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Born | September 24, 1991[1] |
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Disappeared | April 1, 2014 (aged 22) Boquete, Chiriquí |
Status | Human remains found |
Nationality | Dutch |
Height | 183 cm (6 ft 0 in) |
Parent(s) |
Kris Kremers | |
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Born | August 9, 1992[2] |
Disappeared | April 1, 2014 (aged 21) Boquete, Chiriquí |
Status | Human remains found |
Nationality | Dutch |
Height | 167 cm (5 ft 6 in) |
Parent(s) |
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One week after the Dutch girls Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon went missing, the camera belonging to one of them took 90 photos between. Last images of Lisanne Froon and Kris Kremers, two Dutch girls that. He looked me dead in the eye and said in a quiet, steady voice “All the better to stab you.
Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon were Dutch students who disappeared on April 1, 2014, while hiking in Panama. After an extensive search, portions of their bodies were found a few months later. Their cause of death could not be determined definitively, but Dutch authorities working with forensic and search-rescue investigators thought it likely the students had accidentally fallen from a cliff after becoming lost.[3] The circumstances and aftermath of their disappearance have resulted in much speculation about the cause of death.[4][3] Foul play could not be entirely ruled out and Panamanian officials came under fire for allegedly mishandling the disappearance and aftermath.[5][6] Further investigation into the case in 2017 uncovered enough new evidence to suggest foul play,[7] as well as a possible link to other murders in the area.[8]
Background[edit]
Lisanne Froon, 22, was described as aspiring, optimistic, intelligent, and a passionate volleyball player, and Kris Kremers, 21, as open, creative, and responsible. Both grew up in Amersfoort. Froon had graduated with a degree in Applied Sciences from Deventer the previous September, and Kremers had just completed her studies in cultural social education, specializing in art education at the University of Utrecht. Only a few weeks prior to leaving for Panama, Froon had moved in with Kremers in a dorm room in Amersfoort, and they worked together at the café/restaurant 'In den Kleinen Hap'. They both saved up money for six months and planned to go to Panama together on a special trip to learn Spanish, as well as to do something of significance for the locals, particularly volunteering with children. The trip was also supposed to be a reward to Froon for graduating.[9][10]
Disappearance[edit]
Kremers and Froon arrived in Panama for a six-week vacation on March 15, 2014. They toured Panama for two weeks before arriving in Boquete on March 29 to live with a local family for a month while volunteering with children. On April 1, they went hiking with their hosts' dog around 11:00 near the clouded forests that surrounded the Baru volcano, possibly the trail of Pianista, not far from Boquete. They wrote on Facebook that they intended to walk around Boquete, and it was reported that they had been seen having brunch with two young Dutch men before embarking on the trail.[11][12]
Their hosts became alarmed when their dog returned home that night without the young women. Froon's parents stopped receiving text messages, which both women had been sending to their families daily. On the morning of April 2, Froon and Kremers missed an appointment with a local guide.[13] On April 3, authorities began aerial searches of the forest and local residents began searching. On April 6, the parents of Kremers and Froon arrived in Panama along with police, dog units, and detectives from the Netherlands to conduct a full-scale search of the forests for ten days. The parents offered a US$30,000 reward.[14][15][6]
Backpack[edit]
Ten weeks later, a local woman turned in Froon's blue backpack, which she said she had found in a rice paddy by a riverbank near her village of Alto Romero, in the Bocas del Toro region. She said she was sure it had not been there the day before. The backpack contained two pairs of sunglasses, US$83 in cash, Froon's passport, a water bottle, Froon's camera, two bras, and the women's phones – all packed, dry, and in good condition. The women's phones showed that some hours after the start of their hike, someone had dialed 112 (the international emergency number) and 911 (the emergency number in Panama).[16][14]
