"The perpetrator acted like an animal,” Daniël (43) said to our journalist shortly after his wife’s murder. But then it turned out that he had done it himself

“She wouldn’t hurt a fly. Then why did she have to die?” On January 12, 2017, our journalist Hans Verbeke rang Daniël Deriemacker’s doorbell from Houthem. The man had just been interrogated for 16 hours straight about the murder of his wife Carmen two days earlier. He sits down at the table and starts talking. That he doesn’t understand. That ‘his’ Carmen absolutely did not deserve this. That she was horribly beaten. But he doesn’t flinch, nor does he shed a tear. Our reporter is sitting at the table with a murderer, but doesn’t realize it. Eight years later, he looks back on the strange conversation in the cold house and reconstructs the sensational case.

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