“He’s the man who killed Sally. I’m sure of it.” For Lydia (74) it is clear: Claudy Pierret, or ‘the monster of the Waasland’, murdered her daughter Sally Van Hecke (20). But she will never get confirmation, because Pierret, who died in prison, never admitted to the murder. He now takes his secrets to the grave. “I curled up in a corner with music when I heard the news.”

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