Crime

Winchester native, 21, stabbed to death while studying in the Netherlands

"She had just so much more to give and she had a lot of love for everyone.”

March 9, 2022

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A Winchester native studying abroad in the Netherlands was reportedly stabbed to death in her apartment last weekend.

Mieke Oort, 21, was found dead in her Leeuwarden apartment after police were called to a fire there Saturday night. Along with her, authorities also found two men — a 25-year-old with injuries thought to be serious, and a 30-year-old with non-life-threatening injuries, according to The Northern Times, a Netherlands news source.

On Sunday, German police arrested a 27-year-old from Leek in relation to the stabbing. He was found in Leer, which is a small town near the Dutch border, the newspaper reported.

“She was my baby sister,” Oort’s sister, Danique, told WCVB. “We don’t really know how to cope with it. She had just so much more to give and she had a lot of love for everyone.”

The suspect, Danique said, had been stalking her sister, according to WCVB.

Mieke Oort was studying at NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, the news station reported. She was a graduate of Winchester High School in 2019. The girls’ father is Dutch and they have family there.

Leeuwarden is about an hour and a half north or Amsterdam, capital of the Netherlands.

This is a developing story. Check back for further information as it becomes available.