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Speaker 2: It had been three days since Sabine d'arden had been
Speaker 2: ripped off of her bike and transported in a dirty
Speaker 2: van to a run down house and then chained to
Speaker 2: a bed by her neck. The first few days of
Speaker 2: captivity were a blur. Her kidnapper explained that he worked
Speaker 2: for a dangerous man who wanted to take revenge on
Speaker 2: Sabine's father, who was a police officer. He said his
Speaker 2: boss wanted to kill her to get back at her father,
Speaker 2: but that he was going to disobey this boss in
Speaker 2: order to save her life, but that they needed to
Speaker 2: hide her away. On the day, he led her downstairs
Speaker 2: to her new home. It was a basement cellar hidden
Speaker 2: behind a trap door. It was seven feet long and
Speaker 2: three feet wide, with a ceiling of only about five
Speaker 2: feet in height. There was no natural light, and it
Speaker 2: was damp and cold. Sabine was in a very dark place.
Speaker 3: A psychopath is somebody who understands emotions.
Speaker 4: And I told them it is a very exceptional that
Speaker 4: somebody abducts two children at the same time.
Speaker 3: Would have been the yell of it in nineteen six,
Speaker 3: but my god, it was just a beginning.
Speaker 5: I think Belgium was a paralyzed for perverts in those days.
Speaker 2: Welcome to la monstre. I'm your host, Matt Graves. On
Speaker 2: June twenty fourth, nineteen ninety five, two young girls went
Speaker 2: missing in the province of Liege and Belgium. Two months later,
Speaker 2: two more young girls went missing in the province of
Speaker 2: West Flanders on the Belgian coast. In May of the
Speaker 2: following year, Sabine Darden was abducted in Tournee, and then
Speaker 2: in August Letitia de Les went missing from Bertrich. We
Speaker 2: know a lot about Sabine's experiences based on letters and
Speaker 2: a journal found where she was held. Her kidnapper encouraged
Speaker 2: her to write letters to her parents, which he promised
Speaker 2: to get to them. Sadly, it was just a ploy
Speaker 2: to get her to believe that he was protecting her
Speaker 2: from an imaginary, big bad boss and to better understand
Speaker 2: to manipulate her The innocence of Sabine's letters is heartbreaking.
Speaker 2: They were openly published years later, so I decided to
Speaker 2: share parts of them in this episode. Here is an
Speaker 2: excerpt of one of these letters, read by a young
Speaker 2: girl the same age as Sabine at the time. Recording
Speaker 2: this take was upsetting in and of itself. The youth
Speaker 2: and innocence of a twelve year old is something to
Speaker 2: be cherished and nurtured. It's crushing to imagine Sabine writing
Speaker 2: these letters in the hope of reaching out to those
Speaker 2: she loved. Just hearing a recording of her words as difficult.
Speaker 2: Listener discretion is advised. Parts of them have been shortened
Speaker 2: and adjusted. In translation from French.
Speaker 6: Dear Mommy, Daddy, Nanny, Sophie, Sebastian, Sam, Tiffi and all
Speaker 6: the rest of the family. I asked the man who's
Speaker 6: keeping me if I could write you again, because Mommy's
Speaker 6: birthday is approaching. In Sophie Sam's too, I'm so so
Speaker 6: sad I can't wish you a happy birthday and give
Speaker 6: you a big kiss and maybe even offer you a present. Unfortunately,
Speaker 6: that's not possible, and if I came home, we'd all
Speaker 6: be killed. And I don't want that. I'd rather write
Speaker 6: you from here instead of being at home dead. The
Speaker 6: man who's keeping me told me his friend gave mommy
Speaker 6: my last letter, and after reading it, you said, I
Speaker 6: should be sure to watch myself well and learn to
Speaker 6: like what the man does to me, and to be
Speaker 6: nice to him, because if he gets angry with me,
Speaker 6: he could give me to the bad man, who would
Speaker 6: hurt me and kill me. By the way, did you
Speaker 6: eat the radishes? If you want to replant them? There
Speaker 6: is some seed left in the docker's shoe box in
Speaker 6: my room. The food I get here is disgusting. There's
Speaker 6: never any sauce or seasoning. Almost all the food he
Speaker 6: gives me is expired, he says. The expiry date on
Speaker 6: the label is the cell date. Everything I get is
Speaker 6: the generic brand. But Hey drinks real coke and eats
Speaker 6: real nutella. If he has to leave or has visitors,
Speaker 6: I have to stay locked in the basement, sometimes for
Speaker 6: several days without any meals. When he left for five days,
Speaker 6: he gave me some expired chocolate from nineteen ninety three.
