During the night between 30 April and 1 May 1999, 16-year-old Marianne Vaatstra cycled home after a night out in the province of Friesland in the Netherlands. It was a route she already knew well, through an area generally considered quiet and safe. But that night, she never made it home. What began as the brutal murder of a teenage girl would soon become one of the most politically charged cases in modern Dutch history, and the starting point for one of the country’s most extensive and groundbreaking DNA investigations.
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Information
- Show
- FrequencyUpdated weekly
- Published20 April 2026 at 07:01 UTC
- Length32 min
- Season2
- RatingExplicit