It was his own wife and it was his own little girls he killed, Richard Harteveld from Zoetermeer. Because his Polish mistress – who didn’t know anything about it, by the way – would come by. His family was ‘in the way’, so to speak. Richard Harteveld (now 51) beat his wife Claudia to death in bed in April 2005 and then strangled his daughters Marieke and Charlotte, aged 5 and 3.