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You Won_t Believe How This Cold Case Was Solved-Part 1 · The conspiracy

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Speaker 1: It was still dark when she left the house, a
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Speaker 1: fifteen year old girl alone on a bicycle, pedaling toward
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Speaker 1: a job that started before sunrise.
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Speaker 2: But she would never make it there, and.
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Speaker 1: The case would sit unsolved for the better part of
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Speaker 1: two decades. And in the end, it wasn't a detective
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Speaker 1: who cracked it. Not new evidence and not a stroke
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Speaker 1: of luck, and not a deathbed confession. It was a lie.
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Speaker 1: This is the story of Nicole Vandenburg. Crime, conspiracy, cults,
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Speaker 1: serial killers, and murder, all things that I love to consume.
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Speaker 1: It I know you do too, you sick, twisted, beautiful,
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Speaker 1: intellectually minded. Today we're talking about a absolutely heartbreaking case
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Speaker 1: but also an incredible, incredible.
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Speaker 2: Breakthrough that was made.
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Speaker 1: So without further ado, let's unbuckle our seatbelts, go mock
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Speaker 1: The Cole was born on July fourth, nineteen eighty in
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Speaker 1: the small German city of Erkunletz, but her birth name
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Speaker 1: was to Cole Tedmeyer and her mother, Angelica, was raising
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Speaker 1: to Cole on her own when she met a Dutchman
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Speaker 1: named Ad Vandenhork and the two fell in love and
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Speaker 1: a Coole was three when the whole family crossed over
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Speaker 1: into the Netherlands, and her biological father remained behind in Germany,
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Speaker 1: and after ad and Angelica's wedding, ted Meier became Vandenhuorck
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Speaker 1: and Nicole would get the US name as well. So
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Speaker 1: she had a new country, a new family, and a
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Speaker 1: new life taking shape around her. But Angelica struggled with
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Speaker 1: her mental health and she disappeared into her bedroom for
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Speaker 1: hours at a time, with drawn and unreachable, and for
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Speaker 1: a young girl trying to build a bond with her mother,
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Speaker 1: that distance became the defining feature of their entire relationship.
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Speaker 1: And in nineteen eighty nine, when Nicole was eight years old,
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Speaker 1: Ad and Angelica would unfortunately divorce, an Ad was granted
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Speaker 1: custody and became the one actually raising Nicole. Now, AD's
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Speaker 1: career was in music, and the hours of that job
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Speaker 1: are really long, and single parenting on top of all that.
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Speaker 2: Was pretty brutal.
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Speaker 1: And his mother lived just a few minutes away, though,
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Speaker 1: and he leaned on her pretty heavily to help out
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Speaker 1: with Nicole. Now, the grandmother became something more than a babysitter,
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Speaker 1: and Nicole and her stepbrother Andy, who was five years old,
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Speaker 1: would stay overnight and spend whole days under her roof.
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Speaker 1: In tonguelrapologies, if I say any of these words wrong,
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Speaker 1: I am doing my best. And this was one of
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Speaker 1: Ainkhoven's neighborhoods, and over time the bond between the kids
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Speaker 1: and their grandmother deepened immensely because it felt safe, and
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Speaker 1: that house became Nichole's anchor. And then Ad started seeing
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Speaker 1: someone a woman named Yolanda, and she worked in music
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Speaker 1: as well, and she got along with Andy and Nicole,
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Speaker 1: and eventually she and ad would marry, but the problem
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Speaker 1: was that both of them were gone for work all
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Speaker 1: of the time, so the grandmother picked up even more
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Speaker 1: of the load. And then in April of nineteen ninety five, Angelica,
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Speaker 1: Nichole's biological mother, would pass away in Tilburg, and the
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Speaker 1: exact circumstances of her death were never fully clarified, but
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Speaker 1: there is a report that does say she passed away
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Speaker 1: by way of her and Nicole was naturally devastated because
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Speaker 1: she'd spent years separated from her mother by illness and
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Speaker 1: by the custody agreement, and now the distance became permanent
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Speaker 1: and the relationship she wanted with her mother was never
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Speaker 1: going to happen now. And by the fall of nineteen
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Speaker 1: ninety five, Nicole was fifteen and she'd settled into her
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Speaker 1: grandmother's place along with Andy. Now, as she grew older,
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Speaker 1: Nicole didn't really spend as much time in the house anymore,
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Speaker 1: and if she wasn't at school, she was at work
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Speaker 1: or out with friends, and she had a tight circle
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Speaker 1: around her people who kept her busy and kept her
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Speaker 1: distracted from everything her family had gone through. And she
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Speaker 1: also had a boyfriend at the time and was just
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Speaker 1: a girl building a life outward, moving fast, filling the
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Speaker 1: space with connection wherever she could find it. And then
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Speaker 1: one day Nicole told her aunt something unsettling, and she
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Speaker 1: complained that some man she had never seen before followed
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Speaker 1: her and harassed her while she was walking home, but unfortunately,
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Speaker 1: nothing would be done about it at the time. Now
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Speaker 1: it was still dark out when Nicole left her grandmother's
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Speaker 1: house on the morning of Friday, October sixth, nineteen ninety five,
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Speaker 1: and shortly after five am, Nicole got on her bicycle
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Speaker 1: and headed toward Woundsol shopping Center in Idhoven because she
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Speaker 1: had a temporary job there at the supermarket, specifically a
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Speaker 1: holiday position that required really early starts, and it was
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Speaker 1: her regular commute, the same route she always took. But
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Speaker 1: Nicole never made it to work, and when she didn't
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Speaker 1: show up for her shift, her coworkers grew really concerned,
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Speaker 1: and a late arrival turned into a mist shift, and
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Speaker 1: a misshift turned into a phone call and police were
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Speaker 1: contacted and the first searches would begin immediately, and that
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Speaker 1: evening at six o'clock, officers pulled Nichol's bicycle from the
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Speaker 1: Domel River now the Domal winds through the Endenhoven area,
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Speaker 1: cutting across the area she would have ridden through that
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Speaker 1: very morning, and the bike was completely submerged and the
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Speaker 1: search would widen very fast, so police would zero in