Speaker 6: It tasted old, but I ate it anyways. Hope you're
Speaker 6: thinking of me. I miss you and adore you all
Speaker 6: very much.
Speaker 2: The letters from Sabine are long and detailed. I left
Speaker 2: out the parts about the repeated assaults she experienced at
Speaker 2: the hands of this monster. In early August, he locked
Speaker 2: her into the basement and said he'd be back soon
Speaker 2: with a new friend for her. On August tenth, nineteen
Speaker 2: ninety six, after several days with solitude in the dark
Speaker 2: and damp dungeon, he opened the trap door and told
Speaker 2: Sabine her new friend was there. He led her to
Speaker 2: the same upstairs room where she'd been placed after being abducted. There,
Speaker 2: to Sabine's horror, was another girl in a drug induced haze,
Speaker 2: chained to the bed. It was her new future cellmate,
Speaker 2: Letitia Dalaise. You'll remember from the last episode that a
Speaker 2: sixth girl, Leticia d Lais, went missing on August eighth,
Speaker 2: nineteen ninety six, from the village of Bertrie in the
Speaker 2: south of Belgium. The King's Prosecutor Michel Bourlat, along with
Speaker 2: investigating Judge Conrad, and police, were furiously working on tracking
Speaker 2: down a lead that uncovered from interviews. In Bertrie, two
Speaker 2: separate witnesses reported seeing a suspicious looking van near where
Speaker 2: Letitia was last seen, and by chance one of the
Speaker 2: witnesses was able to recall the van well, even remembering
Speaker 2: the first three letters of the license plate. He thought
Speaker 2: the van was a Renault traffique and a license plate
Speaker 2: began with fr R. They quickly ran a search of
Speaker 2: all Renault vehicles in Belgium with a license plate starting
Speaker 2: with f r R, and the query gave them seventy
Speaker 2: seven hits. Only one of these seventy seven Renault vehicles
Speaker 2: was a traffique model. It was registered to a man
Speaker 2: from the town of Charlewais named Mark de True. During
Speaker 2: my interview with the former King's prosecutor, Michel Boulet, he
Speaker 2: talked me through how it went down from there.
Speaker 5: Monsieur the agent van Rillard ran a search in his
Speaker 5: computer and several names come back, one of which was
Speaker 5: a certain to True. I asked, who's this guy? He
Speaker 5: was someone very interesting and had been under surveillance for
Speaker 5: a year then by the Gendarmerie of Challerroois, and we
Speaker 5: set up a meeting that evening with the first Sergeant
Speaker 5: Michaud and two officers from challah Wah who were going
Speaker 5: to bring more information about the suspect and their surveillance operation.
Speaker 5: At eight pm, I was there and the three officers
Speaker 5: from shallow Wah arrived with a relatively large case file,
Speaker 5: and mister Michaud tells us that they have a lot
Speaker 5: of suspicions about Du True, who'd already been sentenced to
Speaker 5: thirteen years of prison for abduction, rape and sequestration of miners,
Speaker 5: got out of prison two years ago and had apparently
Speaker 5: solicited people to help him abduct young girls and imprison
Speaker 5: them in hiding places he was building at his home.
Speaker 6: Shit we.
Speaker 5: I said, that's great. What's he doing in Bertree where
Speaker 5: a young girl just disappeared? An operation was set in
Speaker 5: motion right away at nine pm. The investigating judge set
Speaker 5: it up with a gendarmerie. It's after nine pm and
Speaker 5: we can execute a warrant without obvious offense at night.
Speaker 5: There's no obvious offense at this point. There are clues
Speaker 5: that it could be true, but there is no obvious offense.
Speaker 5: We can't make an arrest just based on suspicion between
Speaker 5: sunset and sunrise, but there's nothing preventing us from surveilling him.
Speaker 5: At three am, all of the addresses of Du Tru
Speaker 5: are under surveillanced.
Speaker 2: True owned several rundown properties which he'd managed to accumulate
Speaker 2: over time. Judicial authorities and police moved as quickly as
Speaker 2: they could. When they found the name Mark de True
Speaker 2: and checked his records, they knew he was a strong suspect.
Speaker 2: The Gendarmerie of Charlewas had a huge file on to
Speaker 2: True and it was obvious that he could be a perpetrator.
