10case filesUpdated Jul 14, 2026
Casepin holds 10 solved cases in the Netherlands. A solved case is one the record closes with a conviction or an equivalent legal finding; each file names who was convicted only where a court did.
Credit: Thomas KistGFDL 1.2SourceSOLVEDListenNear Oosterpark, Amsterdam, Netherlands · 2004
Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, director of the film Submission, was fatally shot and stabbed while cycling to work in Amsterdam on 2 November 2004. Mohammed Bouyeri, a Dutch-Moroccan Islamist who objected to the film, was convicted of the murder on 26 July 2005 and sentenced to life imprisonment with no possibility of parole.
SOLVEDListenDeventer, Netherlands · 1999
Jaqueline Wittenberg, a widow, was murdered in her Deventer, Netherlands home in September 1999. Her tax advisor, Ernest Louwes, was convicted of the killing in 2000, retried and convicted again in 2004 after the original forensic evidence was discredited, and released in 2009 after courts upheld the finding against him — though the case remains publicly disputed.
Credit: Rob Croes for AnefoCC BY-SA 3.0 NLSourceSOLVEDListenWeteringplantsoen, Amsterdam · 1983
Brewing executive Freddy Heineken and his driver Ab Doderer were kidnapped in Amsterdam on 9 November 1983 and held for three weeks until a ransom was paid for their release; all five kidnappers were eventually caught and served prison terms.
SOLVEDListenLange Leidsedwarsstraat, near Leidseplein, Amsterdam · 2021
Dutch investigative journalist Peter R. de Vries was shot in central Amsterdam on 6 July 2021 as he left a television studio, and died of his injuries nine days later. In June 2024, an Amsterdam court convicted three men, including the identified shooter and getaway driver, sentencing them to up to 28 years in prison for his murder.
SOLVEDListenRidderhof shopping mall, Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands · 2011
On 9 April 2011, a gunman killed six people and wounded 17 others in a shooting at the Ridderhof shopping mall in Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands, before fatally shooting himself.
The files run from 1983 to 2021. The 1990s hold the most, with 4 files. The oldest is Kidnapping of Freddy Heineken and Ab Doderer, from 1983.
By type, the largest groups are murder and homicide cases (9), kidnapping and abduction cases (2) and mass shooting cases (2).
1 file of the 10 has coverage attached: 1 video, podcast or documentary from 1 creator.
Every file is written from cited sources and pinned where it happened, and every person named carries the legal status the record gives them. Families and anyone involved can request a correction from any file.
This page updates from the published files, so counts and statuses change the day a record does. Open any file for its timeline, its sources and the coverage worth your time, or play it as a narrated case file.
Monument voor Marianne Vaatstra — Credit: YtzenCC BY-SA 3.0Source
File:Herdenkingsmonument Nicky Verstappen.jpg — Credit: SaschaporscheCC BY-SA 3.0Source
File:TheoVanGogh.jpg — Credit: Thomas KistGFDL 1.2Source
File:Freddy Heineken en Ab Doderer (1983).jpg — Credit: Rob Croes for AnefoCC BY-SA 3.0 NLSource
These files are published and cited but are kept out of search listings for now, either because they fall outside Casepin’s true-crime scope or because they are still being deepened.
10. The count covers published files only and changes as new files clear review.
Kidnapping of Freddy Heineken and Ab Doderer, from 1983. Open the file
Georgia Marie (1 case).
It rebuilds hourly from the published files; the newest file change here is dated Jul 14, 2026. A status changes only when the record behind it does.
