Netherlands- Cartoon & hologram initiative, leads to arrest of man, 52, for S.A. of girls ages,13-16, in bike storage area, Schiedam, Jan. 2023

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Jan 17 2023​

3D image helps police identify cold case suspect rapist - DutchNews.nl

A 52-year-old man from Schiedam has been arrested in connection with two rapes and one attempted rape in 2010 after a police cold case team used 3D imaging to try to identify him. Police issued a 3D image of the suspect, who attacked three girls aged 13 and 15 in the storage area of flats in...

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Cartoon and hologram generate 250 tips for cold case rape team - DutchNews.nl

A strip cartoon and hologram have generated 250 tip-offs about a rapist who struck several times in 2010, news website Nu.nl said on Wednesday. Police hope the unorthodox approach will lead them to identify the man who attacked three girls in the storage areas of flats in Schiedam and...

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''Cartoon and hologram generate 250 tips for cold case rape team''​

January 5, 2022
''A strip cartoon and hologram have generated 250 tip-offs about a rapist who struck several times in 2010, news website Nu.nl said on Wednesday. Police hope the unorthodox approach will lead them to identify the man who attacked three girls in the storage areas of flats in Schiedam and Vlaardingen, raping two of them in the late summer over 11 years ago. The two page illustration was published at the end of December and the life-sized 3D image was shown on television earlier in the year, along with interviews with the three victims, who were 13, 15 and 16 at the time. -ADVERTENTIE- The hologram was also shown to passersby in shopping centres in Schiedam and Vlaardingen several weeks ago in an effort to track him down. Bikes The rapist approached the girls in late summer 2010 when they were putting their bikes away in the cellar storage areas and threatened them with a knife. One girl was able to escape.''

 

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Life-sized 3D hologram helps find rape suspect in 10-year-old cold case

"This was the first time that we used a hologram to identify a criminal," the Netherlands' Rotterdam Police Department said.

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BY PANDORA DEWAN ON 11/18/22 rbbm.
''New leads have been found for a decade-old cold Dutch case after Rotterdam police used a life-sized hologram to identify the unknown suspect. The unorthodox approach has resulted in 300 tips to the police hotline, and 40 men have now been invited for voluntary DNA testing.

In 2010, an as-yet-unidentified man sexually assaulted two teenage girls at knifepoint in Schiedam and Vlaardingen, near Rotterdam, in the storage area under their apartment block while they were locking up their bikes. A third girl, who was also attacked, managed to escape. The offender has never been found.

That was until the cold case team at the Rotterdam Police Unit decided to construct a three-dimensional, life-sized hologram of the suspect.''
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"This was the first time that we used a hologram to identify a criminal," Elianne Mastwijk, a spokeswoman for the Rotterdam police, told Newsweek.

The hologram was shown on television screens and displayed in a holobox to passersby in shopping centers throughout Schiedam and Vlaardingen.''

"We hope that people will recognize the suspect," Mastwijk said. "We think it will be easier to recognize him because it's a life-size presentation of the suspect. You can see him move and can see every detail of his body in real life. Compared to a drawing that we made earlier in the investigation, this is more recognizable for people."