While Dutroux was in prison 8-year-old Julie Lejeune and Mélissa Russo starved to death in a dungeon in his basement in Marcinelle. His wife Michelle Martin allegedly fed her Dutroux's German shepherd dogs but did not follow his orders to feed the girls claiming she was too afraid to go into the dungeon. (20 March 1996)
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Tuesday 17th of November 1936 (-) — Actor John Bowers commits suicide by drowning. A deputy sheriff friend identified the body and disclosed that the actor had declared his intention to commit suicide by getting into a boat and "sailing away into the sunset."