Jean-Claude Lacote and Hilde Van Acker were a Belgian couple who became internationally notorious after the 1996 murder of British businessman Simon Dale, a crime they committed in Knokke-Heist before fleeing the country and vanishing for more than two decades. Skilled con artists, they slipped through Europe, the United States, South Africa, Brazil, Mauritius, and Ivory Coast while living under fake identities, running fraud schemes, and even raising a daughter on the run.