Crime Most French: Recent Episodes
Crime Most French
Episode 101: Unscripted update to episode 43
On the 5th September 2012, The Al Hili family is murdered in the French Alps alongside a local cyclist on a road side rest stop. This is an update to the case.
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Head to Cime Most Scots to discover our first Scottish Episode: The Fishy Triangle
For our inaugural episode we’re looking at a crime that’s a landmark in Scotland, and like a lot of murder cases involves matters of the heart. When a lonely fisherman’s wife seeks warmth in the arms of another, but then decides she’s made an awful decision, things turn deadly, and end in the last hanging in Scotland, but why was it seen as controversial?
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Episode 1: The Fishy Triangle
For our inaugural episode we’re looking at a crime that’s a landmark in Scotland, and like a lot of murder cases involves matters of the heart. When a lonely fisherman’s wife seeks warmth in the arms of another, but then decides she’s made an awful decision, things turn deadly, and end in the last hanging in Scotland, but why was it seen as controversial?
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https://crimemostscots.com/2024/10/09/crime-most-scots-episode-1-trailer-the-fishy-triangle/
Episode 100 Announcement: Jacques Mesrine
Mesrine has been in the media a lot. There was even a 2 part film made about him a few years ago. Who was he and what happened to him?
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Episode 99: The Godard Affair
On the 31th August 1999, Yves Godard, a GP, and his family disappear without a trace.
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Episode 98: The Ludivine Chambet Affair
In November 2013, a retirement home is faced with a worrying problem: several of their patients have died without a good explanation. The police gets involved to solve the mystery.
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Episode 97: The Jean-Pierre Treiber Affair
In November 2004, Geraldine Girault, daughter of a famous actor, and Katia Lherbier disappear without a trace. A man is quickly arrested, but is he really guilty?
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Episode 96: The Troadec Affair
On the 23rd February 2017, Helene is worried that she hasn’t heard from her sister’s family for a week. She calls the authorities that make a grim discovery.
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Episode 95: The disappearance of Nadine Chabert
On the 10th June 2003, Nadine Chabert disappears near Fos-sur-Mer. She leaves no trace and nobody ever hears from her again.
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Episode 94: Mamadou Traore, the bare hand killer
In 1996, several women are violently attacked with something hard enough to crush their skulls. It takes a long time and several attacks for the police to catch up.
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Episode 93: The Richard Roman Affair
On the 26th July 1988, Celine, a 7 years old, disappears. She’s found murdered the next day and 2 culprits are quickly identified.
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Episode 92: The Carole PrinAffair
On the 17th May 1995, Carole Prin gets into labour. But she never makes it to the hospital. She completely disappears. The inquiry goes in circles for 5 years before it is solved.
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Episode 91: The Cecile Combettes Affair
On the 16th April 1847, the body of a young woman, Cecile Combettes, is found against a wall in the cemetery joining a monastery in Toulouse.
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Episode 90: The Dreyfus Affair part 2
Dreyfus is in prison on Devil's Island. Things are looking grim. But his brother, Matthieu, makes it his mission to prove his brother's innocence through many twists and turns in the case.
This is part 2 of the story, make sure you listen to part 1 first.
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https://crimemostfrench.com/2024/05/12/episode-90-the-dreyfus-affair-part-2/
Episode 89: The Dreyfus Affair part 1
In September 1894, a letter is passed to the French military secret services that seems to show that secret documents were about to be transmitted to a foreign power. Captain Dreyfus is quickly found to be the source and prosecuted.
This is part 1 of 2 of the case. It’s quite long and we decided to split it over 2 episodes.
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Episode 88: The Pranzini Affair
On the 17th March 1887, the body of a woman, her servant, and the daughter of her servant are discovered horribly mutilated in their flat in Paris.
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Episode 87: The Narumi Kurosaki Affair
On the 5th December 2016 in the evening, a group of friends are worried about not having heard from Narumi Kurosaki for a while. They knock on her door, but there is no response. By the 15th December, the police gets involved, but Narumi is still nowhere
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Episode 86: The Spiderman of Paris
During the night of the 20th May 2010, 5 grand master paintings are stolen from the Museum of Modern Art in Paris. The alarm isn’t triggered, nobody is seen on CCTV. It’s like a ghost robbed the place.
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Episode 85: The murder of Caroline Dickinson
On a summer night 1996, Caroline Dickinson, 13, is found dead in a youth hostel in Britany. Nobody heard or saw anything. How is that possible?