Speaker 2: His file included other possible accomplices, including his wife Miche Martin,
Speaker 2: and friends Michel Lelievre and a french Man named Bernard Weinstein.
Speaker 2: Michel Martin was de Tru's wife or second wife, i
Speaker 2: should say. In my interview with the King's prosecutor, he
Speaker 2: refers to her as Martin. Michel Lo Lievre was a
Speaker 2: friend of Dtruz, or more like a lackey who was
Speaker 2: strung out on drugs and did odd jobs for the True.
Speaker 2: In the interview, he's referred to as Li Lievre. Bernard
Speaker 2: Weinstein was another friend of Dtruz, or more like an
Speaker 2: associate who worked with him on various criminal enterprises. Weinstein
Speaker 2: was a hardened criminal from France with a very long
Speaker 2: rap sheet. It was now three am on August thirteenth,
Speaker 2: nineteen ninety six, four days after Letitia had gone missing. Julie, Melissa, Anne,
Speaker 2: Effia and Sabine were all still missing as well. Police
Speaker 2: had all of Dtru's properties under surveillance, but they couldn't
Speaker 2: move in for arrest until after sunrise because of an
Speaker 2: arcane Belgian law proclies luting warrants to be served at night.
Speaker 2: During surveillance, they believe that Marked True as well as
Speaker 2: two of his possible accomplices were all together at a
Speaker 2: property registered to his wife, Michelle Martin, in the town
Speaker 2: of Sarce Labuisier. As the sun rose, they applied for
Speaker 2: a warrant to search the property.
Speaker 7: I'm a modernie.
Speaker 5: At one point we got information from sar Labuisier that
Speaker 5: d True, Martin, and the Lievre were all three there
Speaker 5: at the residence of Martin, I think with a famous
Speaker 5: Renault traffic that was the object of multiple consistent witness testimony. You,
Speaker 5: Judge Conrad, said, Okay, let's go exercise the warrants, make
Speaker 5: the arrests and bring them in.
Speaker 2: Police rushed into the residence in Sarce Labuisier on August
Speaker 2: thirteenth and arrested the three suspects. The True was thirty
Speaker 2: nine years old with thick, dark hair and a mustache.
Speaker 2: He kept us cool and submitted to the arrest. Martin
Speaker 2: de True's wife was thirty six. Underneath her long blonde banks,
Speaker 2: her eyes looked vacant and wary, and Lolievre to Truz
Speaker 2: Lackey was twenty five years old with greasy hair, and
Speaker 2: he looked strung out on drugs. As police brought them
Speaker 2: into the local station for interrogation, other officers searched the
Speaker 2: van in residence. They'd heard rumors from an informant that
Speaker 2: the True had tried to hire others to help him
Speaker 2: build hidden chambers in his home, but the police's search
Speaker 2: turned up nothing, and without more concrete evidence of a crime,
Speaker 2: police could only hold them for twenty four hours, so
Speaker 2: time was of the essence. At the station, one police
Speaker 2: team was interrogating to True while another was interviewing his
Speaker 2: Lackey Lolievre, but the wife, Martin, was just sitting there
Speaker 2: and no one was interrogating her, and Boulet grew frustrated.
Speaker 5: The police team, with Inspector de Moulain, took Mark d
Speaker 5: True in for interrogation. Lollievre was interrogated by another team
Speaker 5: from enough Chateau, and Martin was held in waiting until
Speaker 5: one of those teams would be free to interrogate her.
Speaker 5: I told Captain Deneux, who was in charge of this
Speaker 5: operation in Charlerois, that there was another team of judicial
Speaker 5: police there, so let's use them to interrogate Martin. I
Speaker 5: only had twenty four hours to hold these people, and
Speaker 5: they moaned about the judicial police always arriving at the
Speaker 5: eleventh hour, and I said, listen, as the King's prosecutor,
Speaker 5: I'm the one who decides here, okay. I told them
Speaker 5: they had to give Martin to another officer who was available,
Speaker 5: and the gendarmes started complaining, et cetera, et cetera. Moreover,
Speaker 5: just after having this altercation with an officer of the Gendarmerie,
Speaker 5: I walked up to the window and see a guy
Speaker 5: leaving the station and I said, who's that and someone
Speaker 5: said it was the Lievre and I asked, is he leaving?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 5: They said the enough shot to investigators didn't think he'd
Speaker 5: done anything wrong. And then Commander Law arrived, who had
Speaker 5: been questioning neighbors at detru'z house in Marceinelle and Detruz
Speaker 5: neighbors had said that they saw the True arrive home
Speaker 5: in the van on Friday night together with Michelle the
Speaker 5: olive skinned guy, and I said, who's Michelle the olive
Speaker 5: skinned guy, and they said, oh, that's Michelle Lilievre, and
Speaker 5: I said, well, he just fucked off out the door.
