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?
Episode 9: Gilles de Rais
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”.
Episode 8: the disappearance of Louis Le Prince
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.
Episode7: The Papin Sisters
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.
Episode 6: the Seznec affair
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.
Episode 5: La Bande a Bonnot
Our 5th episode takes us to Paris before WWI. A gang, “La bande a Bonnot” terrorises Paris with their violent, often deadly, robberies.
Bonus this episode: a Sherlock Holmes connection.
Episode 4: The first French Serial Killer
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.
Episode 3: The Red Inn
For this episoode, we go back to the area where our first episode took place. We relate the story of an inn where possibly up to 53 murders took place and how real and imaginary crimes and political schemes play a role in the trial.
Episode 2: “The Perfect Murder” – the murder of Laetitia Toureaux
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.
Episode 1: “Les Chauffeurs de la Drome”
Our first episode takes us to the Drome area, South of Lyon in the south East of France. A gang of rubbers-murderers terrorises the area. Their modus operandi: making people talk by burning their feet and legs in their own fireplace.