Murdered Amsterdam sex worker, 19, brought back to life in chilling hologram sparking flurry of tips that may solve case

A MURDERED enactment idiosyncratic successful Amsterdam who was brought backmost to beingness successful a haunting hologram has sparked a flurry of tips that could yet lick the killing.

Bernadett "Betty" Szabo was recovered successful a pool of humor with aggregate stab wounds on the city's infamous Red Light District successful February 2009.

In a past accidental to drawback the young woman's slayer 15 years aft her death, cops utilized a life-size hologram replica of Betty.

And cops person present received an influx of tips, a constabulary spokesperson told The Sun.

The visualisation of Betty shows her sitting connected a stool down a window.

She's dressed successful grey heels, denim shorts and a leopard people bra with a ample tattoo of a dragon trailing up her torso portion she reaches retired to radical walking past successful the Red Light District.

The 3D rendering of the murdered pistillate shows her leaning guardant and breathing connected the solid - revealing the connection "help".

Detectives hoped the hologram entreaty would instrumentality viewers backmost to 2009 and jog memories of whether they saw her oregon visited her - and it was successful.

Police spokesperson Eline Roovers successful Amsterdam revealed however the hologram has opened up caller leads successful the case.

She told The Sun: "We've got loads of tips. We person not received the eventual tip, the aureate tip, yet.

"We are investigating each of these tips and trying to spot if determination are immoderate much leads we tin analyse further.

"We gathered grounds astatine the country astatine the clip - truthful that's thing that volition springiness america nowadays leads and caller traces we tin investigate."

The young miss from Hungary moved to Amsterdam erstwhile she was 18 earlier moving arsenic a sex idiosyncratic successful the Red Light District.

Cops said Betty had fixed commencement lone 3 months earlier she was murdered successful her workplace.

Her babe lad was placed into foster attraction and "never had the accidental to cognize his mother"due to the cruel killing, Anne Dreijer-Heemskerk of the acold lawsuit squad described.

On the nighttime she was brutally killed, 2 radical she worked with noticed she wasn't successful her accustomed spot connected the Oudezijds Achterburgwal - a thoroughfare and canal - and decided to cheque connected her.

They discovered Betty successful a excavation of humor with aggregate stab wounds.

Amsterdam constabulary accidental they launched a ample investigation aft her assemblage was tragically recovered - with cops reviewing CCTV footage and speaking to immoderate witnesses.

But the lawsuit went acold aft detectives weren't capable to find a suspect.

Before deciding to usage the hologram, the squad discussed it "extensively" wrong the constabulary unit - arsenic good arsenic her loved ones.

Ms Roovers said the murdered enactment worker's relatives "really support" them arsenic they anticipation to get to the bottommost of the heinous crime.

She added that the household are "eager to help" and "positive" astir the mode the constabulary approached her lawsuit years later.

Cops judge that idiosyncratic volition person accusation to share.

They anticipation the hologram of Betty volition "help radical consciousness a transportation to her" - encouraging them to travel guardant with immoderate information.

Amsterdam attracts millions of tourists per year, partially drawn by the city's wide stance erstwhile it comes to drugs and buying sex.

Buying enactment is ineligible and regulated successful the Netherlands - arsenic agelong arsenic it is betwixt 2 consenting adults - drafting radical acold and wide to the Red Light District.

It means that those who cognize what happened to young Betty could beryllium from anyplace astir the world, cops said.

Ms Roovers said: "This is simply a truly planetary scene.

"Lots of radical from antithetic nationalities walk by each day.

"So we were truly hoping to find ways to scope a bigger assemblage than conscionable successful the Netherlands due to the fact that we cognize that determination indispensable beryllium radical retired determination that person much information.

"We cognize that radical that, for example, perpetrate a murder, usually archer aggregate radical astir what they've done, which means that we cognize determination indispensable beryllium radical retired determination that person much information."

Despite the acold lawsuit being much than a decennary old, Ms Roovers said constabulary person ever been touched by the lawsuit - and Betty's story.

She explained however Betty's execution was an "extremely tragic story" - having been truthful young and conscionable fixed commencement earlier returning to enactment enactment to marque money.

Ms Roovers added: "We person officers that up until this time were touched by her communicative and truly wanted to lick the case."

The usage of a hologram to assistance lick Betty's lawsuit sparks questions connected what the future of solving transgression whitethorn look like.

It's unclear whether immoderate different forces worldwide person utilized the futuristic method earlier - but Ms Roovers says that Betty's lawsuit truthful acold has been a "success".

And it could pb to much holograms to beryllium created.

The hologram was created utilizing 3D visualisation techniques and is the archetypal clip Amsterdam constabulary has ever utilized to effort and lick a case.

Benjamin van Gogh, co-ordinator of Amsterdam's investigative connection team, called it "unique" and "daring".

He said: "We privation to bash close by Betty, her loved ones, and the case."

Police are besides offering a £25,000 (€30,000) reward for accusation that helps solves Betty's lawsuit and, arsenic Ms Roovers described, "achieve justice".