Identified! Netherlands, Westdorpe (near Belgium), WhtFem, Jun'19 - Joyceline Hamilière

[ZaZara]

IDENTIEFIED


https://www.telegraaf.nl/nieuws/918...ekend-van-vermoorde-naakte-vrouw-in-westdorpe


WESTDORPE - After several years of investigation and reviewing hundreds of tips, the identity of a woman shot dead has been established. Her body was found in a meadow in Westdorpe in Zeeland in June 2019. A dna-match now shows that the woman was 57 years old and from the area around the northern French town of Dunkirk.

A French investigation team has determined that the woman was most likely already killed in her home country by her husband. The latter has since died.

After the dead woman was found close to the canal from Terneuzen to Ghent, a large-scale investigation into the woman's identity and the crime followed, examining several scenarios.

The woman's dna and fingerprints were shared with the Netherlands Forensic Institute, as well as with investigative agencies in Belgium, Germany, France, Poland and Romania. A kinship investigation was also carried out.

When no the match was found, the public prosecutor's office offered a 15,000-euro reward for the person who would step forward with the golden tip. Investigation programmes both in the Netherlands and abroad covered the unknown dead woman, but no breakthrough was made.

In 2021, the case took a different turn when French police officers found a dead man just outside Dunkirk after a distant relative of his raised the alarm with police. The man appeared to have died of medical causes. French police then launched an investigation, as they wanted to inform the deceased man's wife. However, the woman was untraceable and also not reported missing.

Her dna was then placed in an international dna database. Then quickly followed the breakthrough in the Dutch investigation: the dna turned out to be a 100 per cent match with the unknown dead woman found in Westdorpe.

Her remains can now be handed over to her family, police said.


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[ZaZara]

IDENTIFIED AS JOYCELINE HAMILIÈRE FROM HOYMILLE


Comment les enquêteurs français, belges et néerlandais sont parvenus à élucider un meurtre, deux ans après

The investigation took a new turn in 2020, when the gendarmes of the Nord Dept. intervened at the home of Michel Hamilière, a septuagenarian who had died of natural causes at his home in Hoymille.

The family of the deceased told the police that Michel Hamilière had lived alone since his wife, Jocelyne Hamilière, had left him. She had discovered that he was leading a double life and even had a child with another woman. The family members explain that none of them tried to contact Jocelyne Hamilière, all thinking that she had left of her own accord.

However, the gendarmes' investigation did not find Jocelyne Hamilière's new address. During a search of the couple's home, the gendarmes even discovered her identity papers, which "contradicts the hypothesis of a spontaneous departure".

The gendarmes also discovered a rifle with two missing cartridges at the couple's home.

The investigation reveals that the Hamilière couple was in debt, with the financial situation starting to improve from July 2019, after the sale of the couple's property and only a few days after Jocelyne Hamilière's supposed departure.

The analysis of the husband's movements, carried out thanks to his telephone, led the French authorities to request the help from the Belgian authorities.

In August 2021, this cooperation made it possible to establish that the body found in the Netherlands two years earlier was indeed that of Jocelyne Hamilière. Video surveillance footage showed that the husband's vehicle was parked at the scene, 1.5 hours from their home in Hoymille, a few hours before the body was found.

A judicial investigation will be opened in 2021 for the charge of "assassination against X", concerning events that may have taken place in France, Belgium or the Netherlands. The absence of blood traces at the scene of the discovery of the body suggests that the victim was left there after being killed.

In October 2021, the Dutch investigation services, the Dunkirk public prosecutor's office, the Lille research unit and the Dunkirk-Hoymille research brigade met in Breda, the Netherlands, in the presence of the local prosecutor, for an investigation meeting.

All of the information gathered led to the conclusion that the bullet used in the murder was of the same calibre as the rifle found in the couple's home. Furthermore, the DNA found on the victim's ropes and ankles matched that of Michel Hamilière.

The Dunkirk public prosecutor said on Monday that each element shared between the French and Dutch authorities "confirms the thesis of the homicide".


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RIP Joyceline Hamilière

 

[Carovb5]

So sad, being betrayed like that by your husband. Found their weddingpic.

 

[Bit of hope]

IDENTIEFIED


https://www.telegraaf.nl/nieuws/918...ekend-van-vermoorde-naakte-vrouw-in-westdorpe


WESTDORPE - After several years of investigation and reviewing hundreds of tips, the identity of a woman shot dead has been established. Her body was found in a meadow in Westdorpe in Zeeland in June 2019. A dna-match now shows that the woman was 57 years old and from the area around the northern French town of Dunkirk.

A French investigation team has determined that the woman was most likely already killed in her home country by her husband. The latter has since died.

After the dead woman was found close to the canal from Terneuzen to Ghent, a large-scale investigation into the woman's identity and the crime followed, examining several scenarios.

The woman's dna and fingerprints were shared with the Netherlands Forensic Institute, as well as with investigative agencies in Belgium, Germany, France, Poland and Romania. A kinship investigation was also carried out.

When no the match was found, the public prosecutor's office offered a 15,000-euro reward for the person who would step forward with the golden tip. Investigation programmes both in the Netherlands and abroad covered the unknown dead woman, but no breakthrough was made.

In 2021, the case took a different turn when French police officers found a dead man just outside Dunkirk after a distant relative of his raised the alarm with police. The man appeared to have died of medical causes. French police then launched an investigation, as they wanted to inform the deceased man's wife. However, the woman was untraceable and also not reported missing.

Her dna was then placed in an international dna database. Then quickly followed the breakthrough in the Dutch investigation: the dna turned out to be a 100 per cent match with the unknown dead woman found in Westdorpe.

Her remains can now be handed over to her family, police said.


