Editing Marc Dutroux (section)

=== Main crimes and arrests ===
* '''24 June 1995''' – The eight-year-old girls Julie Lejeune and Mélissa Russo are abducted in Liège.
* '''22 August 1995''' – The 17-year-old An Marchal and the 19-year-old Eefje Lambrecks are kidnapped in Ostend.
* '''25 November 1995''' – The 43-year-old Bernard Weinstein, a French companion of Dutroux, is killed by Dutroux (presumably on this date).<ref>[http://www.standaard.be/artikel/detail.aspx?artikelid=DEXA23022004_028 De moord waar geen haan naar kraaide], De Standaard, 20 februari 2004</ref>
* '''13 December 1995''' – Following tips from witnesses and Dutroux's mother, Chief Guard René Michaux searches Dutroux's house in Marcinelle. Children's voices are heard, but Michaux believes them to be coming from outside.
* '''28 May 1996''' – 12-year-old Sabine Dardenne is abducted in Kain, Walloon.
* '''9 August 1996''' – Laetitia Delhez, 14, is abducted in Bertrix.
* '''13 August 1996''' – Dutroux, his wife Michelle Martin, and a friend, Michel Lelièvre, are arrested on the basis of witness statements.
* '''15 August 1996''' – Police discovered Sabine Dardenne and Laetitia Delhez, who were hidden in a cell in the basement of Dutroux's house.
* '''16 August 1996''' – Police arrest Michel Nihoul on suspicion of conspiracy.
* '''17 August 1996''' – The bodies of Lejeune and Russo are dug up in the garden of a house that Dutroux owns in Sars-la-Buissière. The girls are found to have died of starvation. The corpse of Bernard Weinstein is also discovered in the same garden.
* '''18 August 1996''' – Dutroux and Lelièvre confess to the kidnapping of Marchal and Lambrecks, but deny that the teenagers were murdered.
* '''3 September 1996''' – The police find the bodies of Marchal and Lambrecks under a shed at Weinstein's house. The two had been buried alive.