The first distress call had been made just hours after beginning their hike: one from Kremers's iPhone at 16:39 and shortly after that, one from Froon's Samsung Galaxy at 16:51. None of the calls had gone through due to a lack of reception in the area except for one 911 call attempt on April 3 that lasted for a little over a second before breaking up. After April 5, Froon's phone battery became exhausted after 05:00 and was not used again. Kremers's iPhone would not make any more calls either but was intermittently turned on to search for reception. After April 6, multiple attempts of a false PIN code were entered into the iPhone; it never received the correct code again. One report showed that between 7 and 10 April, there were 77 emergency call attempts with the iPhone. On April 11, the phone was turned on at 10:51, and was turned off for the last time at 11:56.[17][18]
Date of Call | iPhone 4 (Kremers) | Samsung Galaxy S III (Froon) |
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1 April | 16:39 – attempt 1 (112) | 16:51 – attempt 1 (112) |
2 April | 18:14 – attempt 2 (112) | 06:58 – attempt 2 (112) 10:53 – attempt 3 (112 & 911) |
3 April | 09:33 – attempt 3 (911) 16:00 – check signal 1 | 13:50 – check signal 1 16:19 – check signal 2 |
4 April | 09:33 – check signal 2 13:42 – check signal 3 | no activity |
5 April | 10:50 – check signal 4 13:37 – check signal 5 | 04:50 – check signal 3 05:56 – switch on; battery empty; no further activity |
6 April | 10:26 – check signal 6 (no PIN) 13:37 – check signal 7 (no PIN) | -- |
11 April | 10:51 – check signal 8 (no PIN) 11:56 – switched off after 1:05 h; no further activity | -- |
Froon's camera contained photos from April 1 suggesting that the women had taken a trail at the overlook of the Continental Divide and wandered into some wilderness hours before their first attempt to reach 911, but with no signs of anything unusual. On April 8, ninety flash photos were taken between 01:00 and 04:00, apparently deep in the jungle and in near-complete darkness. A few photos show that they were possibly near a river or a ravine. Some show a twig with plastic bags and candy wrappers on top of a rock, another shows what looks like toilet paper and a mirror on another rock, and another shows the back of Kremers's head with what looks like blood by her temple.[19][16]
Discovery of remains[edit]
The discovery of the backpack led to new searches along the Culubre.[20] Kremers' jean shorts, zipped and neatly folded, were found atop a rock on the opposite bank of the tributary a few kilometers away from where Froon's backpack had been discovered (although later witnesses would claim the jeans were not neatly folded but found in the river itself[21]). Two months later, closer to where the backpack was discovered, a pelvis and a boot with a foot inside were found. Soon at least 33 widely scattered bones were discovered along the same river bank. DNA testing confirmed they belonged to Froon and Kremers. Froon's bones still had some skin attached to them, but Kremers's bones appeared to have been bleached.[11][19][16] A Panamanian forensic anthropologist later claimed that under magnification 'there are no discernible scratches of any kind on the bones, neither of natural nor cultural origin – there are no marks on the bones at all.'[22]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^'Vermist - Lisanne Froon - 112Regio.nl'. www.112regio.nl. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
- ^http://images.telemetro.com/nacionales/Holandesas-alejarse-hospedaje-Boquete-FotoEFE_MEDIMA20140408_0194_23.jpg
- ^ ab'Kris & Lisanne likely fell off cliff in Panama: investigators'. 4 March 2015.
- ^'Missing in Panama — A Mystery Deepens - Mostly Mystery'.
- ^Kryt, Jeremy (2016-07-24). 'Death on the Serpent River: How the Lost Girls of Panama Disappeared'. The Daily Beast. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
- ^ ab'Cronología de la búsqueda de Kris y Lisanne'. TVN. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
- ^Kryt, Jeremy (2017-05-13). 'Did a Serial Killer Stalk the Lost Girls of Panama?'. The Daily Beast. Retrieved 2018-05-24.
- ^Kryt, Jeremy (2017-05-16). 'Lisanne, Kris, Catherine—Will the Panama Cases Ever Be Solved?'. The Daily Beast. Retrieved 2018-05-24.
- ^'About Lisanne'. Foundation to Find Kris & Lisanne. 2014-05-08. Retrieved 2017-09-20.
