Bi-Weekly French Crime Podcast
Podcast episode
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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?
This week’s case takes to the brink of war. The assassination of a newspaper director by the wife of a minister could have historical and world-wide implications. We’re looking at the assassination of Gaston Calmette by Henriette Caillaux.
Episode 12 takes us to the South-East of France, where some murders occur without even a suspect being identified. The murders are particularly gruesome, with what appears to be ritualistic mutilations. One instructing judge will have a stroke of genius and develop the first profile to catch the killer.
