New Year's Eve 1921 At Hollandspoor Station in The Hague, the train from Amsterdam has just arrived. A passenger about to board the first-class compartment sees a body on the floor. In a pool of blood....

The murder of this prominent Dutch lawyer was never solved and would keep Dutch society riveted to their newspapers for years. Was it a robbery gone wrong? A suicide? Or was it something to do with... the Dutch Royal family...?

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Maria Catherina van der Linden-Swanenburg, also known as Goeie Mie, or 'Kind Mary', was a Dutch mass murderer who killed at least 27 people and was suspected of killing over 90. Mostly her own family memebers and her neighbours.

How did she get away with it for so long and what drove her to kill most of her family? And what is the delightful Dutch word for pin worms?
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In a plotline that seems to come straight out of a Dan Brown movie, in 2011 a priceless medieval manuscript is stolen from the Santiago de Compostela Cathedral. What follows is a web of bizarre twists and turns, blackmail, infighting, backstabbing, greed and... REVENGE.

On July 7th, 2011, cathedral organist Joaquín Barreira walks into Santiago de Compostela Cathedral, just before morning mass. One of the choirboys runs up to him and cries: 'Sir! Have you heard, sir? Have you heard? They've stolen the Codex!'

Joaquín initially thinks the boy must be kidding, because what he's saying is simply impossible. The Codex Calixtinus, a twelfth-century manuscript dedicated to Saint James, the jewel of medieval Spanish writings. Of inestimable value to the cathedral and to all the millions of pilgrims who flock there each year. The manuscript has been faithfully kept in the archives for over eight hundred years. Now someone has had the audacity to steal it: From the Santiago de Compostela Cathedral, from an armored room, from a very thick vault. Without leaving a trace of forced entry. Surely, that can't be happening. Right? But soon Joaquín himself will become one of the main suspects in the theft of the Codex Calixtinus.

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In a plotline that seems to come straight out of a Dan Brown movie, in 2011 a priceless medieval manuscript is stolen from the Santiago de Compostela Cathedral. What follows is a web of bizarre twists and turns, blackmail, infighting, backstabbing, greed and... REVENGE.

On July 7th, 2011, cathedral organist Joaquín Barreira walks into Santiago de Compostela Cathedral, just before morning mass. One of the choirboys runs up to him and cries: 'Sir! Have you heard, sir? Have you heard? They've stolen the Codex!'

Joaquín initially thinks the boy must be kidding, because what he's saying is simply impossible. The Codex Calixtinus, a twelfth-century manuscript dedicated to Saint James, the jewel of medieval Spanish writings. Of inestimable value to the cathedral and to all the millions of pilgrims who flock there each year. The manuscript has been faithfully kept in the archives for over eight hundred years. Now someone has had the audacity to steal it: From the Santiago de Compostela Cathedral, from an armored room, from a very thick vault. Without leaving a trace of forced entry. Surely, that can't be happening. Right? But soon Joaquín himself will become one of the main suspects in the theft of the Codex Calixtinus.

More In search of Lost Crime? Follow me on Instagram: @insearchoflostcrime

Or buy my new book: Wicked Walks though Spain: Hiking along Spanish historical crime scenes. Check it out on Amazon.com or send me a message on Liz@Doffeltje.nl

100% of the proceeds go to the care and rescue of (elderly) dogs in Portugal and Spain.

On January 11th, 2003, Maria Angels Ribot leaves work at the usual time. She parks her car in her usual parking space: number 15, on the fourth floor of Calle Beltran in the posh Putxet district of Barcelona. She walks to the elevator as usual.
But then something unusual happens: she suddenly sees a stranger step out of the shadows. That's strange, because to get into the parking garage you need a special key. How did this guy get in here? More importantly: why is he walking towards her?
She hugs her bag a little tighter to her body and starts pressing the elevator button, hoping it will come soon. But then she sees the knife…

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Or buy my new book: Wicked Walks though Spain: Hiking along Spanish historical crime scenes. Check it out on Amazon.com or send me a message on Liz@Doffeltje.nl

100% of the proceeds go to the care and rescue of (elderly) dogs in Portugal and Spain.

On January 11th, 2003, Maria Angels Ribot leaves work at the usual time. She parks her car in her usual parking space: number 15, on the fourth floor of Calle Beltran in the posh Putxet district of Barcelona. She walks to the elevator as usual.
But then she sees a stranger step out of the shadows. That's strange, because to get into the parking garage you need a special key. How did this guy get in here? More importantly: why is he walking towards her?
She hugs her bag a little tighter to her body and starts pressing the elevator button, hoping it will come soon, but then she sees the knife…

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Or buy my new book: Wicked Walks though Spain: Hiking along Spanish historical crime scenes send me a message on Liz@Doffeltje.nl

On April 22nd, 1984, a man in his forties drives a white Mercedes to Estación de Francia, a busy railway station in Barcelona. He has three children in the car with him: five-year-old Ramón, four-year-old Ricard, and two-year-old Elvira.

'Sit here for a moment,' the man tells the three. 'I'm just gonna go and get us some candy.'

Time ticks by, but the man never returns. No candy either. The three abandoned kids are taken in by the police. When the police ask for the names of their parents, they say they don't know. Just Papa and Mama. The oldest brother, Ramón, remembers some fragments of their previous lives. There was a green Jaguar, a fountain in Paris and oh yes, a gun.

It will take almost forty years before the mystery of these three abandoned children is solved. And even then, they are left with a lot of unanswered questions.

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In 1979, one of the biggest criminals from the 1930s died quietly in a fancy apartment in Torremolinos. Alvin "Creepy" Karpis was behind countless bank robberies, kidnappings, and murders. For years, he was one of America's most wanted criminals with the FBI constantly on his tail. Karpis was also the prisoner who spent the longest time incarcerated at the infamous Alcatraz prison. In 1979, the police find his remains in his apartment under highly suspicious circumstances.
Was it a suicide or had Creepy's criminal past finally caught up with him?

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