- ^'About Kris'. Foundation to Find Kris & Lisanne. 2014-05-08. Archived from the original on 2016-10-18. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
- ^ abhttp://mostlymystery.com/found/
- ^'Hunt for girls missing in Panama scaled down, Dutch men being questioned'. DutchNews.nl. 2014-04-15. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
- ^http://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2014/06/22/panamese-autoriteiten-organiseren-morgen-persconferentie-a1424164
- ^ abVisser, Jeremy Kryt|Nadette De (2016-07-30). 'The Last Man to See the Lost Girls of Panama Alive'. The Daily Beast. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
- ^'Missing: Two Dutch Nationals'.
- ^ abcVisser, Jeremy Kryt|Nadette De (2016-08-07). 'The Lost Girls of Panama: The Camera, the Jungle, and the Bones'. The Daily Beast. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
- ^https://www.allmystery.de/i/t23811542a_t90b70a_t7b5a9c_black_log_new.jpg
- ^https://www.allmystery.de/i/t7d40d0d00_ibioblucptypqw.png
- ^ ab'Dutch girls' camera took 90 photos in 3 hours'. La Estrella de Panamá. 2014-10-07. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
- ^Anonymous (2014-06-19). 'Indígenas han sido pieza clave en investigaciones'. Panamá América (in Spanish). Retrieved 2017-09-20.
- ^Kryt, Jeremy (2017-05-15). 'Deep Inside the Panama 'Paradise' Murder Mysteries'. The Daily Beast. Retrieved 2018-05-24.
- ^Kryt, Jeremy (2017-05-16). 'The Lost Girls, The Bones, and the Man in the Panama Morgue'. The Daily Beast. Retrieved 2018-05-24.
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Lisanne Froon | |
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Born | September 24, 1991[1] Amersfoort, Netherlands |
Disappeared | April 1, 2014 (aged22) Boquete, Chiriquí |
Status | Human remains found |
Causeof death | Unknown |
Nationality | Dutch |
Height | 184cm (6ft 0in) |
Parent(s) |
Kris Kremers | |
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Born | August 9, 1992[2] Amersfoort, Netherlands |
Disappeared | April 1, 2014 (aged21) Boquete, Chiriquí |
Status | Human remains found |
Causeof death | Unknown |
Nationality | Dutch |
Height | 167cm (5ft 6in) |
Parent(s) |
|
Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon were two Dutch students who disappeared on April 1, 2014, while hiking in Panama. After an intensive search, portions of their bodies were found a few months later although how they died could not be determined. The circumstances and aftermath of their disappearance have resulted in much speculation about the cause of death.[3][4][5][6][7]
Prior to Panama
Lisanne Froon, 22, described as an aspiring, optimistic, intelligent young woman, sporty, and volleyball fanatic, and Kris Kremers, 21, described as open, creative, and responsible, both grew up in Amersfoort. Lisanne had just graduated in Applied Sciences in Deventer last September, and Kris had just completed her studies in Cultural Social Education, specializing in Art Education at the University of Utrecht. Only a few weeks prior to leaving for Panama, Lisanne moved-in with Kris in a dorm room in Amersfoort and they worked together at Café-Restaurant ‘In den Kleinen Hap’. They both saved up for six months and planned to go to Panama together as a special trip to learn Spanish, as well as doing something of significance for the locals, particularity volunteering to help the children and learn from them. The trip was also supposed to be a reward for Lisanne for graduating.[8][9]
Arrival in Panama
Kris and Lisanne arrived in Panama for a six-week vacation on March 15, 2014 on a flight from Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam. They toured Panama for two weeks before arriving in Boquete, on March 29, 2014, to begin volunteer work with children for one month, while being accommodated by a local host family. On April 1, 2014, they went on a hike around 11:00 am by the clouded forests that surrounded the Baru volcano, possibly the trail of Pianista, not far from Boquete, while reportedly being accompanied by their host family’s dog “Blue”. They apparently wrote on Facebook that they intended to walk around Boquete. It was also reported that they had been seen having brunch with two young men that were apparently Dutch before they went on the trail.[10][11]
Disappearance and search
