In Search of Lost Crime: Recent Episodes
Liz Luyben
Hey, I'm Liz Luyben, mystery author. I have a historical Dutch true crime podcast called Moord Podcast and many of my non-Dutch speaking friends have been asking me to start an English language version. I have been telling them to simply learn Dutch as it's a wonderful language but apparently it's hard or something... So here we are! In search of lost crime focuses on mysteries from the old country, a missing aviator in the Netherlands in 1915, a forgotten cannibal on the Polish/German border in 1925, or a gruesome wooden box that gets delivered to a train station in Madrid in 1929.... Please subscribe for these and many other Lost Crimes!
On February 28th 1985, there is a blazing fire in a forest below Paris. When people stop to help it turns out that there's a car on fire, a Citroën 2CV. Outside is Bruno Joushomme, a 22 year old man. Inside the engulfed car is his wife, 61 year old Evelyne Laborde.
Was this a trigic accident or was it in fact... Murder?
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Wicked Walks through Spain: Hiking along historical Spanish crime scenes. It's a collection of ten of my most bizarre true crime stories, all set in Spain. Each story has a hike as well, along places that feature in the story: the station in Barcelona where three children were abandoned by their parents, the mass grave in Sevilla where Blas Infante was buried, the farm where a blood bath took place in Extremadura....
Buy Wicked Walks through Spain today. Even better: all the proceeds go to the care of old dogs in Spain & Portugal.
When Megan and Harry Tooze were murdered in 1993, the local police had just one lead — and it was a strange one: a light-blue porcelain teacup...
Don't forget to subscribe! More historical crimes? Follow me on @insearchoflostcrime on Instagram or buy my book!
Wicked Walks through Spain: Hiking along historical Spanish crime scenes. It's a collection of ten of my most bizarre true crime stories, all set in Spain. Each story has a hike as well, along places that feature in the story: the station in Barcelona where three children were abandoned by their parents, the mass grave in Sevilla where Blas Infante was buried, the farm where a blood bath took place in Extremadura....
Buy Wicked Walks through Spain today. Even better: all the proceeds go to the care of old dogs in Spain & Portugal.
The woman who made Nazis fall in love with chatbots
In December 2025, a Nazi dating site was deleted, live on stage, by a woman dressed as the Pink Power Ranger. If this doesn't make you want to listen to this podcast, nothing will ;-)
Listen today and don't forget to subscribe! More historical crimes? Follow me on @insearchoflostcrime on Instagram or buy my book!
Wicked Walks through Spain: Hiking along historical Spanish crime scenes. It's a collection of ten of my most bizarre true crime stories, all set in Spain. Each story has a hike as well, along places that feature in the story: the station in Barcelona where three children were abandoned by their parents, the mass grave in Sevilla where Blas Infante was buried, the farm where a blood bath took place in Extremadura....
Buy Wicked Walks through Spain today. Even better: all the proceeds go to the care of old dogs in Spain & Portugal.
New Year's Eve 1921 At Hollandspoor Station in The Hague, the train from Amsterdam has just arrived. A passenger about to board the first-class compartment sees a body on the floor. In a pool of blood....
The murder of this prominent Dutch lawyer was never solved and would keep Dutch society riveted to their newspapers for years. Was it a robbery gone wrong? A suicide? Or was it something to do with... the Dutch Royal family...?
Listen today and don't forget to subscribe! More historical crimes? Follow me on @insearchoflostcrime on Instagram or buy my book!
Wicked Walks through Spain: Hiking along historical Spanish crime scenes. It's a collection of ten of my most bizarre true crime stories, all set in Spain. Each story has a hike as well, along places that feature in the story: the station in Barcelona where three children were abandoned by their parents, the mass grave in Sevilla where Blas Infante was buried, the farm where a blood bath took place in Extremadura....
Buy Wicked Walks through Spain today, just drop me a line at Liz@Doffeltje.nl! Even better: all the proceeds go to the care of old dogs in Spain & Portugal.
Maria Catherina van der Linden-Swanenburg, also known as Goeie Mie, or 'Kind Mary', was a Dutch mass murderer who killed at least 27 people and was suspected of killing over 90. Mostly her own family memebers and her neighbours.
How did she get away with it for so long and what drove her to kill most of her family? And what is the delightful Dutch word for pin worms? Listen right now!