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Speaker 1: on every single bridge, waters, edges, cycling paths and walkways
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Speaker 1: anywhere close to where the bicycle had turned up, and
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Speaker 1: the river became the anchor point and for eleven straight
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Speaker 1: days October sixth to October seventeenth, search teams tore through
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Speaker 1: the Domel and the surrounding forest, and teams worked the
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Speaker 1: water and the banks grid by grid, and shortly after
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Speaker 1: Nicole vanished, a TV program called The Deadline launched a
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Speaker 1: massive coordinated search of its own, and they brought in
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Speaker 1: search teams and dogs, and much of the focus centered
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Speaker 1: on a location called the Boston Pot area, which was
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Speaker 1: repeatedly mentioned in coverage, but they would find nothing. But
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Speaker 1: on October nineteenth, another piece of Nicole surfaced, and her
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Speaker 1: small backpack was discovered on a strip of ground between
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Speaker 1: the DAF complex and Canul dieichsoit near a canal in
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Speaker 1: Einhoven now the backpack would change the map because the
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Speaker 1: bicycle was in one part of the city and the
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Speaker 1: backpack was in another, and that kind of spread doesn't
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Speaker 1: happen by accident. So on October twentieth, officers went through
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Speaker 1: the canal and worked the southern banks, and they came
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Speaker 1: back again on October twenty eighth and the twenty ninth,
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Speaker 1: and some people wondered whether Nicole had simply just run away,
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Speaker 1: and as we know, her biological father still lived in Germany,
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Speaker 1: and she had extended family there, and perhaps she went
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Speaker 1: to go stay awhile with them over there. But her
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Speaker 1: stepfather would completely shut down that theory and he would
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Speaker 1: say Nicole hadn't fled anywhere. And this was much worse.
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Speaker 1: And the tip count for the search hit roughly three
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Speaker 1: hundred by November twentieth, So that was three hundred leads
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Speaker 1: from the public, and not one of them pointed to
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Speaker 1: a clear suspect, and her bike and backpack had been found,
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Speaker 1: but Nicole herself had not. So on Wednesday, November twenty
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Speaker 1: second night, Nive, a passerby walking through a stretch of
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Speaker 1: woodland between Mirl and Lerap, stumbled onto something hidden beneath
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Speaker 1: a pile of branches and pruning waste, and.
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Speaker 2: It would be Nicole.
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Speaker 1: Roughly seven weeks after she vanished, her body lay roughly
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Speaker 1: ten kilometers east of her grandmother's house, separate from where
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Speaker 1: both her belongings had been found in the Woodland area
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Speaker 1: of North Brabant, deliberately concealed because it was obvious that
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Speaker 1: someone had taken the time to cover her. With the
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Speaker 1: location and the effort to hide her, and the distance
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Speaker 1: from the searched zones, all of it pointed to a
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Speaker 1: killer who chose carefully, and Nicole's body had been exposed
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Speaker 1: to the elements throughout that time seven weeks so rain, bacteria, insects,
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Speaker 1: temperature shifts, just weeks of decomposition, working against everything. Forensic
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Speaker 1: science needed, and they would collect as many biological samples
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Speaker 1: as they could with clothing traces, hair evidence. Three DNA
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Speaker 1: samples were gathered in total, two from her general area
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Speaker 1: and one from the fabric of her underwear. Now, the
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Speaker 1: techniques available in nineteen ninety five were, of course limited
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Speaker 1: by modern standards. It, combined with the outdoor decay, those
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Speaker 1: samples were considered very fragile at best, and contamination was
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Speaker 1: a real possibility, but investigators preserved them anyway, and the
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Speaker 1: autopsy would tell the rest, and it would say that
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Speaker 1: Nicole had been killed through extreme violence, with the cause
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Speaker 1: of death being internal bleeding from a stab wound, and
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Speaker 1: her jaw was also fractured, and she had injuries to
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Speaker 1: her head and to her fingers, and the finger injuries
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Speaker 1: suggested she fought back, and unfortunately there was also evidence
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Speaker 1: of s but investigators made the deliberate choice to keep
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Speaker 1: that finding from the public, and the s was documented
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Speaker 1: internally noted in the case file, and on November twenty eighth,
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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety five, Nicole was buried, but before the body
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Speaker 1: was even found, one moment stood out in the search,
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Speaker 1: and on October twenty fourth, nineteen ninety five, an anonymous
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Speaker 1: man called police and he said he could identify Nicole's killer,
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Speaker 1: and then the line just went dead and the call
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Speaker 1: cut off before officers could get a full statement and
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Speaker 1: before they could pin down a name or a location,
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Speaker 1: but they had a recording to go off of, so
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Speaker 1: come January nineteen ninety six, that recording was broadcast on
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Speaker 1: national television in hopes that someone would recognize the voice
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Speaker 1: or the caller himself. Would come forward again, but sadly
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Speaker 1: neither happened. But then in February of nineteen ninety six,
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Speaker 1: a different lead surfaced and a friend of the Van
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Speaker 1: den Hurricks family was arrested on drug trafficking charges, and
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Speaker 1: while locked up, this person pointed the finger at specific men,
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Speaker 1: and the claim was that those men had forced the
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Speaker 1: drug smuggling on them and that they were also behind
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Speaker 1: Nichole's murder. An ad initially believed the story's stepfather because
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Speaker 1: to him it finally felt like a break, a thread
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Speaker 1: that might actually lead somewhere. So police investigated, so they
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Speaker 1: pulled the claim apart, but the story fell apart under
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Speaker 1: their scrutiny, so it was just another dead end, and
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Speaker 1: by now the pattern was the same. Tips would come in,
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Speaker 1: the leads were chased, but nothing stuck, and one magazine
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Speaker 1: even put up a cash reward asking the public for
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Speaker 1: anything they could help identify the killer, and naturally more
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Speaker 1: tips would follow, but none proved strong enough for a prosecution,
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Speaker 1: and eventually the investigative team shrank and new investigators took over.
