The Match

How for the first time a Dutch murder was solved by large-scale DNA testing

Original title: De Match

In a Dutch village, an eighty-year-old widow is murdered. The perverted modus operandi turns the crime into a national media event. It made the authorities decide to set up one of the first large-scale DNA investigations in the country. The men who were interrogated and investigated by the police are interrogated once again for the film and have to describe the dramatic events and try to put their feelings into words.

Documentary Crime

De Match

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