The local host family became alarmed when their dog Blue returned home alone that night without the young women. Lisanne’s parents stopped receiving messages from Kris via the mobile instant messenger WhatsApp, which Lisanne and Kris both used daily to keep in contact with their families back in the Netherlands. On April 2, Lisanne and Kris had earlier arranged an appointment to meet with their tour guide Feliciano at 8:00 am to guide them on the trails. After failing to meet Feliciano, he and a young German Eileen from the language school around 07:30 pm visited the police station. They went to the girl's host’s home to find most of all of their belongings and no sign of them having returned. Eileen had also a few hours earlier tried calling Lisanne’s mother Diny to ask where Lisanne was, while Diny replied that “she is in Panama”.[12] Two hours later, Feliciano and Eileen return to the police station to declare that Lisanne and Kris are missing. The next day on April 3rd, Sistema Nacional de Protección Civil (SINAPROC) began aerial searches over the forest at 8:00 am. Local tribes and farmers around Boquete had also started seeking out the young women. On April 6th the parents of Kris and Lisanne flew into Panama along with police, special forces with dog units and detectives from the Netherlands to do a full-scale search of the forests for 10 days. Despite the efforts, Kris and Lisanne were not found. Their parents were then offering a $30,000 reward for anybody that could help find their whereabouts.[13][14][7]
Discovery of remains
Around 10 weeks later, after the search, a Ngobe woman turned in a backpack to the authorities claiming to have found it while tending her rice paddy by a riverbank near her village of Alto Romero, in the Boco del Toros region, about 12 hours by foot from the Continental Divide. The Ngobe woman also said she was sure it hadn’t been there the day before. It was identified as Lisanne’s blue backpack. The contents of the backpack were 2 pairs of cheap sunglasses, $83 in cash, the passport of Lisanne, a water bottle, Lisanne’s Canon Powershot SX270 camera, 2 bras, Lisanne’s Samsung Galaxy S III, and Kris’s iPhone 4. Everything seemed well packed, dry, and left in good condition. The case however made a dark turn while retrieving data from the girl’s phones, and from Lisanne’s camera, revealing that the young women had tried some hours after the start of their hike on April 1st to get in contact with police by dialing 112 (police line in the Netherlands) and 911 (police line in Panama), confirming that something had happened to the young women.[3][15][13]
Mobile phones
Kris had an iPhone 4 and Lisanne had a Samsung Galaxy S III. After the retrieval of Lisanne's backpack, the phones were some of the contents still inside the backpack and undamaged. Investigators had retrieved the logs of the phones to show that the young women had tried on both phones to make multiple emergency calls. The first distress call had been made just hours after beginning their hike by Kris's iPhone at 04:39 pm and shortly after one by Lisanne's Samsung Galaxy at 04:51 pm. None of the calls had gone through due to a lack of reception in the area except for one 911 call attempt on April 3rd that lasted for a little over a second before breaking up. After April 5th, Lisanne's phone battery became exhausted after 05:00 am and was not used again. The iPhone of Kris would not make anymore calls as well but only turned on and search for reception. After April 6th, the iPhone gets multiple attempts of a false PIN code entered into the phone and never received the correct code again. One report showed that between the 7th and 10th of April, there were 77 emergency call attempts with the iPhone. The phone last turned on during the 11th of April at 10:51 am and turned off after an hour at 11:56 am for the last time.[16][17]
Date of Call | iPhone 4 (Kris) | Samsung Galaxy S III (Lisanne) |
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01 April | 16:39 – attempt 1 (112) | 16:51 – attempt 1 (112) |
02 April | 18:14 – attempt 2 (112) | 06:58 – attempt 2 (112) 10:53 – attempt 3 (112 & 911) |
03 April | 09:33 – attempt 3 (911) 16:00 – check signal 1 | 13:50 – check signal 1 16:19 – check signal 2 |
04 April | 09:33 – check signal 2 13:42 – check signal 3 | no activity |
05 April | 10:50 – check signal 4 13:37 – check signal 5 | 04:50 – check signal 3 05:56 – switch on; battery empty; no further activity |