In Search of Lost Crime focuses on historical murders, mostly in Europe. Please subscribe for more. More In search of Lost Crime? Follow me on Instagram: @insearchoflostcrime
Stuck for words? Check out my book: Small Talk Survival on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Small-Talk-Survival-meaningful-graceful-ebook/dp/B09DW91Z77
In a plotline that seems to come straight out of a Dan Brown movie, in 2011 a priceless medieval manuscript is stolen from the Santiago de Compostela Cathedral. What follows is a web of bizarre twists and turns, blackmail, infighting, backstabbing, greed and... REVENGE.
On July 7th, 2011, cathedral organist Joaquín Barreira walks into Santiago de Compostela Cathedral, just before morning mass. One of the choirboys runs up to him and cries: ‘Sir! Have you heard, sir? Have you heard? They’ve stolen the Codex!’
Joaquín initially thinks the boy must be kidding, because what he’s saying is simply impossible. The Codex Calixtinus, a twelfth-century manuscript dedicated to Saint James, the jewel of medieval Spanish writings. Of inestimable value to the cathedral and to all the millions of pilgrims who flock there each year. The manuscript has been faithfully kept in the archives for over eight hundred years. Now someone has had the audacity to steal it: From the Santiago de Compostela Cathedral, from an armored room, from a very thick vault. Without leaving a trace of forced entry. Surely, that can’t be happening. Right? But soon Joaquín himself will become one of the main suspects in the theft of the Codex Calixtinus.
More In search of Lost Crime? Follow me on Instagram: @insearchoflostcrime
Or buy my new book: Wicked Walks though Spain: Hiking along Spanish historical crime scenes. Check it out on Amazon.com or send me a message on Liz@Doffeltje.nl
100% of the proceeds go to the care and rescue of (elderly) dogs in Portugal and Spain.
In a plotline that seems to come straight out of a Dan Brown movie, in 2011 a priceless medieval manuscript is stolen from the Santiago de Compostela Cathedral. What follows is a web of bizarre twists and turns, blackmail, infighting, backstabbing, greed and... REVENGE.
On July 7th, 2011, cathedral organist Joaquín Barreira walks into Santiago de Compostela Cathedral, just before morning mass. One of the choirboys runs up to him and cries: ‘Sir! Have you heard, sir? Have you heard? They’ve stolen the Codex!’
Joaquín initially thinks the boy must be kidding, because what he’s saying is simply impossible. The Codex Calixtinus, a twelfth-century manuscript dedicated to Saint James, the jewel of medieval Spanish writings. Of inestimable value to the cathedral and to all the millions of pilgrims who flock there each year. The manuscript has been faithfully kept in the archives for over eight hundred years. Now someone has had the audacity to steal it: From the Santiago de Compostela Cathedral, from an armored room, from a very thick vault. Without leaving a trace of forced entry. Surely, that can’t be happening. Right? But soon Joaquín himself will become one of the main suspects in the theft of the Codex Calixtinus.
More In search of Lost Crime? Follow me on Instagram: @insearchoflostcrime
Or buy my new book: Wicked Walks though Spain: Hiking along Spanish historical crime scenes. Check it out on Amazon.com or send me a message on Liz@Doffeltje.nl
100% of the proceeds go to the care and rescue of (elderly) dogs in Portugal and Spain.
On January 11th, 2003, Maria Angels Ribot leaves work at the usual time. She parks her car in her usual parking space: number 15, on the fourth floor of Calle Beltran in the posh Putxet district of Barcelona. She walks to the elevator as usual. But then something unusual happens: she suddenly sees a stranger step out of the shadows. That's strange, because to get into the parking garage you need a special key. How did this guy get in here? More importantly: why is he walking towards her? She hugs her bag a little tighter to her body and starts pressing the elevator button, hoping it will come soon. But then she sees the knife…
If you'd like to support this podcast: please share this episode, leave a comment or give me a five star review wherever you listen to podcasts!
More In search of Lost Crime? Follow me on Instagram: @insearchoflostcrime
Or buy my new book: Wicked Walks though Spain: Hiking along Spanish historical crime scenes. Check it out on Amazon.com or send me a message on Liz@Doffeltje.nl
100% of the proceeds go to the care and rescue of (elderly) dogs in Portugal and Spain.
