Louis Hagemann

Louis Hagemann (born 1953), better known as "Long Louis", is a Dutch Hells Angel convicted of several murders.

The Wilson case Hagemann joined the Hells Angels Amsterdam chapter and was involved in a number of criminal activities such as selling drugs, armed robberies and extortion. Hagemann was known as one of the more violent Dutch Hells Angels. The Canadian journalists Julian Sher and William Marsden noted that Hagemann "...had more than a hundred convictions for aggravated rape, drugs, armed robbery, assault, torture and tossing a hand grenade at a police officer". Hagemann was described as a tall, muscular man who wore his long hair in a ponytail with a red bandana always tied around his forehead.

In 1983, he befriended a young couple from Belfast, Stephen Hampton and Joanne "Jo" Wilson, who had settled in Amsterdam to escape "the Troubles" of Northern Ireland. Hampton worked in a bar where Hagemann was a regular patron while Wilson worked as a hotel maid. Hampton called Hagemann "very friendly" and through him he came to know Wilson. Like many other women, Wilson found herself unable to resist the "bad boy" sex appeal of a gangster, and was involved in a secret affair with Hagemann. Wilson was described as being "fascinated" with the Hells Angels. In March 1984, someone had broken into an Amsterdam apartment to stab to death Corina Bolhaar and two of her young children. Bolhaar was an airline stewardess with KLM, the Dutch national airline. In 2001, the Dutch journalist Peter R. de Vries covered on his television show Peter R. de Vries, misdaadverslaggever (Peter R. de Vries: Crime Reporter) the massacre of the Bolhaar family in their apartment in March 1984. The Netherlands is one of the few countries in the world to have a statute of limitations on murder, which stands at 18 years after the offense is committed. Sher and Marsden wrote "it's not good law, but as the clock ticks it can make great TV". Knowing the statute of limitations on the Bolhaar case would expire in March 2002, de Vries decided to look into the case, and discovered that Hagemann was the prime suspect in the murders, but that the detectives had not pursued him. De Vries started to interview witnesses relating to the Bolhaar case and in the process discovered the Wilson case as well. The Dutch Hells Angels disapproved of de Vries's investigation and at one point attacked his camera crew with rocks in a bid to intimidate him into abandoning the investigation.

De Vries made a breakthrough when he interviewed Hagemann's embittered ex-girlfriend, Renetta van der Meer, whom he had fathered a child by and then abandoned. Meer in a television interview with de Vries stated that when she was living with Hagemann he often bragged to her about killing a woman in 1984 along with "her brats". She also stated that Hagemann had boasted to her about strangling to death a girlfriend whose corpse he had dismembered, feeding parts of her body to the pigs on a farm owned by another Hells Angel and dumping other parts of the body into a canal. Meer stated: "He laughed about how he walked around with one of her arms after cutting the body into pieces in a bath. It was horrible. He told me he would do the same with me if I ever crossed him". In support of her claims that Hagemann was an extremely violent man, Meer recounted how she was hospitalized after he had tried to strangle her to death in a jealous rage and how he shot an ex-boyfriend of hers in the leg in an unsuccessful attempt to castrate him in another jealous rage. In support of his theory that Hagemann had killed Wilson, de Vries revealed that Wilson's passport had been found buried under the wallpaper in the apartment that Hagemann was living in at the time Wilson vanished in September 1985. Hagemann had been evicted from that apartment for non-payment of rent in 1986, and the next tenant discovered buried in the wall Wilson's passport, which he found very odd..

With only a week to go before the statute of limitations expired, de Vries aired an episode of his TV show in 2002 that accused Hagemann of killing Wilson, Bolhaar and her children. The Amsterdam police were forced very much against their wills to reopen both cases. The Dutch police had dumped the torso discovered in 1985 in an unmarked grave which had been turned into a landfill, meaning the body was now lost forever. However, a police technician had taken a sample of blood from the torso in 1985 and DNA testing revealed that the blood was from Wilson.

At the time the episode aired in 2002, Hagemann was in prison for rape. One man who lived in the same cell as Hageman told de Vries that he often bragged about how he smashed in the head of a girlfriend with a sledgehammer, dismembered her corpse and fed parts of her to the pigs. However, the Dutch police refused to charge Hagemann with the murder of Wilson under the grounds that no motive was known and the Crown needed a motive to lay charges of murder. The statute of limitations expired on the Wilson case in September 2003 before any murder charges were filed. After the statute of limitations expired with the Wilson murder, Hagemann spoke with de Vries who summarized their meeting as: "He told me he'd kill me if he got a chance".

Convictions In 2003, Hagemann was convicted of the murders of Corina Bolhaar, her 9-year-old daughter Donna and her six-year son Sharon.

While he was in prison, he married Jacqueline Kallenbach, the former wife of Irish crime boss Christy Kinahan. In 2014, the couple were the subject of the documentary Levenslang, which detailed Jacqueline Kallenbach's efforts to have him freed as she believed that he was wrongly convicted.

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