The publication of the book, about the more than thirty-year-old disappearance case of Willeke Dost from Koekange, has been postponed. Writer Marja West has to do the job alone, because co-author Jürgen Snoeren has recently withdrawn. The book should have been ready by now, but the release date has been pushed back to October 3.
Marja West regrets the resignation of Snoeren, with whom she previously wrote a book, and the delay this causes. According to her, the co-author left the project because the amount of research work became too much for him.
“It turned out that he could no longer combine work, family and intensive research. He therefore had to make the difficult, but understandable, choice a while ago to withdraw from this project. That means that I have been on my own ever since.”
In the same period that Snoeren stopped, according to West, the research gained momentum. She came across special facts through new testimonials. “As a result, I and the publisher have decided to postpone the publication date to early October.”
Marja West says she will actually fulfill the promise on the cover of the book. ‘New insights into the most high-profile cold case in the Netherlands’, as it is written. “And those new insights are certainly there. During my research I have rolled from one surprise to another. It seems that the police have missed something completely in this case, which was really under their nose. But apparently they never have. noticed, because they already had their hands full with this disappearance case due to the involvement of all kinds of parties,” says West.
She does not want to say what those new insights are. West has thoroughly gone through witness statements and interrogations from part of the police files about this case. She also received new tips, which she follows one by one. “I’m busy figuring things out even further.”
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