On January 11th, 2003, Maria Angels Ribot leaves work at the usual time. She parks her car in her usual parking space: number 15, on the fourth floor of Calle Beltran in the posh Putxet district of Barcelona. She walks to the elevator as usual. But then she sees a stranger step out of the shadows. That's strange, because to get into the parking garage you need a special key. How did this guy get in here? More importantly: why is he walking towards her? She hugs her bag a little tighter to her body and starts pressing the elevator button, hoping it will come soon, but then she sees the knife…
If you'd like to support this podcast: please share this episode, leave a comment or give me a five star review wherever you listen to podcasts!
More In search of Lost Crime? Follow me on Instagram: @insearchoflostcrime
Or buy my new book: Wicked Walks though Spain: Hiking along Spanish historical crime scenes send me a message on Liz@Doffeltje.nl
On April 22nd, 1984, a man in his forties drives a white Mercedes to Estación de Francia, a busy railway station in Barcelona. He has three children in the car with him: five-year-old Ramón, four-year-old Ricard, and two-year-old Elvira.
'Sit here for a moment,' the man tells the three. 'I'm just gonna go and get us some candy.'
Time ticks by, but the man never returns. No candy either. The three abandoned kids are taken in by the police. When the police ask for the names of their parents, they say they don't know. Just Papa and Mama. The oldest brother, Ramón, remembers some fragments of their previous lives. There was a green Jaguar, a fountain in Paris and oh yes, a gun.
It will take almost forty years before the mystery of these three abandoned children is solved. And even then, they are left with a lot of unanswered questions.
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In 1979, one of the biggest criminals from the 1930s died quietly in a fancy apartment in Torremolinos. Alvin "Creepy" Karpis was behind countless bank robberies, kidnappings, and murders. For years, he was one of America's most wanted criminals with the FBI constantly on his tail. Karpis was also the prisoner who spent the longest time incarcerated at the infamous Alcatraz prison. In 1979, the police find his remains in his apartment under highly suspicious circumstances. Was it a suicide or had Creepy's criminal past finally caught up with him?
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In December 1928, a large crate arrives at Mediodía station in Madrid, nowadays known as Atocha Station. The paperwork shows that the crate was sent from Barcelona on December 7 and has been sitting there for four and a half months, waiting for someone to pick it up. No one ever comes for it, so according to the rules, the station master will now open the crate and sell the contents.
As soon as they pull out the first nails from the wooden lid, the storage room starts to fill with a horrible odour. "I thought it had to be another spoiled ham," the manager later recounts in an interview. When they lift the lid, they first see old newspapers and then some sheets, followed by a human leg, including a foot with a shiny shoe. It turns out that the crate contains the half-decayed, chopped up pieces of a man. Not just any man, but an extremely well-dressed male, about thirty years old, dark, tall, and broad-shouldered. With - even after all those months - beautifully manicured hands and wearing silk underwear. A very well taken care of specimen. The only thing missing? His head.
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Or my upcoming book, Camino Negro, A Hiker's Guide to Spain's Historic Crime Scenes. Available from the end of May.
In the early morning of July 15, 1915, sixteen-year-old Joaquín Barniello walks into the Finca de Malladas, a huge manor farm. The Count of Malladas's farm is one of the biggest employers around, mainly raising pigs. Joaquín works there as a seasonal worker. It's oddly quiet today. Joaquín kind of expected this, since even though there are usually about fifty people working on the farm, pretty much everyone's got the day off to celebrate. In the nearby village of Moraleja, they're having their yearly San Bonaventura festival. Every year, people from all over the area come to this festival to eat, drink, sing, and dance their hearts out. Joaquín had a pretty wild time at the festival last night, but now it's back to work. The pigs aren't going to feed themselves.
The silence starts getting more and more oppressive. It's just way too quiet around the farm - there should at least be a farmhand, some maids, and their kids are usually running around as well. Joaquín heads to the barn. It's dark in there and something smells... off. Metallic. He pushes the door open a bit further. And that's when he comes across a bloodbath.
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Or my upcoming book, Camino Negro: A Hiker's Guide to Spain's Historic Crime Scenes. Available from the end of May.
