Bi-Weekly French Crime Podcast
21st century case
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?
Release date: 15th October 2023.
On the13th November 2007, a couple turns up at the gendarmerie in Senones and confesses to a murder nobody knew existed.
We’ve just recorded episode 71 (a bit late). A missing body, and an unexpected confession.
Release date: 20th August.
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.
In November 2010, an old woman is found dead behind an electricity transformer near Avignon. It is quickly clear that it is murder.
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?
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.
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.
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.
Michel Fourniret is a rapist, paedophile, and serial killer that acted in France and Belgium in the 80s and 90s.
