The last two decades Peter R. DeVries (1956) has been regarded as the top investigative crime reporter in Holland. He is known as the man who tracked down the Heineken kidnapper, stripped a royal couple of their title, sole handedly solved ten murder cases, exposed a contract killer and took on the Dutch Supreme Court to clear two innocent men of murder. For thirty years he has been feared equally by criminals and judiciary who are under his constant surveillance.

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Starting as newspaper reporter in 1978, he worked his way to having his own crime show on Dutch TV since 1996 (‘Peter R. DeVries Crime Reporter’) which consistently scores high ratings and numerous scoops. This program is unique in Europe, working as a kind of private crime fighting unit, solving cases that have run cold with the Dutch police.

Elaborate undercover camera operations

Peter R. DeVries orchestrates elaborate undercover camera operations to send criminals behind bars or expose injustice. DeVries is also feared by murder suspects for his interrogation tactics. Asked why killers would confess to him after cops couldn’t crack them for years, he replies: ‘I look deeper in their eyes than anyone ever did to penetrate their mask and say ‘I know that you know that I know you killed her, so better confess, coz I will never let you go.’’

Tracking down Holland's most wanted

Peter R. DeVries is the author of ten true crime novels, all of which were best sellers in the Netherlands.  His book, recounting the inside story of the brains behind the kidnapping of the beer tycoon Alfred Heineken, was Holland’s top selling crime novel of all times. Read more.
This kidnapping, with a record ransom paid, was world news for weeks. After ten years of searching, DeVries personally tracked down one of the kidnappers, then Holland’s Most Wanted, in Paraguay. Read More.

Prestigious Academy Award

In 2002, his television show won the prestigious Academy Award after solving a triple murder for which the killer was sentenced to life. Read more.

He was crowned ‘Media Person of 2003’ after exposing the reserve queen in waiting as former gangster moll. Read more.

Other scoops:

With his investigative journalism methods Peter R. de Vries put an amazing sequence of (international) scoops to his name among which:

• Solving TEN murder cases in less than 10 years.
• Preventing three organized contract killings.
• Tracking down a number of criminals at large.
• Numerous con artists, swindlers and extortionists were unmasked with undercover camera reporting. After a unique series of 44 ‘terrier’ broadcasts Peter R. DeVries exposed the first real miscarriage of justice in The Netherlands to clear two innocent men from murder (The Putten Two) and free them from jail. Read more
• In 2006, he threw a daring new perspective in a marathon broadcast on the most speculated murder of the 20th century: the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963. Read more

Bestsellers

Read more about the bestsellers written by Peter R. DeVries.