Kris Kremers And Lisanne Froon All 90 Photos

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Sometimes I refer back to the Story of Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon, the two girls that made international headlines in 2014 when they disappeared in the northwest region of Panama. Their story captivated me for some reason. If you don’t know the story, I recommend you visit the link at the bottom of this page. Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon were Dutch students who disappeared on April 1, 2014, while hiking the Pianista trail in Panama.After an extensive search, portions of their bodies were found a few months later. Their cause of death could not be determined definitively, but Dutch authorities working with forensic and search-rescue investigators thought it likely the students had. Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon were Dutch students who disappeared on April 1, 2014, while hiking in Panama. After an extensive search, portions of their bodies were found a few months later. After an extensive search, portions of their bodies were found a few months later. Dutch tourists Kris Kremers, 21, and Lisanne Froon, 22, went on March 15, 2014 to Panama for a six-week vacation. After two weeks, Both women disappeared without leaving a trace while hiking near the town of Boquete. The summer of last year, locals found a backpack belonging to one of the women along with nearby skeletal remains.

BornAugust 9, 1992[1]
DisappearedApril 1, 2014 (aged 21)
Boquete, Chiriquí
StatusDeceased (human remains found)
NationalityDutch
Height167 cm (5 ft 6 in)
Parent(s)
Lisanne Froon
BornSeptember 24, 1991[2]
DisappearedApril 1, 2014 (aged 22)
Boquete, Chiriquí
StatusDeceased (human remains found)
NationalityDutch
Height184 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Parent(s)
  • Diny Froon
  • Peter Froon

Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon were Dutch students who disappeared on April 1, 2014, while hiking the Pianista trail in Panama. After an extensive search, portions of their bodies were found a few months later. Their cause of death could not be determined definitively, but Dutch authorities working with forensic and search-rescue investigators thought it likely the students had accidentally fallen from a cliff after becoming lost.[3] The circumstances and aftermath of their disappearance have resulted in much speculation about the cause of death.[4][3][5] Foul play could not be entirely ruled out and Panamanian officials came under fire for allegedly mishandling the disappearance and aftermath.[6][7] Further investigation into the case in 2017 raised questions about the investigation,[8] as well as a possible link to murders in the area.[9] Although many theories have been presented as to what happened to the women, no official cause of death has been ruled.

Background[edit]

Lisanne

Kris Kremers, age 21, was described as an open, creative, and responsible individual. Lisanne Froon, age 22, was described as an aspiring, optimistic, intelligent, and passionate volleyball player. Both had grown up in Amersfoort. Froon had graduated with a degree in Applied Psychology[10] from Deventer the previous September, and Kremers had just completed her studies in cultural social education, specializing in art education at the University of Utrecht. Only a few weeks prior to leaving for Panama, Froon had moved in with Kremers in a dorm room in Amersfoort, and they worked together at the café/restaurant 'In den Kleinen Hap.' They both saved up money for six months and planned to go to Panama together on a special trip to learn Spanish, as well as to do something of significance for the locals, particularly volunteering with children. The trip was also supposed to be a reward to Froon for graduating.[11][12]

Disappearance[edit]

Kris Kremers And Lisanne Froon All 90 Photos Of The Day

Kris Kremers And Lisanne Froon All 90 Photos

Kremers and Froon arrived in Panama for a six-week vacation on March 15, 2014. They toured Panama for two weeks before arriving in Boquete on March 29 to live with a local family for a month while volunteering with children. On April 1 around 11:00, they went hiking near the clouded forests that surrounded the Baru volcano, on the El Pianista trail, not far from Boquete. Some sources say they took a dog that belonged to the owners of the Il Pianista restaurant[13][14] but this has not been confirmed. They wrote on Facebook that they intended to walk around Boquete, and it was reported that they had been seen having brunch with two young Dutch men before embarking on the trail.[15][16]

Some sources say the owners of the restaurant became alarmed when their dog returned home that night without the young women. Froon's parents stopped receiving text messages, which both women had been sending to their families daily. On the morning of April 2, Kremers and Froon missed an appointment with a local guide.[17] On April 3, authorities began aerial searches of the forest and local residents began searching.[18] On April 6, the parents of Kremers and Froon arrived in Panama along with police, dog units, and detectives from the Netherlands to conduct a full-scale search of the forests for ten days. The parents offered a US$30,000 reward for any information leading to the whereabouts of Kremers and Froon.[19][20]

