Remember the Dutch Girls in Boquete Panama?
BOQUETE, CHIRIQUI, PANAMA, March 14th 2024 — On the tenth anniversary of the disappearance of Lisanne Froon and Kris Kremers in the Panamanian rainforest, authors announce the publication of their investigative true crime book “Still Lost in Panama”. A new investigative book sheds light on the cold case of Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon. On April 1st 2014 the two young Dutch women became involved in one of the most mysterious true crime cases in contemporary history while hiking on the Pianista Trail. Now light is being shed on the dark jungle of theories and speculation. With exclusive insights and a scientific analysis of the 3,000 pages of court files that have been kept secret until now. “Still Lost in Panama” not only uncovers shocking investigative errors but also presents new evidence and witnesses. After five months of intensive research in the province of Chiriquí and expeditions into the Panamanian cloud forest, the authors bring clarity to a case full of speculation and mystery.
Those of you with a history in Panama and Boquete may remember a couple, retired broadcasters, on the Overseas Radio Network using Skype to tell the story live and later recorded to the world about the missing Dutch Girls on a program called Boquete Chatter. Those broadcasts were available on iTunes and may still be available today. Continuing my investigations, I visited the Haven in Boquete and was showing pictures of the new book “Still Lost in Panama” and one lady said……”Ah yes, the story that never ends.” We have also heard that a movie may be in the works. Another lady explained to me today that she has put “Still Lost in Panama” on her list to read on her Kindle phone app when it comes out on March 27th. If you have a Dutch Girls story, please email it to us in Word (if possible) at panamanewsroom@gmail.com and any pictures, please send in the .jpg format.
Hardly a week goes by without a new podcast or a new YouTube documentary about the moving tragedy surrounding Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon. While internet detectives argue doggedly over the question of whether an accident or a crime caused the girls’ certain death, journalists keep trying to seize control of the interpretation. The book “Lost in the Jungle”, published in 2021 and co-authored by Betzaida Pitti, the public prosecutor investigating the case at the time, attempts to substantiate the theory of an accident and cleverly omits explosive information possibly with the intention of concealing it. In contrast, the following year, the seven-part true crime podcast series “Lost in Panama” (over 2 million downloads) tackles an abstruse crime theory. In it, hosts Jeremy Kryt and Mariana Atencio vilify tour guide Feliciano Gonzalez and the youth gang “Pandilla”, who have been branded the murderers of the Dutch women in internet forums since 2014.
Through intensive interviews with the alleged perpetrators and the analysis of police interrogations, the authors of “Still Lost in Panama” are able to clearly refute these theories and, after analyzing forensic reports and autopsy reports, find evidence that points to foul play and the deliberate cover-up of a planned kidnapping. “Still Lost in Panama” is a tribute to the tireless search for answers, a memoir of two lives that ended far too soon, and a must-read for anyone interested in true crime cases and unsolved mysteries.