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Episode 84: The Strasbourg Strangler
In 1986-1987, several burglaries in a quiet area of Strasbourg turn into murder. The cops know they have a serial killer on their hands, but they struggle to find who it could be.
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Episode 83: the Marseille Ripper
Between May and November 2008, many women disappear in Marseille without a trace. Searches take place, but no body is found. Is a serial killer on the loose?
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Episode 82: Vincenzo Aiutino, the man with 50 affairs
In 1991 and 1992, several bodies are found in a forest Lorraine, in the East of France. Is it a serial killer?
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https://crimemostfrench.com/2023/12/31/episode-82-vincenzo-aiutino-the-man-with-50-affairs/
Episode 81: The robbery of the century
On the weekend of the 17th-18th July 1976, a gang robs the Societe Generale’s bank vault in what would become to be known as the robbery of the century.
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Episode 80: The Disappeared of the A6 part 3, the Marthe Buisson Affair
On the night of the 15th August 1987, two German tourists discover the body of a young woman on the hard shoulder along the A6 motorway. This is part 3 of our series on the disappeared of the A6.
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https://crimemostfrench.com/2023/12/24/episode-80-the-disappeared-of-the-a6-part-3-the-marthe-buisson-affair/
Episode 79: Gilles Andruet: chess and death
On the 22nd August 1995, the lifeless body of an international chess champion, Gilles Andruet, is found not far from his car. He had been beaten to death.
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https://crimemostfrench.com/2023/12/10/episode-79-gilles-andruet-chess-and-death/
Episode 78: The Disappeared of the A6 part 2 - The Christelle Blétry story
Between 1986 and 1997, 14 young women disappeared near the A6 in the South East of France. Christelle Bletry is one of the last ones to disappear but her disappearance had important repercussions for other victims.
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Episode 77: Manuela Gonzales, black widow or just unlucky?
Manuela Gonzales is unlucky in love. Over time, she has lost several husbands. Is she a black widow?
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https://crimemostfrench.com/2023/11/12/episode-77-manuela-gonzales-black-widow-or-just-unlucky
Episode 76: The Disappeared of the A6 part 1 The Christelle Maillery Affair
There is a stretch of the A6, in the South-East of France along the Rhone valley that has seen an unusual number of disappearances over the years. In this first episode, we’ll visit the Christelle Maillery disappearance.
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https://crimemostfrench.com/2023/10/29/episode-76-the-disappeared-of-the-a6-part-1-the-christelle-maillery-affair/
Episode 75: The dismembered body on the canal
From the 24th May 2016 and for a few days, body parts are found one after the other in or near the Canal du Midi. The murderer clearly tried to make the victim disappear. But where is the head?
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https://crimemostfrench.com/2023/10/15/episode-75-the-dismembered-body-in-the-canal/
Episode 74: The Shadow Killer
Marcel Barbeault is accused of 8 murders in the 70s in Nogent-sur-Oise, a small town North of Paris. Today, he’s one of the oldest prisoners in France with no hope of ever getting out.
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Episode 73: The murder of Dirk Hamer
On the 17th August 1978, Dirk Hamer, who was sleeping on a boat off the coast of Corsica, is killed by Prince Victor-Emmanuel of Savoy, one of the pretenders to the throne of Italy.
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Episode 72: Who killed Robert Boulin?
On the 30th October 1979, the body of Robert Boulin, minister for work of the then centre-right government, is found dead in a lake near Paris. Who killed the minister, and why?
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https://crimemostfrench.com/2023/09/03/episode-72-who-killed-robert-boulin/
Episode 71: The Robert Pichon Affair
On the13th November 2007, a couple turns up at the gendarmerie in Senones and confesses to a murder nobody knew existed.
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Episode 70: The most prolific French serial killer (maybe)
In the 1990s, a serial killer is active in the Alsace region of France. He might be responsible for 150 murders, making him the most prolific in France during the 20th century.
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Episode 69: The Henri-Leon Scheffer Affair
In 1902, a man is found murdered in a dentist office. The affair will lead to the first arrest and conviction in the world based on fingerprints.
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Episode 68: The treasure of Abbot Sauniere
At the end of the 19th century, a small village priest becomes famous for spending large amounts of money he can’t possibly own. To this day, mystery surrounds the origin of his fortune.
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Episode 67: The disappearance of abbot Delarue
In the summer of 1906, abbot Delarue, priest at Chatenay, disappears leaving behind him only his hat and bicycle. From mediums to Indian mystics, the search for his body was a complete circus.
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Episode 66: The bloody trunk of Millery
On the 13th August 1889, villagers contact local authorities to report a terrible smell along the road from Vernaison and Millery, near Lyon. The gruesome discovery will lead to many twists and a year of inquiry.
