Police (in Belguim) have video footage of a fateful jump taken by a parachutist they believe was killed in a "crime of passion".
Els Van Doren, 37, fell 4000 metres to her death last November after her parachute and emergency chute failed to open.
Police believe someone tampered with her parachute and have opened a murder investigation...Fellow skydiver Els Clottemans, 22, was detained for questioning last week and is the "prime suspect" in the investigation..
Her video camera was running as she tried desperately and futilely to open her parachute.
At her funeral, about 1000 people heard her sister deliver a bitter eulogy.
"You did all you could during that final jump to save yourself," she was quoted as saying in the Belgian press. "But someone did not want you to live."
*Police said someone with extensive skydiving expertise had tampered with Van Doren's parachutes.
Clottemans initially escaped attention during a first round of police questioning. She became a suspect in December when she attempted suicide hours before she was to make a second statement to police.
**Clottemans has a history of psychological problems.
story | smh.com.au
~On YouTube?
Is it possible Clottemans' suicide note implicates herself? And police statements above (* and ** for example) reflect that unreported fact?
>update from the Telegraph:
Unlike other jumps, when the four would hold a star formation before splitting up to open their chutes at 4,000 feet, Miss Clootemans hung back when leaving the aircraft.
She then watched from above as her friend Mrs Van Doren, an experienced skydiver with 2,000 jumps under her belt, struggled to open both her main and reserve parachutes.
Police have revealed that Miss Clootemans had previously been arrested for attempting to run over an American boyfriend in a jealous row. He escaped injury and she was released without charge.
~So the reason Ms. Clottemans "escaped attention during the first round of questioning" in November(?) was either the police needed to be convinced Mrs. Van Doren's death was a murder and/or they didn't know about the relationship the two women had with "Marcel"?
Are there "police lobbyists" for victims and their relatives?
Who can you call when you think justice isn't being served?