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Man Arrested 33 Years After Rape in Apeldoorn Following DNA Family Search

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Police have arrested a 53-year-old man from the Apeldoorn municipality over a rape that took place in 1993. He was identified more than three decades later through DNA familial searching, Oost-Nederland police said Thursday. The suspect is currently in custody.The man allegedly entered a woman’s home in Apeldoorn’s De Maten neighborhood on August 12, 1993 at approximately 5 p.m., threatened her with a knife and raped her.

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A 53-year-old man from the municipality of Apeldoorn was arrested on Tuesday for a rape committed in 1993. The police tracked him down after more than thirty years thanks to DNA kinship analysis, reports the East Netherlands Police. In August 1993, a woman was threatened with a knife and raped by a man in her home in the De Maten district of Apeldoorn. At the time, despite extensive investigation, no arrest was ever made. Forensic examination …

·Hilversum, Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
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A 53-year-old man from the municipality of Apeldoorn was arrested on Tuesday for a rape in 1993. The police tracked him down after more than thirty years thanks to DNA kinship analysis, the East Netherlands police reported on Thursday. The man is in custody.

·Amsterdam, Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
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A 53-year-old man from the municipality of Apeldoorn was arrested on Tuesday for a rape in 1993. The police tracked him down after more than thirty years thanks to DNA kinship analysis, the East Netherlands police reported on Thursday. The man is in custody.

·Apeldoorn, Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
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A 53-year-old man from the municipality of Apeldoorn was arrested on Tuesday for a rape committed in 1993. The police tracked him down after more than thirty years thanks to DNA kinship analysis, reports the East Netherlands Police. The man is currently in custody.

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On Tuesday, the police arrested a 53-year-old man from the municipality of Apeldoorn on suspicion of involvement in a very serious sexual offense in Apeldoorn in the summer of 1993. DNA kinship analysis provided the breakthrough for the identification.

·Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
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destentor.nl broke the news on Thursday, August 20, 2026.
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