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1999, a small village in the Netherlands witnessed a horrific crime. Marianne Vaaststra, a young and chirpy kid with a very outgoing personality. She was just another girl with big dreams of graduating from her highschool and starting her own life. On May 1st, Marianneās family reported that she had not come home. The last time they saw her, when she went on a bike ride to the nearby village of Kolum. The village was not too far, it was just twenty minutes away from her parents ' house, but she never made it back. This incident caused extreme anger and fear among the villagers of Veebklooster as they realised that their kids were not as safe as they thought anymore. The police started the investigation immediately and it was not long before a day when they found Marianneās body. The sight of the crime scene was horrendous . The 16 year old girl was brutally strangled to death. Her throat was slit and there were traces of blood all around her body. The nature of the murder was already painful until it was discovered that she was raped and assaulted before her murder. Traces of semen were found on her body as well as a lighter with a playboy symbol on it. The police took both te evidences and preserved it as it would later become useful in finding her murderer. Information about this case spread like wildfire and it soon became national news. People of Veebklooster started doing protests outside the police station to pressurise the authorities into taking significant actions. The media also got involved which raised the expectations and the pressure on the police department. The police started their investigations in the nearby asylum as it was close to where Marianneās body was found. This was a false attempt as the two suspects they had been investigating did not have matching DNA. The case was going nowhere so the police asked every man in a 650km radius to give out their DNA. The investigators believed that the murderer had to be a local because of the lighter they found but they had no idea how difficult this case was going to be. The samples were matched to the semen found on Marianneās body but none of them came back positive. This stopped the case from going anywhere and it was declared a cold blooded mystery. In 2012, this case took a shocking turn as this was reopened under the title of Netherland's most infamous unsolved mystery. Investigations again began and this time the authorities were adamant to find Marianneās killer. They asked everyone living in the village of Kolum to give out their DNA samples voluntarily. It had to be sheer luck that after fourteen years of this gruesome tragedy, a result came back positive. This lit up hope in everyone as the man who gave out his sample lived only two and a half kilometres from where Marianneās body was found. Jasper S, a 45 year old father of two childrens willingly gave out his DNA, simply in hopes that he would not be found guilty 14 years after the crime was committed but it was his worst decision ever. The police arrested Jasper from his farmhouse in Oudwoude. He had no record of any crimes but after he got arrested, he finally confessed. He said that he forced Marrianne with a pocket knife, took advantage of her and later killed her by slitting her throat. He said that he had no idea what he was doing at that time. Jasperās trial began and he was sentenced to 18 years in prsion for Marrianeās murder. Fourteen years later , justice was finally served. #ColdCasesSolved #Mysterious7 #Truecrime Copyright Disclaimer Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, commenting, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statutes that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational, or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.