Speaker 5: At that point all of the police again started looking
Speaker 5: for Lollievre, who was now walking around freely in Charlewaugh.
Speaker 5: We found him an hour later at the train station,
Speaker 5: trying to flee to Slovakia.
Speaker 2: Needless to say, it was a bumpy start to the arrest,
Speaker 2: with different police forces interviewing suspects in the same case
Speaker 2: and making uncoordinated decisions, but fortunately Prosecutor Boulat was there
Speaker 2: to knock their heads together. After recapturing lo Lievre, the True,
Speaker 2: his wife, Martin, and Lilliere were all being questioned separately
Speaker 2: by interrogation teams. All of them denied any involvement right
Speaker 2: from the beginning. De True was questioned for five hours
Speaker 2: and admitted nothing. They left him alone in the interrogation
Speaker 2: room for a few hours and then came back and
Speaker 2: continued questioning him for another three hours until three am,
Speaker 2: but he stuck to his story. The next morning, Judge
Speaker 2: Conrad indicted to True for the disappearance of Letitia. Nonetheless,
Speaker 2: meanwhilel Lievre was still being questioned and was suffering from
Speaker 2: heroin withdrawal. One can't help but think that the police
Speaker 2: used this to their advantage to get Li Lievre to talk.
Speaker 2: In any case, he finally cracked and admitted that he
Speaker 2: and a True had abducted Letitian bare Tree. This gave
Speaker 2: police what they needed to continue holding and interrogating the
Speaker 2: three suspects beyond twenty four hours, but the clock was
Speaker 2: still ticking because Letitia was still unaccounted for. Lalievre vehemently
Speaker 2: insisted that he didn't know what happened to Letitia and
Speaker 2: that he just dropped her off with the True at
Speaker 2: his house in Charlewaugh. As soon as that's the team
Speaker 2: responsible for interrogating the True learned ofl Lievre's confession. Sergeant
Speaker 2: Michelle du Moulain and his partner Jean Laboule, took another
Speaker 2: crack at the True. After a long search, I was
Speaker 2: able to track down Michelle du Moulain, and he agreed
Speaker 2: to discuss the case. The recording is poor, so it
Speaker 2: will fade out and you'll hear a translation.
Speaker 5: I was the most experienced investigator in the team, so
Speaker 5: they asked me to take the lead on interrogating to True.
Speaker 5: I proceeded like I usually do with suspects. I asked
Speaker 5: him a lot of questions in order to get to
Speaker 5: know him about his life, who did he live with,
Speaker 5: what was his house like, and so on, to get
Speaker 5: an idea about his personality. And I realized at one
Speaker 5: point that he was a vain person and he needed
Speaker 5: to be recognized in to be respected for what he was,
Speaker 5: so I worked with that as well. The first time,
Speaker 5: I questioned him from three point fifteen until around eight
Speaker 5: thirty pm, and then took a break for about two hours,
Speaker 5: and then I questioned him again from around eleven one
Speaker 5: pm to four o'clock in the morning, and then he
Speaker 5: said he had indeed heard about Letitia's disappearance, but he
Speaker 5: had nothing to do with it. He'd seen her and
Speaker 5: she'd actually gotten into his van at one point, but
Speaker 5: that he let her go.
Speaker 2: With multiple witnesses having identified his van, the True must
Speaker 2: have felt he had to admit something in order to
Speaker 2: remain credible. By the end of a second interview, it
Speaker 2: was four am and de Moulain was breathing down to
Speaker 2: Truth's neck, so he decided to share some crumbs. Hear
Speaker 2: the Truth's actual words from transcripts of this interview read
Speaker 2: by an interpreter.
Speaker 7: I saw a cute girl. She was wearing a skimpy
Speaker 7: summer outfit, and when she passed by, I said hello.
Speaker 7: She was interested in my van and I told her
Speaker 7: to jump in, and she sat down next to me.
Speaker 7: We jetted a bait and I asked her ah, and
Speaker 7: she said she was fifteen.
Speaker 2: Years old or something like that.
Speaker 7: She said she was sped up and had family problems.