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Speaker 1: But Nicole's file did not close, but it did kind
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Speaker 1: of stop moving, and the case settled into a kind
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Speaker 1: of limbo that families of murder victims know all too well,
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Speaker 1: and technically it was open but barely active. So there
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Speaker 1: was a girl buried so young, and no one held
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Speaker 1: responsible yet. So by the summer of nineteen ninety six,
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Speaker 1: investigators had come up completely empty and every thread just
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Speaker 1: led nowhere. So police turned their attention to the people
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Speaker 1: closest to Nicole, and that summer authorities arrested her stepfather
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Speaker 1: Ad and her stepbrother Andy, and they held them for
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Speaker 1: five days each and then they let them go. And
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Speaker 1: neither arrest produced charges, and not a single piece of
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Speaker 1: forensic evidence connected Ad or Andy to what happened to Nicole.
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Speaker 1: There were no links, no witnesses, just nothing. They had
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Speaker 1: nothing on the both of them. But the damage was
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Speaker 1: already done because they were held for five days. In
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Speaker 1: words spread and in the public eye, the arrest told
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Speaker 1: a story that the evidence just didn't support, and reporters
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Speaker 1: discussed the family structure, and they pointed out that Ad
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Speaker 1: wasn't Nicole's biological father and that he was only her
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Speaker 1: legal guardian, And it didn't matter that both men walked
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Speaker 1: out of custody without a single charge filed against them,
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Speaker 1: because suspicion had already settled on the family like a stain,
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Speaker 1: as a man who ran raised a girl as his
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Speaker 1: own daughter and then lost her to a murder. It's
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Speaker 1: just so awful. And a step brother who grew up
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Speaker 1: alongside her and who lived in the same house their
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Speaker 1: the grandmother's house, and he got hauled in as well
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Speaker 1: as she can't imagine how they both felt being scrutinized
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Speaker 1: like that. And they were only suspects because the evidence
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Speaker 1: didn't point to anyone else basically, so they were just doing,
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Speaker 1: you know, process of elimination. And in a case with
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Speaker 1: no answers, proximity became its own kind of guilt, and
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Speaker 1: the family that had been grieving Nicole was now defending
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Speaker 1: itself against the suspicion that one of them killed her.
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Speaker 1: And though both men had been cleared, it didn't really
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Speaker 1: matter because in a small community, in a case this public,
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Speaker 1: the whispers don't follow the same rules as the courts.
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Speaker 1: But as time went on, voices got quiet, and the
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Speaker 1: years after the arrests were defined by silence. There were
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Speaker 1: no new witnesses, forensic breakthroughs, or confessions, and the investigative
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Speaker 1: team had already been cut down and detectives moved on
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Speaker 1: to other cases, but the file still stayed open, but
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Speaker 1: fewer and fewer people were working on it, and in
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Speaker 1: two thousand and four a cold case team pulled Nichole's
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Speaker 1: case off the shelf and they reviewed the evidence and
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Speaker 1: re examined what had been collected and looked for anything
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Speaker 1: that might have been missed, but the case went right
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Speaker 1: back where it had been, and breaking the case open
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Speaker 1: again meant one of two things needed to happen. Someone
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Speaker 1: who knew something would have to come forward, or the
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Speaker 1: science would have to catch up to the evidence. So
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Speaker 1: by two thousand and eleven, sixteen years had passed since
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Speaker 1: the coal's body was found beneath those branches, and the
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Speaker 1: DNA samples were sealed away in evidence storage, and the
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Speaker 1: original material had been collected with mid nineties technology and
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Speaker 1: degraded by weeks of outdoor exposure, and the case had
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Speaker 1: sat dormant since the failed two thousand and four review,
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Speaker 1: and Andy Nicole's stepbrother had moved to England by then,
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Speaker 1: and in twenty eleven, from across the North Sea, he
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Speaker 1: did something no one saw coming, and he went on
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Speaker 1: Facebook and he confessed to killing his stepsister, the stepbrother
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Speaker 1: who lived in the same grandmother's house, who'd grown up
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Speaker 1: alongside her, who'd been hauled in once before, back in
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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety.
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Speaker 2: Six, and walked.
