he wife of a minister could have historical and world-wide implications. We're looking at the assassination of Gaston Calmette by Henriette Caillaux. Visit our website, http://crimemostfrench,com/, for photos.
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. Visit our website, http://crimemostfrench.com/ , for photos.
The week’s podcast is a high profile, lady of mystery that finds herself on two sides of the “war to the end all wars”. She criss-crossed the battle lines, hoping from bed to bed indulging in pillow talk with high profile, powerful figures, including the French minister of war. Mata Hari, an exotic South East Asian mystery, that was a fiction of a European woman who got herself in to hot water, and lost her life because of supposed carnal appetites. But did she really indirectly cause the death ...
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? Visit our website, http://murdermostfrench.com , for maps and photos.
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". Visit our website, http://crimemostfrench.com/, for photos.
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. Visit our website, http://crimemostfrench.com , for pictures.
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. Visit our website, http://crimemostfrench.com/, for photos.
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... Visit our website, http://crimemostfrench.com , for photos of the cases.
Our 5th episode takes us to Paris before WWI. A gang, "La bande a Bonnot" terrorises Paris with their violent, often deadly, robberies. Visit our website, http://crimemostfrench.com/, for episode maps and images.
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. Visit our website, http://crimemostfrench.com , for photos and maps.
For this episoode, we go back to the area where our first episode took place. We relate the story of an inn where passibly up to 53 murders took place and how real and imaginary crimes and political schemes play a role in the trial. Visit our website, http://crimemostfrench.com/, for photos and maps.
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.
"Les Chauffeurs de la Drome", or the heaters of the Drome area, are a gang of robbers-murderers that terrorises the area for several years. their modus operandi: burning their victims' feet and legs in their own fireplaces to make them talk.
