The unexplained mystery of Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon

Philippe Berard
10 min readApr 4, 2022
Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon were Dutch students who disappeared on April 1, 2014, while hiking in the mountains of Boquete, Panama.

After an extensive search, portions of their bodies were found a few months later. The facts surrounding the sad event are extremely mysterious. At the time of their disappearance, Dutch students Kris and Lisanne were on break from their studies back in the Netherlands.

Kris and Lisanne arrived in Panama to serve as volunteer social workers — and to learn fluent Spanish — but someone had miscalculated. Apparently, they arrived in Boquete, Panama a week early; the program administrators weren’t ready for them, and the assistant instructor had been “very rude and not at all friendly” about it, as Kris wrote in her diary.

“There was not yet a place or work for us so we could not start.… The school thought it odd as it was all planned since months ago,” Kris wrote, moments before leaving the room she shared with Lisanne to set out on the fatal hike that morning of April 1, 2014.

Photo #498 was taken at 13:01 PM 1st April

The Hike — April 1st 2014

On April 1st, 2014, Kris and Lisanne set off on the hiking trail in the forest around the town of Boquete, which was also near to the Baru Volcano. The fact they went on the 1st April is…

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Philippe Berard

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