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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Episode 46: The Ranucci Affair
Christian Ranucci was accused of abducting and killing Maria-Dolores Rambla in 1974. He will be the second last person to be executed in France, and doubts exist on his guilt.
Episode 45: The Disappeared from Boutiers
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.
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.
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.
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.