How ‘the Armpit Ulcer’ Strangled His Wife’s Grandmother (81)... and Never Appeared Before the Assize Court: “It Lives Like a Plant and Can No Longer Be Cured”

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His head bashed in, strangled and his throat cut. This is how Etienne found his mother-in-law Elza (81) on Sunday, August 13, 1995, at the foot of the cellar stairs in her terraced house on Boudewijn Lippensstraat in Maldegem, East Flanders. The only lead the investigators had was a footprint in a pool of blood and a bloody handprint. They initially suspected a robbery-murder, because a few hundred thousand francs worth of savings bonds had disa…