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Ep. 116 | You Won't Believe How This Cold Case Was Solved | Nicole van den Hurk
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Jos de Gee: Arrest, Record, and the Pattern That Tied Him to Nicole
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Jos de Gee was 46 years old and living in a shelter home just six weeks from the end of his supervised reintegration when police arrested him in January 2014. He was from Valkenswaard, a town right on Eindhoven's doorstep, and had been in his late twenties when Nicole disappeared. His criminal history was extensive: the earliest known offence dated to 1987, and he had accumulated three rape convictions, including for violently assaulting his own ex-girlfriend. In September 2000, he had attacked a 20-year-old woman in Valkenswaard — pulling her from her bicycle and sexually assaulting her in an isolated location — a method that cold case investigators immediately recognised as a near-identical echo of Nicole's disappearance. A formal psychiatric evaluation had described him as 'a vessel overflowing with hate' and explicitly warned of significant reoffending risk if his underlying issues went untreated. Despite all of that, the system had him six weeks from living unsupervised.
By the time he was arrested for Nicole's murder in 2014, Jos de Gee already had three rape convictions on his record, with the earliest offence dating back to 1987.
A psychiatrist's evaluation described Jos de Gee as 'a vessel overflowing with hate' and explicitly warned of a significant chance he would reoffend if underlying issues were not treated.
On July 3, 2014, prosecutors dropped the murder charge against Jos de Gee at a pre-trial hearing because the forensic evidence could not support it, reducing the charge to manslaughter.
