245: The Butcher of Mons: Belgium’s Unsolved Suitcase Murders | Belgium

Evidence Locker True Crime

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, History

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🗓️ 2 November 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Between 1996 and 1997, the dismembered remains of at least five women were found stuffed in garbage bags and dumped inside suitcases around the Belgian city of Mons. The killer, who came to be known as Le Dépeceur de Mons — The Butcher of Mons — has never been identified.
The murders shocked the quiet provincial city and left investigators chasing one of the most disturbing unsolved serial murder cases in Belgian history. Decades later, questions still linger: Who was the Butcher of Mons, and why did he choose to scatter his victims’ remains along roads with names that translated to words like Hate, Fear, and Anxiety?
Listen now to uncover the story of Belgium’s most haunting cold case.
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Resources
Documentaries
YouTube – Le mystère du dépeceur de Mons
Web
Wikipedia – Dépeceur de Mons (French)
Wikipedia – Butcher of Mons (English)
Articles
L’Avenir – Le dépeceur de Mons: 20 ans après
Le Monde – Morgan Vanlerberghe, l’enquêteur amateur qui veut confondre le dépeceur de Mons
TeleMB – Il est moins cinq… Enquête sur le dépeceur de Mons
TeleMB – Vers un nouveau souffle dans l’enquête du dépeceur de Mons ?
Fifty-One Mons-Levant – RS893 : L’affaire du dépeceur de Mons

Created & Produced by Sonya Lowe
Narrated by Noel Vinson
Music: "Nordic Medieval" by Marcus Bressler
Background track: Doblado Studios: https://www.youtube.com/c/DobladoStudios
This True Crime Podcast was researched using open-source or archive materials.

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1:20.7	It was the first weekend of spring in 1997 when a mounted police officer rode his patrol along
1:26.4	Rue Emile Vanderveld,
1:28.2	a quiet road that curves around the village of Kuzme, just outside the Belgian city of Mons.
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