leads.

                                                                         Sunday
Do you know who this unknown
                                                                         19 August
man is and where he stayed in the
Netherlands during the two weeks                  Unknown man
                                                                                                                                     week 33

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                                                                                Monday      Sietze Grave found dead (2016) (see week 21)

Oosterhout: Questions around                                                    20 August

a man who went missing
                                                                                Tuesday

O     n 23 August 2005, he drove
      away from his home in
Oosterhout in a rented car. No one
                                         everything to him. It is therefore
                                         peculiar that he has not contacted
                                         them since his disappearance, not
                                                                                21 August

has heard from John Heijboer ever        even on their birthdays.
                                                                                Wednesday
since. On 29 August, his brother         So there are many questions            22 August
officially reported him missing.         around this disappearance. The next
Several people have indicated that       of kin are very keen on learning
the man had recently appeared to         what happened to John Heijboer.
                                                                                Thursday                  John Heijboer last seen (2005)
be very rushed, not himself, and on      Hopefully you have got tip-offs that   23 August
his guard.                               will end their uncertainty.

It was remarkable that John
                                                                                Friday
Heijboer left his home without
                                                                                24 August
taking his mobile phone. He also
left the small pouch bag with
money he always wore at the
                                                                                Saturday
house. Neither did he take his bank
                                                                                25 August
cards, passport and ID card.

John Heijboer had little contact
                                                                                Sunday
with his relatives. He had married
                                                                                26 August
and divorced twice. The children
from his second marriage were                      John Heijboer
                                                                                                                                    week 34

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‘It feels as if he is a missing person’

O     n 20 August 2016, the lifeless
      body of 82-year-old Sietze
Grave was discovered in his home
                                            Grandpa had many contacts. People
                                            from the neighbourhood, but there were
                                            junkies among them too. We warned
                                                                                         Recently, I heard someone shuffle.
                                                                                         “That’s him,” is what I think at such a
                                                                                         time. It feels as if he is a missing person.
in Winschoten. He was violently             him against them. Once someone came          Children, grandchildren, we have never
murdered. The pain is as fresh as ever      to show him a gold watch, but took off       had the chance to say goodbye to
for his children and grandchildren,         with grandpa’s wallet.                       him. The people in the neighbourhood
according to grandson Sjacky Grave.                                                      empathize with us. Everyone knew him.
                                            That Saturday my uncle called. He had        Grandpa was murdered, but ever since
‘Grandma and Grandpa’s sixth child,         found grandpa at home. “And given the        that day we have had to live with the
that’s what they called me. That’s how      way I have found him, I don’t think he       stories, the rumours. You feel frustrated,
often I visited them. Grandpa joined us     died from natural causes,” he added. I       angry. If someone looks at you for too
every weekend to go to the motocross.       hung up the phone. It was as if someone      long you get suspicious.
And later he still came to our car          had pulled the rug out from under me.
workshop for a cup of coffee every                                                       The first months I drove by his house
afternoon.                                  A friend of mine then drove me to            every day, sometimes even a few times
                                            Winschoten. In the car I called my father.   a day. You are so powerless. You grasp
He was stubborn and not afraid of           It was better that he heard it from me       at straws, every bit of hope. People were
anything. A man who stood up for            than on the news. Once in Winschoten,        interviewed, but the investigators still
himself, even if he was in his eighties.    the police had already cordoned off the      can’t conclude the case. It feels like a
He dealt a bit in antiques and other        doorway. We weren’t allowed to come          never-ending film.’
stuff. Sometime a little gold, a necklace   near. My uncle and aunt had to identify
once in a while. This helped him stay in    him a few days later. Then the coffin
touch with the outside world, he said.      was closed.
His house sometimes resembled a club.
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Delft:                                                                         27 August

The murder of a student
                                                                               Tuesday

A    t around 03:00 a.m. on 16 July
     1989, the lifeless remains of
32-year-old student Wilma Bres
                                       of the murder of Wilma Bres.

                                       Did you notice anything out of the
                                                                               28 August

were found at Muyskenlaan in           ordinary that night? Or do you have
                                                                               Wednesday
Delft, not far from her home. The      other tip-offs that may help us solve   29 August
student had been stabbed several       the case? Wilma Bres’ next of kin
times, which is what killed her.       will be very grateful for them.
Her bronze-coloured bike was
                                                                               Thursday
positioned next to her and was                                                 30 August
splattered with blood.

The night of 15 July, Wilma Bres
                                                                               Friday
had acted in the play ‘Sondheim in
                                                                               31 August
the Park’ with an amateur theatre
company. She then had a drink
with several participants and
                                                                               Saturday
guests at a pub in Delft. According
                                                                               1 September
to witnesses, she went home at
around 02:00 a.m. Despite the fact
that suspects were arrested at the
time, no one has yet been convicted                 Wilma Bres                 Sunday
                                                                               2 September

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Breda: Homeless man killed in                                                    3 September

bike parking
                                                                                 Tuesday

