Hologram in the Red Light District draws attention to this cold case

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In February 2009, Szabó was killed with dozens of stab wounds in the Red Light District. It happened in ‘one of the busiest places in Amsterdam, perhaps even in the whole of the Netherlands’, says Anne Dreijer-Heemskerk of the Amsterdam cold case team. And that is why the police suspect that there are people who must have seen or heard something striking at the time.

Last try

In what the police call an ‘ultimate last attempt’ to solve the case, extra attention will be paid to the case in the Red Light District for a week from today. A computer visualization inspired by the victim is used. The hologram will ask passers-by for help from a stool behind the window of a building in Korte Stormsteeg.

Before it was decided to use a hologram to draw attention to the case again, the surviving relatives were contacted.

The building also contains the last moving images of the victim and images of the murder scene. A documentary is shown and large stickers are pasted on the windows with information about the murder and the victim. Posters are also hung in the neighborhood and flyers are distributed.

The reward for the golden tip in this case is 30,000 euros.

Suspect

Szabó worked as a sex worker in Amsterdam’s Red Light District from the age of 18. She became pregnant there and three months after giving birth to a son she was stabbed to death.

She was found on the night of February 19 to 20, 2009 in her room on the Oudezijds Achterburgwal in a large pool of blood. Police arrested a 46-year-old man at the time, but quickly let him go due to a lack of evidence.

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