Michel Bellen (13 January 1946 – 10 June 2020), also called the Linkeroever Strangler (Dutch: Wurger van Linkeroever), was a Belgian murderer regarded as the first serial killer in Flanders.
After the rape of a 21-year-old nurse, he strangled her in an alley with a piece of barbed wire.
After four months, however, Bellen murdered a student in her flat room in Leuven.
[1][2] From 1989 to 1994 he corresponded with artist Danny Devos, which resulted in a number of art projects and performances.
[3][4] Bellen died of heart failure in a psychiatric institution in Bierbeek on the night of 10 June 2020 at the age of 74.