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Staf Van Eyken Biography
Staf Van Eyken (born April 21, 1951 in Bonheiden) is a Belgian serial killer who strangled three women between October 1971 and March 1972 in Mechelen and Bonheiden. Because he liked to bite his victims, he got the nickname The Vampire of Muizen. In 1974, he was sentenced to death by an Antwerp cour d’assises, which was automatically converted to life imprisonment.
Staf Van Eyken grew up as an unruly child who was often mistreated by his stepfather. In his own words, he was sexually abused by his aunt for four years. In August 1965, when Staf was 14 years old, he molested an 11-year-old girl and was sent to a rehabilitation center in Mol. He moved from one institution to another, performed his military service at 18, and then worked as a railroad worker in Muizen’s marshalling yard.
On October 13, 1971, Eyken murdered his first victim: 18-year-old Marie-Thérèse Rosseel, maid of a local textile baron. He raped and then strangled her, also biting her on several intimate places and stripping her naked, an act which later earned him the nickname “The Vampire of Muizen”.
On March 19, 1972, Eyken murdered his third and final victim Lutgarde Van der Wilt, a 19-year-old student with whom he had danced in a youth club. She too was raped, strangled and, like the previous victims, bitten on the breasts. When her body was found, Eyken was cycling along the location and behaved rather strange. The investigators found this suspicious and stopped him on his way to his house. There they saw that he had a blood stain on his sleeve, and was immediately arrested. Eyken admitted to the murders and explicitly insisted that he be locked up. Fearing the dark side of himself, he would never ask for a conditional release later on.
Eyken is currently serving his sentence in the prison of Leuven-Centraal. With more than 45 years behind bars (pre-custody included), he is the longest-serving living detainee in Belgium. The current number two is Freddy Horion, who has been imprisoned for sixfold murder since 1979.
In the beginning of 2016, Eyken unintentionally provoked a great deal of commotion when Federal Public Service Justice Koen Geens, despite advice from prison management, gave him permission to leave the prison for one day to visit his sick friend, Jef Lannoo. This decision was controversial because, as a result of the tightening of the law in penitentiary leave days introduced by former Federal Public Service Justice Laurette Onkelinx in 2006, which did not allow parole. Eyken’s lawyer Walter Damen, however, pointed out that in 2006 Eyken had already received more than 80 penitentiary leave days that always ran smoothly. Moreover, according to Damen, the new law still allows for the justice to grant an occasional nightlife permit.
What's Staf Van Eyken Net Worth 2024
| Net Worth (2024) | $1 Million (Approx.) |
| Net Worth (2023) | Under Review |
| Net Worth (2022) | Under Review |
| Net Worth (2021) | Under Review |
| Net Worth (2020) | Under Review |
Staf Van Eyken Family
| Father's Name | Not Available |
| Mother's Name | Not Available |
| Siblings | Not Available |
| Spouse | Not Available |
| Childrens | Not Available |
