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 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.
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.
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 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.
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.