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Speaker 1: Now he was saying it out loud in writing for
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Speaker 1: anyone to read, I did it. So once the confession
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Speaker 1: hit social media, law enforcement in England responded immediately and
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Speaker 1: they arrested Andy in the UK, and on March thirtieth,
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Speaker 1: twenty eleven, he was extradited back to the Netherlands, back
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Speaker 1: in the country where he'd grown up, this time arriving
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Speaker 1: in handcuffs, and Dutch authorities held him for approximately five days,
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Speaker 1: the same length of time they'd held him back in
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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety six when he was first suspected. But the
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Speaker 1: confession didn't hold and investigators still had nothing connecting him
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Speaker 1: to the murder beyond his own words online forensics, no witnesses,
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Speaker 1: nothing but a post on a screen. So again they
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Speaker 1: let him go, and the moment he was released, Andy
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Speaker 1: just retracted his confession because he hadn't done it after all,
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Speaker 1: he would say. But then he went further and he
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Speaker 1: would accuse his own father ad of the murder. Nichole's
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Speaker 1: stepfather but it made no sense. A man confesses to
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Speaker 1: killing his stepsister, takes it back and then points the
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Speaker 1: finger at the father who raised them, both with essentially
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Speaker 1: zero evidence to back it up. And because of that,
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Speaker 1: the accusation against ad didn't lead to charges either. But
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Speaker 1: something had shifted now, and whatever Andy was doing, it
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Speaker 1: had dragged Nichole's name back into the headlines and made
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Speaker 1: it impossible for the case to quietly slide back into
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Speaker 1: a filing cabinet, And the confession triggered Dutch authorities to
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Speaker 1: assemble a fresh cold case team and point them at
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Speaker 1: her file. So for the first time in years, people
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Speaker 1: were looking at the case again, and Andy was relieved.
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Speaker 1: But Andy's relief carried a weight no one around him understood,
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Speaker 1: because Andy had never killed anyone, Because the Facebook confession
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Speaker 1: was a lie, a calculated, deliberate lie. But he understood something.
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Speaker 1: Most people don't confess to a murder. And the body
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Speaker 1: gets exhumed and new samples get taken and modern testing
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Speaker 1: gets applied, and the wheels turn again, And it was
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Speaker 1: the only way he could think of to force the
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Speaker 1: system's hand, and he knew it was a risk. A
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Speaker 1: false confession doesn't come with a safety net, and if
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Speaker 1: the legal system had moved faster than his plan accounted for,
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Speaker 1: he could have ended up convicted of a crime he
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Speaker 1: didn't commit. But to him, the alternative was worse, which
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Speaker 1: was another decade of silence, and the man who killed
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Speaker 1: Nicole walking free and even accusing his own father had
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Speaker 1: been part of it. And Andy didn't explain his true
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Speaker 1: motive publicly until twenty sixteen, when he said, quote, I
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Speaker 1: wanted her to get exhumed and get DNA off her.
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Speaker 1: I kind of set myself up and it could have
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Speaker 1: gone horribly wrong to get her exhumed. I had to
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Speaker 1: put steps in place to get her exhumed. I went
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Speaker 1: to police and said I did it.
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Speaker 2: She is my sister. Absolutely.
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Speaker 1: I miss her every day. And this was five years
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Speaker 1: after his confession. He waited five years. That's how long
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Speaker 1: he let people believe what they wanted about him.
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Speaker 2: But it was all by design. What an insanely amazing.
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Speaker 1: Brother to have, Oh my goodness, confessing to a murderer
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Speaker 1: just to get your body exhumed so the killer doesn't
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Speaker 1: walk free.
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Speaker 2: But did it work well?
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Speaker 1: In September of twenty eleven, authorities exhumed Nichol's remains and
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Speaker 1: the Netherlands Forensic Institute re examined biological material and clothing traces,
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Speaker 1: and all of it got processed through DNA technology that
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Speaker 1: simply hadn't existed when Nichole was first found, and complex
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Speaker 1: degraded samples that had been borderline useless in nineteen ninety
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Speaker 1: five could now potentially yield identify viable profiles. And following
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Speaker 1: the exhumation, authorities made another decision and they publicly confirmed
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Speaker 1: for the first time that Nicole had in fact been
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Speaker 1: and this was information the earlier teams had documented internally
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Speaker 1: but deliberately kept from the public like we spoke about before,
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Speaker 1: because they weren't one hundred percent about it, and now
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Speaker 1: the world finally knew, and authorities bumped the reward up
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Speaker 1: to fifteen thousand euros for anyone who could help identify
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Speaker 1: the killer. And a week later police went public with
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Speaker 1: a statement and that is that they've recovered foreign DNA
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Speaker 1: from Nicole's body, and they also reported receiving over twenty
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Speaker 1: new leads in two months after the exhumation, the Coles
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Speaker 1: remains were released back to the family. So the DNA
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Speaker 1: was there and it just took the right technology to
20:47
Speaker 1: finally see it, and now investigators had a profile and
20:50
Speaker 1: for the first time since nineteen ninety five, the case
20:53
Speaker 1: was finally moving forward. Now they updated testing at the
20:57
Speaker 1: Netherlands Forensic Institute produced clear results that the original investigation
21:01
Speaker 1: never could and the results pointed to three different men
21:04
Speaker 1: who'd left DNA on Nicole and the first profile belonged
21:08
Speaker 1: to her boyfriend at the time she disappeared, and that
21:11
Speaker 1: was expected due to their relationship, and the second profile
21:15
Speaker 1: belonged to a convicted from Hellmont named yos Digi, and
21:21
Speaker 1: his DNA showed up in sperm traces and pubic hair
21:25
Speaker 1: that had been collected.