In the early morning of July 15, 1915, sixteen-year-old Joaquín Barniello walks into the Finca de Malladas, a huge manor farm. The Count of Malladas's farm is one of the biggest employers around, mainly raising pigs. Joaquín works there as a seasonal worker. It's oddly quiet today. Joaquín kind of expected this, since even though there are usually about fifty people working on the farm, pretty much everyone's got the day off to celebrate. In the nearby village of Moraleja, they're having their yearly San Bonaventura festival. Every year, people from all over the area come to this festival to eat, drink, sing, and dance their hearts out. Joaquín had a pretty wild time at the festival last night, but now it's back to work. The pigs aren't going to feed themselves.
The silence starts getting more and more oppressive. It's just way too quiet around the farm - there should at least be a farmhand, some maids, and their kids are usually running around as well. Joaquín heads to the barn. It's dark in there and something smells... off. Metallic. He pushes the door open a bit further. And that's when he comes across a bloodbath.
If you'd like to support this podcast: please share this episode, leave a comment or give me a five star review wherever you listen to podcasts!
More In search of Lost Crime? Follow me on Instagram: @insearchoflostcrime
Or buy my book: Smalltalk Survival: https://www.amazon.com/Small-Talk-Survival-meaningful-graceful-ebook/dp/B09DW91Z77
Or my upcoming book, Camino Negro, A Hiker's Guide to Spain's Historic Crime Scenes. Available from the end of May.
For this episode I read El Crimen de Malladas by Luis Roso.
On the night of April 11th, a priceless, 15th-century masterpiece is stolen from Saint Bavo Cathedral in Ghent. Thieves manage to run off with a side panel of the Ghent Altarpiece. What follows, reads like a crime novel: threatening letters, ransom demands, deathbed confessions, secret codes, international conspiracies, Templars, Nazis, the Holy Grail, murder and … a cheese theft.
Almost a hundred years after the theft, the panel still hasn't surfaced. And this was not the first time this painting had been stolen. It is actually considered the most stolen painting in history. Why do people keep stealing this particular painting? Could the answer finally be found in the tomb of King Albert I of Belgium?
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Or my upcoming book, Camino Negro, A Hiker's Guide to Spain's Historic Crime Scenes. Available from the end of April.
On the night of April 11th, a priceless, 15th-century masterpiece is stolen from Saint Bavo Cathedral in Ghent. Thieves manage to run off with a side panel of the Ghent Altarpiece. What follows, reads like a crime novel: threatening letters, ransom demands, deathbed confessions, secret codes, international conspiracies, Templars, Nazis, the Holy Grail, murder and … a cheese theft.
Almost a hundred years after the theft, the panel still hasn't surfaced. And this was not the first time this painting had been stolen. It is actually considered the most stolen painting in history. Why do people keep stealing this particular painting? Could the answer finally be found in the tomb of King Albert I of Belgium?
If you'd like to support this podcast: please share this episode, leave a comment or give me a five star review.
More In search of Lost Crime? Follow me on Instagram: @insearchoflostcrime
Or buy my book: Smalltalk Survival: https://www.amazon.com/Small-Talk-Survival-meaningful-graceful-ebook/dp/B09DW91Z77
The walk from the crime scene at the Ibis Hotel to the Pico Reja mass grave is one of the walks from my upcoming book, Camino Negro, A Hiker's Guide to Spain's Historic Crime Scenes. Available from the end of April.
On February 17, 1934, the lifeless body of King Albert I of Belgium was discovered at the foot of a peak in Marche-les-Dames. The king has a large head wound and has clearly been dead for some time. A climbing accident, according to the official sources.
But before the king is even cold in his grave, the first rumors start popping up. Why was the king out there, climbing alone in the mist? Why were his glasses found fifty meters away? King Albert was blind as a bat without hs glasses. Why didn't the body have any bruises, despite allegedly falling 49 meters - about 160 feet? Why did it take hours to find the king's body when it was quite out in the open? Was Albert I perhaps …. murdered?
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The walk from the crime scene at the Ibis Hotel to the Pico Reja mass grave is one of the walks from my upcoming book, Camino Negro, A Hiker's Guide to Spain's Historic Crime Scenes. Available from the end of April.
The Ibis hotel on Avenida Kansas City in Sevilla may look like your average hotel. It has hot showers, friendly staff and cold, if indifferent, beer. What makes this hotel more memorable is that it comes with a built in Crime scene.
Every year on the 28th of February, all of Andalusia celebrates Andalusia Day and when they do they usually honour the father of the Andalusian idea, Blas Infante. Who was murdered almost a century ago, on what is now the Ibis parking lot and probably buried in the largest mass grave of Spain, Pico Reja in Sevilla.
