Jan Brauner

[Jan Brauner @JaniceBrauner]

Amazing story!

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

She was 15 years old. Her name was Nicole van den Hurk.
On October 6, 1995, Nicole left her grandmother's house in Eindhoven, Netherlands on her bicycle. It was a Friday morning. She was heading to her part-time job at a supermarket, pedaling through streets she'd cycled a thousand times. She never arrived.
By evening, her bicycle was pulled from the Dommel River. Two weeks later, her yellow backpack was found nearby. The police searched. Days became weeks. Weeks became months. In November, 47 days after she disappeared, a body was found in a forest between two small towns. It was Nicole.
She had been raped and murdered.
For 16 years, her family lived in a kind of limbo. The investigation had been thorough. But 1995 forensic technology couldn't extract clear DNA profiles from the trace evidence on her body. The case went cold. No arrest. No answers. No justice.
Her stepbrother Andy carried this weight every day. He grew up, moved to England, lived his life—but never forgot. And he came to understand something the police didn't yet know: modern DNA technology could do what 1995 science could not. If Nicole's body could be exhumed, if the evidence could be retested, there was a real possibility that her killer could finally be identified.
But Dutch law required a specific legal trigger for exhumation. Cold cases didn't easily get that trigger.
So Andy made a choice that was reckless and brilliant and driven entirely by love.
On March 8, 2011, he posted a message on Facebook: "I will be arrested today for the murder of my sister. I confessed. Will get in touch soon."
Then he went to police and told them he had killed Nicole van den Hurk.
He was arrested immediately. He was extradited to the Netherlands. And after 5 days in custody, when investigators realized his confession didn't match the evidence, he was released.
Then he explained what he had done and why: "I wanted to get her exhumed and get DNA off her. I kind of set myself up and it could have gone horribly wrong. She is my sister, absolutely. I miss her every day."
His false confession had worked exactly as intended.
The Netherlands reopened the investigation. In September 2011, a court authorized the exhumation of Nicole's body for advanced DNA testing.
When the forensic scientists analyzed the evidence, they identified DNA from three different people in a single trace. One belonged to Andy—explained by family contact. One belonged to her boyfriend at the time. The third belonged to someone unknown.
That third profile was run through the Dutch DNA database.
It matched Jos de G., a 46-year-old man with prior convictions for rape and sexual violence against minors.
He was arrested in 2014. At trial in 2015, he was convicted of rape but the court initially acquitted him of manslaughter due to insufficient evidence. He was sentenced to 5 years.
The prosecution appealed. The appeal court took a different view of the evidence—the same DNA, the same forensic analysis, but weighed differently. On October 9, 2018, after hearings spanning August through October, Jos de G. was convicted of both rape and manslaughter.
He was sentenced to 12 years in prison.
Justice, when it finally came, came because a brother loved his sister so much that he was willing to risk his own freedom, his own life, to get her exhumed.
When asked about it later, he said the same thing: "She is my sister. I miss her every day."
Nicole van den Hurk deserved to finish her bike ride. She deserved more than 16 years of silence. And when the system couldn't give her justice, her brother gave it to her anyway—at tremendous personal risk, driven by nothing but love.
She was 15 years old. Share her name. Share her story.

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[Jan Brauner @JaniceBrauner]

@DisaffectedPod Great news, indeed!

[BLAIRE WHITE @BlaireWhite]

They are literally protesting for the right to murder white people. There is no other interpretation.

[Jan Brauner @JaniceBrauner]

THIS must stop! Lawsuits must happen. And Eapen needs to read the Constitution and learn US law on ethnic nepotism and skirting H1B visa rules. Or be fired.

