Episode 5 of the podcast The disappeared girl by Dagblad van het Noorden about Willeke Dost can be heard here. The focus is on the major police investigation and the arrest of her foster mother and foster brother. Why are they arrested almost twenty years after the disappearance?
The Public Prosecution Service and the police started a large-scale investigation into the disappearance of Willeke Dost in 2009. The girl has been missing for seventeen years. It led to the arrest of foster mother Herna Mulders and her son Bart, on suspicion of involvement in the disappearance. But what was the evidence to apprehend the two?
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165 witnesses
No fewer than 165 witnesses were heard. Eric Rassin, professor by special appointment in legal psychology, who specializes in testimonies and memory, explains the reliability of those memories after such a long time. The question is also how many of those people actually saw something.
Oldest missing
A team of journalists from DVHN dives into one of the oldest missing persons cases in the Netherlands. Starting when Willeke Dost disappears, in the night of 14 to 15 January 1992. The girl from Koekange is gone and will remain gone, and thirty years later, not much more is known than that she has disappeared. DVHN is trying to find an answer to the question of how that is possible?
Scenarios
The first four episodes were about the police investigation in the first days, who Willeke was, about people who are still searching after 30 years and the foster family. In episode 5, public prosecutor Sanne Kromdijk also tells how she experienced the investigation. The last part of the podcast on July 16 is about the most likely scenarios of what may have happened to Willeke.