O     n 6 September 2011, the
      body of 50-year-old Samba
Fall was found in a bike parking
                                        Netherlands via Greece and
                                        Germany. He was married and he
                                        and his wife had children. But from
                                                                                 4 September

of the Nationale Hogeschool voor        there on, things went downhill for
                                                                                 Wednesday
Toerisme en Verkeer, the university     him and he ended up among drug           5 September
of applied sciences for tourism         users and the homeless, a scene
and logistics in Breda. His death       that mostly revolved around ‘t IJ
was the result of a crime. Samba        shelter at Slingerweg in Breda.
                                                                                 Thursday       Samba Fall found dead (2011)
Fall was homeless.                                     At that location he had   6 September
That night, as he did                                  friends, but enemies
more often, he had                                     too, and fights were
prepared a sleeping                                    the order of the day.
                                                                                 Friday
place in the bike
                                                                                 7 September
parking. Security                                     Do you have any
footage shows how                                     leads that may help us
at about 03:48 a.m.,                                  solve the case? Then
                                                                                 Saturday
someone walked                                        please pass them on.
                                Samba   Fall                                     8 September
around the corner,                                    Samba Fall’s children
bent over the victim, and fired an      in particular will be very grateful to
apparently lethal shot.                 you.
                                                                                 Sunday
                                                                                 9 September
Samba Fall was a refugee from
Senegal, who had fled to the
                                                                                                                        week 36

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Brunssum: Murdered person                                           10 September                        Sjef Klee found dead (1995)

found at mining site
                                                                    Tuesday

I n the night of 9 September
  1995, Jozef (Sjef) Klee (27)
from Heerlen, in the company
                                                                    11 September

of a second person, left the Het
                                                                    Wednesday
Trefpunt pub in the Treebeek                                        12 September
district of Brunssum. The two
went to the house of a friend of
Sjef Klee’s, where they had a bottle
                                                                    Thursday
of beer. Then Sjef left the house                                   13 September
at Pleinstraat 12 in Brussum. That
very night, his body was found at
the former mining site, on the side
                                                        Sjef Klee   Friday
of Wenckbachstraat in Treebeek. It
                                                                    14 September
turned out that he had been shot
dead.

                                                                    Saturday
Despite extensive investigation, the
                                                                    15 September
police have thus far been unable to
find any concrete indications that
may lead to the solution of this
                                                                    Sunday
murder case. If you do have any
                                                                    16 September
leads, please share them via one of
our tip-off options.
                                                                                                                               week 37

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                                                                                      Monday       Unknown woman found dead in the river Gaasp (1999)

Amsterdam: Dead woman in                                                              17 September

Kliko container
                                                                                      Tuesday

O    n 17 September 1999, a Kliko
     garbage container containing
the remains of a woman was found
                                       and 1.70m. The woman was aged
                                       20 to 35, of slight build and 1.59m
                                       tall. She had Eurasian looks with
                                                                                      18 September

in the Gaasp, a small river between    slightly curly brown-black hair.
                                                                                      Wednesday
Driemond and Diemen. She had           Her clothes, as well as the man’s              19 September
been shot dead. The body had           clothes, contained substances
been partially cast in cement. The     from the food industry. The victim
container also contained man’s         wore a rectangular, gold-coloured
                                                                                      Thursday
clothing and a few bags of washing     watch, brand: Guess. Text on the               20 September
detergent.                             back: Japan MOV*T* GUESS ING
                                       1996. The watch has a non-original
The washing detergent in question      bi-coloured metal strap. The victim
                                                                                      Friday
is used by launderettes and            grew up in the Netherlands, so
                                                                                      21 September
companies that wash their own          there must be people who know
work clothes or produce clothing.      her. Do you know who she is?
The man’s clothes included a beige
                                                                                      Saturday
Tenson coat, size 54. On the inside,
                                                                                      22 September
near the collar, a label had been
stitched onto a burn mark. Black
corduroy trousers from Marks and
                                                                                      Sunday
Spencer were also found.
                                                                                      23 September
The person who wore these clothes            Label in Tenson coat, victim’s clothes
must have been between 1.66m                                   and victim’s watch
                                                                                                                                                 week 38

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Amsterdam: Mystery around                                                      24 September

murdered woman
                                                                               Tuesday

A    friend of Emerentia Hogema-
     Diepenbrock’s (70) had heard
that no one had been able to reach
                                        person had brought her a book
                                        titled De Verrader (the traitor). Ms
                                        Emerentia Hogema-Diepenbrock,
                                                                               25 September

the woman for some time. This is        who was a member of various
                                                                               Wednesday
why on 30 September 1992 she            clubs, thought this was very strange   26 September
decided to see for herself what         and did not know what to do with
was going on at the                                   it. The unknown
house at Jacob van                                    person also used her
                                                                               Thursday
Weesenbekestraat                                      bathroom. A striking     27 September
29 in Amsterdam.                                      fact is that the book
Once there, she                                       was not found at her
was shocked to                                        home.
                                                                               Friday
find her friend
                                                                               28 September
dead. Everything                                      Ms Emerentia
pointed towards the                                   Hogema-
                        Emerentie Hogema-Diepenbrock
woman having been                                     Diepenbrock’s next of
                                                                               Saturday
violently killed.                       kin would like to get clarity about
                                                                               29 September
                                        her death. Can you provide this
The investigation brought a few         by sharing information about this
remarkable facts to light. On 29        case? Please contact us via the
                                                                               Sunday           Reinder Lulofs found dead (1996) (see week 23)
September, one day before the           tip-off options described in the                      Emerentia Hogema-Diepenbrock found dead (1992)
                                                                               30 September
victim was found, an unknown            calendar.

                                                                                                                                          week 39

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