Speaker 7: I could see she was open and easy. She wasn't afraid.
Speaker 7: When I found out her age, I was disappointed and
Speaker 7: decided I didn't want to have any troubles.
Speaker 1: And then she left.
Speaker 5: And the next day, on the fifteenth of August, I
Speaker 5: was waiting for him with all of the elements, and
Speaker 5: I interrogated him. Actually it wasn't even an interrogation. I
Speaker 5: demonstrated to him that he was the author of the kidnapping,
Speaker 5: and I squeezed him squeezed him, squeezed him, and to
Speaker 5: avoid making him loose face in front of me, I
Speaker 5: brought him along so he could admit it and to
Speaker 5: take control. He said quote, it's not one girl I'm
Speaker 5: going to give you, but two girls. And with that
Speaker 5: in his mind, he became superior to me because he
Speaker 5: was giving me more than what I was asking for.
Speaker 5: It was a game for him, and he didn't want
Speaker 5: to tell me where they were. He wanted to hold
Speaker 5: me in suspense and take me to where he had
Speaker 5: the girls. He said he wouldn't admit anything then, but
Speaker 5: that he would go to Marcinelle with me.
Speaker 2: To get a deeper understanding of the True's character, I
Speaker 2: was able to interview a man who spent a lot
Speaker 2: of time with him, his lawyer, Ronnie Bodwain, My co
Speaker 2: producer Thomas, and I met with him in his offices
Speaker 2: in Brussels. After introductions and some chit chat, I asked
Speaker 2: him about when the True became his client.
Speaker 4: From two thousand and three until fourteen, I was his lawyer,
Speaker 4: which means that I have done the preparation of his
Speaker 4: court case, the whole court case, and even years after that,
Speaker 4: I have been in contact with.
Speaker 2: Him, okay, and so you were in the thick of
Speaker 2: it and spend I guess countless hours with your client.
Speaker 4: Unfortunately.
Speaker 2: Yes, Ronnie is a sprightly man, full of the energetic
Speaker 2: confidence he'd want to have in your corner when facing
Speaker 2: an uphill battle. I asked him to give his opinion
Speaker 2: on a mental state of Mark the True.
Speaker 4: If you read the report of doctor Denas. He said,
Speaker 4: I've done in my career. He was already at the
Speaker 4: end of his career at the time that he was
Speaker 4: coming to testify in court about the report that he
Speaker 4: made on Mark the True, And I said, I've done
Speaker 4: about four thousands of these expertises, you know, in investigations
Speaker 4: towards the personality of somebody else, that I never met
Speaker 4: anybody so close to one hundred percent psychopath. He says,
Speaker 4: if I have to put something on that, I think
Speaker 4: he must be about ninety seven or something, right. But
Speaker 4: the strange thing is that it is exactly the one
Speaker 4: thing of feelings that he had left that became his downfall,
Speaker 4: and that is that pride, right, because there at a
Speaker 4: certain moment the police commissioner Monsieur de Mulain, who did
Speaker 4: the investigation, he also got to know through the investigation
Speaker 4: how Mark the Trux was and you know, it's very silly,
Speaker 4: but in fact he challenged him. He said, oh, but
Speaker 4: you don't know anything about those girls that were abducted.
Speaker 4: It inverse the rules, and he said, you're trying to
Speaker 4: make me believe that you know something about them, and
Speaker 4: Mark the true this pride, you know, overwhelming. He said,
Speaker 4: oh no, I'm not going to give you one. I'm
Speaker 4: going to give you another one. And he showed one
Speaker 4: of the girls what that was on the billboard in
Speaker 4: the police station. And suddenly, because they didn't even ask
Speaker 4: anything to him about the second girl, they didn't even
Speaker 4: realize that he was involved, Suddenly they had two girls.
Speaker 4: And that is just by pushing on the one button
Speaker 4: left where there is some feeling, and that.
Speaker 2: Is this pride right.
Speaker 4: And I've used the same technique to let him do
Speaker 4: things that I wanted him to do, because after a while,
Speaker 4: you learn you know how people are acting. And I
Speaker 4: had to spend many hours with him, so after while,
Speaker 4: I was able to find out exactly what this Durmula
Speaker 4: had found out as well on the personality.
Speaker 7: Of my client.
