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Posted on 24 October 20219 November 2022

Episode 23: Eugene Weidmann

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.

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Posted on 17 October 20219 November 2022

Episode 22: The Disappearance of Philippe de Dieuleveult

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.

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Posted on 10 October 20219 November 2022

Episode 21: The Paul Grappe Affair

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.

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Posted on 3 October 20219 November 2022

Episode 20: Marie Besnard

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.

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Posted on 26 September 20219 November 2022

Episode 19: Dr Pierre Laget

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.

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Posted on 19 September 20219 November 2022

Episode 18: The Monster of Montmartre

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.

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Posted on 11 September 20219 November 2022

Episode 17: The Bloody Box

On the 4th August 1920, the police discovers in the train station in Nancy (East of France) a large box shipped from Paris containing the body of Georges Bassarabo, killed with a gun shot.

In a weird case strangely connected to the Landru affair (previous episode), everybody lies, and the consequences are a matter of life and death.

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Posted on 5 September 20219 November 2022

Episode 16: The Tiger’s Eye

In Fench, anonymous letters are said to come from “the crow”. This week’s episode will look into the affair that is at the origin of that expression: a small countryside city, Tulle, the capital of the Corrèze department, is terrorised for 4 years by anonymous letters telling people’s secrets and insulting even the local priest.

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Posted on 29 August 20219 November 2022

Episode 15: Murder at Bresdon

On the morning of the 21st May 1936, the body of Albert Bodit is found in a field near Bresdon, Charente-Maritime. He’s been shot to death. Who killed him and why?

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Posted on 8 August 20219 November 2022

Episode 14: The Dominici Affair

As it’s the height of summer, in Episode 14 we’ll be looking at the murder of a high profile, English Chemist and his family whilst on holiday. Was it a spur of the moment act, or a pre-planned mission masterminded from behind the iron curtain?

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