Nicole van den Hurk disappeared on October 6, 1995, while cycling from her grandmother's house in Eindhoven to her part-time job. She was 15. Her body wasn't found until nearly seven weeks later in a wooded area between Mierlo and Lierop. For years, investigators got nowhere. In 2011, her stepbrother Andy van den Hurk made headlines by confessing to killing her. He later admitted the confession was false and said he did it because he felt the case had been forgotten and wanted authorities to exhume Nicole's remains for modern DNA testing. The gamble worked. New DNA analysis led investigators to Jos de G., a repeat sex offender who was arrested in 2014. He denied killing Nicole and at one point claimed any sexual contact had been consensual. In 2016, he was convicted of rape but acquitted of manslaughter. Prosecutors appealed, and in 2018 a Dutch appeals court found him guilty of both raping and killing Nicole and sentenced him to 12 years in prison. One of the strangest twists in true crime. A false confession ended up helping solve a murder that had gone unsolved for almost two decades.