That ' s right . There are dozens , but four very significant deaths in mysterious circumstances followed straight after the refusal to bring Dutroux to trial . The frequency of curious coincidences prompted the leak of the socalled Xfiles , without which we would most likely know very little . He has admitted to all the murders , led police to graves etc , but never faced any charges . His adapted statement for two of the victims is a scientific impossibilityhighly improbable on a number of different fronts . The biggest giveaway is the postmortem on one victim which showed her being sexually abused 2 weeks prior to death , while being held captive in Dutroux ' s cellar . The problem for the authorities is at the time of that rape , and for four months beforehand , Dutroux was in prison . The parents , and the police involved , are all in agreement that another individual widely speculated at the time to be Michel Nihoul or another unidentified person must have known about whereabouts of the cellar during that period but every imaginable obstacle was laid in place to essentially ensure cellar was never investigated forensically .