![]() ![]() ![]() He went to the guillotine proclaiming himself (despite overwhelming evidence) a resistance hero, who killed only Nazis and collaborators. ![]() During the German occupation, he offered to smuggle people out of France, murdering them when they arrived for the journey carrying their valuables. Moving to Paris, he sold narcotics to addicts under the guise of treatment. Despite spending 20 years in and out of police courts, he won elections to local offices in the provinces only to be dismissed for petty crimes. Marcel Petiot: a charming but heartless liar. The villain was a textbook psychopath, Dr. Historian King (Vienna 1914) has mined the resulting global media circus (not only in France Time magazine covered it) and extensive official records to tell a gripping story. In 1944, when Parisian police entered a mansion littered with dismembered, rotting bodies, they thought of the Gestapo, but it turned out to be a purely French affair. ![]()
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