Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon were Dutch students who disappeared on April 1, 2014, while hiking in the mountains of Boquete, Panama.
After an extensive search, portions of their bodies were found a few months later. The facts surrounding the sad event are extremely mysterious. At the time of their disappearance, Dutch students Kris and Lisanne were on break from their studies back in the Netherlands.
Another 90 photos have been retrieved from the camera, all were taken 10 days after their disappearance, during a 4 hour time span (1 - 4am). 87 out of 90 were completely black, the others showed fragments of branches and rocks. These images have not been released. Pictures of Lisanne Froon’s & Kris Kremers’s disappearance Lisanne Froon. Oct 07, 2014 One week after the Dutch girls Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon went missing, the camera belonging to one of them took 90 photos between 1:00 and 4:00 AM. If we calculate an average, one photo was.
Kris and Lisanne arrived in Panama to serve as volunteer social workers—and to learn fluent Spanish—but someone had miscalculated. Apparently, they arrived in Boquete, Panama a week early; the program administrators weren’t ready for them, and the assistant instructor had been “very rude and not at all friendly” about it, as Kris wrote in her diary.
- One week after the Dutch girls Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon went missing, the camera belonging to one of them took 90 photos between. Last images of Lisanne Froon and Kris Kremers, two Dutch girls that. He looked me dead in the eye and said in a quiet, steady voice “All the better to stab you.
- Nov 04, 2020 Kris Kremers & Lisanne Froon Night Photo Analysis. The following is an analysis of the photos 510 to 609, also referred to as the “night photos”, related to the disappearance of Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon. The case entails the tragic and unnecessary death of two young women.
“There was not yet a place or work for us so we could not start.… The school thought it odd as it was all planned since months ago,” Kris wrote, moments before leaving the room she shared with Lisanne to set out on the fatal hike that morning of April 1, 2014.
On April 1st, 2014, Kris and Lisanne set off on the hiking trail in the forest around the town of Boquete, which was also near to the Baru Volcano. The fact they went on the 1st April is strange because they had scheduled for a tour guide by the name of Feliciano to assist them on the same trail for April 2nd.
Nevertheless, the two women made their way for the trails accompanied by a dog named “Blue” that belonged to the hosts’ family.
Witnesses say Kris and Lisanne left the trailhead, just north of Boquete, at about 10 o’clock on that sunny Tuesday morning. They were dressed in light clothing, and with only Lisanne’s small backpack to share between them.That was the last time the girls are to be seen alive.
Thanks to photos recovered later from a camera later found in that same backpack, we know the women made fairly good time up to the Mirador. They are smiling and seem to be enjoying themselves in these images, and there is no indication of a third party being along with them—although there are reports that a local dog named Blue followed them at least part way up the trail.
Geographical features visible in the last few pictures indicate that by mid-afternoon the women had left the Pianista, and, perhaps accidentally, crossed over to the other side of the Divide.
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These last images suggest them wandering off onto a network of trails not maintained by rangers or guides affiliated with Baru National Park. Such unmarked paths aren’t really meant for tourists, but are used almost exclusively by indigenous peoples living deep within the forests of the Talamanca.
The owners of the restaurant became alarmed when their dog returned home that night without the young women, but took no action. The following day on April 2nd, The tour guide, Feliciano was waiting for Kris and Lisanne to show up for their hike, but they never arrived. Confused, Feliciano went to the host family that the girls were staying at.
Froon’s parents had also stopped receiving text messages, which both women had been sending to their families daily and had become concerned.
Panic began to seep in with everybody, so the police were contacted and an extensive search began, not just from locales and farmers, but detectives, search dogs, helicopter top down views, and more. The search lasted for ten days, yet no trace of Kris and Lisanne were found.
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.
What is sad is, that the parents started looking in the mountain area on the 7th April. The photographic evidence suggests at least one of the girls may have been still alive on the 8th April and a strange phone power up on the 11th April was also recovered.
What began as a touristic hike soon became a tragedy. The girls who had seemed to have enjoyed their expedition and posed for pictures above , were soon calling for help just a couple of hours later.
No one who looks at the images, where both girls appear, can suspect that they were in danger.
Nevertheless, two hours after the above photos was taken, on the same day they set out Kris was dialing 112. Something was wrong. It was the first of a series of calls that the girls made to the local and international emergency line.
12 minutes later, at 16:51, another call was made, this time from Lisanne’s Samsung cellphone, calling the same number.