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Speaker 2: From Nicole's body. And the third.
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Speaker 1: Profile belonged to an unknown male whose identity was never determined.
21:33
Speaker 1: But the match to yos Digi didn't come from the
21:36
Speaker 1: DNA alone. It came from pattern recognition because in September
21:40
Speaker 1: of twenty a twenty year old woman was attacked in Vulcansworg,
21:44
Speaker 1: a town just south of Einkhoven, and she was pulled
21:47
Speaker 1: from her bike and as in an isolated location and
21:51
Speaker 1: the man who committed the horrible crime was yos Digi.
21:55
Speaker 1: So the cold case team saw the parallel immediately. A
21:58
Speaker 1: young woman on a bike intercepted, taken somewhere, isolated, and assaulted,
22:03
Speaker 1: and the coal had been cycling to work in the
22:06
Speaker 1: dark when she vanished and her body ended up concealed
22:08
Speaker 1: in woodlands ten kilometers away. So the method was the
22:12
Speaker 1: exact same, and the cold case team compared to G's
22:15
Speaker 1: DNA profile against the unidentified traces were covered from the coal,
22:19
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Speaker 1: So in January of twenty fourteen, police arrested forty six
23:41
Speaker 1: year old Yasta G from Hellmond and he'd been living
23:45
Speaker 1: in a shelter home for about a month and a
23:46
Speaker 1: half and he was in the home stretch of reintegration.
23:50
Speaker 1: He had one more supervised phase and he'd be on
23:53
Speaker 1: his own again, which is horrifying to think about. But
23:56
Speaker 1: he never made it to the next step. Luckily, into
23:59
Speaker 1: G was from Vaukensburg, which is a town right on
24:03
Speaker 1: Einhoven's doorstep where Nicole lived and he was in his
24:06
Speaker 1: late twenties when she went missing. And on October fifth,
24:09
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety five, the night before Nicole vanished, de G
24:13
Speaker 1: walked out of his ex girlfriend's place, upset because the
24:16
Speaker 1: two had been fighting, and several hours later, Nicole left
24:19
Speaker 1: for work on her bicycle in the dark, and by
24:22
Speaker 1: the time police arrested him for Nicole's case, de G
24:26
Speaker 1: already had three convictions on his record.
24:30
Speaker 2: How is he out? And about why is this a thing?
24:32
Speaker 2: Kill it with fire? What?
24:34
Speaker 1: At? His earliest known offense dated back to nineteen eighty seven,
24:38
Speaker 1: which was an connected to him only later through a
24:41
Speaker 1: DNA match, and he was sentenced to seventeen months for
24:44
Speaker 1: a violence fault against his own girlfriend, and within months
24:48
Speaker 1: of that sentencing, authorities arrested him for the es of
24:52
Speaker 1: a twenty year old woman in Volkensberg, and two additional
24:55
Speaker 1: convictions followed for abusing his ex girlfriend, both a happened
25:00
Speaker 1: in her home, and in twenty eleven, a court ordered
25:03
Speaker 1: three years of preventive detention along with mandatory psychiatric care.
25:08
Speaker 1: That is an abhorrently small sentence.
25:12
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
25:13
Speaker 1: In the psychological evaluation from his earlier sentencing didn't hold back,
25:17
Speaker 1: and a psychiatrist called yostae G quote unquote a vessel
25:21
Speaker 1: overflowing with hate.
25:23
Speaker 2: But yeah, let him walk, and the.
25:25
Speaker 1: Report warned of significant chance he'd reoffend if the underlying
25:29
Speaker 1: issues weren't properly treated. But despite all that, by January
25:33
Speaker 1: twenty fourteen, the system had moved him to the doorstep
25:36
Speaker 1: of freedom and placed him in a shelter home, just
25:39
Speaker 1: six short weeks from living on his own again, and
25:42
Speaker 1: he'd joined an amateur football club in Helmand RKPVV where
25:47
Speaker 1: he'd played in goal and teammates found him spontaneous but withdrawn,
25:51
Speaker 1: but they liked him well enough. So with de G apprehended,
25:55
Speaker 1: Andy sent a message to his friends saying, quote they
25:59
Speaker 1: finally got this monster after nineteen years quote all thanks
26:03
Speaker 1: to him, by the way. So in April twenty fourteen,
26:06
Speaker 1: prosecutors formally charged Ya stay G with and murder of
26:10
Speaker 1: Nicole van den Hark, almost two decades after she was
26:14
Speaker 1: pulled from beneath a pile of branches. The case finally
26:17
Speaker 1: had a name attached to it, and that name had
26:20
Speaker 1: been in the system all along, so Ya Stag was
26:24
Speaker 1: originally charged with both murder and but that didn't last,
26:29
Speaker 1: and on July third, twenty fourteen, during a pre trial
26:32
Speaker 1: hearing in den Boss, prosecutors dropped the murder charge as
26:36
Speaker 1: the forensic evidence wouldn't support it, and he now faced
26:40
Speaker 1: trial for manslaughter and instead. The family, understandably was furious,
26:46
Speaker 1: and Andy called the reduction a betrayal of justice, and
26:50
Speaker 1: he argued that moving a victim's body is a deliberate act,
26:53
Speaker 1: one that should constitute murder, not the lesser charge an ad.
