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10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Francis Shelden and John Stamford.md

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+tags:
+  - francis-shelden
+  - john-stamford
+  - spartacus-international
+  - north-fox-island
+  - amsterdam
+  - child-pornography
+  - elm-guest-house
+  - international-network
+  - pedophile-information-exchange
+  - child-sex-tourism
+category: "Belgium Scandals"
+summary: "Francis Duffield Shelden belonged to an old-money establishment family in Michigan, with lineage tracing back to a governor, senator, and United States Secretary of War."
+start: 1976
+location: North Fox Island, Michigan
+---
+
+### The North Fox Island Operation
+
+Francis Duffield Shelden belonged to an old-money establishment family in Michigan, with lineage tracing back to a governor, senator, and United States Secretary of War. Endowed with a trust fund, Shelden pursued a life of philanthropy that took a particular interest in youth charity. He served on the board of the Cranbrook Institute and Boys Republic, volunteered for Big Brother programs, and worked part-time as a geology professor at Wayne State University. Behind this respectable facade, Shelden owned a private island in Lake Michigan called North Fox Island, where in 1976 he established a summer camp called Brother Pauls Childrens Mission. The camp, incorporated through [[Adam Starchild]] and linked to a sham New Jersey church called The Church of New Revelation, was in reality an international child pornography and prostitution operation. When Michigan police arrested a gym teacher named [[Gerald Richards]] in July 1976, Richards confessed and implicated Shelden as a principal figure in a nationwide child exploitation network. Shelden fled Michigan before an arrest warrant could be authorised, transferring his assets into offshore trusts and escaping to Amsterdam.
+
+### From PAN to Spartacus International
+
+In Amsterdam, Shelden started a newsletter called PAN (Paedo Alert News) under the penname Frank Torey, a nod to the publishing legacy of [[Hermes]], the Chicago-based newsletter used to facilitate [[John David Norman]]s [[Odyssey Network]]. PAN served as the European equivalent, platforming an organisation called [[Spartacus International]]. The first edition of PAN was published in 1979 through a publishing house owned by [[John Stamford]], a defrocked Anglican priest who had fled Britain in 1972 after being convicted of operating a child pornography service through the mail. Stamford ran the [[Spartacus Club]] and published travel guides that functioned as a global child sex tourism business, sponsoring boy brothels in countries such as the Philippines and Thailand. The operation was exposed by Fleet Street press in the mid-1980s, leading to a raid of his Amsterdam estate where authorities discovered vast quantities of child pornography.
+
+### The Elm Guest House Connection
+
+The network Shelden and Stamford built extended across continents and decades. Stamfords [[Spartacus Club]] operated a child brothel out of a suburban townhouse in London called the [[Elm Guest House]], where a VIP clientele that reportedly included parliamentary ministers and royal staff were serviced. The 1982 raid on the Elm Guest House served as the genesis of what later became known as the Westminster Pedophile Dossier. Commercial agent [[Peter Glencross]], a close associate of Stamford, had reportedly persuaded the owners to renovate the property into a spa and sauna facility for members of Club Spartacus. The Elm Guest House displayed a sign reading Spartacus, Club - Welcome, and letter correspondence from [[Spartacus International]] to the property dated from 1981 has been documented. This direct chain of evidence links Sheldens North Fox Island operation through Amsterdam to the heart of British establishment abuse scandals.
+
+### Allegations of Murder on Film
+
+In 1992 a German tabloid reported that Scotland Yard suspected Stamford of having trafficked in films depicting the actual murder of children, alleging that twenty boys had died after sex orgies in England and that the footage had been sold to select customers for approximately 1,500 marks per tape. A former associate of Stamford gave testimony at his trial accusing him of producing a video in which a Filipino child was tortured and killed, with the body allegedly buried beneath a house under construction. Similar allegations had emerged years earlier during the investigation into the murder of Jason Swift, a fourteen-year-old boy killed during a male orgy in Hackney, east London, in 1985. Around the same period, a teenager named Andrew Ash claimed he had been taken to Amsterdam in 1988 and forced to film in a warehouse where a twelve-year-old boy was raped successively by twelve men, beaten with chains, run over by a motorcycle, and dumped in a canal. When authorities finally cracked down on Stamford in Amsterdam, he fled to Germany and transferred control of Spartacus International to a German publisher, before eventually being charged in Belgium in 1993 with incitement to the sexual exploitation of children. He died of a heart attack during his trial in December 1995. Francis Shelden died a year later in September 1996. Belgian authorities had been investigating a possible connection between Stamfords network and the child trafficking activities of [[Marc Dutroux]], demonstrating the enduring and interlinked nature of these international exploitation networks.
+
+[^1]: Dovey S 2023 Eye of the Chickenhawk United States Thehotstar

