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Christine Van Hees was killed in 1984 and partly burned in the disused mushroom farm (champignonnière) at Auderghem, on the outskirts of Brussels. The murder was not solved, and the file stayed with the Brussels investigating judge [[Jean-Claude Van Espen]].[^2][^4] She was fifteen or fourteen.[^5]
Christine Van Hees was killed in February 1984 and found bound and partly burned in the disused mushroom farm (champignonnière) at Auderghem, on the outskirts of Brussels. The murder was not solved, and the file stayed with the Brussels investigating judge [[Jean-Claude Van Espen]].[^2][^4] She was sixteen.[^5]
### The X1 Testimony
In 1996 the witness X1, [[Regina Louf]], told the Neufchâteau investigators of the murder of a girl she knew as "Chrissie." "It was a sort of bondage," she later said, "so her legs and her hands and her throat were connected with the same rope, and so when she moved she strangled herself." She said that [[Jean-Michel Nihoul]] took part in the killing and that [[Marc Dutroux]] watched; Nihoul denied it.[^3] She also named [[Bernard Weinstein]] and the lawyer [[Michel Vander Elst]].[^1] The farm had since been demolished, but she described its wallpaper, sinks, hooks in the ceiling and a network of stairs and adjoining rooms. Rudi Hoskens, one of the officers assigned to re-examine the case, said: "She gave us some details that made us think it's impossible to give without having been there at that place." The son of the farm's former owner said: "I have never met Regina Louf. All I know is that she could not have described the house as well as she did unless she'd been there. It was two houses joined together in a strange way." The Prosecutor General of Liège, Anne Thily, told a reporter in 2002 that Louf was a fantasist who had invented everything.[^3]
In 1996 the witness X1, [[Regina Louf]], told the Neufchâteau investigators of the murder of a girl she knew as "Chrissie." "It was a sort of bondage," she later said, "so her legs and her hands and her throat were connected with the same rope, and so when she moved she strangled herself." She said that [[Jean-Michel Nihoul]] took part in the killing and that [[Marc Dutroux]] watched; Nihoul denied it.[^3] She also named [[Bernard Weinstein]] and the lawyer [[Michel Vander Elst]].[^1] The farm had since been demolished, but she described its wallpaper, sinks, hooks in the ceiling and a network of stairs and adjoining rooms. She also mentioned details that had never been made public, among them a metal pin in the dead girl's wrist.[^5] Rudi Hoskens, one of the officers assigned to re-examine the case, said: "She gave us some details that made us think it's impossible to give without having been there at that place." The son of the farm's former owner said: "I have never met Regina Louf. All I know is that she could not have described the house as well as she did unless she'd been there. It was two houses joined together in a strange way." The Prosecutor General of Liège, Anne Thily, told a reporter in 2002 that Louf was a fantasist who had invented everything.[^3]
Louf's account led the gendarme Aimé Bille to the old file, and he found that the earlier investigation under Van Espen had "multiple gaps."[^4] Van Hees had swum weekly at a pool above the premises of [[Radio Activité]], where Nihoul was active, and skated at Poseidon in Woluwe, which Dutroux also frequented.[^1]
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[^1]: "Who did not kill Christine Van Hees?" *De Morgen,* September 22, 1998; not examined, cited here as the page's earlier source.
[^2]: Chambre des Représentants de Belgique. *Enquête parlementaire sur la manière dont l'enquête, dans ses volets policiers et judiciaires, a été menée dans l'affaire Dutroux-Nihoul et consorts,* rapport complémentaire, Doc. 713/8-96/97, February 16, 1998, chapter V; translated from the French. https://www.dekamer.be/kvvcr/pdf_sections/comm/dutroux/49K0713008.pdf
[^3]: Frenkiel, Olenka. "Belgium's silent heart of darkness." *The Observer,* May 5, 2002. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/may/05/dutroux.featuresreview
[^5]: *The Observer* gives her age as fifteen in its account of Louf's description; this page earlier gave fourteen, from a source not now identified.
[^5]: Smoltczyk, Alexander. "Im Netz der Dossiers." *Der Spiegel,* no. 42/2001, October 14, 2001; translated from the German. https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/im-netz-der-dossiers-a-c9fe5b47-0002-0001-0000-000020353850 *The Observer* gives her age as fifteen in its account of Louf's description, and this page earlier gave fourteen from a source not now identified.
[^4]: Sénat de Belgique. Proposition visant à instituer une commission d'enquête parlementaire chargée d'enquêter sur l'éloignement de deux enquêteurs de la cellule d'enquête bruxelloise « Neufchâteau », déposée par M. Frans Lozie, Doc. 2-563/1, October 9, 2000.