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I'm Sruti, I'm Hannah and welcome to Redhanded.

Mark DeTro is one of the most terrifying pedophiles and serial killers ever to come out of Europe.

During the 80s and 90s in Belgium, he abducted imprisoned, raped and tortured at least 11 young girls,

murdering at least five of them.

He claimed that he wanted to abduct as many girls as he could and move them all into an abandoned mind shaft

and rule this city as a utopia.

There is no doubt that Mark DeTro was a sick, controlling psychopath,

but this isn't just a simple case of a lone predator who abducted and killed young girls.

There are many, many, many issues with this story.

Raise serious questions about if Mark DeTro truly acted alone or if in fact he served a higher power.

In this episode we're going to take a big old deep dive into DeTro's stomach-churning crimes,

the frankly equally stomach-churning way the police handled the investigation,

and as if that wasn't enough, we'll also be dipping our feet into theories that DeTro was only part of a much larger and incredibly powerful pedophile ring.

When this case came to light, it didn't just horrify Belgium, it enraged Belgium.

And we hear this so much in the world of true crime, we talk about a crime that shook the nation.

But this case honestly brought Belgium to the brink of revolution.

There was mass demonstrations that tore through the streets of Brussels as people collectively screamed for justice.

People took to the streets morning and crying and demanding justice,

like the murdered girls with their very own daughters.

And when you watch the videos of the protests that genuinely brought a nation to its knees,

it's not hard to see the collective rage they felt as one for what had been allowed to happen.

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