{"id":6813,"date":"2024-05-03T17:11:33","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T17:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/internationalpulse.net\/?p=6813"},"modified":"2024-05-03T17:11:33","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T17:11:33","slug":"belgian-man-arrested-on-suspicion-of-murdering-his-companion-in-1994-after-garden-excavation-turns-up-human-remains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internationalpulse.net\/?p=6813","title":{"rendered":"Belgian man arrested on suspicion of murdering his companion in 1994 after garden excavation turns up human remains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>A 78-year-old Belgian man was arrested on suspicion of murdering his companion 30 years ago after excavation work turned up human remains in a garden, prosecutors said. The suspect, named only as Hans D., was arrested this week, charged, and fitted with an electronic tracking bracelet.<\/p>\n<p>He was set to appear Friday in court in the Belgian city of Ghent for a decision on the period and conditions of his detention.<\/p>\n<p>The cold case was reopened when the remains were discovered last Saturday, as the owner of a home in Sint-Martens-Latem, a village just southwest of Ghent, had workers dig up his garden.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"newsletter_signup \">\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-newsletter-widget embed--float-none embed--size-large embed--type-iframe\" data-ads=\"{\" wordcount=\"\">\n<\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Police rapidly deduced from clues found that the body could be that of a woman, a neighbor who had disappeared in 1994 at age 48 and who had been the companion of the suspect.<\/p>\n<p>Belgian newspaper De Standaard reported that Hans D. had confessed to burying her but had not admitted to killing her.<\/p>\n<p>The man&#8217;s lawyer, Ashley Bicx, told another newspaper, Het Nieuwsblad, that his client was &#8220;fully cooperating&#8221; with the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The woman \u2014\u00a0identified by the Brussels Times as Annie De Poortere \u2014 disappeared on November 12, 1994. Five years later, after the case went cold, she was declared &#8220;absent&#8221; by a court in Ghent, the outlet reported.<\/p>\n<p>Hans D., a tradesman in the village, was not under suspicion at the time.<\/p>\n<p>He had told a television reporter in an interview in 1999 that his companion had suddenly gone missing one evening while he was out shopping at a supermarket and then off watching a football game, De Standaard reported.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Interpol launched a\u00a0web page\u00a0where police share previously confidential information about unsolved cases in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p>Interpol said in November that about two dozen <span class=\"link\">women found dead<\/span>\u00a0in recent decades in those three countries have been <span class=\"link\">identified<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation \">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">More from CBS News<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p><!-- tags --><\/div>\n<p> Belgian man arrested on suspicion of murdering his companion in 1994 after garden excavation turns up human remains<br \/>\n<br \/>#Belgian #man #arrested #suspicion #murdering #companion #garden #excavation #turns #human #remains<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 78-year-old Belgian man was arrested on suspicion of murdering his companion 30 years ago&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[1251,2841,3835,3837,3836,250,230,3834,1839,3833,1011],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.10 - 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