Rik Jans Commits a “Perfect Murder” for a Loan of 125,000 Euros, Until that One Phone Call Does Him in Seven Weeks Later.

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Limburg blacksmith Rik Jans shot his creditor in the head, dumped the body in the canal... and was back home at the breakfast table with his girlfriend on time. For seven weeks, the murder of Didier Lemmens from Tongeren seemed perfect, but then it turned out Jans had overlooked one thing after all. Yet he would be released three more times. Former detective Nico Cilissen reconstructs the 2006 murder, explains the common thread behind the story,…