The Apollo Disks were a collection of encoded digital disks containing evidence of the international child pornography network operated through the [[Apollo Bulletin Board Service]] by [[Gerrit-Jan Ulrich]] from Zandvoort, Netherlands. Ulrich handed the disks to private investigator [[Marcel Vervloesem]] during their meeting in June 1998, before fleeing to Italy where he was murdered. Ulrich also hid a cache of additional disks beneath a floorboard in his apartment, which contained information on his network of associates and clients.[^1] Vervloesem passed the Apollo Disks to his colleague [[Gina Pardaens-Bernaer]] at the [[Morkhoven Workgroup]], who made copies before they were given to Dutch police. Pardaens-Bernaer identified a perpetrator linked to the [[Marc Dutroux]] network in a snuff film on the disks, telling friends before her death about "a video tape in which a girl is being murdered during a sex party" where "she believed one of the perpetrators to be an acquaintance of [[Michel Nihoul]]." Two days before her death in a car crash in November 1998, Pardaens-Bernaer sent copies of the Apollo Disks to the International Committee for the Dignity of the Child in Geneva with a letter stating her life had been threatened.[^1] The disks found at Ulrich's apartment contained tens of thousands of images and videos showing extremely violent sexual abuse of children, including infants. Information on the disks identified suppliers including [[Warwick Spinks]] and [[Lothar Glandorf]]. Members of the Morkhoven Workgroup believed they identified [[Katrien de Cuyper]] in pornographic photos found on the Apollo Disks. A document on the disks contained a detailed order list for accessing infants for sex.[^1] ### Footnotes [^1]: Dovey, S. (2023). *Eye of the Chickenhawk*. United States: Thehotstar.