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James D. ROBERTSON. On November 25, 1997 - two days before Thanksgiving - Earl and Terry Robertson, both 49, were found brutally slaughtered inside their home in Rock Hill, a college town and flourishing suburb of Charlotte, North Carolina. They were family people, churchgoing and law-abiding. Yet someone had wanted them dead - badly enough to ...
- 10 The Robberies
- 9 Escalation
- 8 Right-Wing Hit Squad?
- 7 The Terrible Events of 1983 Part One
- 6 The Terrible Events of 1983 Part Two
- 5 The Terrible Events of 1983 Part Three
- 4 The Crimes of September 1985
- 3 The Last Heist
- 2 Descriptions
- 1 Shocking Confession
Beginning in 1982, a series of armed robberies saw at least three men terrorizethe cities and small towns of Brabant Province. The first heist occurred on March 13, 1982, when two men armed with a single 12-gauge shotgun attempted to rob a store in Dinant. Months later, an Austin Allegro and a Volkswagen Santana were stolen by armed men. Eyewitness...
The true horrorof the Brabant Killers was exposed on December 23, 1982. On that date, police found the corpse of caretaker Jose Vanden Eynde inside the Beersel Inn. Vanden Eynde, a retired taxi driver, was likely targeted as part of the robbery of the Beersel Inn. However, Vanden Eynde had been tortured by the thieves. At this point in the investig...
One of the first breaks in the case of the Brabant Killersoccurred in 2014. Michel Libert was taken in for questioning in relation to the Brabant Killers case by the Belgian police. Libert had once been the second-in-command of the Westland New Post (WNP), a right-wing terrorist network formed in Belgium in 1981. The WNP had close connections with ...
The ferocity of the Brabant Killers increased in 1983. Days before January 9, members of the gang murdered taxidriver Angelou Constantin and dumped his body in the trunk of his own taxi. When the police found Constantin’s body, they discovered the butt of a cigarette. Even though this cigarette end has been tested for DNA, no positive matches have ...
On May 7, 1983, less than $22,000 was stolen from a grocery store in Houdeng-Gougnies, Belgium. The gang’s next crime, the armed robbery of a mechanic’s workshop, proved equally low-paying. On September 10, the Brabant Killers forced their way into a textile factory late at night. It belonged to the company Wittock-Van Landeghem, which had just beg...
The Brabant Killers ended their bloodyyear of 1983 by committing several robberies and murders. On October 2, the owner of a restaurant in Ohain was shot and killed by the gang after they led him outside during a robbery. Five days later in the town of Beersel, the gang attacked a Delhaize grocery store, wounded three customers, and killed the stor...
For some unknown reason, the Brabant Killers took the entire year of 1984 off. When they returned to their criminal ways in 1985, they came back more bloodthirstythan ever. On September 27, the gangattacked a supermarket in Braine l’Alleud. They took a child hostage and killed one customer before even entering the store. Once inside, they shot and ...
The final crime of the Brabant Killers was by far their most gruesome. On November 9, 1985, the gang invaded a supermarket in the town of Aalst. They mostly carried pump-action shotguns. Even before they entered the store, they started shooting and killing victimsin the parking lot. In one instance, the killers cornered an entire family that includ...
During most of the gang’s crimes, they worked in groups of three. Oddly enough, eyewitnesses managed to describe at least three of the gangsters. One gang member was called “The Giant,” and he was said to be somewhere around 193 centimeters (6’4″) or 198 centimeters (6’6″). The Giantwas described as being the gang’s leader, and at least one eyewitn...
For years, Belgian detectives were troubled by the professionalism of the Brabant Killers. Specifically, they noticed that these men knew how to handle weapons, thus convincing some that the gang included former or current soldiers. In early 2017, the brother of a dead man from the city of Aalst came forward to tell police that his brother had conf...
Nov 8, 2023 · 8 November 2023. A memorial to the victims of the Brabant Killers has been unveiled at supermarket Delhaize in Aalst, the day before the 38th anniversary of the attack that killed eight people. On 9 November 1985, the gang known as the Brabant Killers killed eight people in the supermarket in a case that remains unsolved.
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3 days ago · In Belgium’s decadent but turbulent 1980s, a mysterious gang of criminals showed up out of the blue to commit a series of murders and violent robberies across the country. Dubbed the Brabant Killers by the press, (les Tueurs du Brabant in French, de Bende van Nijvel in Dutch), they killed 28 people, including children, and injured over 40 ...
Haemers's height made him an apparent fit for the Brabant gang's 'Giant', but his known crimes lacked the gratuitous violence and small-time takings that were the Brabant killers' hallmark. [27] [28] Bouhouche was a former gendarme and gun shop owner suspected and known to have been involved in a number of violent crimes.
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Oct 24, 2017 · Tue Oct 24 2017 - 14:49. A murder mystery that has gripped Belgium for 30 years may be on the verge of being solved after a former policeman apparently confessed on his deathbed to being one of ...
