Latest / Murder Files Unsealed / Marc Dutroux - The Monster of Belgium

Transcript

Marc Dutroux - The Monster of Belgium · Murder Files Unsealed

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Mark du True, who imprisoned six young girls in a
• 0:03
  basement Dungeon from nineteen ninety five to nineteen ninety six,
• 0:08
  was apprehended only after receiving numerous tips and a police
• 0:13
  visit during which the officers disregarded the pleas of his victims. Below.
• 0:19
  In the nineteen nineties, as young girls began to vanish
• 0:22
  across Belgium, law enforcement had ample reason to suspect Mark
• 0:27
  du True. His own mother had alerted the authorities to
• 0:31
  his activities, claiming he was holding girls captive in one
• 0:35
  of his residences. Furthermore, Dutroux had a prior criminal record,
• 0:40
  having been convicted of kidnapping and sexually assaulting several young
• 0:45
  women and girls in the nineteen eighties before being released
• 0:49
  on parole in nineteen ninety two. Despite these alarming indicators,
• 0:55
  it took an inexplicably long time for the police to
• 0:59
  take action against Dutroux. When they finally arrested him, they
• 1:04
  discovered that he had kidnapped, raped, and tortured at least
• 1:08
  six women and girls, four of whom had tragically lost
• 1:12
  their lives. To exacerbate the situation, it was later uncovered
• 1:17
  that Dutreux had been living off government assistants and utilizing
• 1:21
  state funded drugs to sedate his victims, leading to widespread
• 1:26
  public outrage directed at the Belgian authorities, as well as
• 1:29
  the emergence of conspiracy theories regarding pedophile networks and potential
• 1:35
  government complicity. Mark Dutrue gets a taste for kidnapping. Mark
• 1:41
  Dutrue was born on November sixth, nineteen fifty six, in Excels, Brussels.
• 1:47
  As reported by the BBC, he was the oldest of
• 1:50
  five siblings. Dutru later asserted that his parents, Victor and Janine,
• 1:56
  who were both educators, frequently subjected him to physical punishment.
• 2:02
  Following their separation in nineteen seventy one, he left home
• 2:07
  and began a transient lifestyle. In his adulthood, Dutroux moved frequently,
• 2:14
  working as an electrician and reportedly engaging in sex work.
• 2:19
  Over time, he gravitated towards criminal activities, including drug dealing, theft,
• 2:25
  and mugging. It is alleged that he accumulated sufficient wealth
• 2:29
  through these endeavors to acquire seven properties by the age
• 2:33
  of twenty. Dutroux was married and had two sons. His
• 2:38
  first wife later alleged that he physically abused her and
• 2:42
  had numerous extramarital relationships. The couple separated in the early
• 2:47
  nineteen eighties, allowing Dutroux to pursue one of his mistresses,
• 2:51
  Michele Martin. Martin would eventually become his second wife and
• 2:56
  an accomplice in his criminal activities. In the summer of
• 3:01
  nineteen eighty five, Dutroux reportedly grew weary of the slow
• 3:06
  process of courting women and opted instead to kidnap and
• 3:10
  assault them with the assistance of his second wife. He
• 3:14
  explained to me that kidnapping and raping them was more
• 3:18
  efficient than trying to flirt. Martin recounted, as reported by
• 3:23
  the Belgian publication Newsblood, he claimed it would benefit me
• 3:27
  as well as it allowed him more time to devote
• 3:31
  to me. Since he was doing it all for my sake,
• 3:34
  I was obliged to assist him with the abductions. However,
• 3:39
  the couple did not act alone. Jean van Pettegem, a
• 3:43
  family acquaintance, had been staying at the Dutrue residence. After
• 3:48
  experiencing a personal crisis, Dutroux soon enlisted van Pettigam's help,
• 3:54
  persuading him that he was indebted to Dutroux. Meanwhile, Martin
• 3:59
  would take on the role of the driver. On June seventh,
• 4:03
  nineteen eighty five, they identified their first victim, eleven year
• 4:08
  old Sylvie d who was walking home alone after a
• 4:11
  swim at a nearby pool. As they drove by, the
• 4:16
  men exited the vehicle, seized her and forced her into
• 4:20
  the van, covering her mouth and eyes with tape. Inside
• 4:24
  the Dutroux dungeon. Following Mark Dutroux's release, he promptly resumed
• 4:29
  his heinous activities. He commenced the construction of a dungeon
• 4:34
  within his basement. Between nineteen ninety five and nineteen ninety six,
• 4:40
  he abducted at least six young girls, subjecting them to
• 4:44
  torture and sexual abuse in this underground facility. By the
• 4:49
  time of his arrest in nineteen ninety six, only two
• 4:52
  of his victims, age twelve and fourteen, had survived. As
• 4:58
  this was unfolding, public anxiety escalated due to the increasing
• 5:03
  number of missing women and girls across the nation. On
• 5:07
  June twenty fourth, nineteen ninety five, two eight year olds
• 5:11
  Julie le June and Melissa Russo vanished from their neighborhoods
• 5:16
  in eastern Belgium, as reported by the BBC later that summer.
• 5:21
  On August twenty third, teenagers and martial and if Yer
• 5:26
  Lambreks also went missing while vacationing in a Stend, a
• 5:31
  coastal town. Shortly after these incidents, Dutru's mother alerted the authorities,
• 5:38
  alleging that he was holding girls captive in one of
• 5:41
  his residences. Nevertheless, despite his history of kidnapping and sexual assault,
• 5:47
  it took five months after the initial disappearances for law
• 5:52
  enforcement to conduct a search of his property. On December sixth,
• 5:57
  nineteen ninety five, Dutreux was apprehended for car theft and
• 6:01
  subsequently spent nearly four months in custody. A week following
• 6:06
  his arrest, police finally searched his residence. However, despite hearing
• 6:11
  the sounds of children, they failed to locate the girls
• 6:15
  in the basement Dungeon, mistakenly believing the voices originated from outside.
• 6:21
  During the search, investigators discovered videos and undeveloped film that,
• 6:26
  if analyzed,