Who was Blas Infante? Why did his killer, general Quiepo de Llano want him dead so badly that he was on his hitlist twice? And what happened after Infante died, because his remains have never been recovered...
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The walk from the crime scene at the Ibis Hotel to the Pico Reja mass grave is one of the walks from my upcoming book, Camino Negro, A Hiker's Guide to Spain's Historic Crime Scenes. Available from the end of April.
(Part 2 of 2) 🐟 On September 13th 1915 a Norwegian steamship comes across a drifting herring lugger in the middle of the sea. The ship, from the Dutch port of Katwijk, has been dismantled, the crew is singing hymns incessantly and on the deck they see... Pools of blood. 🐟 The ship would go down in history as the Gekkenlogger, the Crazy Lugger, and in Katwijk they still prefer not to talk about it. 🐟 What happened here? Was it religious madness or was there something else behind it? Something from the murky past...? 🐟
This is a revamp from an episode I did about a year ago, in the run op to a whole new season of episodes. So hit that subscribe button and get ready for lots of... murder.
More In search of Lost Crime? Follow me on Instagram: @insearchoflostcrime Or buy my book: Smalltalk Survival: https://www.amazon.com/Small-Talk-Survival-meaningful-graceful-ebook/dp/B09DW91Z77
Books featured in this episode: The Mad Logger or the Sanctification of Arie Vlieland by Joop Burgerhout - available to order from the author. 🐟 Cray-Sea by Robert Haasnoot 🐟 Off the deep end by Nic Compton 🐟 And of course endless Delpher.nl's delicious newspaper archive 🐟 #herring #katwijk #katwijkaanzee #gekkenlogger #herringfishing #history #murder #moordpodcast #lizluyben #zeilloger #seafaring #fishing #history #netherlands #historical #podcaster #netherlandspodcast #waargebeurd #crime #truecrime #religious #madness #insearchoflostcrime #demoordopmrjacqueswijsman #history #thenetherlands #dutch #dutchnavy #lugger #herring
(Part 1 of 2) 🐟 On September 13th 1915 a Norwegian steamship comes across a drifting herring lugger in the middle of the sea. The ship, from the Dutch port of Katwijk, has been dismantled, the crew is singing hymns incessantly and on the deck they see... Pools of blood. 🐟 The ship would go down in history as the Gekkenlogger, the Crazy Lugger, and in Katwijk they still prefer not to talk about it. 🐟 What happened here? Was it religious madness or was there something else behind it? Something from the murky past...? 🐟
This is a revamp from an episode I did about a year ago, in the run op to a whole new season of episodes. So hit that subscribe button and get ready for lots of... murder.
More In search of Lost Crime? Follow me on Instagram: @insearchoflostcrime Or buy my book: Smalltalk Survival: https://www.amazon.com/Small-Talk-Survival-meaningful-graceful-ebook/dp/B09DW91Z77
Books featured in this episode: The Mad Logger or the Sanctification of Arie Vlieland by Joop Burgerhout - available to order from the author. 🐟 Cray-Sea by Robert Haasnoot 🐟 Off the deep end by Nic Compton 🐟 And of course endless Delpher.nl's delicious newspaper archive 🐟 #herring #katwijk #katwijkaanzee #gekkenlogger #herringfishing #history #murder #moordpodcast #lizluyben #zeilloger #seafaring #fishing #history #netherlands #historical #podcaster #netherlandspodcast #waargebeurd #crime #truecrime #religious #madness #insearchoflostcrime #demoordopmrjacqueswijsman #history #thenetherlands #dutch #dutchnavy #lugger #herring
Maria Catherina van der Linden-Swanenburg, also known as Goeie Mie, or 'Kind Mary', was a Dutch mass murderer who killed at least 27 people and was suspected of killing more than 90.
So how did she get away with murder for so long and what drove her to kill most of her family and an awful lot of her neighbours? And what is the delightful Dutch word for pin worms? Listen now!
In Search of Lost Crime focuses on historical murders, mostly in Europe. Please subscribe for more.
Stuck for words? Check out my book: Small Talk Survival on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Small-Talk-Survival-meaningful-graceful-ebook/dp/B09DW91Z77
In the early morning of 21 April 1932, a gunshot rings out in a bungalow in the small Florida town of Coral Gables. The victim is a young man, one Haden Clarke and he appears to have committed suicide: he has left behind two letters for his housemates, aviation pioneers Jessie 'Chubbie' Miller and Captain Bill Lancaster.
