Tabloid headlines in their native Belgium dubbed them THE DIABOLICAL LOVERS. In America they might have been called the Honeymoon Killers. Aurore Martin and Peter Uwe Schmitt allegedly found lonely singles, married them and then murdered them in order to collect the insurance money. Belgian authorities had been hunting the couple for months. Last week FBI agents arrested them in Miami, where they had spent their loot on an oceanfront condo and the Florida high life.
Schmitt, 27, and Martin, 28, met at an indoor rock-climbing center in 1991. A year later, Schmitt married 20-year-old Ursula Dechamps. After five months, the...
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