Death's Henchmen

These days, justice is being served in three of the most notorious murder cases the Low Countries have ever known: that of the Hungarian 'pastor' András Pándy and his daughter Agnes, there is the question of whether Freddy Horion will be released after 22 years of imprisonment, and, what is already being called the Trial of the Century, there is the Marc Dutroux case. In this book, at least 20 cases of serial murder in Belgium and the Netherlands from the past century are reconstructed for the first time, based on archive material, but also on an extensive correspondence that Guy Van Gestel conducted with a number of these perpetrators. Without sensationalism, he searches for the psychopathology of this type of criminal. One of them wrote: 'Although I apparently function normally, there is something I have no control over.' This book is a search for that 'something', for that 'inexplicable'. It takes us on a descent into the dark recesses of the human mind.