26:58
Speaker 1: Nicole's stepfather went further, telling reporters, quote, this man deserves
27:02
Speaker 1: the highest punishment there is. He has already attempted to
27:05
Speaker 1: murder two women in the past and has taken the
27:08
Speaker 1: life of my child. The Netherlands is not helped by
27:11
Speaker 1: this that such a man may still walk the streets unquote,
27:15
Speaker 1: drop the mic. Prosecutors asked the court for a fourteen
27:18
Speaker 1: year sentence if he was convicted on both counts, and
27:21
Speaker 1: the defense attorney Yaq Nuster planned to argue for full acquittal. Now,
27:26
Speaker 1: Degi's account was built on strategic vagueness. First, he claimed
27:30
Speaker 1: he never crossed paths with Nicole around the time she
27:33
Speaker 1: went missing, and then he offered an alternative, maybe the
27:36
Speaker 1: two of them had a consensual accounter in the days
27:39
Speaker 1: before her death.
27:40
Speaker 2: He just couldn't remember.
27:42
Speaker 1: Shut up, and his attorney pointed out that Nicole and
27:45
Speaker 1: his client moved through the same circles, the same hangouts,
27:49
Speaker 1: so a chance meeting was completely possible. Then the defense
27:53
Speaker 1: pushed further and Canoster told the court that other males
27:56
Speaker 1: DNA had also been recovered, which he said Nicole had
28:00
Speaker 1: been active before her death, and he even floated the
28:04
Speaker 1: claim that she may have been pregnant when she was killed,
28:07
Speaker 1: with no basis, by the way, insane thing to say
28:11
Speaker 1: about a murdered fifteen year old girl. An ad responded
28:14
Speaker 1: to the pregnancy claim directly, saying, quote, these are lawyer shenanigans.
28:19
Speaker 2: He is the devil's advocate.
28:20
Speaker 1: In the end, I do not want to comment on
28:22
Speaker 1: these allegations. I'll leave that to the Justice department unquote,
28:26
Speaker 1: and Andy kept his reaction brief, saying, quote unquote, the
28:30
Speaker 1: defense attorney is a very clever man. And the prosecution
28:33
Speaker 1: rejected the entire framework. Though in consensual with a fifteen
28:37
Speaker 1: year old wasn't realistic or a thing, by the way,
28:42
Speaker 1: since he was in his twenties, and the defense still
28:44
Speaker 1: had no believable explanation for why Digi's DNA was on
28:48
Speaker 1: Nicole's body, and by October twenty fifteen, the case had
28:51
Speaker 1: been through eight pre trial hearings and the strategy was
28:55
Speaker 1: very clear, not to prove innocence, but to muddy the
28:58
Speaker 1: water enough that's certainty became impossible. So basically the central
29:03
Speaker 1: fight in the courtroom was on the reliability of the
29:06
Speaker 1: DNA match itself and the whole reason de g was sitting.
29:09
Speaker 1: There was a partial match between his DNA and what
29:12
Speaker 1: had been pulled from Nicole, just partial, not complete, and
29:17
Speaker 1: that gap was the defense's primary weapon, and experts from
29:20
Speaker 1: two institutions testified in den Boss, the Netherlands Forensic Institute
29:25
Speaker 1: or NFI and the Independent Forensic Services or IFS, and
29:30
Speaker 1: at the center of it all was the sperm recovered
29:32
Speaker 1: from Nicol's remains, and investigators had never been able to
29:36
Speaker 1: build a complete profile from it, and even if the
29:39
Speaker 1: IFS brought in a counter expert agreed the gap was unusual. Normally,
29:44
Speaker 1: Seeman yields a full profile, and the NFI's expert, Yerene Kopeman,
29:49
Speaker 1: explained why this case was different quote, it is quite
29:52
Speaker 1: extraordinary that we were able to find usable DNA evidence
29:56
Speaker 1: after six weeks. It does not surprise me that no
29:59
Speaker 1: single profile came from it. Quote. There you go, because
30:02
Speaker 1: six weeks of outdoor decomposition had degraded everything, and the
30:06
Speaker 1: sample wasn't clean to begin with, and at least three
30:09
Speaker 1: separate people's DNA had shown up in those semen traces,
30:13
Speaker 1: and two of the profiles were clear believed to match
30:16
Speaker 1: day G and Nicole's boyfriend, but some peaks didn't conclusively
30:21
Speaker 1: match either man and the NFI and the ifs couldn't
30:24
Speaker 1: agree on what the DNA actually proved, so the court
30:28
Speaker 1: brought in a third set of eyes and the samples
30:30
Speaker 1: were shipped to New Zealand, where analysts applied probabilistic genotyping,
30:35
Speaker 1: a math driven method built to pull apart mixed DNA
30:38
Speaker 1: when several people's material ends up on the same item.
