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Speaker 1: On June two young girls went missing in the province

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Speaker 1: of Liege in Belgium. It was twenty five years ago,

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Speaker 1: right here on this overpass that they disappeared. A local

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Speaker 1: man explains that eight year old Julie le John and

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Speaker 1: Melissa Russo lived less than five hundred meters away, and

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Speaker 1: said they came to this overpast to wave at the

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Speaker 1: cars passing on the highway below, and we're never seen

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Speaker 1: again alive. In the nine eighties and nineties, a psychopath

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Speaker 1: terrorized the country of Belgium. A serial killer and kidnapper

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Speaker 1: was abducting children in the bright light of day. Julie

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Speaker 1: and Melissa weren't his first or his last victims. His

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Speaker 1: unspeakable crimes and the incompetence or unwillingness of the police

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Speaker 1: to stop him brought the entire country of Belgium to

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Speaker 1: the brink of revolution. From Tenderfoot TV and I Heart Radio,

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Speaker 1: I'm your host Matt Graves and this is La Monstra.

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Speaker 1: The unbelievable story about Mark to True and his accomplices.

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Speaker 1: They're horrific crimes are almost beyond belief, yet some look

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Speaker 1: free today. A story of abomination and conspiracy that led

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Speaker 1: to the demise of the entire institution of Belgian federal

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Speaker 1: police and rattled the foundations of its government. The story

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Speaker 1: about the man who's simply become known as La Monster.

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Speaker 1: The first two episodes are available on August. Listen for

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Speaker 1: free on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or

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Speaker 1: wherever you get your part. Guests