LOOK. What about the Britta Cloetens case?
The young woman was murdered in 2011 by car salesman Tijl Teckmans after she had visited the Honda garage in Wilrijk. Teckmans confessed in the course of the investigation that he had killed Cloetens, but claimed that he could not remember exactly where he had dumped the body.
In his version he also insisted it was an accident and she would have agreed to have sex with him in the boot of a car, but things went wrong when Cloetens told him to stop and she would go to the police. steps. Teckmans would then have closed the trunk lid of the car on the head of Cloetens, who would then have fallen lifeless to the ground. In 2015, Teckmans was sentenced to 30 years in prison for manslaughter, but the body remained without a trace.
The federal judicial police of Antwerp and the Cell Missing Persons made every effort to find Cloetens’ body, but it was ultimately a hunter who found the human remains in a forest near Dinant in December 2022. On April 5, 3 months after the discovery, an extensive DNA test showed that the remains belonged to Britta Cloetens.
“We asked the medical doctor who had already been appointed during the investigation to examine Britta’s skull,” says Björn Backx, attorney general at the public prosecutor’s office in Antwerp in the VRT NWS podcast. “He’s formal that there’s no impact, so Teckmans’ story can’t be proven.”