06 April | 10:26 – check signal 6 (no PIN) 13:37 – check signal 7 (no PIN) | -- |
11 April | 10:51 – check signal 8 (no PIN) 11:56 – switched off after 1:05 h; no further activity | -- |
Lisanne’s Canon Powershot SX270 Camera
The camera of Lisanne has photos from April 1st that show the young women had taken a trail at the overlook of the Continental Divide and wandering into some wilderness hours before their first attempt to reach 911, but with no signs of anything unusual. It would not be until a week later after declared missing on April 8th that Lisanne’s camera was used again to take 90 flash photos between the time of 01:00 am and 04:00 am at rate of a photo every 2 minutes and most of the 90 photos were taken deep in the jungle and in near complete darkness. A few photos show that they were possibly near a river or a ravine. Some of the visible photos show a twig with plastic bags and candy wrappers on top of a rock, another photo of what looks like toilet paper and a mirror on another rock, and another that shows the back of Kris’s head with what possibly looks like blood by her temple. It has not been clarified what meaning or the purpose of these photos are.[3][18][15]
Second search and recovered human remains
The discovery of the backpack touched off a new wave of intense searches along the Culebra. Two Ngobe women from a search party had discovered the jean shorts of Kris that were zipped and neatly folded on top of a rock on the opposite, or eastern, bank of the tributary, a few kilometers away from the bank where Lisanne’s backpack was discovered. Two months later, even closer to where the backpack was discovered, a boot with a foot inside of it was found along with a part of a pelvis bone reportedly behind a tree. In a short timespan over 33 bones would be discovered from long distances apart from each other from the same river bank. DNA testing in the Netherlands eventually confirmed that they were the bones of Lisanne Froon and Kris Kremers. Of the 33 bones, 28 of which were those of Lisanne’s left foot. The boot was a product from a Dutch company that still had the foot and ankle of Lisanne in the sock within the boot. The pelvis bone belonged to Kris. It has also been noted, that while Lisanne’s bones still had some skin attached to them, Kris’s bones appeared to have been bleached. [10][18][15]
See also
References
- ↑ 'Vermist - Lisanne Froon - 112Regio.nl'. www.112regio.nl. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
- ↑ http://images.telemetro.com/nacionales/Holandesas-alejarse-hospedaje-Boquete-FotoEFE_MEDIMA20140408_0194_23.jpg
- 'These Haunting Photos Were Snapped Just Before These Tourists Mysteriously Disappeared.'. 16 March 2015.
- ↑ 'Missing in Panama — A Mystery Deepens - Mostly Mystery'.
- ↑ 'Kris & Lisanne likely fell off cliff in Panama: investigators'. 4 March 2015.
- ↑ Kryt, Jeremy (2016-07-24). 'Death on the Serpent River: How the Lost Girls of Panama Disappeared'. The Daily Beast. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
- 'Cronología de la búsqueda de Kris y Lisanne'. TVN. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
- ↑ http://www.findlisannekris.com/kris-and-lisanne/about-lisanne/
- ↑ 'About Kris'. Foundation to Find Kris & Lisanne. 2014-05-08. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
- http://mostlymystery.com/found/
- ↑ 'Hunt for girls missing in Panama scaled down, Dutch men being questioned - DutchNews.nl'. DutchNews.nl. 2014-04-15. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
- ↑ http://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2014/06/22/panamese-autoriteiten-organiseren-morgen-persconferentie-a1424164
- Visser, Jeremy Kryt|Nadette De (2016-07-30). 'The Last Man to See the Lost Girls of Panama Alive'. The Daily Beast. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
- ↑ 'Missing: Two Dutch Nationals'.
- Visser, Jeremy Kryt|Nadette De (2016-08-07). 'The Lost Girls of Panama: The Camera, the Jungle, and the Bones'. The Daily Beast. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
- ↑ https://www.allmystery.de/i/t23811542a_t90b70a_t7b5a9c_black_log_new.jpg
- ↑ https://www.allmystery.de/i/t7d40d0d00_ibioblucptypqw.png
- 'Dutch girls' camera took 90 photos in 3 hours'. La Estrella de Panamá. 2014-10-07. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
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