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The Public Prosecution Service office in Oost-Nederland
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Prosecutors seek 9.5-year sentence for 74-year-old woman accused of killing husband
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A woman was found murdered in her home on Molenstraat in Hellevoetsluis on 16 April 2025. The photo shows a mobile police unit and crime scene tape cordoning off the scene.
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Fewer than 100 murders reported in the Netherlands this year, incl. 10 in Amsterdam
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Police officer with police cars in the background
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Man found dead in Beek home; Police suspect homicide
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Amsterdam police investigating the discovery of a dead 55-year-old Spanish man on the Amstel River at Sarphatistraat. 22 March 2024
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Dutch police investigating 133 homicides in 2024, Amsterdam total doubles to 20
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Police officers
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12-year-old boy found dead under suspicious circumstances; suspect arrested
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Ivana Smit in a photo she took of herself two days before her death. 5 December 2017
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Family of model Ivana Smit, who died suspiciously in Kuala Lumpur, to sue Malaysia gov't
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Handcuffs
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Suspect in fatal shooting of Rijswijk woman also accused of 4 attempted murders
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Belgian police
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Dutch man, 62, arrested near Breda for murder of 43-year-old woman in Belgium
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Amsterdam police investigating the discovery of a dead 55-year-old Spanish man on the Amstel River at Sarphatistraat. 22 March 2024
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Foul play: Homeless Spanish man found dead in river at Amsterdam's 5-star Amstel Hotel
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Richard K., 50, confessed to killing a Polish man and his Dutch wife in Weiteveen after months of feuding. 16 January 2024
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Police knew murder suspect threatened his victims, but didn't pull his gun license
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Ambulance in Rotterdam, Netherlands
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Mother arrested after one child found dead, second child hurt in Almere home
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Richard K., 50, confessed to killing a Polish man and his Dutch wife in Weiteveen after months of feuding. 16 January 2024
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Suspect in Drenthe double murder says in live video victims often threatened his family
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Helicopter ambulance
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One dead, one hurt in Diemen apartment incident; Investigation ongoing
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Police arrest woman being involved in the death of 9-year-old boy in Hardinxveld-Giessendam. 7 October 2023
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Updated figures show 128 murders in the Netherlands last year, led by Rotterdam
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Police set up in a Leidschendam park several meters away from where a Polish man was found dead under suspicious circumstances. 21 December 2023
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Latvian man arrested over Polish man's suspicious death in Leidschendam park
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Police set up in a Leidschendam park several meters away from where a Polish man was found dead under suspicious circumstances. 21 December 2023
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Polish man found dead in Leidschendam park may have been murdered
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Police on Alberickstraat in Venlo investigate a suspicious death early on Christmas morning. 25 December 2023
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Body found in Venlo home may be linked to violent crime, police say
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Politie patch on a Dutch police officer's uniform
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One held in woman's death at Eindhoven elder care facility; Police bag suspect's hands
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Forensic investigators at a home on Teugelhof in Utrecht, where 58-year-old Juan Rivera-Trujillo was found dead in his home on 28 September 2023
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The Hague likely to become new murder capital, over Rotterdam & Amsterdam
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Remsley Eisden, 36, was shot dead while sitting in his car on Van den Tempelstraat in Dordrecht. 16 October 2022
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Dutch murder total up 6%, Rotterdam the new murder capital with 16 victims in 2022
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A police car
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Person killed during Enschede home invasion may have been a robber; Resident in custody
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Stock image of crime scene tape used by police in the Netherlands
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One killed, three hurt in Brunssum shooting; Fatal stabbing nearby in Beek
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Flowers on Lange Leidsedwarsstraat where Peter R. de Vries was shot on 6 July 2021
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Tapped conversation could tie journalist’s murder to alleged crime boss Taghi
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The memorial for Peter R. de Vries at the Carre in Amsterdam. 21 July 2021
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Polish police arrest new suspect in murder of journalist Peter R. de Vries