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Episode 65: The rue Copernic Bombing
On the 3rd October 1980, a bomb explodes in front of the synagogue rue Copernic in Paris. 43 years later, the affair finally came to an end.
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Episode 64: The Ourcq canal drownings
One morning, in July 2004, a lock keeper on the Ourcq canal, East of Paris, calls the gendarmerie to report a woman’s body. It is bound with duct tape. It’s clearly not an accident.
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Episode 63: The screwdriver murder
In November 2010, an old woman is found dead behind an electricity transformer near Avignon. It is quickly clear that it is murder.
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Episode 62: The Florence Rey Affair
In October 1994, when Natural Born Killers became reality in Paris.
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Episode 61: Issei Sagawa, the Paris cannibal
In June 1981, a body is discovered with missing flesh. It will become an infamous case in Parisian history.
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Episode 60: Claude Nolibé, too good to be true
In July 1991, at Clairac, Tarn et Garonne, Caroline Nolibé, 18, is found dead in front of her parent’s house. It took 10 years to solve the case.
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On the 7th December 1987, Evelyne Boucher disappears. She is found dead the next day in a clearing, shot in the head execution style. It will take 20 years to solve the crime.
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Episode 58: The Voodoo Connection
A whole family goes missing. Is it Voodoo? Or just plain greedy murder?
https://crimemostfrench.com/2023/02/19/episode-58-the-voodoo-connection/
Episode 57: The Geronimo Affair
Tommy Recco, aka Geronimo, is very unlucky: he tends to be surrounded by murders. This is an affair that takes over 20 years to be resolved.
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Episode 56: 3 murders and a suicide
On the 14th february 2000, the bodies of Morgane, 12 years old, and Manuela 36, are found dead in their home in Flavin, Aveyron. Revenge? Satanic ritual?
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Episode 55: The Laurent Baca Affair
Laurent Baca, 37 years old, disappears without a trace on the 6th August 2014. The search for his body eventually gives away what really happened and results in 2 trials.
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Episode 54: The Case of the Sleepwalking Killer
In 1887, solving a beach murder leads to the discovery of an unlikely killer who tells an incredible story.
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Episode 53: The Dupont de Ligonnès murders
In April 2011, a family of 6 disappears completely in an unexpected fashion. The parents don’t go to work, the kids don’t go to school. Ensues years of searches and one of the most famous murder mystery of modern times.
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Episode 52: Alain Lamare
In 1978 in the oise department, North of Paris, a serial killer is at work. It takes a year to the police and the gendarmerie to catch him, as he was hiding under their noses.
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Episode 51: The Pollet Gang
From January 1898 to April 1906, The Pollet gang, aka The gang from Hazelbrook, commits 118 crimes, mostly with arms, 7 assassination attempts, and 4 murders on a territory going from Flemish Belgium to the mining country of Northern France. They were very organised and the gang included up to 30 people.
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Episode 50: Doctor Petiot
A bad smell guides the emergency services to a house where bodies are discovered. The house belongs to a doctor that will become the most famous and infamous in French history.
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Episode 49: The Pantin massacre
In September 1869, 6 bodies are found in a field in Pantin, now a suburb of Paris. A whole family has been murdered and buried in shallow graves. The resolution of the affair will link several regions of France, possible counterfeiting operations, and a greedy murderer.
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Episode 48: Jean-Baptiste Rambla
Jean-Baptiste Rambla is Maria-Dolores Rambla’s brother (episode 46). In 1974, he was there when his sister was abducted near their flat. He was 6 at the time. Christian Ranucci will be executed for the murder of Maria-Dolores. But that’s not the end of the story for Jean-Baptiste.
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Episode 47: The Richaud murders
On the 6th December 1928, the bodies of the Richaud family are discovered at their farm in the South-East of France. They had been beaten to death and their skulls crushed beyond recognition. The Marseille gendarmerie takes on the case, and there is a link to episode 14.
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Episode 46: The Ranucci Affair
Christian Ranucci was accused of abducting and killing Maris-Dolores Rambla in 1974. He will be the second last person to be executed in France, and doubts exist on his guilt.
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Until 1972, Boutiers-Saint-Trojan was an anonymous village without any happening out of the ordinary. On Christmas day 1972 that changed forever: a whole family disappeared without a trace.
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Episode 44: Louis-Joseph Philippe, the French Jack the Ripper
At the end of the 1880s, Jack the Ripper killed many prostitutes in London. To this day, researchers ponder who he was. But 22 years earlier, Louis-Joseph Philippe killed up to 8 prostitutes and 2 children, and is considered the French Jack the Ripper.
