Bi-Weekly French Crime Podcast
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.
No episode this week, we’re taking some time off. We should be back next week.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
