Death of Katrien De Cuyper

On Tuesday, 17 December 1991, Katrien De Cuyper, a fifteen-year-old girl from Brasschaat, went to visit a friend in Lange Lobroekstraat in Antwerp. After the visit, her friend stayed behind and let her walk to the bus stop alone as it was raining. De Cuyper telephoned her parents at 21:30 to tell them she would take the bus home. She missed the bus and was last seen at 22:45 at Les Routiers café on the IJzerlaan, where she made a phone call to an unknown person. On 19 June 1992, her naked, buried body was discovered during groundwork in the port of Antwerp. Investigation showed that she had been strangled. == Investigation ==

Letters to Blik and Regina Louf confession A month after De Cuyper's body was found, weekly magazine Blik received a letter from an anonymous sender claiming that they had given her a lift after she missed her bus the night she disappeared. The following October, Blik received another letter from the same sender, as did De Cuyper's parents the month after. Louf said that De Cuyper had been held in a castle north of Antwerp in which children would be raped, tortured and killed by what Louf described as a "paedophile network", and that she had been ordered to kill the teenager during an orgy. No concrete evidence was found to support Louf's testimony. V.R. admitted that he wrote the letters but said that they were fabricated and that he only wrote them for publicity. In September 2006, De Cuyper's remains were exhumed for further tests. On 19 December 2006, V.R. was released from custody as the investigation had found no evidence against him other than the letters. == See also ==