But when the police find the diaries of Haden's roommate, Captain Bill, these shed a very different light on the case. The trial of captain Bill Lancaster would make history because of its scandalous details and highly dubious forensic science. it has adultery, a love triangle, crashing planes, human smuggling and the breakneck feats of history's greatest female aviation pioneers: Chubbie Miller.
Please follow me on Instagram: @insearchoflostcrime and be sure to subscribe to my feed!
In the early morning of 21 April 1932, a gunshot rings out in a bungalow in the small Florida town of Coral Gables. The victim is a young man, one Haden Clarke and he appears to have committed suicide: he has left behind two letters for his housemates, aviation pioneers Jessie 'Chubbie' Miller and Captain Bill Lancaster.
But when the police find the diaries of Haden's roommate, Captain Bill, these shed a very different light on the case. The trial of captain Bill Lancaster would make history because of its scandalous details and highly dubious forensic science. it has adultery, a love triangle, crashing planes, human smuggling and the breakneck feats of history's greatest female aviation pioneers: Chubbie Miller.
Please follow me on Instagram: @insearchoflostcrime and be sure to subscribe to my feed!
In the early morning of 21 April 1932, a gunshot rings out in a bungalow in the small Florida town of Coral Gables. The victim is a young man, one Haden Clarke and he appears to have committed suicide: he has left behind two letters for his housemates, aviation pioneers Jessie Chubbie Miller and Captain Bill Lancaster. But when the police find the diaries of Haden's roommate, Captain Bill, these shed a very different light on the case.
The trial of captain Bill Lancaster would make history because of its scandalous details and highly dubious forensic science. it has adultery, a love triangle, crashing planes, human smuggling and the breakneck feats of the largely forgotten one of history's greatest female aviation pioneers.
#aviation #aviatrix #chubbiemiller #truecrime #aviation #captainBillLancaster #murder #trial
(Part 2 of 2) 🐟 On September 13th 1915 a Norwegian steamship comes across a drifting herring lugger in the middle of the sea. The ship, from the Dutch port of Katwijk, has been dismantled, the crew is singing hymns incessantly and on the deck they see... Pools of blood. 🐟 The ship would go down in history as the Gekkenlogger, the Crazy Lugger, and in Katwijk they still prefer not to talk about it. 🐟 What happened here? Was it religious madness or was there something else behind it? Something from the murky past...? 🐟
My book - De moord op mr. Jacques Wijsman - is now on sale at all the big boys like bruna and bol.com, but of course also at your local bookshop! They can use all the support they can get. As can I!
More In search of Lost Crime? Follow me on Instagram: @insearchoflostcrime
or tiktok @lizluyben
Books featured in this episode: The Mad Logger or the Sanctification of Arie Vlieland by Joop Burgerhout - available to order from the author. 🐟 Cray-Sea by Robert Haasnoot 🐟 Off the deep end by Nic Compton 🐟 And of course endless Delpher.nl's delicious newspaper archive 🐟 #herring #katwijk #katwijkaanzee #gekkenlogger #herringfishing #history #murder #moordpodcast #lizluyben #zeilloger #seafaring #fishing #history #netherlands #historical #podcaster #netherlandspodcast #waargebeurd #crime #truecrime #religious #madness #insearchoflostcrime #demoordopmrjacqueswijsman #history #thenetherlands #dutch #dutchnavy #lugger #herring
(Part 1 of 2) 🐟 On September 13th 1915 a Norwegian steamship comes across a drifting herring lugger in the middle of the sea. The ship, from the Dutch port of Katwijk, has been dismantled, the crew is singing hymns incessantly and on the deck they see... Pools of blood. 🐟 The ship would go down in history as the Gekkenlogger, the Crazy Lugger, and in Katwijk they still prefer not to talk about it. 🐟 What happened here? Was it religious madness or was there something else behind it? Something from the murky past...? 🐟
My book - De moord op mr. Jacques Wijsman - is now on sale at all the big boys like bruna and bol.com, but of course also at your local bookshop! They can use all the support they can get. As can I!
