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Woman has affair with Best Friend's Man

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Lifer
"Flying dutchwoman." Har har. 120mph terminal velocity.
"She fell from grace."
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Skydiver charged with murder after love rival fell 13,000ft to her death
David Charter and Rory Watson in Brussels
# Victim's headcam filmed her death
# Parachute looked sabotaged, say police

A married woman who was having an affair with a fellow skydiver plunged 13,000ft (4,000m) to her death after her love rival and best friend tampered with her parachute, police say.

Els Van Doren, 37, fell to earth in a garden in front of a group of onlookers. Els Clottemans, 22, has been charged with her murder.

Minutes earlier the pair had joined hands in a star formation with two other skydivers including Ms Clottemans?s boyfriend, a Dutchman named only as Marcel, who police say was having an affair with Mrs Van Doren.

While he and Ms Clottemans broke away at 4,000ft when their parachutes inflated, Mrs Van Doren, a mother of two, was unable to open either her main parachute or the reserve and crashed to her death in the town of Opglabbeek, Belgium.

Her final moments were filmed by her own head-mounted camera.

Wally Elters, a witness at the aerodrome from which the fatal flight departed, told Le Soir: ?I was working on my plane when I heard someone on the ground screaming and pointing to the sky.

?I looked up and saw a black spot falling quickly to the ground. It was wriggling about and it was pretty obvious it was a person.

?Above it were three people in parachutes coming down slowly. Then it hit the ground. It was an appalling moment.?

Police say that video footage taken by Mrs Van Doren as she tried to open her parachute provided evidence that led them to suspect that a fellow club member had sabotaged the equipment. A spokesman said: ?A close inspection of the parachutes leads us to believe they had been meddled with.?

An employee at the airfield in Zwarteberg added: ?It is very rare for one parachute not to open, but for two to fail is virtually unheard of.?

At Mrs Van Doren?s funeral, about 1,000 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.?

Ms Clottemans was arrested and charged after a two-month investigation. She denies the allegations but is being held in custody before a court appearance later this month.

Police became increasingly suspicious of Miss Clottemans after discovering the affair between Mrs Van Doren and Marcel. All three had skydived togther for several years.

Ms Clottemans, a secretary, is understood to have attempted suicide hours before being brought in for questioning by detectives for a second time last month. She is said to be suffering from a personality disorder and is receiving treatment.

Police have also disclosed that Ms Clottemans had previously been arrested for attempting to run over an American boyfriend. He escaped injury and she was released without charge.

According to the Belgian media, Marcel tried to arrange his liaisons so that neither woman found out about the other. His affair with Ms Clottemans began a year ago and he would spend Friday evening through to Saturday morning with her.

In the afternoon, he would meet Mrs Van Doren after she had spent the morning working in her husband?s jewellery shop. Their relationship had begun some years earlier and the two would spend the night in nearby Eindhoven, before returning to the skydiving club the next day.

Despite Marcel?s precautions, Ms Clottemans appears to have found out about her rival, although Mrs Van Doren was unaware that he was also involved with her close friend.

A statement from the public prosecutor said: ?A thorough investigation of the available evidence and analysis of the motive provide sufficient reason for arresting the suspect. The investigating magistrate charged her with murder, issued an arrest warrant and had her locked up in Hasselt prison.

?In order not to jeopardise the smooth running of the investigation, no further information will be supplied. As has already been suggested in the media, the motive for the crime is most probably in the passionate area. The accused denies the charges.?
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You should be given one chance to murder your adulterous spouse.
If you pull it off, good.
If you can't, then don't try again or it will be murder.
 
Originally posted by: SampSon
You should be given one chance to murder your adulterous spouse.
If you pull it off, good.
If you can't, then don't try again or it will be murder.
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Even if I agreed with this, and I'm not, in this case she should have tampered with the guy's parachute. You get the spouse, not the homewrecker.
 
terminal velocity for a human body is about 120-130 MPH

it doesn't matter how high you are, it only takes something like 500-600 ft for a human to reach terminal velocity
 
So would you guys agree that she fell from grace? Not that murder is acceptable, but skydiving with your friend and her boyfriend who you are cheating with probably wasn't the greatest idea to begin with.
 
I don't really know how they could prove beyond a reasonable doubt that she tampered with the parachutes, unless they have a witness. And if they had a witness, it wouldn't have taken this long. Therefore, I conclude that she will be acquitted.
 
Originally posted by: JS80
Originally posted by: ThePresence
Originally posted by: JS80
Can someone calculate how fast she was going if she fell from 13k feet?
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120 MPH.
That's the terminal velocity of an avg. skydiver witha closed parachute.
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so basically she turned to mush upon impact?
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people have survived hitting at terminal velocity, so it really varies how "mush" you get
 
Originally posted by: joshsquall
I don't really know how they could prove beyond a reasonable doubt that she tampered with the parachutes, unless they have a witness. And if they had a witness, it wouldn't have taken this long. Therefore, I conclude that she will be acquitted.
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It's in Belgium.
 
Originally posted by: FoBoT
Originally posted by: JS80
Originally posted by: ThePresence
Originally posted by: JS80
Can someone calculate how fast she was going if she fell from 13k feet?
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120 MPH.
That's the terminal velocity of an avg. skydiver witha closed parachute.
Text
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so basically she turned to mush upon impact?
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people have survived hitting at terminal velocity, so it really varies how "mush" you get
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furreal?
 
Originally posted by: sixone
Wow. That woman messed with the wrong parachute - she should have done the scumbag's.
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Um, it takes two to tango.

Unless I'm reading it wrong, the married woman who fell to her death was cheating on her husband with the boyfriend of the other woman. i.e the dead woman was being adulterous, while the guy was merely being a douche.

So how again does the guy deserve the title of "scumbag" where she does not? From your post, it is inferred that you think the guy was the only one in the wrong here.
 
Originally posted by: Black88GTA
Originally posted by: sixone
Wow. That woman messed with the wrong parachute - she should have done the scumbag's.
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Um, it takes two to tango.

Unless I'm reading it wrong, the married woman who fell to her death was cheating on her husband with the boyfriend of the other woman. i.e the dead woman was being adulterous, while the guy was merely being a douche.

So how again does the guy deserve the title of "scumbag" where she does not? From your post, it is inferred that you think the guy was the only one in the wrong here.
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Woman was in the wrong, but according to the article, it seems she didn't know the guy she was banging was also banging her friend. So if the other girl had anyone to get at, she should have messed with the guy for cheating on her.

Remember, you gotta look at it from the perspective here considering hte husband (probably) wasn't involved in the tampering.
 
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