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Episode 43: The Chevaline murders
On the 5th September 2012, in a remote location in the French Alps near the Swiss border, a family of 4 and a cyclist are gunned down on rest stop.
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Episode 42: The Crazy, Nasty life of Michel Fourniret
Michel Fourniret is a rapist, paedophile, and serial killer that acted in France and Belgium in the 80s and 90s.
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Episode 41: The strange criminal life of Violette Nozière
Violette Nozière is a unique case in French criminal history. Her crimes and her life in prison
put her apart from most criminals.
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Episode 40: The Antoinette Sierri Affair
Antoinette Sierri find herself in the middle of a number of murders. Not since Landru (see episode 4) has France been that fascinated by a murder case.
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Rachel Galtié is a good looking 20 year old who has aspirations. She will stop at nothing to obtain what she wants.
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A gang attacks a company to steal pay money. But things go bad for everybody. This affair has hints of the Bande a Bonnot (Episode 5).
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Episode 36: The Omar Raddad Affair Part 2
This is the second and final part of the Omar Raddad Affair. If you haven't already, listen to part 1 first.
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Episode 36: The Omar Raddad Affair Part 1
On the 24th June 1991, Ghislaine Marchal, an old lady living in the South-East of France near the Mediterranean coast, is found dead with an inscription in blood naming her killer. This is part 1 or 2.
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Episode 35: The Canaby Affair
In 1905, in Bordeaux, Henriette Canaby is accused of poisoning her husband so that she could live with her lover. Is any of it true?
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Episode 34: The Papillaud Murders
On the 2nd September 1916, Julien Papillaud and his sister Germaine, are found dead in their house. The gendarmerie suspects a robbery gone wrong and will need luck to solve the case.
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Episode 33: The Gang des Tractions Avant
After WWI, an unlikely gang of gangsters is created in France. They rob high profile places and pocket large amounts of money. Their particularity: they escape in front wheel drive Citroens, hence their name: the gang des tractions avant, aka the front wheel drive gang.
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Episode 32: The Crazy life of René Belbenoît
René Belbenoît was a petty thief sentenced to prison on Devil's Island in French Guyana. Twice. He escaped. 5 times. And died of old age. This is his crazy story.
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Episode 31: The Assassination of President Doumer
On the 6th May 1932, Paul Doumer, 13th president of the French 3rd Republic, is assassinated by the Russian Pavel Gorguloff from 2 bullets, one having hit the president to the head.
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The Fualdès Affair
On the 20 March 1817, a lifeless body is found on the banks of the Aveyron river near Rodez. The throat was cut, making an obvious murder. The victim is well known: it’s Bernardin Fualdès, a retired prosecutor. This affair is one of the most infamous of the 19th century and will be followed avidly all over Europe, marking the start of true crime, crime magazines, and the crime-obsessed press.
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Episode 29: The Truphème Affair
Truphème, jewellery dealer, wrapped in a blanket and on fire. Legendary affair with a someone that will become a legendary fictional character.
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In 1986, a young girl is killed in a building basement in Paris. Some witnesses describe the suspect as having chickenpox scars on his face. He becomes "the pockmarked man" or "the Pockmarked". The case will take 35 years to come to a conclusion in September 2021.
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What made an Italian painter decorator think it was a good idea to steal the world's most famous painting? And how did some "Half wit" slip through the Surete's fingers?
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Episode 26: The Janet Marshall Murder
On the Sunday 28th August 1955, a bunch of teenagers from Belloy-sur-Somme, in the North of France, discover the lifeless body of Janet Marshall in the bushes. The search for the killer will go on for months.
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Episode 25: The Mingrat Affair
In 1822. in the South East of France, Marie Gerin, a field labourer's wife, disappears without a trace. The whole village searches for her in vain. She is eventually found in pieces and suspicions turn toward the local priest.
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On the 25th September 1933, Oscar Dufrenne, a theatre manager, if found dead in his office at The Palace. For those who discovered the body there is no doubt: he was assassinated.
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Episode 23: Eugene Weidmann
Eugene Weidmann is a petty criminal born in Germany. In the 30s, in Paris, his activities turn to murder. He is caught in 1939 and charged with 6 murders. This case has historical significance and a celebrity connection.
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In 1985, a TV game show runner, Philippe de Dieuleveult, the Anneka Rice of France, goes on a raft expedition in Africa. He never comes back and his disappearance is surrounded in mystery and intrigue.
