On January 26 of 2025, Belgian Federal Police issued a press release asking for anybody with information to come forward in a missing persons investigation. The police explained in this press release how in 2010, a young Belgian woman had gone missing with not a single soul in her life to report her disappearance. She has a name and it’s Heidi De Schepper. Heidi would have been just 26-years-old when she first went missing, and would be 41-years-old as of today. Heidi also had her entire life ahead of her.

Not much is known about Heidi or this case, based on how it was (or wasn’t) handled. Police released a few brief statements and published three different photos they have of her, which you’ll be able to find down @ the link below.

Very few details are known about her disappearance or the circumstances leading up to it. Heidi had a boyfriend of 8 years, and it was not even he who would go on to report her as missing ! Together they had 3 kids aged 2, 3 and 7. Heidi reportedly had a poor childhood and lived a troubled life of her own. She is said to have not been much of a social creature and had isolated herself from society for much of her life. Who can blame her.

Police have yet to offer any theories of their own as to what they think may have happened or where she could be at now. Personally, I suspect the boyfriend to be responsible for her disappearance and the most likely suspect in this case. To have not reported her missing the very next day sets off all sorts of alarm bells and raises a lot of red flags in this investigation. It’s also the most common denominator whenever missing woman are involved. Call me crazy but the boyfriend allowed himself years and years of time to cover his tracks and destroy any potential evidence he left behind. Evidence also could have severely degraded or been destroyed by other external factors over this period of time.

Where is Heidi De Schepper now and why did so many people fail this poor girl in life ? This case hits close home to me on so many levels and Belgium will ALWAYS have a special place in my heart. I hope to bring more awareness to this case by writing about it. I do have faith in the Belgian police but I also feel like too much time has lapsed for it to ever be solvable. The optimist in me wants to believe she fled an abusive situation and started anew.

If you or anybody you know has information that could help the police with this investigation, we encourage you to contact them at [opsporingen@police.belgium.eu](mailto:opsporingen@police.belgium.eu) or ring the toll-free number at 0800/30 300.

Source: https://www.brusselstimes.com/1412939/every-trace-is-missing-belgium-gripped-by-mystery-of-a-woman-last-seen-in-2010

by HellaHaram

6 comments

  2. Read somewhere that the boyfriend stated that he gave her an ultimatum: stop using drugs or get out. When she disappeared he reckoned that she chose the drugs… still strange that you can just vanish like that without anybody noticing…

  3. People disappear all the time. They OD in a remote abandoned place, they get drunk and fall in a river, they go live another life somewhere else under another name.

    If she has been gone for this long, I doubt she will be part of those who get found again.

  5. This is very subjectively written and wrong on some parts. Police gave 3 scenario’s they are investigating: suicide, fley away, murder. Off course they are investigating the boyfriend. 

    You assume too much to make it fit your view of ‘poor domestically abused girl’. Which could be the case. But other possibilities are still there. Let the police do their work.

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