Koos Hertogs

Koos Hertogs
Born (1949-12-16)December 16, 1949
The Hague, Netherlands
Died July 2015
Criminal penalty Life imprisonment
Killings
Victims 3
Span of killings
1979–1980
Country Netherlands
Date apprehended
3 October 1980

Jacobus Dirk (Koos) Hertogs (The Hague 16 December 1949 – July 2015) was a convicted Dutch serial killer. He was convicted for a total of three murders.

Victims

Arrest

After the murder on Edith Post, the police received an anonymous call with the information that Edith had bitten her murderer, and a bouncer of nightclub "De Nachtegaal" (The Nightingale) had a severe bite wound in his little finger. The bouncer was arrested and turned out to be Koos Hertogs. Police investigated his house and found blood traces of Tialda Visser and Emy den Boer. On the attic police found an isolated room. It is believed that Hertogs hid and raped his victims here for a period of time, before killing them. Koos Hertogs got sentenced to life imprisonment. Until 1989 Hertogs denied killing the girls. However after consultation with his lawyer he confessed so he could be placed on a lighter regime.

Sting operation

For a long time there were rumours that Hertogs had protection from higher hand. In the book Zuidwal, that tells the story of the serial killer, it is claimed that Hertogs got protected by Cornelis Stolk. An important judge and vice president of the court. However both men denied the claims. In 2009 crime reporter Peter R. de Vries started a sting operation, trying to reveal if Hertogs murdered more people or if the claims made in the book were true. While being filmed with hidden cameras Hertogs, talking with a 'dear' friend, who turned out to be an infiltrator working for De Vries, made some notable claims.

Book "De zaak Koos H."

In August 2012 writer and psychologist Patrick Oomens published the book "De zaak Koos H.", in which he questions Koos H. being a serial killer and concludes that he doesn't fit the profile. According to Oomens, that would shed another light on the case and the writer conjectures that the whole case of Koos H. has more characteristics of a cover-up with connections to Operation Gladio. With respect to the 'befriended' psychiatrist, the writer claims to have discovered that the ex-wife of Stolk wasn't a psychiatrist at all, but in reality the first female pilot in the Netherlands who transported the Dutch Royal family in the early '50s.

References

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