Weeks later, a local woman turned in Froon’s blue backpack, which she said she had found in a rice paddy by a riverbank 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 – all packed, dry, and in good condition. The women’s phones showed that some hours after the start of their hike, someone had dialed 112 (the international emergency number) and 911 (the emergency number in Panama)
The first distress call had been made just hours after beginning their hike: one from Kremers’s iPhone at 16:39 and shortly after that, one from Froon’s Samsung Galaxy at 16:51. None of the calls had gone through due to a lack of reception in the area except for one 911 call attempt on April 3 that lasted for a little over a second before breaking up.
After April 5, Froon’s phone battery became exhausted after 05:00 and was not used again. Kremers’s iPhone would not make any more calls either but was intermittently turned on to search for reception.
After April 6, multiple attempts of a false PIN code were entered into the iPhone; it never received the correct code again.
One report showed that between the 7th and 10th of April, there were 77 emergency call attempts with the iPhone.
On April 11, the phone was turned on at 10:51, and was turned off for the last time at 11:56
The discovery of the backpack prompted a renewed search, and by August the Ngobe had helped authorities locate about two handfuls of bone fragments, all found along the shores of the Rio Culebra, or the River of the Serpent.
DNA tests were positive — and also thickened the plot.
A total of five fragmented remains were identified as belonging to Kris and Lisanne— but the Ngobe had also submitted bone chips from as many as three other individuals.
The evidence was sufficient to make a positive DNA match to the victims, but there were not enough remains for examiners to render a conclusive verdict as to cause of death.
Aside from the bras in the backpack and one of Lisanne’s boots—with her foot and ankle bones still inside it—very little other clothing was ever found. One of Kris’s (empty) boots was also recovered. As were her denim shorts, which were allegedly found zipped and folded on a rock high above the waterline near the headwaters of the Culebra—about a mile-and-a-half upstream from where the backpack and other remains were found.
The condition of the bone fragments and bits of flesh, and where they were said to have been discovered, prompted a fresh round of questions by investigators and the press.
Why had so few remains been found? Why were there no marks on the bones? What did the presence of other human remains mean?
A series of over a hundred images, found on the digital memory card of Lisanne’s camera.
The first dozen or so images found on the camera seem normal enough.
Tuesday, April 1, was a bright, sunny day. The women are smiling and cheerful and no third party is visible in any of the images. Aside from a few selfies taken at the overlook of the Divide, most of the pictures are shot by Lisanne, and many of them show Kris walking ahead of her on the trail, enjoying the sunshine and the primal beauty of the rain forest.
Then things get strange.
In the last few shots from that day we do indeed see Kris and Lisanne following an indigenous trail down the opposite side of the high ridge-crest that marks the division of the Pacific and Caribbean watersheds. Geographical features near a streambed visible in the last few photos place them about an hour from the top of the Divide—and still heading downhill, away from Boquete.
Court-certified forensic photography analyst Keith Rosenthal says the women might already be lost at the time these images were made.
The last image we have of Kris Kremers’s face, turning to look back into the camera as she crosses a streambed, could also be telling.
April 8th
Someone took 90 photos between 1:00 and 4:00 AM on 8th April. That’s one photo taken every two minutes!
From photo #542, photos were taken in quick succession initially. At times as many as seven pictures were taken within a one minute time-frame. Sometimes photos followed each other every 10 seconds, sometimes every minute. Most photos were taken between 01:39 and 02:00 am. Then the frequency of the photos went down a bit. The last known photo was taken at 04:10 am. Some photos were taken in landscape mode while others were shot in ‘portrait’ mode. Photo #550, of the plastic wrapper on a stick, is for instance shot in portrait mode, while it is technically a landscape shot. But perhaps the portrait mode was chosen to document the main object as detailed as possible. It seems that the person who took the photos was seated or laying down even in one very specific area.
Just 3 of the 90 pictures taken on 8th April that are later retrieved from the memory card by the Dutch Forensic Medicine Institute show clear images. In the other photos, nothing can be clearly identified.
A number of clear pictures of the girls are followed by some strange images
The picture below was taken at 1:38 AM. The only thing to be seen is a rock surrounded by low vegetation. One minute later, photo ‘B’ was taken; it shows the branch of a bush over what seems to be a rock, surrounded by similar plants of that of photo ‘A’. The branch has in each end a red plastic bag. Close to the branch, there are chewing gum wrappers and other papers to be seen.
With which purpose were this photos taken? Was someone trying to send a message? Is the amount of pictures taken a sign of desperation or of imminent threat?
Many of those who choose to believe Kris and Lisanne were murdered point to the fact that they didn’t leave behind any obvious goodbye messages to loved ones, as people stranded in the wilderness often do.
