“If you know something: speak from your humanity, speak from your heart,” Kelly exclaims. “But if you don’t have that then at least speak for the million with which you can build a new life and where Tanja’s parents finally get an answer to that one question.”
Kelly is director of the foundation that her father Peter R. de Vries founded to solve Tanja’s disappearance. She has drawn constant attention to the case over the past year. With a silent tour, media appearances and a documentary that was broadcast in Belgium. Every time there was attention for it, tips came in, she says. “That’s also the reason we keep shaking the tree.”
Today the newspaper De Limburger published a strip about the night Tanja disappeared in the hope of tapping into a new target group, with the idea that not everyone is interested in reading the entire newspaper and digging through all the articles from A to Z. A comic on the other hand, even in serious form, could arouse the interest of someone who happens to know more about the case.
The foundation received about 750 to 850 tips last year, Kelly estimates. Most are tips from people who think along. There were also ‘several hands full’ of more concrete tips. The foundation sends it anonymously to the police.
If the golden tip in the case is not received by the foundation before June 23, the money will be used for a reward in another case.
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