Por the first time in our country, Belgian courts used robotic photography based on DNA research. This is what they write Het Nieuwsblad And Gazet van Antwerpen this Monday. This is a 1991 case concerning the murder of Ingrid Caeckaert. Thanks to DNA research, investigators now know what the perpetrator of the crime looks like.
On March 16, 1991, this 26-year-old young woman was stabbed 62 times in her apartment in Heist. During the operation, the perpetrator also injured himself with his own knife. He left a bloody handprint on the glass front door of the building, leaving a long trail of blood drops throughout the streets of Heist.
DNA was compared to dozens of suspects, but never resulted in a match. At the end of February, the Federal Parliament passed a new law on DNA. It was supposed to give investigators new assets in unsolved cases.
The Attorney General of East Flanders today confirms that the new law is being used in the Caeckaert case. Thus, thanks to the DNA profiles of the unknown person, whose blood was found at the crime scene, additional searches will be carried out in the DNA databases to find direct or more distant relatives of the unknown person.
Other phenotypic characteristics were determined from the unknown’s blood, such as its biogeographic origins. This would be the very first time that Belgian detectives would use this technical capacity.
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