Here’s what we know now: All of the photos were taken in a steep, jungle environment, and the timing between them varies from just a few seconds—likely as fast as the camera could fire—to 15 minutes or more. According to the timestamp made by Lisanne’s SX270, these images were made on April 8. That means one of the women had already managed to survive more than a week without food or shelter in the wilderness.
A handful of these so-called “night pictures” were released to the press shortly after the backpack was discovered. Taken out of order and with no context, the publicly released photos fueled more conspiracy theories and even supernatural explanations for the tragedy.
Just 3 of the 90 pictures taken on 8th April and retrieved from the memory card by the Dutch Forensic Medicine Institute show clear images.
One week after the Dutch girls Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon went missing, the camera belonging to one of them took 90 photos between 1:00 and 4:00 AM. If we calculate an average, one photo was taken every two minutes.
Just 3 of the 90 pictures taken on 8th April and retrieved from the memory card by the Dutch Forensic Medicine Institute show clear images. In the other photos, nothing can be clearly identified.
THE THREE CLEAR PICTURES
The first picture, which we will name photo 'A', was taken at 1:38 AM. The only thing to be seen is a rock surrounded by low vegetation. One minute later, photo 'B' was taken; it shows the branch of a bush over what seems to be a rock, surrounded by similar plants of that of photo 'A'. The branch has in each end a red plastic bag. Close to the branch, there are chewing gum wrappers and other papers to be seen.
With which purpose were this photos taken? Was someone trying to send a message? Is the amount of pictures taken a sign of desperation or of imminent threat?
We can't affirm the pictures were taken by Kris nor Lisanne. It could have been someone else who pressed the shutter.
Without a doubt, a proper research would help find out in which part of the path between the Pianista trail and the banks of the Culubre river -where the remains of both girls were found- , were the photos taken, thus providing important information that would help figure out what happened to the young women.
THE GIRLS WENT MISSING
On 1st April, Kris and Lisanne visited the Pianista Trail near the well-known town Boquete, located in the panamanian province Chiriquí, close to the border to Costa Rica.
What began as a touristic hike, became a tragedy from one moment to the next. The girls who enjoyed their expedition and posed for pictures, were calling for help a couple of hours later.
No one who looks at the images, where both girls appear, can suspect that they were in danger. Nevertheless, two hours after the last photo was taken, on the same day, at 16:39 to be more accurate, Kris was dialing 112. Something was wrong. It was the first of a series of calls that the girls made to the dutch emergency line.
12 minutes later, at 16:51, other call was made, this time from Lisanne's Samsung cellphone, calling the same number.
What happened during this time, in which the adventure turned into a tragedy?
The Dutch forensic report states that 8 calls to the emergency line were made from the girls' cellphones. The last one was on 3rd April. The report also points out that it wasn't possible to obtain the position from which the phonecalls were made, nor the path that both girls followed after 1:00 PM on Tuesday, 1st April.
THE REMAINS
According to the report of the Panamanian Forensic Medicine Institute (IMELCF), a femur, a tibia and a foot belonging to Lisanne Froon -a total of 28 bones- were analysed.
Between the pathologies detected, the researchers found 'periostitis', which is a medical condition caused by inflammation of the periosteum, a layer of connective tissue that surrounds bone. It appers usually when the person accelerates their level of training, which causes the muscles to be pulled.
The IMELCF also analysed a rib and a pelvic bone belonging to Kris. No pathologies were detected in her remains, albeit organisms from the environment. In criminology, the finding of these microscopic organisms is useful to define the possible place of death.
DIGGING DEEP
Enrique Arrocha, lawyer of the Kremers family, wants answers. He also demands that the prosecution defines their hypothesis. He doesn't find convincing the theory that the prosecutor Betzaida Pittí -in charge of the research- sustains. She states that both girls were dragged by the river Culubre.
The lawyer takes into consideration the low levels of water that rivers have when the dry season ends, which is insufficient for dragging a body. Hence, he requested Pitti to rethink her hypothesis and run field tests that consider the time between the last photo -where both girls appear- was taken and the first emergency call.
The remains were found on the banks of the Culubre river, located on a 12 hour hike from the Pianista trail, one month after their disappearance.
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FROM OUTSIDE OF PANAMA
The case of the young dutch girls has called the attention of a group of volunteers from several nationalities that follow the case via Internet.
They maintain a virtual debate about their theories, based on the time lapse that beholds the first day of their disappearance, the search by rescue teams, the emergency calls and a chronological map of their belongings and remains.
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Kris Kremers And Lisanne Froon All 90 Photos
Within this group of volunteers, some support Arrocha's theory and state that what happened to Kris and Lisanne wasn't an accident. According to them, it is highly possible that the girls were murdered.