Is it finally her? A grave has been opened in the search for Tanja Groen

On August the 31st 1993 (the day I turned 25 years old) Tanja Groen, an 18 year old student from the North of the Netherlands went to a party at a student club and cycled home to her flat in Gronsveld (an area of Maastricht) and was never heard or seen of again.

Many searches, many clues and many people with special powers to find missing people have come and gone but until this morning the cold case in Tanja Groen's disappearance seemed to lay dormant. Until this morning. Below the casket of a man whose grave had already been dug out the day before Tanja's disappearance, the police suspects to find the final resting place of Tanja Groen. The man had been buried the day after Tanja's disappearance. The cemetery lies close to the road Tanja would have cycled past. A road that has been searched for clues in the past.

The man who is buried there or his family are not involved of course. The widow on the man still lives in Maastricht and she and her family have given permission to the police to dig up her husbands grave in the hope that below that casket they will finally find the final resting place of Tanja, after having been missing for 26 years.

The media is outside the cemetery and the name on the tombstone has been covered up to protect the identity of the man and his family. The grave is being dug up inch by inch to preserve any evidence that may be in the grave.

By tonight the police hopes to be able to confirm whether or not more bones were found than there ought to be in the grave. I hope for the family they will finally have found her remains so that they can finally really put her to rest rather than always questioning if she alive and if not, where her remains are. All people deserve this. At times like this I remember the case of Natalee Holloway and hope for her families we will find out where her remains are.

On the front is crime reporter Peter R. de Vries who is connected to her family. In the back one can see the covered grave in which the police forensic team is digging.

Plz, keep us informed PK.

A former detective in this case says that the police must have some serious clues to start opening up graves of people, so he suspects the police has had some information in this case to warrant opening up this grave.

Sadly she was not found in the grave so the police will now go back to the person who tipped them and re-evaluate the situation. The real tragedy is that the hope for the parents were again quashed.

Peter King said:

Sadly she was not found in the grave so the police will now go back to the person who tipped them and re-evaluate the situation. The real tragedy is that the hope for the parents were again quashed.

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Thanks for the timely update. I imagine a huge disappointment to the family.