More In search of Lost Crime? Follow me on Instagram: @insearchoflostcrime
Books featured in this episode: The Mad Logger or the Sanctification of Arie Vlieland by Joop Burgerhout - available to order from the author. 🐟 Cray-Sea by Robert Haasnoot 🐟 Off the deep end by Nic Compton 🐟 And of course endless Delpher.nl's delicious newspaper archive 🐟 #herring #katwijk #katwijkaanzee #gekkenlogger #herringfishing #history #murder #moordpodcast #lizluyben #zeilloger #seafaring #fishing #history #netherlands #historical #podcaster #netherlandspodcast #waargebeurd #crime #truecrime #religious #madness #insearchoflostcrime #demoordopmrjacqueswijsman #history #thenetherlands #dutch #dutchnavy #lugger #herring
On 21 August 1910, shepherd José Maria Grimaldos sold a few sheep. Afterwards, it is was if the earth had simply gobbled him up... José Maria was gone without a trace. And he hadn't brought any of his meagre possessions. Very suspicious. The people in the village of Tresjuncos immediately start shouting that it was murder and they also have two convenient suspects in mind: Two other shepherds, from a nearbye village. What makes them so suspicious? They were different. Not a good thing to be in rural Spain in 1910, different. These two were…. Anarchists. Speaking up for the rights of the common people. Not keen on religion. So they must be guilty, right?
Or were they….?
This case is still considered one of the biggest legal scandals in Spanish history.
This is part 3 of 3, please listen to part 1 & 2 first.
New Year's Eve 1921, 8.36pm. It is a cold, drizzly evening. at Hollandspoor station in The Hague, the train has just arrived from Amsterdam. A passenger about to board the first-class compartment says to the porter that there is a drunken bum on the floor. The porter shrugs his shoulders. It's New Year's Eve, of course there are drunk people. The porter decides to check it out. He stares into the compartment. There is a shape on the floor, a man, in an expensive wool coat. The man doesn't move. And then he sees the pool of blood....
The murder of this prominent Dutch lawyer was never solved and would keep Dutch society riveted to their newspapers for years. Was it a robbery gone wrong? A suicide? Or was it something to do with... the Dutch Royal family...?
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This is part 2 of 3, please listen to part 1 first.
New Year's Eve 1921, 8.36pm. It is a cold, drizzly evening. at Hollandspoor station in The Hague, the train has just arrived from Amsterdam. A passenger about to board the first-class compartment says to the porter that there is a drunken bum on the floor. The porter shrugs his shoulders. It's New Year's Eve, of course there are drunk people. The porter decides to check it out. He stares into the compartment. There is a shape on the floor, a man, in an expensive wool coat. The man doesn't move. And then he sees the pool of blood....
The murder of this prominent Dutch lawyer was never solved and would keep Dutch society riveted to their newspapers for years. Was it a robbery gone wrong? A suicide? Or was it something to do with... the Dutch Royal family...?
Listen today and don't forget to subscribe!
More historical crimes? Follow me on @insearchoflostcrime on Instagram!
New Year's Eve 1921, 8.36pm. It is a cold, drizzly evening. at Hollandspoor station in The Hague, the train has just arrived from Amsterdam. A passenger about to board the first-class compartment says to the porter that there is a drunken bum on the floor. The porter shrugs his shoulders. It's New Year's Eve, of course there are drunk people. The porter decides to check it out. He stares into the compartment. There is a shape on the floor, a man, in an expensive wool coat. The man doesn't move. And then he sees the pool of blood....
The murder of this prominent Dutch lawyer was never solved and would keep Dutch society riveted to their newspapers for years. Was it a robbery gone wrong? A suicide? Or was it something to do with... the Dutch Royal family...?
Listen today and don't forget to subscribe!
More historical crimes? Follow me on @insearchoflostcrime on Instagram!
According to her later statements, Annie has found her mother's body in a pool of blood. She then fainted on top of her mother, which explains why she is covered in blood...
Is that how it happened? And even if it is, will anyone believe Weird Annie didn't kill her mother...?
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On the first of May, 1962 market farmer Piet Evers dies suddenly after drinking a cup of coffee. 'A weakness of the heart' say the doctors. But in his hometown of Bemmel, the Netherlands, tongues are starting to wag... Piet's daughter Annie is... weird. Not very nice at all.
Maybe she had something to do with it?
Annie is arrested for the murder of her father and she ends up confessing to the crime a whopping fourteen times. She also retracts her statements twenty times.
