It was in February 2009 that the 19-year-old woman was found dead in her room in a brothel in Amsterdam’s Red light district, brutally murdered with dozens of stab wounds.
The case has remained unsolved, but now the Amsterdam police are making an ambitious last attempt to find the killer. An entire building in the neighborhood where she was murdered has been dedicated to the campaign, with large posters and television screens showing clips from the murder scene.
Most striking: a life-size hologram of the woman in one of the windows, sitting on a chair and asking passers-by for help in solving the case. The hologram has also been published on the police account at X.
In combination with a newly produced documentary film and a reward of the equivalent of SEK 350,000, the police hope for new information.
We hope that witnesses who may have been afraid before or kept silent for other reasons will now have the courage to come forward, says cold case police officer Anne Dreijer-Heemskerk to The Guardian.