Unidentified person
Maarsbergen - The girl on the parking lot
On Sunday 24 October 1976, hikers were walking near the former parking lot De Heul, alongside the A12 motorway near Maarsbergen, between Utrecht and Arnhem in the Netherlands. Hidden under soil and branches, they found the lifeless body of a woman, probably a young woman.
- Gender: Female
- Date of discovery: 24 oktober 1976
- Location: Former parking lot De Heul, alongside the A12 motorway in the direction of Arnhem, near Maarsbergen, the Netherlands
- Estimated age: 13 - 20 years old
- Year of birth: 1965 - 1963
- Skin Tone: Light-skinned
- Hair Colour: Auburn
- Height: 150 - 165 cm
At the time, the police linked the case to a missing persons case from the same area. In 2006, the case was found to have been incorrectly linked, after which an investigation into the identity of the young woman was started. The unknown perpetrator can no longer be prosecuted, as the limitation period has expired. However, the police would still like to hear from people who think they may know who the woman is, so her relatives can be informed.
German girl
The results of isotope investigation indicate a high likelihood that the girl or young woman came from Germany. She was probably born in the late 1950s or early 1960s and grew up in the Rhine valley area, the area south of Cologne and Bonn. There are also indications that she may have come from the border area between Germany and Czech Republic (the region between Dresden and Prague).
Other areas of origin cannot be ruled out. Over a two-year period in the mid 1970s, the woman probably moved in stages from Eastern Europe (possibly Poland or Ukraine) to Western Europe (possibly Germany or the Netherlands). During this time, she may have known a time of undernutrition or malnutrition (probably during the last 14 months of her life).