Episodes
Wednesday Oct 09, 2024
95 - The Belgian X-Files 18 - Dutroux Affair vii: C'est comme ça que ça termine
Wednesday Oct 09, 2024
Wednesday Oct 09, 2024
Join Nic and I for the final Belgian X-File.
This is how it ends.
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Friday Sep 20, 2024
94 - The Belgian X-Files 17 - Dutroux Affair vi: A World Inside the World
Friday Sep 20, 2024
Friday Sep 20, 2024
Myself and @IRC_NIC discuss the sheer size of the case and consider what The Sprawl means. We go long on how the cops and the media conspired to kill the network angle, and then we look at the truly global scale of the Dutroux Affair and break down what, exactly, the Network was, its historical origins, the social context, how it worked, where it came from, and how it dealt with the threat of exposure.
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Friday Aug 30, 2024
93 - The Belgian X-Files 16: Dutroux Affair v - Witnesses
Friday Aug 30, 2024
Friday Aug 30, 2024
EXTREME CONTENT WARNING
Regina Louf talks about her experience in the network, the pressure mounts on the investigating team, people continue to die, the families of the victims are pushed to the edge of madness, and Belgium finds itself on the brink of revolution.
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Tuesday Aug 27, 2024
**UNLOCKED** - The Parapolitics of Britpop: Omnibus
Tuesday Aug 27, 2024
Tuesday Aug 27, 2024
Seemed fitting to unlock these two episodes, solder them together through the miracle of sound editing, and make them free to all given the news this week of Oasis reforming. Enjoy.
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Friday Aug 23, 2024
92 - The Belgian X-Files 15 - Dutroux Affair iv - Casework
Friday Aug 23, 2024
Friday Aug 23, 2024
Dutroux and his accomplices start to talk, the people of Belgium try to process news of the staggering investigative failings, prosecutors Bourlet and Connerotte gaze into the abyss, and a young woman steps forward with astonishing information about corruption and savagery at the heart of the Belgian establishment.
Next episode Thursday 29th.
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Sunday Jul 28, 2024
Sunday Jul 28, 2024
@irc_nic guides us through 1996.
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Tuesday Jul 16, 2024
90 - The Belgian X-Files 13: Dutroux Affair ii - Voices in the Walls
Tuesday Jul 16, 2024
Tuesday Jul 16, 2024
EXTREME CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains some very harrowing and upsetting material. I don't recommend you listen to it if you're in a bad place/are likely to be triggered by the subject matter. Please take care.
The part about the murders.
@irc_nic joins me once again for this journey into Belgium's heart of darkness.
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Saturday Jun 29, 2024
89 - The Belgian X-Files 12: Dutroux Affair i - The Lost Girls (1956 - 1995)
Saturday Jun 29, 2024
Saturday Jun 29, 2024
Nic (@irc_nic) guides us through the life story of Marc Dutroux. We look at his childhood, his descent into crime, and how he may have become a fixer for the Belgian political mafia.
"The Kludde" read by Michael S. Judge of Death is Just Around the Corner with our immense thanks.
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Tuesday Jun 11, 2024
The Belgian X-Files 11: Land of the Dead
Tuesday Jun 11, 2024
Tuesday Jun 11, 2024
Nic (@irc_nic) joins us once again for a panoramic sweep across Belgium at the end of the Cold War, and on the eve of the Dutroux Affair in multi-chapter anthology style episode.
0:53: Prologue
10:00: Chapter 1 - The Paul Vanden Boeynants Kidnapping
52:15: Chapter 2 - The Belgian Gladio Inquiry
82:40: Chapter 3 - The Murder of Gerald Bull
91:21: Chapter 4 - The Murder of André Cools
131:26: Chapter 5 - The Atlas Report and the Nebula
143:38: Chapter 6 - The Murder of Katrien De Cuyper
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Wednesday May 22, 2024
87 - The Belgian X-Files 10: BRABANT KILLERS REDUX - Aftermath iii
Wednesday May 22, 2024
Wednesday May 22, 2024
Tonight we tie off Brabant Killers Redux by looking at an especially bizarre event that occurred just before the final massacre, using it as an illustrative example of how deep into the weeds you can fall, if you so wish, in trying to understand this most eerie of true stories. We then explore various theories people have put forward over the years to explain the crimes, and offer our own holistic take for good measure. We close by discussing what became of major players in the case, and set up threads we will pursue for the remaining episodes of TBXF.
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