VIDEO: Murdered Hungarian sex worker’s life-size hologram could solve a 15-year-old mystery case

Police in Amsterdam seem to be quite creative in trying to solve a 15-year-old murder case involving a 19-year-old Hungarian sex worker, Bernadett Szabó (Betty). They created the life-size hologram of the girl reaching out for help. The police hope the new solution will help people feel connected to her and come forward with information.

Life-size hologram may help police

The brutal murder of Ms Szabó went cold 15 years ago since the detectives could not solve it. The girl was stabbed multiple times at her workplace, but police were unable to catch the perpetrators. Now, they hope they will find somebody who has important information by creating a life-size hologram of the Hungarian woman asking for help. They said it was their ultimate attempt to solve the cold case.

According to the Dutch police, the week-long campaign started yesterday in Amsterdam’s Red Light District. They said, “various methods will be deployed to draw the public’s attention to this young woman’s tragic death”. Probably the most creative and eye-catching solution is the girl’s life-sized hologram asking passer-bies for their help.

Betty left Hungary to work in Amsterdam’s Red Light District as a prostitute when she turned 18. She became pregnant but continued to work even during her pregnancy and started again after she gave birth to her baby. Three months later, she was brutally murdered in her workroom.

Her baby was placed in a foster family

Her body was discovered by two fellow sex workers. They realised they did not see her on 19 February 2009, and at 1 A.M. they decided to check on her. What they found was horrific. Betty was stabbed at least 12 times by the unknown murderer and left in her room in a pool of blood.

Despite the police’s extensive investigation, checking all the camera footages in the area, a meticulous inspection of the crime scene, etc., the perpetrator could not be found.

The Amsterdam Cold Case Team quickly agreed to have a final look in that sad case. “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.