as A man who, in november, 1967, it came ashore on the beach of Terschelling, and was buried in an unmarked grave, was a mariner from the City of. That is, the coldcaseteam of the police force, The Hague, announced on Thursday after a DNA test.

It’s going to be, Kees van Rijn, who is a 22-year-old was part of the crew of the KW37, Orion. The ship was wrecked on the 28th of October, 1967, in a very heavy storm on the North sea island of Terschelling.

the next of kin of the Rhine was decided at the beginning of January, the DNA to be used. They did this after they learned that, in november of last year, a similar vermissingszaak, it was resolved: I have a DNA test, a 66-year-ago washed ashore and unnamed bodies have been identified. It turned out to be Andrew Penny, from London, master of the coaster to The West. It was the night of the Flood disaster in 1953 in the North sea.

The coldcaseteam of the police unit in The Hague, in 2014, the project Zeeslachtoffers, along with the National Missing Persons Bureau (LBVP), and the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI). Among the 150 people who are family or friends of the sea, has returned to the village, is the mouth decreased.

Thanks to the new techniques could, in 2018, though the 26-year-old sailor, Arie van der Plas, from the KW37, Orion can be identified. Of the six crew, only the skipper and At the End, has not yet been found.

DNA is the unknown operations in a database

As an amendment to the Act at the funeral in 2010 and will always be DNA taken from the unknown dead. In the meantime, it is also in the DNA of almost all since the 1920’s until the unknown operations are included in the database.

According to the LBVP point of time. The unknown dead are the best way to identify the DNA of the first-degree relatives, such as brothers, sisters, parents and children.