Since they both had the same first name, Van Doren at one point suggested that everyone in the skydiving club call her younger friend "Babs" so there would be less confusion.
[2] One week before the murder, Van Doren spent the night with Marcel Somers in his bed at his house, along with Clottemans, who slept on the floor on a mattress downstairs.
[1] On 18 November 2006, 12 members of a skydiving club that included Van Doren, Somers, and Clottemans, flew over Flanders.
[6] The prosecution offered almost no forensic evidence at trial,[3] and case was entirely circumstantial, although part of the crime was filmed by Van Doren's own helmet camera.
When the quartet release hands at 4,500 ft. (about 1,400 m), Van Doren discovers that neither of her parachutes will deploy, and is seen wildly tugging at her straps, to no avail.
Media interest in the trial was so great that "a room next to the courthouse had to be used for journalists to follow the proceedings through remote video.