[4] The detectives working the case were unable to identify the victim, because so many body parts were missing.
[9] The police established cooperation with the group Corpus, who are involved in the investigation of the Mons serial killer, because there was a similar modus operandi.
[3] The "clean", meaning straight, cut of the limbs was very similar to that of the so-called garbage bag killings in Mons.
[3] A month after the event, a new article was published in a Belgian newspaper,[3] stating that the detectives still had not achieved any progress in the case.
[13] In June 2013, two of the four suspects, Sidi Mohamed Atir and Abdessamad Azmi, were convicted and given prison sentences of 20 years.
He was arrested in Gabon on 15 May 2016 and transferred to Belgium to serve his sentence in Forest Prison [fr; nl].