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In Search of Lost CrimeAuthor: Liz Luyben
In search of lost crime focuses on lesser known, historical, European mysteries: a missing aviator in Amsterdam in 1915, a forgotten cannibal on the Polish/German border in 1925, or a gruesome wooden box with a headless corps inside that gets delivered to a train station in Madrid in 1929.... Please subscribe for these and many other Lost Crimes! Language: en Genres: History, True Crime Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Murder on New Year's Eve: the Death of Jacques Wijsman (part 1 of 3)
Friday, 8 August, 2025
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.