30:41
Speaker 1: They really have a job for everything, and no Dutch
30:44
Speaker 1: case had ever used it before, and the results presented
30:47
Speaker 1: in April of twenty sixteen were striking in the odds
30:51
Speaker 1: that the three strands belonged to DAG and two other
30:54
Speaker 1: specific individuals rather than three strangers were two point two
30:58
Speaker 1: eight million to one, so across two continents, the takeaway
31:03
Speaker 1: was the same. Deg's DNA was almost certainly part of
31:08
Speaker 1: that mixture, but very likely and beyond reasonable doubt don't
31:13
Speaker 1: mean the same thing, obviously, and the unknown third profile
31:16
Speaker 1: still hung over the case and the defense intended to
31:19
Speaker 1: use it, so a verdict was expected in twenty fifteen,
31:23
Speaker 1: and then two surprise witnesses blew the timeline apart, and
31:27
Speaker 1: both had done some time in the same psychiatric institution
31:30
Speaker 1: as d G, and each said separately that he told
31:34
Speaker 1: them about killing a girl, and they were both convinced
31:38
Speaker 1: that girl was Nicole, and the court postponed proceedings and
31:42
Speaker 1: called fifteen people to testify about how d G and
31:45
Speaker 1: the two men had actually interacted, and DEG tried to
31:49
Speaker 1: discredit one of them, claiming they'd gotten along like cat
31:52
Speaker 1: and dog inside the facility, but a psychiatrist from the
31:55
Speaker 1: clinic remembered the two of them sitting together playing poker,
31:58
Speaker 1: But in the end neither man statement made it into
32:01
Speaker 1: official evidence, and prosecutors said they believed the witnesses, but
32:05
Speaker 1: their testimony stayed out of the formal case, and the
32:07
Speaker 1: trial moved forward without it, but on November twenty first,
32:11
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, a unanimous panel found Yostayg guilty and sentenced
32:17
Speaker 1: to five years, but on manslaughter he was acquitted, and
32:22
Speaker 1: the reasoning came down to that unknown third DNA profile
32:25
Speaker 1: because the court couldn't rule out that the unidentified man
32:28
Speaker 1: had played some role in Nicolet's death, and with nothing
32:32
Speaker 1: beyond the trace evidence, it wouldn't connectd G to the
32:36
Speaker 1: killing itself, and everything else the defense had argued was rejected,
32:40
Speaker 1: and the judges found that Nicole and dej did not
32:44
Speaker 1: know each other before the day she vanished, and the
32:46
Speaker 1: consensual contact story was completely thrown out and the promiscuity
32:51
Speaker 1: defense with it and Deg's sperm on Nicole's body indicated
32:55
Speaker 1: as not consent, but none of it was enough to
32:59
Speaker 1: convict him of taking her life, and the court acknowledged
33:02
Speaker 1: what it was, leaving unanswered quote. We regret that the
33:05
Speaker 1: relatives have no clarity on what happened after the unquote,
33:10
Speaker 1: and the judges also declined to impose TBS the Dutch
33:13
Speaker 1: system of psychiatric detention, reasoning that experts had assessed his
33:17
Speaker 1: risk of reoffending as minimal and prosecutors had asked for
33:21
Speaker 1: fourteen years, and he only got five, with two already
33:26
Speaker 1: served in pre trial custody, so roughly only three years remaining.
33:31
Speaker 1: And the family just broke and a cold stepmother, Yolanda
33:35
Speaker 1: vndr Vyden shouted in court quote, what if this could
33:39
Speaker 1: happen to your children? This is simply unbelievable unquote, and
33:43
Speaker 1: police let her out as relatives walked out in tears,
33:47
Speaker 1: and days later ad appeared on a regional broadcast called crack.
33:51
Speaker 1: Quote this is not a man, but a terrible creature unquote.
33:56
Speaker 1: So the five year sentence lasted eight days before it
33:59
Speaker 1: was challenged, and on November twenty ninth, twenty sixteen, the
34:02
Speaker 1: public prosecutor appealed the manslaughter acquittal outright, arguing and the
34:07
Speaker 1: killing were one act by one man, but the defense
34:11
Speaker 1: appealed to contesting the conviction itself, so the whole case
34:16
Speaker 1: went back before the judges and every account relitigated from scratch,
34:20
Speaker 1: and hearings opened on August twenty eighth, twenty eighteen, at
34:23
Speaker 1: the Court of Appeals in Seratogen Boss sorry for the pronunciation,
34:28
Speaker 1: the same city as the first trial, and prosecutors again
34:31
Speaker 1: asked for fourteen years which I still think isn't enough
34:36
Speaker 1: life just in a hole for life. So there was
34:40
Speaker 1: the same defendant with the same forensic evidence, but one
34:43
Speaker 1: thing changed, the unknown third DNA trace. Since the first
34:48
Speaker 1: trial it had been the reason Didgi walked, as we know,
34:51
Speaker 1: and the appeal Court saw it differently. They concluded the
34:54
Speaker 1: trace carried no real weight, it was minimal, its origin
34:58
Speaker 1: couldn't be pinned down, and there were plenty of innocent
35:01
Speaker 1: ways it could have ended up there, transfer contamination, incidental contact.
35:06
Speaker 1: Where the first court treated the trace as an open door,
35:10
Speaker 1: the appeal court closed it. With that obstacle gone, the
35:14
Speaker 1: judges turned to what remained Dej's biological material had been
35:18
Speaker 1: found three times on Nicole's body, and the forced nature
35:23
Speaker 1: of the contact established at the first trial went unchallenged.
