![]() Sullivan describes the Cold Case Team’s interdisciplinary methods, from criminal profiling, historical research and crowdsourcing to a Microsoft artificial intelligence program that found connections within a blizzard of archival documents. ![]() ![]() The investigative project, initiated by the Dutch filmmaker Thijs Bayens with the assistance of journalist Pieter van Twisk, also is producing a documentary. ![]() “The Betrayal of Anne Frank” is the meticulous official account of a five-year-long “cold case” investigation purporting, finally, to reveal the culprit - as well as why his identity has remained concealed for so long. Historians have proposed competing hypotheses without definitive proof. Two Dutch investigations, in 1947-64, targeted the warehouse manager, Willem van Maaren, but were inconclusive. Since then, as in an Agatha Christie mystery or game of Clue, suspects for the role of the family’s “betrayer” have proliferated. In 1947, he published his daughter’s adolescent diary, to this day among the most heartbreaking artifacts of the Holocaust. ![]() Of the eight people hiding in the annex, only Anne’s father, the businessman Otto Frank, survived. ![]()
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