Carine Russo

Family She married Gino Russo in 1982.

Her daughter, Mélissa, was one of six girls and women abducted by Marc Dutroux between 1995 and 1996. On 24 June 1995, 8-year-old Mélissa and her friend, Julie Lejeune, also 8 years old, were abducted from Grâce-Hollogne and imprisoned in a dungeon beneath Dutroux's house away in Marcinelle, Charleroi, where they eventually starved to death while Dutroux was serving time in prison for theft. On 17 August 2016, exactly twenty years after the exhumation of Mélissa and Lejeune's bodies, Carine Russo published a book, Quatorze mois , in which she included letters she had written to her daughter during the fourteen months she was missing.