Netherlands Netherlands- Bernadett Szabo, 19, SW, fatally stabbed @ work behind a window, Amsterdam, 19/2/09, *New initiative, LE use life-size hologram*

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Police start campaign in Amsterdam Red Light District to solve cold case of murdered sex worker

Starting on 9 November, the Amsterdam police is about to make an ultimate attempt to find out who killed 19-year-old sex worker Bernadett ‘Betty’ Szabó in 2009. In an extensive week-long campaign…

www.politie.nl

‘Although, of course, every murder case is terrible, Betty’s story is particularly poignant in a number of ways. A young girl, just turned nineteen, who was robbed of her life in a horrible way. And who didn’t have an easy life before she died. She worked long hours as a sex worker and kept working until just before she gave birth to her son. This son was placed with a foster family shortly afterwards and never had the chance to get to know his mother’, explains Anne Dreijer-Heemskerk, member of the Cold Case Team.''

''Innovative communication campaign
The police try to reach these crucial witnesses by setting up an innovative campaign around Betty’s murder. For one week, starting from Saturday 9 November, various methods will be deployed in the Amsterdam red-light district to draw the public’s attention to the case. For example, a house at the corner of Korte Stormsteeg and Oudezijds Achterburgwal will be devoted entirely to the murder case. There will be large stickers on the windows with information about the case, and television screens showing, among other things, the crime scene, the last film images made of Betty while still alive, and a documentary. The third element in the house is likely to turn most heads: a life-size hologram based on Betty’s looks.

The computer visualisation of Betty sits on a stool in a window, trying to make contact with passers-by and asking them for help''.

 

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Imageic: Amsterdam police

Imageic: Amsterdam police

Police to use life-size hologram of murdered sex worker Bernadett Szabo to try to solve cold case

The visualisation will show Bernadett "Betty" Szabo, who was stabbed multiple times on 19 February 2009, behind a window in Amsterdam's red light district.

news.sky.com

''Police in Amsterdam are set to use a life-size hologram of a murdered sex worker to try to catch her killer 15 years after her death.
The visualisation will show Bernadett "Betty" Szabo, who was stabbed multiple times on 19 February 2009, sitting on a stool behind a window as she reaches out to passersby for help.

Police have said the 19-year-old had given birth three months before she was "brutally murdered in her workspace".

 

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Bernadett (Betty) Szabó (English)

www.politie.nl

Bernadett (Betty) Szabó (English)​

Latest update:09-11-2024 | 07:00Date of offense:20-02-2009
On 20 February 2009, Bernadett, who was also called Betty, was found lying in a pool of blood in a prostitute’s workroom on Oudezijds Achterburgwal in Amsterdam’s red-light district. She had been brutally murdered. Alarmed by the unusual silence in her room, her fellow sex workers found her that night. The case has still not been solved. The cold-case team of the Netherlands Police hopes that with your help they can finally solve the case.

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Call the free police tip-off line 0800 - 6070 or email to coldcase.amsterdam@politie.nl.
You can also give information anonymously via Meld Misdaad Anoniem (Crimestoppers NL) on number 0800 – 7000. If you would prefer to have a confidential talk with someone from the Criminal Intelligence Team, call 088-661 7734.''

 

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Amsterdam red light district: Hologram aims to solve sex worker's murder

The fatal stabbing of a Hungarian teenager, killed shortly after she gave birth, has baffled police for 15 years.

www.bbc.com

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''A hologram of a young sex worker haunts Amsterdam’s red light district.
Dressed in faded denim hotpants, a leopard-print bra, with a tattoo snaking up her stomach and across her chest, the 3D computer-generated image reaches out and appears to knock on the window to attract attention.
She leans forward, breathes on the glass and writes the word "help".
The hologram is designed to represent Bernadette "Betty" Szabo, a 19-year-old woman from Hungary who was murdered a few months after giving birth in 2009.''

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[ChatteringBirds]

So much about this case is tragic. If only, instead of taking her son away, authorities had helped her into housing (such as for domestic violence victims) and a job training program with child-care. If only someone had helped her.

Also, did they try to preserve evidence from the crime scene? She may have fought back; his DNA could have been under her fingernails. I wonder what they had and still have. (I know they have different laws about using DNA in the Netherlands.)

 

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Saturday, 9 November 2024 By Tom Gillespie rbbm.

Police to use life-size hologram of murdered sex worker Bernadett Szabo to try to solve cold case

Police in Amsterdam are set to use a life-size hologram of a murdered sex worker to try to catch her killer 15 years after her death.

www.islandfm.com

''Police in Amsterdam are set to use a life-size hologram of a murdered sex worker to try to catch her killer 15 years after her death.
The visualisation will show Bernadett "Betty" Szabo, who was stabbed multiple times on 19 February 2009, sitting on a stool behind a window as she reaches out to passersby for help.

Police have said the 19-year-old had given birth three months before she was "brutally murdered in her workspace".

''The force said it is the first time it has used a hologram to try to solve a case. It is unclear whether any other forces around the world have used this technique before''.

''Ms Szabo, originally from Hungary, had moved to Amsterdam when she was 18 before before becoming a sex worker in the city's red light district.''

''Amsterdam's red light district is visited by tourists from all over the world - with police keen to hear from anyone who may have been visiting the area on the night of Ms Szabo's death.
Ms Roovers said the force wants to "emphasise it is never too late to talk".
She added: "Research shows that people who commit a crime like this usually tell multiple people, 2.2 persons to be exact, about what they have done.''

Using this technology makes so much sense, I hope it helps this lovely young girl’s case and many others going forward!

 

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Came across this documentary..

Sep 18, 2012
Documentary reconstruction about the short life of Betty, a Hungarian prostitute who was brutally murdered in het room in the Red Light District of Amsterdam. In competition at the Dutch Film Festival 2012

Dirty Window (2012) ⭐ 6.8 | Documentary, Crime, Family

1h

www.imdb.com

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3196650/mediaviewer/rm3178121728/?ref_=tt_ov_i

 

[Susikatze]

This poor girl deserved help. Certainly after she gave birth, as an EU citizen she would have been eligible to do any sort of education, job training and also social housing in the Netherlands. But I guess she was trapped in the Sexwork networks that are hard to leave. I wonder if her ‘boyfriend’ was the one who trafficked and pimped her. Because despite being from economically meddling East Hungary, sexwork is not a common profession there for young women and the city she is from is a regional capital, no village slum at all. I know, my husbands family is from there. If a woman leaves and becomes a sexworker, it is hardly her own wish. I bet her boyfriend or another boyfriend groomed and trafficked her.