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To avoid going back to the front after an injury during WWI, Paul Grappe becomes a deserter To avoid being caught by the authorities, instead fo disappearing like most deserters, he has a new idea: he'll live as a woman, hiding in plain sight. The plan will work, but will eventually cost him his life.
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Episode 20: Marie Besnard
This week's episode takes us to the the mid-20th century in Loudun, a small town in the West of France. Marie Besnard is accused of as many as 11 murders by poisining.
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Episode 19: Dr Pierre Laget
In the late 1920s, Dr Pierre Laget is surrounded by several suspicious deaths, all of them in his close family. It takes many years before the authorities catch up with him.
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Episode 18: The Monster of Montmartre
This week we’re in the City of Lights in the 1980s. There’s a habit needed fuelled and an ambition to be a drag queen mogul to be fulfilled.
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Episode 17: The Boody Box
On the 4th August 1920, the police discovers in the train station in Nancy (East of France) a large box shipped from Paris containing the body of Georges Bassarabo, killed with a gun shot.
In a weird case strangely connected to the Landru affair (see episode 4), everybody lies, and the consequences are a matter of life and death.
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In Fench, anonymous letters are said to come from “the crow”. This week’s episode will look into the affair that is at the origin of that expression: a small countryside city, Tulle, the capital of the Corrèze department, is terrorised for 4 years by anonymous letters telling people’s secrets and insulting even the local priest.
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On the morning of the 21st May 1936, the body of Albert Bodit is found in a field near Bresdon, Charente-Maritime. He’s been shot to death. Who killed him and why?
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Episode 14: The Dominici Affair
As it’s the height of summer, in Episode 14 we’ll be looking at the murder of a high profile, English Chemist and his family whilst on holiday. Was it a spur of the moment act, or a pre-planned mission masterminded from behind the iron curtain?
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he wife of a minister could have historical and world-wide implications. We're looking at the assassination of Gaston Calmette by Henriette Caillaux.
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Episode 12 takes us to the South-East of France, where some murders occur without even a suspect being identified. The murders are particularly gruesome, with what appears to be ritualistic mutilations. One instructing judge will have a stroke of genius and develop the first profile to catch the killer.
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The week’s podcast is a high profile, lady of mystery that finds herself on two sides of the “war to the end all wars”. She criss-crossed the battle lines, hoping from bed to bed indulging in pillow talk with high profile, powerful figures, including the French minister of war. Mata Hari, an exotic South East Asian mystery, that was a fiction of a European woman who got herself in to hot water, and lost her life because of supposed carnal appetites. But did she really indirectly cause the death of thousands of men?
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Our 10th episode takes us to a small town South of Bordeaux called Langon. In 1907, Jean-Théodore Monget, an insurance company employee with a quiet life and a family, disappears without a trace whilst running an errand for his employer. The police considers all possibilities: suicide, voluntary disappearance, accident. Or is it murder?
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Episode 9: Gilles de Rais, a 15th century nobleman from Britany that has everything going for him: he's extremely rich, he owns large parts of France and Britany, he's a brave knight, and he fights alongside Jeanne of Arc. But he's accused of having killed hundreds of children and has become in the popular psyche the ogre "blue beard".
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Our 8th episode, researched by Melanie, looks at the vanishing on the 16th September 1890 of one of the most important, but not very well known, people in the history of cinema: Louis Le Prince, the inventor of the movie camera.
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Lea and Christine, two sisters, murdered their employers in the most grusome and sadistic way. In this episode we're looking at the murder and the sisters' trial.
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In 1923, Pierre Quéméneur disappears on a trip to Paris with Guillaume Seznec to sell Cadillac cars left by the Americans after WWI to the USSR. His body is never found and follows a century of intrigue.
Hairy hands, Cadillacs, and murder...
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Our 5th episode takes us to Paris before WWI. A gang, "La bande a Bonnot" terrorises Paris with their violent, often deadly, robberies.
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For this 4th episode, we look at Landru, often considered the first French serial killer.
Landru is said to have killed at least 11 women, possibly 12, within a few years just after WWI.
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For this episoode, we go back to the area where our first episode took place. We relate the story of an inn where passibly up to 53 murders took place and how real and imaginary crimes and political schemes play a role in the trial.
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This is our second episode. It covers the murder of Laetitia Toureaux, a 29 year old girl without any troubles, in the Paris subway in 1937.
"Les Chauffeurs de la Drome", or the heaters of the Drome area, are a gang of robbers-murderers that terrorises the area for several years. their modus operandi: burning their victims' feet and legs in their own fireplaces to make them talk.