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Issue 31
31 may - 6 June 2013
Three arrested after alleged double murder
Ingrid Visser and her partner Lodewijk Severein
by Keith Nicol THE WORLD of Volleyball was still in shock this week on learning of the alleged double murder of Dutch Gold Medal-winning female Volleyball player Ingrid Visser and her partner. After a campaign to find the missing couple, two bodies were uncovered in a shallow grave in Murcia and reacting with lightening speed, three people were arrested. On Tuesday a judge remanded in custody a Spaniard suspected in the killing of a Dutch volleyball player and her boyfriend. It’s suspected that the
murders may have been the result of a business deal gone wrong. The bodies were found buried in a lemon grove in Murcia and Police arrested three people in Valencia, including two Romanians who are suspected of actually carrying out the murders. The judge in Valencia remanded 36year-old Juan Cuenca an ex-director of volleyball CAV Murcia, for whom Visser played one season back in 2010-2011. Police were waiting for the results of DNA tests to confirm if the bodies were those of Visser, 35, and her partner Lodewijk Severein, 57.
Friends and family started a Facebook and poster campaign looking for the couple, after they disappeared from their hotel in Murcia on May 13. The Spanish Press has reported that the couple may have been tortured and then cut into pieces, before being buried. Police chief Cirilo Duran said on Monday that they had suffered a violent death. He also added that the killings may have been the result of “business disagreements” with the suspects, and thousands of euros that had been lent to them that had apparently gone missing. Continued on page 6