The Butcher of Mons

The Butcher of Mons is a media name given to an unidentified Belgian serial killer, who committed five murders between January 1996 and July 1997 in or near the city of Mons. The name was allegedly chosen because of the high precision of dismemberment the victim's bodies had endured. Then they were placed in plastic bags "clearly visible on the roadside or on a channel embankment". In February 2007, Smail Tulja was arrested in Montenegro at the behest of the United States authorities after being suspected of committing the murders in Belgium as well as a similar murder in 1990 of his wife in New York. Also, in Albania two murders are said to have been committed, which also put Tulja under suspicion. In February 2009, in the US, the suspect was charged with the murder of his wife (according to another source), while Montenegro did not extradite him as a citizen. The suspect was sentenced in July 2010 by a Montenegrin court for the murder of Mary Beal to twelve years in prison. In 2012, Montenegrin media reported that Tulja died in prison in February of that year.