Is weird Annie a cold blooded killer or was she convicted because the village thought she was ... weird?
And then.... there's another murder. This time it's Annie's mother and guess whose clothes are covered in mum's blood...?
On the first of May, 1962 market farmer Piet Evers dies suddenly after drinking a cup of coffee. 'A weakness of the heart' say the doctors. But in his hometown of Bemmel, the Netherlands, tongues are starting to wag... Piet's daughter Annie is... weird. Not very nice at all.
Maybe she had something to do with it?
A few years later Annie is arrested for the murder of her father and she ends up confessing to the crime a whopping fourteen times. She also retracts her statements twenty times.
So... Is weird Annie a cold blooded killer or was she convicted because the village thought she was ... weird?
And then.... there's another murder. This time it's Annie's mother and guess whose clothes are covered in mum's blood...?
Part 3 of the missing Alcasser Girls.
Main suspect Antonio Angles has vanished and the court decides to go ahead with the court case against the only remaining suspect, Miguel Ricart, anyway. Not everyone is convinced Ricart is guilty, including the parents of two of the three girls...
In 1992, three schoolgirls go missing in the Spanish village of Alcàsser: Toñi, Desiree and Miriam never come home after a night out.
Their bodies were found on January 23, 1993, exactly 30 years ago this week. A suspect, one Miguel Ricart, was arrested almost immediately. He confesses to the crime. But that was really just the beginning of the story…
The Alcàsser case is still a sensitive subject in Spain after all these years. The whole country was in shock at the time, and the live broadcasts from Alcàsser still hold the record for the most viewed Spanish broadcasts of all time. But after that, many people felt that the TV makers had gone way too far in the gruesome details that were shared and the intrusion into people's saddest moments.
In search of lost crime delves into the case that still has a hold over Spain exactly thirty years later: the incompetent police work, the sad father who takes justice into his own hands, and the main suspect who manages a very daring escape....
And after all these years the question remains: was Miguel Ricart the real perpetrator of the murder of the girls of Alcàsser? And if he didn't do it, then who did? Could it be, as some of the parents believe, the work of Satanic pedophiles....?
In 1992, three schoolgirls go missing in the Spanish village of Alcàsser: Toñi, Desiree and Miriam never come home after a night out.
Their bodies were found on January 23, 1993, exactly 30 years ago this week. A suspect, one Miguel Ricart, was arrested almost immediately. He confesses to the crime. But that was really just the beginning of the story…
The Alcàsser case is still a sensitive subject in Spain after all these years. The whole country was in shock at the time, and the live broadcasts from Alcàsser still hold the record for the most viewed Spanish broadcasts of all time. But after that, many people felt that the TV makers had gone way too far in the gruesome details that were shared and the intrusion into people's saddest moments.
In search of lost crime delves into the case that still has a hold over Spain exactly thirty years later: the incompetent police work, the sad father who takes justice into his own hands, and the main suspect who manages a very daring escape....
And after all these years the question remains: was Miguel Ricart the real perpetrator of the murder of the girls of Alcàsser? And if he didn't do it, then who did?
Maria Catherina van der Linden-Swanenburg, also known as Kind Mary, was a Dutch serial killer who murdered at least 27 people and was suspected of killing more than 90 people. So how did she get away with murder for so long and what drove her to kill most of her family and an awful lot of her neighbours? And what is the delightful Dutch word for pin worms?
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On December 13, 1928, a packing box arrives at Mediodía train station in Madrid. It has been Sent from Barcelona by a José López. The box is never collected though and after about four months it starts to smell rather… peculiar.
Part two of the story of famous Dutch aviation pioneer Constantijn 'Pinneke' Busch, the King of the Crash, who, one fateful day in September 1915 simply vanishes into thin air.... The police assume he has run off to start a new life so the case is closed after only a few days. Ten years later however the case is blown wide open by that classic crime staple: an anonymous letter....
Constantijn 'Pinneke' Busch was a Dutch aviation pioneer. In 1912 he was the first man to attampt to fly over the Dutch city of Roozendaal. In 1915, after a business meeting, Pinneke suddenly disappears along with 12.000 guilders. The police give up looking suspiciously quickly, thinking he just flew off into the sunset, with this a big wad of cash. And then unexpectedly, in 1925, the case is blown wide open....
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