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MAR 21, 2022
25 years after the garbage bag murders, the 'butcher of Bergen' still remains untraceable - World News | TakeToNews
''25 years after the facts, the butcher of Bergen is still untraceable. His atrocities came to light on March 22, 1997, when police officer Olivier Motte chanced upon several garbage bags containing human remains. Later, the police found two more bags containing the bust of a woman. In total, the police managed to find 37 different body parts of five female victims, but the Bergen butcher himself remains untraceable.''
Butcher of Mons - Wikipedia
''The Butcher of Mons is a media name given to an unidentified serial killer who committed five murders between January 1996 and July 1997 in or near the Belgian city of Mons.[1][2][3] The name was allegedly chosen because of the high precision of dismemberment the victim's bodies had endured.[2] Then they were placed in plastic bags "clearly visible on the roadside or on a channel embankment".
''On March 22, 1997, police officer Olivier Motte discovered eight garbage bags containing human remains below the Rue Emile Vandervelde in Cuesmes. They were then examined by magistrate Pierre Pilette, who determined that the arms and legs in the bags came from three different bodies, all of them women. Of all the bags, five of them appeared to originate from the municipality of Knokke-Heist. On the following day, a ninth bag was found on the same street.
On March 24, a tenth bag was discovered, containing the bust of a woman, on the path of Concern in Mons.
On April 12, two bags were found in Havré, in the rue du Dépôt, near the Haine river, a tributary of the Scheldt. These bags contained one foot, one leg, and a head.
The victims[edit]
The human remains were found in the Mons region, as well as in northern France, between March 1997 and April 1998, in garbage bags. The systematic mutilation of the bodies made their identification difficult. The garbage bags were found in places with evocative names: "Avenue des Bassins", in the river Haine, "path of worry", "rue du Dépôt", "chemin de Bethlehem" near the river Trouille, etc. In addition to the bodies, brightly colored underwear was also found in the bags. All the victims had in common that they frequented the area of Mons railway station, and all were plagued by socio-economic or family issues.''
''The human remains were found in the Mons region, as well as in northern France, between March 1997 and April 1998, in garbage bags. The systematic mutilation of the bodies made their identification difficult. The garbage bags were found in places with evocative names: "Avenue des Bassins", in the river Haine, "path of worry", "rue du Dépôt", "chemin de Bethlehem" near the river Trouille, etc. In addition to the bodies, brightly colored underwear was also found in the bags. All the victims had in common that they frequented the area of Mons railway station, and all were plagued by socio-economic or family issues.
Carmelina Russo[edit]
Russo, 42, disappeared on January 4, 1996. Her pelvis was discovered on January 21 in the Scheldt, in the department of Nord in France.[4]
Martine Bohn[edit]
Bohn, 43, a former prostitute from France, went missing on July 21, 1996. That same month her bust was fished near Mons, in Haine.
Jacqueline Leclercq[edit]
Leclercq, 33, a mother of four children, went missing on December 22, 1996.[4] Her arms and legs were found by a policeman on March 22, 1997, in one of the trash bags below the rue de Emile Vandervelde in Cuesmes.[5][6]
Nathalie Godart[edit]
Godart, 21, disappeared in March 1997. Her bust was found in the Haine.
Begonia Valencia[edit]
Valencia, 37, disappeared from her home in Frameries in the summer of 1997. Her skull was found in Hyon.[6]''