Peter Rudolf de Vries (14 November 1956 – 15 July 2021) was a Dutch investigative journalist and crime reporter. His television program (Crime Reporter; 1995−2012) covered high-profile cases and set a Dutch television viewing record. For decades he was famous in the Netherlands for his works in unsolved crimes. He also became internationally renowned for his programme covering the disappearance of Natalee Holloway. In 2005, he founded his own political party which was disbanded soon after. On 6 July 2021, he was shot in the head after leaving the television studio of RTL Boulevard in Amsterdam where he had appeared as a guest. He was taken to a hospital in critical condition, where he died nine days later. Early life and career Peter Rudolf de Vries was born on 14 November 1956 in Aalsmeer in the Netherlands. He attended primary school in Amstelveen and secondary school in Amsterdam. From 1976 to 1977, he was conscripted into the Royal Netherlands Army, where he achieved the rank of sergeant. In 1978, de Vries became a journalist for the daily newspaper in The Hague and later in Amsterdam. He gradually moved from general journalism to crime reporting by covering major criminal cases in the Netherlands. In 1987, he resigned from and became chief editor of the weekly magazine , which he transformed into a crime magazine. Investigative journalism De Vries previously worked for several publications and was an unaffiliated crime journalist from 1991. He investigated the murder of Christel Ambrosius, and revealed that Mabel Wisse Smit knew the drug lord Klaas Bruinsma better than she had previously admitted, before she married Prince Friso, a brother to the king. Another important issue in his show was a found floppy-disk. This disk contained detailed information from AIVD research, the Dutch secret service. It turned out that the service observed the murdered politician Pim Fortuyn; the service that he had sexual relations with Moroccan men. Kidnapping of Freddy Heineken In 1983, De Vries followed the case of the kidnapping of Freddy Heineken for the Dutch newspaper . He attended proceedings and sometimes visited the hotels in France where the kidnappers Cor van Hout and Willem Holleeder were being held under arrest. He wrote two books based on his investigation. The first was (The Heineken Case, 1983), released in the same year as the kidnapping. This was followed by (The Kidnapping of Alfred Heineken, 1987), a novel