Andras Pandy in custody (Reuters/Landrov)

The newspapers in Brussels would later call him "The Diabolical Pastor," but there was nothing in Andras Pandy's calm and quiet demeanor that would indicate the depth of his potential for depravity, authorities said.

Short and disheveled, with a bit of a paunch and a mane of unkempt gray hair, he was articulate but reserved when dealing with strangers. A refugee, he had fled his native Hungary after the bloody uprising against Soviet authority there in 1956. He ultimately drifted to Belgium where he managed to find work, first as a pastor at a church for fellow Hungarians who had also fled the community regime, and then later teaching religion in Flemish schools.

At about the same time that he fled Hungary, Pandy married his first wife. Her name was Illona Sores, and she bore the pastor four children, the eldest was Agnes.

The other Pandy house in Brussels (Reuters/Landrov)

By all appearances, the family was the picture of propriety. Pandy was a clever businessman, authorities would say, who traded on his public image as a man of God for profit. He founded an organization -- Ydnap, his own name spelled backwards providing foster care for children orphaned during the revolution in Romania that ousted dictator Nicolas Ceausescu, the Hungarian newspaper Nepszava reported. Authorities believe he used that foundation to raise enough money to buy two houses in Brussels, authorities said.

But behind the closed doors of one of those houses, a 19th Century manse where the Pandys lived, the picture was quite different. The family was a study in dysfunction.

As investigators would later learn, the slightly effeminate preacher was a brutal martinet in his own home. He was, as a report in a European newspaper would later put it, "an authoritarian bullya sexually voracious predator who advertised for partners in the Hungarian press, and an abuser of his own children."

In 1967, after 11 years of marriage, Sores and Pandy divorced. Sores mysteriously vanished. For his part, Pandy explained that she had simply returned to Hungary.

Authorities would later discover that Sores had been one of the victims of the killer cleric and his sex slave daughter.

In the meantime, Agnes, it now appears, had become at least one of the objects of Pandy's rapacious sexual appetite. She would later tell authorities, she was just 13 years old when her father began sexually abusing her. She would describe herself as his sex slave, according to published reports.

The sexual abuse, authorities would later say, continued even after 1979 when Pandy met and married his second wife, a single mother of three children named Edith Fintor, whom he had found through an advertisement he placed in a lonely-hearts column in a Hungarian newspaper. She would later bear the Priappan preacher two more children.

Fintor's young daughter Timea appealed to Pandy's sordid sexuality as well, authorities said. He began a lengthy sexual relationship with the young girl. He was, authorities say, as secretive about his liaisons with his daughter and stepdaughter as any predatory pedophile might be. But when at last it seemed as if his secret might be revealed, Pandy, authorities charged, was ready to go to unthinkable lengths to protect himself.

That became clear in 1986, Agnes Pandy told authorities, when Timea became pregnant with her stepfather's child. Authorities now believe that Timea's pregnancy may have been the catalyst for Pandy's killing spree. Timea's stepfather wanted her dead. Her stepsister, Agnes tried to oblige him.

Agnes later admitted that she tried to bludgeon her sister, but her sister managed to escape and fled with her infant son, first to Canada and then back to Hungary. Somehow, she managed to remain out of Pandy's reach.

Other members of Pandy's family were not so lucky.

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