Discovery of backpack[edit]

Ten weeks later, on June 14, a local woman turned in Froon's blue backpack, which she said she had found by a riverbank[21] near her village of Alto Romero, in the Bocas del Toro region. She said she was sure it had not been there the day before. The backpack contained two pairs of sunglasses, US$83 in cash, Froon's passport, a water bottle, Froon's camera, two bras, and the women's phones – in good condition.[22]

The women's phones showed that just hours after the beginning of their hike, someone dialed 911 (the international emergency number) and 112 (the emergency number in Panama.)[23][19]

Kris Kremers And Lisanne Froon All 90 Photos

The first distress call attempt was made by Kremers' iPhone at 16:39 and, shortly after that, another attempt was made from Froon's Samsung Galaxy at 16:51, but none of the calls got through due to lack of reception in the area. None of the subsequent call attempts ever managed to go through, either. (Some sources have stated that one 911 call attempt on April 2 got connected and lasted for a little over a second before breaking up, but this information has not been confirmed.)

On April 4, Froon's phone battery became exhausted after 05:00 and the phone was never used again. Kremers' iPhone would not make any more calls either but was intermittently turned on to search for reception. Between April 5 and April 11, the iPhone was turned on multiple times but without ever entering the correct PIN code again (either no PIN or a wrong PIN code was entered). On April 11, the phone was turned on at 10:51 and was turned off for the last time at 11:56.[24][25][26]

Date of CalliPhone 4 (Kremers)Samsung Galaxy S III (Froon)
1 April 201416:39 – call attempt 1 (112)16:51 – call attempt 1 (112)
2 April8:14 – call attempt 2 (112)06:58 – call attempt 2 (112)

10:52 – call attempt 3 (112 & 911)

13:50 – check signal 1

(unconfirmed information: call attempt 4 (112 & 911) with short-time connection to GSM)

16:19 – check signal 2; the phone is turned on the whole night.

3 April09:32 – call attempt 3 (911)

11:47 – check signal 1

15:59 – check signal 2

7:36 – the phone is turned off.
4 April10:16 – check signal 3

13:42 – check signal 4

04:50 – check signal 3

05:00 – check signal 4; the battery is empty; no further activity.

5 April10:50 – check signal 5

13:37 – check signal 6 (no PIN)

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6 April10:26 – check signal 7 (no PIN)

13:37 – check signal 8 (no PIN)

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11 April10:51 – check signal 9 (no PIN)

11:56 – switched off after 1:05 h; no further activity; 22% battery left.

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Froon's Canon camera contained photos from April 1 suggesting that the women had taken a trail at the overlook of the Continental Divide and wandered into some wilderness hours before their first attempt to reach 112/911, but with no signs of anything unusual. On April 8, ninety flash photos were taken between 01:00 and 04:00, apparently deep in the jungle and in near-complete darkness. A few photos show that they were possibly near a river or a ravine. Some show a twig with plastic bags and candy wrappers on top of a rock; another shows what looks like toilet paper and a mirror on another rock, and another shows the back of Kremers' head.[27][28][23]

Kris Kremers And Lisanne Froon All 90 Photos Of Women

Discovery of remains[edit]

The discovery of the backpack led to new searches along the Culebra.[29] Kremers' denim shorts were found atop a rock on the opposite bank of the tributary a few kilometres away from where Froon's backpack had been discovered. A rumour claimed that the shorts were found zipped and neatly folded, but pictures of the shorts, published in 2021, disproved this information.[30][31] Two months later, closer to where the backpack was discovered, a pelvis and a boot with a foot inside were found. Soon, at least 33 widely scattered bones were discovered along the same river bank. DNA testing confirmed they belonged to Kremers and Froon. Froon's bones still had some skin attached to them, but Kremers' bones appeared to have been bleached.[28][23] A Panamanian forensic anthropologist later claimed that under magnification 'there are no discernible scratches of any kind on the bones, neither of natural nor cultural origin – there are no marks on the bones at all.'[32]

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See also[edit]

References[edit]

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