András Pándy
Hungarian-Belgian serial killer and pastor
András Pándy (1 June 1927 – 23 December 2013) was a Hungarian-Belgian pastor and a serial killer, convicted for the murder of six family members in Brussels between 1986 and 1990.
Originally from Hungary, Pándy is believed to have killed his wife, ex-wife, two biological children, and two step-children who disappeared mysteriously, with the assistance of his daughter, Ágnes. Additionally, he started abusive incestuous relationships with Ágnes and a third step-child who survived. In 1992, Belgian and Hungarian police began investigating Pándy, which resulted in his arrest in 1997 and conviction in 2002. Furthermore, the skeletal remains of seven more unknown women and one man were found in one of his houses. A religious teacher and clergyman, he was dubbed "Father Bluebeard" by some of the Belgian press.
Pándy was serving a life sentence without parole when he died on 23 December 2013.
Early life and marriages
Pándy was born on 1 June 1927, in Chop, Carpathian Ruthenia (then under Czechoslovak administration), a village just across the border from Hungary, to Hungarian parents. Pándy was a church councillor for the Reformed Church in Hungary when he met his first wife, Ilona Sőrés. Following the failed Hungarian Revolution of 1956, they fled to Belgium, where Pándy became a pastor for a small Hungarian Protestant community in Brussels and a religious teacher for the United Protestant Church.
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