The police in Brabant will make an ultimate attempt next week to find two men who have been missing for 46 years. Friendly road workers Piet Hölskens and Hans Martens may have been buried in a car under the sand at the bottom of De Brink in Liessel. A specialized company will search for two specific places in the lake, writes NRC.
The 21-year-old Martens and 22-year-old Hölskens got into a red Fiat 850 Coupé on March 16, 1974 at 3 a.m. after a visit to a pub in Deurne. They were never seen again after that and the car was never found.
Six years ago, the family received new information from the police: the two friends were allegedly murdered because of a secret relationship that Martens had with a married woman. He would have been lured to a deserted place in retaliation, where he was murdered. Hölskens would also have been killed because he witnessed it.
If indeed a crime has been committed, then no one can be convicted anymore, because the case is time barred.
Metal object under the bottom
Two years ago, the police already started an investigation on the lake in Liessel. Measurements with special equipment now show that there are two places where it is established that there is a metal object under the sand, possibly a car.
“After the weekend we are going to suck the sand away with divers to expose the top of these objects”, Kirsten van der Eijden, coordinator of missing persons at the East Brabant police told the newspaper. “It’s very exciting.”
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