On March 22, 1997, police officer Olivier Motte discovered nine garbage bags containing human remains below the Rue Emile Vandervelde in Cuesmes.
On March 24, a tenth bag was discovered, containing the bust of a woman, on the chemin de l'Inquiétude in Mons.
On April 12, two bags were found in Havré, in the rue du Dépôt, near the Haine river, a tributary of the Scheldt.
The human remains were found in the Mons region, as well as in northern France, between March 1997 and April 1998, in garbage bags.
All the victims had in common that they frequented the area of Mons railway station, and all were plagued by socio-economic or family issues.
[7] Her arms and legs were found by a policeman on March 22, 1997, in one of the trash bags below the rue Emile Vandervelde in Cuesmes.
[11] However, Montenegro refused to extradite him because of his citizenship and he was sentenced in July 2010 by a Montenegrin court to twelve years in prison for the murder of Mary Beal.