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The Mysterious Death of the Blonde Dolly - September 27 2023

Morning Cup of Murder

Morning Cup of Murder

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, True Crime

4.7723 Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

September 27th: Sybille Alida Johanna Niemans Born (1927) Power can make someone dangerous. On September 27th 1927 a young woman would be born who, later in life, held an allure with some of the area's most powerful men. A position that might just have placed her in grave danger.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blonde_Dolly, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56830576/sebilla-alida_johanna-niemans, https://www.reddit.com/r/UnsolvedMurders/comments/1yxsvg/sebilla_alida_johanna_niemans_32_aka_blonde_dolly/, Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

There were two more murders, 15 miles away.

0:02.6

When police arrived, they found the telephones and electricity lines.

0:06.0

We have a weird homicide.

0:08.5

A scene described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird...

0:12.9

Power can make someone dangerous.

0:17.6

On September 27, 1927, a young woman would be born who, later in life, held an allure with some of the area's most powerful men, a position that might have just placed her in grave danger.

0:30.7

So, if you like your coffee hot, but your bones chilled, sit back and start your day with a morning cup of murder.

0:37.3

Sebil Alita Joanna Neiman's was born on September 27, 1927 in Amsterdam West to a mother who,

0:44.9

for most of her young life, was in and out of the hospital for her chronic illness.

0:50.7

Eventually unable to care for her children, both Sebil and her older brother were sent to the children's home in Zandvert, where they stayed until Nazi Germany occupied the area.

1:01.4

Moving back to live with their father and his new wife, Sibil did not get along with her new stepmother, and at first opportunity, moved out to look for a job and a new living

1:12.4

situation. Coming into contact with an Italian sailor turned fortune teller, who actually turned out

1:19.3

to be a pimp, Sebil entered sex work in Kerkstraught and did so until being investigated by the

1:25.2

police. The close call caused her to pack up and move back to Amsterdam with her father and stepmother

1:30.5

and begin training as a dressmaker.

1:34.2

By 1948, however, Sebil was out of the home again, moved to the Hague, rented a window on 21

1:40.7

double-strat, and began sex work once again.

1:45.0

Known for a time for her black hair, called Black Dolly,

1:48.7

Sebil later bleaching her hair and becoming the blonde dolly,

1:52.3

earned enough money that in 1950 she was able to purchase her own home.

1:56.5

A little later that same year,

1:58.1

she met and married a man named Botto Vandenberg, a violinist

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