[Chris Brunet @chrisbrunet]

UC Berkeley (@UCBerkeley) has filed a notice of intent to hire an H-1B Assistant Tennis Coach, salary: $75,000

This notice, along with the 11 other active H-1B postings on their website, was filed by Rajan Eapen, Berkeley's Assistant Director for Employment-Based Services

[Jan Brauner @JaniceBrauner]

@elonmusk @HBwriterMike Unfortunately— at least for me because I Kevin’s content is excellent—he blocked me for reasons that mystify me. Not saying I didn’t deserve it. I just have no idea what I did.

[Jan Brauner @JaniceBrauner]

@ImMeme0 This represents a total breakdown of anything recognizable as civilization! The behavior of everyone walking around him and ignoring him is monstrous.

[Jan Brauner @JaniceBrauner]

@Savsays I feel so sorry for her kids. She is raising them to feel rage, hatred, entitlement & a belief that antisocial behavior is acceptable.

[Rafael A. Mangual @Rafa_Mangual]

I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve made this point, but please take this as a WARNING, and not merely an observation: Anti-social behavior—think about the guy blasting music from a speaker, talking loudly on speaker-phone, smoking inside the subway car, etc.—in public spaces is often engaged in ***_as a dare_***. The whole point is to provoke anger and annoyance in those around him, which serves two purposes, depending on the response he’s hoping for:

(1) If everyone bites their tongues, the antisocial asshole gets to tell himself he’s such a badass no one would dare speak up; or

(2) If someone confronts him, he finds his excuse to scratch a violent itch.

Understand that saying something to these people will often come with a real risk of violent confrontation.

[Jan Brauner @JaniceBrauner]

@MrMennoTweets “I’m copying dad”😂👏

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

The media’s double standard has become impossible to ignore. Same actions, completely different headlines. 🤔

[Jan Brauner @JaniceBrauner]

@matthewdmarsden 👍

[Jan Brauner @JaniceBrauner]

@mattvanswol 💯👍

[Jan Brauner @JaniceBrauner]

It’s grotesque on so many levels! These people verge on the demonic. Their ignorance is profound. Their rancid bigotry almost unimaginable.

But these people ALSO do an incalculable harm to the decent black community. Their staggering narcissism and infantile inability to get beyond their own ego concerns is so much worse than they have the capacity to imagine.

They are painting a hideous portrait. Ppl stare at it in horror. But it is a picture painted day after day and it’s hard to look away.

Fostering this level of hatred, rage, lies & obscene behavior on children (theirs & those in their midst) is catastrophic child abuse! Many of their children will end up in jail or dead.

Like Karmelo. He had “excellent” teachers like them throughout his life and learned their lessons well amidst his privilege. They warped his sense of right and wrong and taught him to be a victim.

It’s a cruel and vicious lesson.

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Rep. Crockett (D) says the knife used to kill Metcalf "was not a deadly weapon"

[Jan Brauner @JaniceBrauner]

@MatrixMysteries Bring on the discrimination lawsuits and make them painful!

[Jan Brauner @JaniceBrauner]

@FischerKing64 Just saw this and grrrrrr!

[James O'Keefe @JamesOKeefeIII]

FACT CHECK: "Senior" reporter at MS Now, @janestreet says: "There is no evidence of election fraud in California."

What are you talking about? Have you not done any research?

The DOJ just prosecuted a LA woman named Brenda Brown for paying people to register to vote using fake addresses. My team filmed this fraud happening all over Skid Row on multiple days & occasions.

Instead of sitting in your journalist cubicle at MS Now all day and peddling lazy propaganda, go into the field and investigate voter fraud on Skid Row like my team did.

The mainstream media continues to lie and we have officially issued a retraction to MS Now for their false statements about "no evidence of election fraud in California."

[Jan Brauner @JaniceBrauner]

@BBCNews DEFUND the BBC; it obviously cannot be trusted with the truth!

[Jan Brauner @JaniceBrauner]

@BigPopz72 They desperately need consequences for their sake of their souls…

[Jan Brauner @JaniceBrauner]

@ImMeme0 😢

[Jan Brauner @JaniceBrauner]

@Oilfield_Rando 👊