Speaker 2: When Da True finally cracked. He agreed to take police
Speaker 2: where Sabine and Letitia were hidden, but he wouldn't just
Speaker 2: give them the address. He wanted to stay in control
Speaker 2: and watch it all happen. Little time was wasted before
Speaker 2: De True was secreted away from the station to lead
Speaker 2: a group of gendarmes to his house in Charlewis. He
Speaker 2: led them down to a basement and walked over to
Speaker 2: an unassuming shelf along the wall. He revealed that behind
Speaker 2: it was a trap door that opened up into a
Speaker 2: pitch black chamber beneath his house. Police shined their flashlights
Speaker 2: into the darkness, and what they saw shocked them to
Speaker 2: their core. Crouched into the corner of a dark and
Speaker 2: damp dungeon were two naked girls, visibly scared to death
Speaker 2: of whoever was coming for them. They were so afraid
Speaker 2: that they refused to move until De True told him
Speaker 2: it was okay. Remember from Sabine's letter that de True
Speaker 2: had told her that he was hiding her from a
Speaker 2: bad man who wanted to kill her.
Speaker 6: Give me to the bad man who would hurt me
Speaker 6: and kill me.
Speaker 2: He had told the same story to Letitia, so both
Speaker 2: girls were frightened to death. When they first saw the police.
Speaker 2: At approximately six thirty pm on August fifteenth, nineteen ninety six,
Speaker 2: all of Belgium in the world for that matter, witnessed
Speaker 2: the surreal scene of Leticia de Les and Sabine Darden
Speaker 2: emerging into the light after being rescued from De True's
Speaker 2: House of Horrors in Charlewaugh. It was filmed live by
Speaker 2: the Belgian TV channel VTM and the footage is both
Speaker 2: harrowing and relieving. It wasn't long before or international media
Speaker 2: picked up the story for the whole world to see.
Speaker 8: Twelve year old Sabine dar Den disappeared in May. Letitia
Speaker 8: Dalais had been missing for only six days. Both were
Speaker 8: imprisoned into truth makeshift dungeon. Patricia Kelly CNN Brussels.
Speaker 2: Letitia emerged first, looking confused and disheveled, followed by a
Speaker 2: pale and emaciated Sabine, who had spent eighty days in captivity,
Speaker 2: most of them in the macabre dungeon. The King's prosecutor
Speaker 2: addressed the nation in a press briefing shortly after the
Speaker 2: discovery of the girls. A younger version of the man
Speaker 2: I interviewed Michel Bourlet appeared in a crowded room full
Speaker 2: of journalists, sitting next to the investigating judge, Jean Marc Conrad.
Speaker 2: He was visibly tired with bloodshot eyes, but he also
Speaker 2: exuded an overwhelming sense of relief.
Speaker 7: Gillie Mouspresi the USA Nose.
Speaker 2: Later that evening, there were scenes of jubilation and euphoria
Speaker 2: a Sabine and Letitia were reunited with their families on
Speaker 2: live television. Most of the country breathed a sigh of relief,
Speaker 2: and residents in Bertrie spontaneously assembled a bonfire to burn
Speaker 2: the thousands of missing persons posters of the girls that
Speaker 2: had been prepared for distribution. But the parents of the
Speaker 2: other missing girls, like eight year olds Julie LeJean and
Speaker 2: Melissa Russo and high schoolers Anne Martial and Effie Alambrics,
Speaker 2: waited on pens and needles, wondering if their disappearances were
Speaker 2: also connected to the true news of the sordid dungeon,
Speaker 2: and testimonies of Sabine and Letitia slowly started to trickle out.
Speaker 9: This basement and the crimes committed here have made this
Speaker 9: house notorious. Every Belgium knows about mark chamber of horrors
Speaker 9: that they must come here and see for themselves just
Speaker 9: how desperate and sordid conditions were for the girls held
Speaker 9: prisoner here. Julia Bremner ITV News Charlois.
Speaker 2: The world was about to learn the extent of the
Speaker 2: horrors of the true and its accomplices. Sabine and letitious
Speaker 2: rescue was only the beginning of a story that would
Speaker 2: shark the world and rattle the foundations of Belgium next
Speaker 2: time on La Montre.
Speaker 4: I know I've studied the file, and I've studied, amongst
Speaker 4: other things, I've studied the relationship between them both, and
Speaker 4: I'm sure that at that time it was possible for
Speaker 4: him to do that because he had found literally but
Speaker 4: also in a figure of speech, a partner in crime.
Speaker 3: Should have been Jano beating nineteen eighty six. My gods,
Speaker 3: it was just a beginning. What happens after he got
Speaker 3: out of prison is just beyond believing.
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