Johannes Opdam, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Johannes Opdam

Dutch murderer

Date of Birth: 30-Oct-1916

Place of Birth: Surabaya, Indonesia

Date of Death: 14-Oct-1983

Profession: physician, criminal

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Johannes Opdam

  • Johannes Franciscus Alphonsus Marinus (John) Opdam was a Dutch murderer. Opdam was born in October 1916 in Surabaya, Dutch East Indies.
  • In 1936, he moved to the Netherlands.
  • There he studied medicine and married Arnolda van Eyl, a teacher's daughter. During his wife's vacation in 1951, Opdam had an affair with the couple's maid, Nellie.
  • Mrs.
  • Opdam found out, but being a devoted Catholic, there was never any question of a divorce.
  • Instead, Nellie was sacked.
  • This did not stop Opdam from continuing his affair with the girl.
  • In 1952, Mrs.
  • Opdam's health declined steadily until she died on 24 September.
  • Doctor Opdam claimed it was a brain tumor, but the colleague who performed the post-mortem disagreed and gave the cause of death as 'unknown'.
  • Police were called to the case and a second examination of the body revealed Mrs.
  • Opdam's body contained prussic acid.
  • Johannes Opdam was arrested.
  • During his trial, he at one point even accused his mother-in-law of committing the murder. On June 8, 1954, Opdam was convicted to life in prison.
  • In the prison in Leeuwarden Opdam continued his dirty affairs.
  • There he met Arie Lodder, who was also convicted for killing his wife.
  • They agreed upon writing notes confessing each other's murders, to be used when one of them would die.
  • In February 1958, Arie Lodder was found dead in his cell, which was next to that of Doctor Opdam's.
  • Lodder too had been poisoned with prussic acid and on his body a note was found that he had taken a medicine Doctor Opdam had given him.
  • In the meanwhile, both Doctor Opdam and the prison director had received a letter from Lodder, claiming that it was Lodder who had killed Mrs.
  • Opdam. Opdam had obtained the chemicals to poison Lodder from his cousin-in-law.
  • It is also possible that Lodder's parents had the poison delivered to the prison in Leeuwarden, thinking it was a medicine for their son.
  • The letters and the trick did not set Opdam free, however.
  • On the contrary, in 1961, he was again convicted to life in prison, this time for the murder of Arie Lodder.
  • He remains the only one in Dutch juridical history to have been convicted twice to life in prison for two different murders.

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