András Pándy
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András Pándy | |
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Born | András Pándy 1 June 1927 Life imprisonment without parole |
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Victims | 6–14+ |
Span of crimes | 1986–1990 |
Country | Belgium |
Date apprehended | October 1997 |
András Pándy (1 June 1927 – 23 December 2013) was a Hungarian-Belgian serial killer, convicted for the murder of six family members in Brussels between 1986 and 1990.
Originally from
Pándy had been serving a life sentence without parole when he died on 23 December 2013.[3][4]
Early life and marriages
Pándy was born on 1 June 1927, in
At the beginning of the 1970s after his separation from Ilona, Pándy began courting other women through
In 1984, Pándy started a second abusive incestuous relationship with his step-daughter, the now 20-year-old Tímea, whom he had impregnated after
Disappearances
Shortly before running away to
Investigation, arrest and conviction
Police investigation of the disappearances had previously been very limited and low-effort, with Pándy managing to avoid suspicion by using
The
Pándy was arrested on 16 October 1997—coincidentally the same date as the "White March", a large demonstration for the victims of another Belgian serial killer Marc Dutroux, who had sexually abused and killed several girls in Charleroi a few years prior. The Dutroux case was controversial in Belgium and brought police incompetence and corruption into the national spotlight. In addition to Dutroux's case, Pándy's case had worldwide media coverage, especially after Pándy's deadpan reaction to his surroundings.
Ágnes's confession
In November 1997, Ágnes herself was arrested by the police, and a few days later confessed to participating with her father in most of the murders of her disappeared relatives. According to Ágnes, she was solely responsible for the murder of her mother Ilona, and took part in the murders of Dániel, Zoltán, Edit and Andrea, but was not involved in (and possibly unaware of) Tünde's death. It is believed that the killing of Tünde was the only murder Pándy had committed without Ágnes's assistance. The
Trial and sentencing
Pándy had denied the charges, but largely due to Ágnes's testimony and assistance, enough evidence was gathered to convict him. In court, Pándy dismissed the proceedings as a "
Ágnes Pándy, now 44 years old, received a 21-year sentence for being an accomplice in five murders and one attempted murder.
András Pándy died on 23 December 2013, from
Aftermath and possible additional murders
Sint-Jans-Molenbeek residences
Pándy owned several homes within the
During an excavation at the home on Vandemaelen Street following Pándy's arrest, the skeletal remains of seven women and one man of unknown origin were discovered within the concrete of the home's basement. In January 1998 DNA profiling of the bone fragments revealed that the deceased were not relatives of Pándy, and it remains unclear if their deaths were related to the case at all. Due to Pándy's prolific uses of Hungarian dating services, there are suspicions that they were the skeletons of Hungarian women brought to Belgium. During an investigation of the home on Vandenbrande Street, several firearms including three rifles and four handguns were found stashed in a hidden compartment built into the ceiling. The Valdemaelen Street and Nijverheidskaai/Quai de l'Industrie houses were later demolished.
Possible additional murders
After his arrest, further investigations speculated that Pándy and Ágnes had committed several additional murders of non-relatives, before and during the killing of their family members. On 26 November 1997, a month after his arrest, the Hungarian newspaper Népszava reported that Pándy had
Hungarian authorities had searched interconnected basements of Pándy's former home at Dunakeszi, north of the Hungarian capital Budapest. The findings were concealed but suggested that an "old family tragedy" had been responsible for Pándy's killing spree. In fact, they suggested that the prisoner in Belgium was not Pándy at all, but rather a sibling of the real Pándy, whose death had been officially recorded in 1956, the same year of Pándy's migration to Belgium.[citation needed]
See also
- List of serial killers nicknamed "Bluebeard"
- List of serial killers by country
- List of serial killers by number of victims
- Marc Dutroux
References
- ^ "De zaak Pandy: Chronologie van een familiedrama en een onderzoek". Archived from the original on 28 December 2013.
- ^ Gazsó L. Ferenc (1998). "Nászút az ördöggel". Archived from the original on 24 August 2007. Retrieved 9 September 2007.
- ^ De Standaard, 23 december 2013 Archived 24 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Serial killer Andras Pandy is dead
- ^ Index - Életfogytiglant kapott Pándy