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Thanks for finding it and posting! A bit of a strange write up, the French article explains it much better. How big are the chances that things turn out like this. It feels like this "story" had to be just like this; him dying and finding her because of it.

RIP Joyceline Hamilière.

 

[ChatteringBirds]

How tragic. May she rest in peace.

 

[ZaZara]

So sad, being betrayed like that by your husband. Found their weddingpic.

Great find! She looks at him, and he is looking into the camera.... he was still receiving her pension when he died. He only survived his wife for about one year so at least there must be some justice in the universe.

IMO those who knew her, might have recognized her post-mortem picture and portrait.
The nose, the thin eyebrows, the eyes and the mouth are still very similar.


Socx: il exécute sa femme d’une balle dans la tête en 2019, l’auteur et la victime enfin identifiés

On July 8, 2020, the gendarmes of the Hoymille brigade went to a house in Socx to confirm the death of Michel Hamilière, then aged 70. A natural death. But the gendarmes were concerned about the absence of his wife, Jocelyne.

They contacted members of Michel Hamilière's family, who suggested that she had voluntarily left the house. There was trouble brewing in the marriage. The septuagenarian blamed her husband for having a double life and had learned of the existence of an illegitimate child. In addition, the couple was in debt.

The gendarmes began to search for this woman who had left without leaving an address and who no longer had any family or social ties, apart from her husband. As the investigations led nowhere, the gendarmes decided to search the home of Michel Hamilière.

The identity documents of Jocelyne, née Decroix, were found. This did not fit with the hypothesis of a voluntary departure. Moreover, her pension, her only income, was being paid into the joint account of the couple.

It was only in August of this year that the gendarmes made the connection with the discovery of the body three years earlier in the Netherlands, thanks to international judicial assistance. Afterwards, the analysis of the video surveillance and of Mr Hamilière's telephone records made it possible to establish that he had gone to Westdorpe a few hours before the discovery of his wife's body.

Finally, the investigation established that the DNA found on the rope around the victim's ankles was indeed that of Michel Hamilière. The bullet used in the murder matched the calibre of the rifle found in his home. "The absence of blood traces at the scene of the discovery of the body suggests that the victim was dumped in the field after being killed. The examination of the body reveals traces of pressure on the knees, making the hypothesis of a murder committed on a kneeling victim plausible," according to the public prosecutors' offices of Dunkirk and Breda. Due to the death of the perpetrator, the investigation has been closed.


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[Susikatze]

Can be just the state her body was in, but she looked so much older than 57.
Reminds me of the Patty Otto case, a woman who married a much older man who turned against her.
There are no children mentioned, Jocelynes extensive abdominal surgeries indicate some severe gynecological condition whe went through at some point. That amount of surgery is required with ovarian/uterine cancer and severe endometriosis and adenomyosis. Maybe a reason why they remained childless. And then of course it hit her even harder when she found out about the double life her husband led.
So incredibly sad. I feel so sorry for her and sad that her husband never faced a trial. You can say Karma got him but in fact he just went on with his life until he died naturally.
Not fair. Gorgeous Jocelyne, you deserved better.

Jmoo

 

[Nate_Bro]

So sad, being betrayed like that by your husband. Found their weddingpic.

Possibly could have been done out of mercy, given her medical history she could have been suffering quite a bit. If so, there were definitely better ways to go about it. I guess we'll never know now.

 

[ZaZara]

Possibly could have been done out of mercy, given her medical history she could have been suffering quite a bit. If so, there were definitely better ways to go about it. I guess we'll never know now.

Eeh what? Mercy killing??? What on earth gave you that idea? The woman received excellent medical care during her lifetime, the surgery she got is proof of that. The surgery would have put an end to medical ailments btw.

Meanwhile, the husband led a double life, had a child with another woman, the couple was in debt and then suddenly a few days after her disappearance out of debt, she was probably sitting on her knees when she was shot in the head...

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[Nate_Bro]

Eeh what? Mercy killing??? What on earth gave you that idea? The woman received excellent medical care during her lifetime, the surgery she got is proof of that. The surgery would have put an end to medical ailments btw.

Meanwhile, the husband led a double life, had a child with another woman, the couple was in debt and then suddenly a few days after her disappearance out of debt, she was probably sitting on her knees when she was shot in the head...

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"Mercy killing is usually defined as intentional killing, often by family members or friends, with the stated intent to end perceived suffering. International evidence suggests that mercy killing typically involves an older man killing his ailing wife. In this study, we examined U.S. cases of mercy killing recorded by The Hemlock Society for the period 1960-1993. We found that the typical case involved an older woman being killed by a man, often her husband, with her poor health as the justification for the killing. A firearm was often used in these incidents. These patterns of mercy killing are consistent with patterns of homicide-suicide among older adults. Future research should seek to understand why women are typically the targets, and men the agents of mercy killing."

Older women and mercy killing - PubMed

Mercy killing is usually defined as intentional killing, often by family members or friends, with the stated intent to end perceived suffering. International evidence suggests that mercy killing typically involves an older man killing his ailing wife. In this study, we examined U.S. cases of...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

 

[Susikatze]

I doubt it. The usual scenario of a "mercy killing" is if one partner is terminally ill.
Joycelyne was not terminally ill, probably not even in considerable pain. And she was quite young.
Edit: i read the article in depth now and it seems a LE term for a killing of other motives that the killer justifies with whatever "mercy".
But still I dont think it is terribly likely.

I guess that her finding out about the double life and her husband serially cheating on her led to arguments and maybe she wanted to leave him. Since they had financial troubles and he needed money to support his girlfriend and child, he did not want a divorce that would have resulted in giving up part of his wealth as a settlement for Joycelyne. So he killed her and claimed she just left him.