35:27
Speaker 1: And then there was what happened afterward. Nicole's body hidden
35:31
Speaker 1: under branches in a woodland ten kilometers from where she
35:34
Speaker 1: was last seen. That kind of concealment doesn't just happen
35:38
Speaker 1: by accident. It's the behavior of someone trying not to
35:41
Speaker 1: get caught. And the appeal Court drew a straight line
35:44
Speaker 1: from the essay to the killing to the disposal. One
35:47
Speaker 1: offender one sequence of events, one man responsible for all
35:51
Speaker 1: of it. So on October ninth, twenty eighteen, the Court
35:54
Speaker 1: of Appeal convicted yosta G of both and bandslaughter and
36:00
Speaker 1: sentenced him to twelve years. Still not good enough. Still
36:05
Speaker 1: not good enough, but at least we know without a
36:07
Speaker 1: doubt who committed this heinous crime, and the court's language
36:10
Speaker 1: left no room for ambiguity, accusing him of quote, forcing
36:15
Speaker 1: a young girl with her whole life ahead of her
36:18
Speaker 1: into and then killing her unquote, and in its judgment,
36:21
Speaker 1: the evidence proved he'd be a fifteen year old to
36:24
Speaker 1: death and buried her under branches so no one could
36:28
Speaker 1: find her. So twenty three years after Nicole was pulled
36:32
Speaker 1: from beneath that pile of branches, a court had finally
36:35
Speaker 1: held someone accountable for putting her there, and the judges
36:38
Speaker 1: again declined tbs and de G had been given it
36:42
Speaker 1: for a prior conviction and never finished it, and the
36:45
Speaker 1: court found it was no longer possible to tell whether
36:47
Speaker 1: his mental health had played any role. In nineteen ninety five,
36:51
Speaker 1: but de Gi wasn't finished, and he took the case
36:54
Speaker 1: to the Hoga rot the Dutch Supreme Court, arguing he
36:59
Speaker 1: hadn't received a fair trial, and his objections aimed at
37:02
Speaker 1: the appeal court's use of the DNA findings and its
37:04
Speaker 1: handling of the defense's challenges to expert witnesses. And the
37:08
Speaker 1: Advocate General reviewed the arguments and recommended they fail. So
37:12
Speaker 1: on June sixteenth, twenty twenty, they dismissed every complaint and
37:16
Speaker 1: the conviction was locked in. So no more appeals, no
37:20
Speaker 1: more hearings, nothing left to pursue. But there was one
37:23
Speaker 1: final adjustment. The court knocked four months off for how
37:27
Speaker 1: long the case had dragged on, turning twelve years into
37:31
Speaker 1: eleven years and eight months.
37:33
Speaker 2: What are we doing over there in the Netherlands? Are
37:35
Speaker 2: you guys? Okay? What's going on? Just everywhere?
37:38
Speaker 1: Honestly, it's not even the Netherlands. It's just like, I
37:41
Speaker 1: don't I don't understand the sentencing for this type of thing.
37:45
Speaker 1: This man murdered a girl and defiled her, but they're
37:51
Speaker 1: just it's a slap on the wrist. What are we
37:54
Speaker 1: doing again, whole for life or fire? You know, I
37:59
Speaker 1: don't know understand, and I don't think i'll ever understand.
38:02
Speaker 1: But at this point the case was closed and the
38:05
Speaker 1: third male whose DNA appeared on Nicole's remains, was never identified,
38:10
Speaker 1: and courts waited, argued over it and set it aside
38:13
Speaker 1: as too small and too ambiguous to matter. And that
38:16
Speaker 1: question still hangs over the case. But the central one
38:19
Speaker 1: has been answered. Yastay g killed Nicole vanden Hark and
38:23
Speaker 1: the conviction was final.
38:25
Speaker 2: And it had.
38:25
Speaker 1: Taken a false confession and exhumation, forensic science that didn't
38:29
Speaker 1: exist when Nicole died, and years of grinding and persistence,
38:33
Speaker 1: but someone was finally held responsible. Let's take a quick
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Speaker 1: stayg was sentenced and the legal fight was over. But
39:50
Speaker 1: a verdict ends the legal question and it doesn't end
39:53
Speaker 1: anything else. And Andy Vendenhark had given more to this
39:57
Speaker 1: case than anyone should have to confessing to a murder,
40:01
Speaker 1: he didn't commit to force it to open back up again,
40:04
Speaker 1: and it worked, and the boy who set himself on
40:08
Speaker 1: fire basically metaphorically to light the paths to justice actually
40:13
Speaker 1: got there. But on August twenty seventh, twenty twenty one,
40:17
Speaker 1: Andy posted a final message on Facebook saying he was
40:21
Speaker 1: ready to say goodbye, and not long after he would
40:26
Speaker 1: just with years a grief of suspicion, sacrifice and waiting
40:30
Speaker 1: had proved to be too much for him. He was
40:33
Speaker 1: the reason his stepsister's killer was identified, and yet the
40:37
Speaker 1: person who fought the hardest for Nicole didn't get to
40:40
Speaker 1: live in the world he'd helped create, the one where
40:43
Speaker 1: her killer was named, convicted and locked away. An ad
40:47
Speaker 1: vanden Hurk carried a different version of the same weight,
40:51
Speaker 1: and he had raised a coal as his own, lost
40:54
Speaker 1: her to murder and heard the word convicted twenty three
40:58
Speaker 1: years after he buried her, and he was right to
41:01
Speaker 1: call the man who did it a terrible creature. But
41:04
Speaker 1: that is the end of this deep dive case on
41:07
Speaker 1: Nicole van den Hork. My heart always goes out to
41:11
Speaker 1: the family and to her. What a just a horrible,
41:15
Speaker 1: horrible case. I just can't believe what the step brother
41:20
Speaker 1: did for her and everything he sacrificed, and in the
41:23
Speaker 1: end he's no longer with us, But I think that
41:27
Speaker 1: Nicole would have been extremely proud of what he did
41:30
Speaker 1: for her. But thank you so much for listening, and
41:33
Speaker 1: if you would like me to deep dive into any
41:34
Speaker 1: other cases, please let me know down below, and until
41:38
Speaker 1: then I will see you beautiful face, and please please
41:41
Speaker 1: stay safe out there.
41:42
Speaker 2: Okay bye,