Tips In Murdered Girl Case After Psychic Drawing On TV

[kmossel]

Dutch police have received fourteen tips on the 1999 murder of Marianne Vaatstra, following a broadcast of the 'Sixth Sense' TV show on Thursday night on RTL4.

This was said by a spokeswoman of the public prosecutor in Leeuwarden on Friday. The police's cold case team will have a close look at the tips.

The spokeswoman can't say yet whether the case will be reopened. "That would be premature. We don´t yet know the value and usefulness of those tips, that is being investigated.`

In the TV show, sketches were made of two possible perpetrators, based on directions from psychics.

The psychics also mentioned letters and digits of the license plate of the car that the perpretrators drove when they met Vaatstra in the night before Queen's Day 1999.

Original (in Dutch): http://www.nu.nl/algemeen/1936081/tips- ... ntuig.html

 

[EnolaGaia]

Update for closure ...

Thirteen years after the murder Ms. Vaatstra's killer was identified, apprehended, tried, and sentenced. In the end it wasn't psychics' evidence but rather DNA that clinched the conviction.

Marianne Vaatstra ... was a Dutch girl whose rape and murder became a high-profile criminal case in the Netherlands. Vaatstra, then sixteen years old, was last seen alive cycling from Kollum to her parents' house in De Westereen. Her body was found the next day, in a field close to Veenklooster, her throat slit. Traces of the perpetrator's blood and semen were also found at the scene.

The blame was quickly pointed to inhabitants of the local asylum seekers' refuge, and a riot against asylum seekers ensued. The murder was a cold case until it was reopened in 2012 with large-scale DNA profiling in the area around the crime scene. This led to the arrest of local farmer, Jasper Steringa, on 18 November of that year. He confessed to the rape and murder, and was sentenced to eighteen years' imprisonment. The case was one of the first in the country to be resolved mainly using DNA evidence and led to widespread debate about the use of DNA for criminal investigations. ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Marianne_Vaatstra