Jan Caubergh, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Jan Caubergh

Belgian criminal (1934-2013)

Date of Birth: 18-Sep-1934

Place of Birth: Lanaken, Flemish Region, Belgium

Date of Death: 29-Nov-2013

Profession: serial killer, criminal

Nationality: Belgium

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Jan Caubergh

  • Jan Caubergh (September 18, 1934, Lanaken – November 29, 2013, Bruges) was a Belgian serial killer.
  • In 1966, he received 25 years of forced labour for his participation in a robbery in which his gang shot a nurse who was severely maimed and later committed suicide.
  • In 1977 he was released on parole. On February 21, 1979, he raped his pregnant neighbour, 19-year-old Yvonne Smits, shooting her in the back of the head afterwards.
  • Later he strangled his girlfriend, 24-year-old Rina Van Geldorp and their five-month-old son Nicky.
  • He also wounded a policeman with a Long Rifle, later rigging up his police car in an attempt to injure another two policemen.
  • After a manhunt lasting several days in which he hid himself on barges on the Albert Canal and a bottle stopper factory in Deurne, he was arrested in a hotel in Athenembuurt, Antwerp.
  • He was given the death sentence, but it was later converted to a life imprisonment. In 2003 Caubergh stabbed a prison guide with a cake knife during a trip out of the central prison in Leuven.
  • The supervisor survived the attack.
  • In September 2010, Caubergh received another 12 years in prison.
  • He spent more than 45 years of his life in prison, the last 34 and a half of which were uninterrupted.
  • That made him one of the longest-serving detainees in the country. On November 5, 2013, several reports from the Belgian media announced that Caubergh had died in the penitentiary complex in Bruges.
  • This was denied a few days later by the Belgian Prison System.
  • He eventually died on November 29, 2013.
  • At that time he was the oldest detainee in Belgium.

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