András Pándy
András Pándy ( June 1, 1927 - December 23, 2013 in Bruges ) was a Belgian Protestant pastor and serial killer of Hungarian origin who killed six family members and allegedly 13 other people.
Early evidence of crime
Pándy emigrated to Belgium with his first wife, Ilona Sőrés, after the Hungarian uprising in 1956. The couple had three children and separated in 1967. Pándy's second wife, Edith Fintor, was also from Hungary. She brought the daughters Tunde, Timea and Andrea into the marriage. The couple had two more children.
Between 1986 and 1990 four family members disappeared: both wives, two sons from the first marriage and two step-daughters from the second.
Edith Fintor's Hungarian relatives received a letter from András Pándy in 1988, in which he wrote that Edith was terminally ill with cancer. Then the contact broke off. Also in 1988 Edith's sister asked the Dutch guest pastor Andries Den Broeder to ask Pándy in Belgium about Edith's whereabouts. Den Broeder did not get a satisfactory answer from Pándy and wrote to Justice Minister Melchior Wathelet in 1988 and again in 1993 , who did not pursue the matter.
In 1992, Ágnes, Pándy's daughter from his first marriage, reported her father for sexual abuse of stepdaughter Timea and also reported her mother and her brothers Zoltan and Daniel as missing. When asked by the police, Pándy presented alleged letters from the missing persons, which were supposed to prove that they had long since moved abroad. These letters were written by himself and sent to himself. As a result, no suspicion arose against him at first.
Confession and trial
The case was not reopened until 1996, when the Belgian judiciary re-examined some unresolved missing persons cases following the Marc Dutroux scandal . In 1997, Pándy's arrest took place. The police searched his home, found human bones in the basement, and arrested him. At the same time, the Hungarian police seized a typewriter on which Pándy had written the alleged signs of life of his relatives. Eventually, Pándy's daughter Ágnes was arrested.
confession
She confessed to having lived an incestuous relationship with Pándy and to have killed the people who were reported missing by her - her mother and her brothers, Pándy's second wife Edith and her daughter Andrea - on Pándy's orders or with him. Their remains could not be found because they were completely liquefied with the help of a drain cleaner. This statement was proven in an experiment in court. First of all, a pig carcass was completely decomposed using a commercially available drain cleaner. However, the court insisted that the experiment be repeated on the corpse of a man who had decreed that his body should be used for science after his death. Some body parts were also packed in sacks and deposited at a slaughterhouse.
Timea, the other daughter of Edith Fintor, confirmed that she had been assassinated as well. She was also sexually abused; Pándy is said to be the father of her son. A possible motive for the murders is believed to be that Pándy and his daughter wanted to keep their incestuous relationship hidden.
Condemnation
In March 2002, András Pándy was sentenced by a Brussels jury to life imprisonment for sixfold murder (his two wives, two sons and two stepdaughters) and rape of three of his daughters. His confessing daughter, Ágnes, was sentenced to 21 years in prison for completing five acts in murder. During the trial, she said that she was powerless against her authoritarian father. Pándy denied both the incest and the murders to the end and announced that the murdered would soon report to the court in person.
Bones and teeth from 13 different people were found in Pándy's house, but not from the family members who were killed. Possibly they belonged to Hungarian widows whom Pándy met through personals and who had come to see her in Brussels.
He was detained in Leuven prison and, for health reasons, was taken to the medical center of the prison in Bruges , where he died on December 23, 2013 at the age of 86. His daughter Ágnes was released prematurely and conditionally from prison in 2010, after which she entered a monastery.
literature
- Jens Haberland: The accusations against András Pándy. In: ders .: Serial killers in Europe in the 20th century. Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-930057-38-7 , pp. 187-192.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b The Guardian: "Pastor who dissolved corpses of slain wives and children gets life". March 7, 2002, accessed March 16, 2018 .
- ↑ serienkillers.de: Pándy, András. Retrieved March 16, 2018 .
- ↑ Chronology of a familiedrama en een onderzoek. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 28, 2013 ; Retrieved March 16, 2018 (Dutch).
- ↑ a b c d Die Welt: "The terrifying confession". November 24, 1997. Retrieved March 16, 2018 .
- ↑ a b c Der Spiegel: "Pastor of the Devil" died in prison. December 24, 2013, accessed March 16, 2018 .
- ↑ Marco Evers: Forensic Medicine: It's all in the mix . In: Der Spiegel . December 7, 1998 ( spiegel.de [accessed March 16, 2018]).
- ↑ Der Spiegel: "Life imprisonment for" horror pastor "". March 6, 2002, accessed March 16, 2018 .
- ↑ a b c Die Welt: "Life imprisonment for Belgian serial killers". March 7, 2002, accessed March 18, 2018 .
- ↑ upi.com: "Belgian serial killer Andras Pandy dies in prison at 86". December 24, 2013, accessed March 16, 2018 .
- ↑ Die Welt: Convicted daughter of serial killer goes to the monastery. June 15, 2010, accessed March 16, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pándy, András |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian serial killer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 1, 1927 |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 23, 2013 |
| Place of death | Bruges |