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10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Gerrit Ulrich and Robbie Van Der Plancken.md

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+tags:
+  - Event
+  - Child_Pornography
+  - Netherlands
+  - Germany
+  - Murder
+  - Cover-up
+  - Apollo_Network
+category: "Belgium Scandals"
+summary: "In the mid-1990s, a private investigator named Marcel Vervloesem was investigating the disappearance of Manuel Schadwald for an NGO called the Morkhoven Workgroup when he came across Lothar Glandorf's name in a 1992 police report detailing a raid on..."
+date: 1998-06-20
+location: Zandvoort, Netherlands
+---
+
+### The Zandvoort Discovery
+
+In the mid-1990s, a private investigator named [[Marcel Vervloesem]] was investigating the disappearance of [[Manuel Schadwald]] for an NGO called the Morkhoven Workgroup when he came across [[Lothar Glandorf]]'s name in a 1992 police report detailing a raid on an underage sex party in the Dutch town of Wallre. The report stated Glandorf had been arrested at the party in the company of a teenager named [[Robbie Van Der Plancken]]. Vervloesem managed to track this teenager down in Amsterdam sometime in June 1998 and ambushed him with questions about Manuel Schadwald during a TV interview filmed by journalists from the Belgian public broadcaster RTBF. During this interview, Vervloesem's associates noticed an interested onlooker nearby and followed him to the Dutch seaside resort town of Zandvoort. This turned out to be a German associate of Van Der Plancken named [[Gerrit-Jan Ulrich]], a forty-nine-year-old computer technician who owned a computer store called Cube Hardware.
+
+Under circumstances not entirely clear, Ulrich invited Vervloesem to meet with him at his apartment. Inside were numerous computers dialed up to five phone lines, and the place was filled with digital storage disks and networking equipment. Ulrich revealed himself to be the administrator of a child pornography website called [[Apollo Bulletin Board Service]], and handed Vervloesem a collection of encoded disks containing thousands of images and videos of violent child abuse, along with information on their producers and lists of those who paid to access them from around the world. According to Vervloesem, Ulrich feared for his life and sought some kind of life insurance against a network of child pornographers who produced the materials he distributed online. One of Ulrich's neighbors would later say he had heart disease and not long to live.
+
+### Murder and the Apollo Disks
+
+A few days after this meeting, Ulrich fled the Netherlands and called Vervloesem from Italy. He said he was frightened and had not long to live, and told Vervloesem about a cache of digital disks hidden beneath a floorboard of his apartment which contained information on his network of associates. A few days after he made this phone call, Ulrich's body was discovered in an Italian forest on June 20, 1998. He had been shot multiple times, and Italian police arrested Robbie Van Der Plancken as a suspect in his murder.
+
+When Dutch police were notified of Ulrich's death, they inspected his apartment and noticed obvious signs of a child pornography operation. A surveillance team was assigned to monitor the apartment, and within a few days Vervloesem was caught breaking in to retrieve the disks Ulrich had told him were hidden beneath a floorboard. These, along with hundreds of others in Ulrich's apartment, were found to contain tens of thousands of images and videos showing extremely violent sexual abuse of children, and even infants. A child psychiatrist who inspected the materials stated he had never seen anything like it, describing pictures that showed very disgusting things, sexual abuse, violence, and the tying up of young children, including children aged four to five, eight to nine, and one child about eighteen months. Some films were described as almost killing, very special, very aggressive, very hard, mechanically brutal.
+
+The disks found beneath Ulrich's floorboard had been hidden along with bags of child-sized clothing. These contained information on seemingly a network of suppliers involved in producing and selling these films and images. Two of those identified by Dutch authorities were [[Warwick Spinks]] and [[Lothar Glandorf]]. Warwick Spinks' name was also found in an address book belonging to Robbie Van Der Plancken.
+
+### The Death of Gina Pardaens-Bernaer
+
+What police had not seized were the Apollo Disks Ulrich handed Vervloesem when the pair met in person. Vervloesem had not trusted Dutch authorities, so he passed them on to a colleague in the Morkhoven Workgroup, who made copies before they were given to police. This was done by a woman named [[Gina Pardaens-Bernaer]], a computer specialist who had worked closely with Vervloesem on the Manuel Schadwald case. On November 15, 1998, a few months after she took possession of the Apollo Disks, her body was found inside the wreckage of her car, which had crashed into the concrete pillar of a bridge at full speed. Pardaens-Bernaer had previously identified a perpetrator linked to the [[Marc Dutroux]] network in materials from the Apollo disks. Her death was officially ruled a suicide.[^1]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: Dovey, S. (2023). *Eye of the Chickenhawk*. United States: Thehotstar.