Kidnapping Ronald Alain Janssen (born February 6, 1971) is a Belgian serial killer who was sentenced to life imprisonment on October 21, 2011, for the murder of three people.
[citation needed] Annick Van Uytsel, an 18-year-old Diest resident, was returning to her home alone while riding a bike on April 27 to 28, 2007.
Threatening her with a knife, Janssen kidnapped her and took her to his home, where he killed Van Uytsel with a hammer, then held her head under water to make sure she did not survive.
A telephone terminal was activated by Annick's GSM, and her mother called her while she was still at Janssen's, which allowed the police to work in a specific sector where 4000 men between 35 and 40 years were interviewed, but the killer still managed to slip through the cracks.
Back home, he burned his blood-covered clothes in the stove and scattered the ashes in a ditch, then threw his weapon in the Demer.
[citation needed] Ronald Janssen admitted to committing three rapes while studying in Leuven, but did not provide any evidence and said he no longer remembered the names or dates.
[6][7] In his indictment, Advocate General Patrick Boyer asked for the maximum sentence by saying: "I will make sure that you stay in prison until your last breath.
One month after the start of the trial, the court jury found Ronald Janssen guilty on charges without mitigating circumstances, that is of three murders, kidnapping and rape with torture.
[citation needed] During his second trial, which began on Monday, September 10, 2012, in the Limburg Criminal Court in Hasselt, he was convicted of a dozen rapes with violence, sexual assault with a weapon, several attempted murders and acts of torture and barbarities.
But given his life imprisonment sentence on October 21, 2011, the second verdict did not give Janssen any additional prison time.