The Bureau Dupin research collective will help the police and the Public Prosecution Service (OM) to solve cold case cases. The first murder the investigation group, led by former police officer Peter de Kock, focuses on, is the murder of Marja Nijholt on New Year’s Day 2013.
Dupin has announced the collaboration on his website. The collective says it calls on the help of “thinkers, technicians, dressmakers, philosophers, builders, storytellers, journalists and unravelers” to look at old, stagnant things in a new way.
“As may be expected from the police, we always want to improve our investigation”, Stan Duijf of the East Brabant police unit said on Monday. NRC. “Sometimes you have to dare to walk paths where you don’t know in advance exactly how they will run.”
The collective is named after C. Auguste Dupin, the amateur detective from Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories. The group will be released from this week and will make podcasts about the case. The Dutch public is also being asked for help to resolve the matter.
De Kock inspired by Bellingcat
De Kock says in NRC to be inspired by research collective Bellingcat, which is conducting research with the help of civilians, for example into the crash involving flight MH17.
Marja Nijholt was found dead on January 1, 2013 in a front yard in Oss. She had been stabbed to death. In the hours before her death, she let several people know that she feared for her life. Collective Dupin has posted a reconstruction of the case on its website.
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