Jul 10, 2023 at 2:33 PMUpdate: 7 minutes ago
Last week, the police arrested a 42-year-old Amsterdammer on suspicion of involvement in the death of Jody (34 years old) twenty years ago. The police found the suspect after a new DNA test.
The man was brought before the examining magistrate last Friday, who decided that the suspect will be detained for another fourteen days. The police reported this on Monday.
Jody’s body was found on June 23, 2003 in the bushes near a sports park in Amsterdam Nieuw-West. She was a transgender woman from Ecuador who resided illegally in the Netherlands. She had multiple injuries, but the final cause of death was strangulation.
At the time, no suspect was arrested for her death, but DNA traces were found on and near Jody’s body. The Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI) investigated this in 2014. At that time it yielded nothing.
By means of new techniques and a relationship test, the DNA found has now been linked to that of the suspect. The 42-year-old Amsterdammer was arrested on that basis. The police speak of “a huge breakthrough”, but are still looking for people who have more information about the case.
Jody was a sex worker and on Sunday evening, June 22, probably working near the grounds of football club FC Turkiyemspor, which was located here at the time. “There may be visitors to that association who saw or heard something around that time that may have to do with this.”
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2023-07-10 12:33:45
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