European True Crime
By Lisa Juliette
European True CrimeJan 13, 2022
#5: Marta Russo | Rome, Italy
Marta Russo was a 22 year old young woman, and a second year law student at La Sapienza University in Italy's capital city of Rome. She became the victim of one of Italy’s most controversial crimes when she was was shot and killed in broad daylight by an unseen perpetrator while walking to class on campus in 1997.
Case notes and transcripts available on our website:
www.europeantruecrimepodcast.com
Content Warnings:
- Violence Against Women
#4: Maëlys de Araujo | Chambéry, France
Maëlys de Araujo was mischievous and joyful eight year old little girl. She had no interest in princesses or cotton-candy pink, prefering to play football or make ramps in the garden to launch her bicycle over. She was last seen at a wedding in Pont-de-Beauvoisin, France. The investigation into her disappearance shocked a nation and uncovered one of France’s most notorious murderers and paedophiles.
Case notes and transcripts available on our website:
www.europeantruecrimepodcast.com
Content Warnings:
- Violence Against Women
- Violence Against Children
- Sexual Assault of a Minor
#3: Sophie Bouniol | West Cork, Ireland
Sophie Toscan Du Plantier, who also went by her maiden name of Bouniol, lived in Paris with her film producer husband, Daniel, and a son from her first marriage, Pierre. She had visited Ireland several times as a teenager and bought the cottage at Toormore - a remote part of rural West Cork - in 1993 as a holiday retreat. While visiting just before Christmas in 1996, she became the victim of one of Ireland’s most well-known unsolved crimes
Case notes and transcripts available on our website:
www.europeantruecrimepodcast.com
Content Warnings:
- Violence Against Women
#2: The Alcàsser Girls | Valencia, Spain
Antonia Gómez Rodríguez, Desirée Hernández Folch and Miriam García Iborra, also known as The Alcàsser Girls, were three teenage girls from Valencia, Spain. This brutal and heart-breaking case shook the entire world, and is still the subject of controversy and conspiracy to this day.
Case notes, transcripts and social links available on our website:
www.europeantruecrimepodcast.com
Content Warnings:
- Violence Against Women
- Sexual Assault of Minors
#1: Marianne Vaatstra | Friesland, the Netherlands
Marianne Vaatstra was a vibrant and fun-loving 16 year old girl. She spent most of her time with either her best friend, Aafie, or with her boyfriend, Spencer. She was creative, and planned to purse a career as a hair-stylist. In 1999, while out celebrating the national holiday of Queen’s Day in her hometown in Friesland, the Netherlands, when she became the victim of a crime that shocked the nation.
Case notes, transcripts and social links available on our website:
www.europeantruecrimepodcast.com
Content Warnings:
- Violence Against Women
- Sexual Assault of Minor