Le Fieu, Gironde, November 1847 Claude Gay, in his seventies, died in strange conditions. Jean-François Lesnier, a teacher who bought his house from him as a life annuity, was convicted in Bordeaux .
Madame Hugues, 26 years old wife of a deputy from Bouches-du-Rhône, harassed by a pseudo private detective Maurin for a false divorce case, shoots him six times.
The Vaucrose case takes place in Saint-Pons-la-Calm, a village in the Gard department in southern France. The rich Madame de Vaucrose is found strangled in her home during the night of August 23-24, 1898. Because of his cantankerous character and because she disinherited him, her son is suspected of the murder of his castrating mother. But the case is finally dismissed. In spite of that, Barthélémy Auguste Gayte, a swindler, is accused of complicity in the murder of Madame de Vaucrose. The defense tries in vain to argue that it is impossible to condemn a man for complicity in a murder whose main culprit is unknown. Gayte is preposterously sentenced to 20 years of hard labor.
The Count and Countess of Boccarmé live at Bitremont Castle in Belgium. They are riddled with debt while Gustave, the countess's brother, is wealthy. During a visit to the castle, Gustave died of nicotine poisoning.
1840 Château de Chamblas Louis Vilhardin de Marcellange, 34 years old, is shot dead. Jacques Besson, his former servant, is sentenced to death in Lyon.
Louis Aubert works for the pharmacist Marin Fenayrou. Lover of Gabrielle, his boss's wife, he is fired for impropriety. On May 18, 1852, his body was recovered from the Seine. The couple seems to have ambush him in a house in Pecq.
Pontoise 1843 , Pierre Rousselet murders and robs Mr. Donon-Cadot, banker, in his office overlooking a busy street. Édouard, youngest son of the victim, designated as the sponsor by Rousselet, is acquitted.
Paris 1886 Marie Aguettant "la môme Crevette" a dancer is found by her lover at her home with her throat slit. Stanislas Prado and his accomplices are arrested with her jewelry. The murder weapon is a Japanese fan-shaped dagger.
Toussaint-Augustin Gouffé is one of the richest bailiffs in Paris. He goes to parties every Friday. On July 26, 1889, he disappeared. Two months later, his body was discovered near Lyon along with the remains of a trunk.
1834, Jean-François Chardon and his mother were murdered with gunshots in their accommodation in Paris. Arrested, the poet Pierre François Lacenaire declared that he struck his victims with courage and never felt remorse.
After the Great War, France was shaken by the Landru affair, a serial killer who murdered women by luring them with false matrimonial advertisements, to take their money before making them disappear.
1904 an isolated villa in the provinces Madame Legrain is found shot dead next to the wounded Rémi Pradier. He survives, says they were lovers, wanted to commit suicide and failed. He is accused of raping and murdering her .
August 1830, the Duke of Bourbon was found hanging from one of the windows of his room at the Château de Saint-Leu. The exile of his cousin Charles X and the fall of royalty may have lead the prince to suicide by strangulation?
Henri Pranzini, international con artist, is arrested in Marseille after paying two prostitutes with precious stones and a watch. The jewels resemble those extorted during a triple murder of Rue Montaigne committed in Paris in 1887.
In 1925, Alexandre Sarret rented a villa with Catherine and Philomène Schmidt. Six years later, the owner discover, after the tenants had left, stains on his carpets and the smell of decomposition in the garden.
Paris April 26, 1833 the skeleton of Madame Houet, 70 years old, was found in the garden of a villa at rue de Vaugirard, that her son-in-law Louis Robert had rented shortly before her disappearance on September 13, 1821.
Six murders weigh on the shoulders of Eugène Weidmann. Surrounded by accomplices, he sequesters his victims in a villa in Celle Saint-Cloud. The scammer with multiple aliases appears to execute his victims for little money.
1810 Madame Chénier accuses her daughter-in-law Madame Levaillant of having intended to poison her and her husband during a dinner for refusing to lend the couple money. Madame Levaillant is found guilty of the intention.
1920 a bill collector and client of Doctor Allard comes to his office, and has his bag containing 9,000 francs stolen. The doctor comes out to take care of the theft. Returning, he finds the friend dying, showing a vial of poison.
Armand Peltzer likes to share long, intimate tête-à-têtes with Madame Bernays. On January 7, 1882, the latter's husband, the lawyer Guillaume Bernays, was found murdered in Brussels.
1926, Ukrainian nationalist Simon Petlioura was shot five times as he left a restaurant in Paris. His assassin, Shalom Schwartzbard, declares having taken revenge on the culprit of the Ukrainian pogroms between 1917 and 1920.
1822, the Ballet brothers, Hippolyte and Auguste, heirs to a good fortune, died eight months apart. Their mutual friend the doctor Edmé-Samuel Castaing, a lover of experiments using acetone , may have killed them with premeditation.
1817, Antoine Bernardin, Fualdès was found with his throat cut in the waters of the Aveyron in Rodez. Jausion, Bastide the victim's godson, Bach the smuggler, Catherine Bruguière are linked to his death.
1859 Marie Gayet, her daughter Pierrette 13 years old and Marie's mother are stabbed and slaughtered with knives by Jean-François Chrétien, Jean Joannon stonemasons and Antoine Deschamps They rape Marie and Pierrette and loot the house.
Villemomble 1883 Élodie Ménétret takes Euphrasie Mercier into her service. Euphrasie tells everybody that she has gone on a trip. She settles in and tries to mortgage the villa, but Élodie's skeleton is found under a flower bed.
1845 in Paris, Jean Baptiste de Beauvallon, literary director of the newspaper "Le Globe", shoots Alexandre Dujarrier, the manager of the newspaper "La Presse", with a pistol during a duel.
The Belgian lawyer Verkammen, going through a divorce, shoots his actress wife five times, convinced that she is cheating on him with a young French aristocrat, a crook who owes him money and is blackmailing him.
1908, the painter Adolphe Steinheil and his mother-in-law were found dead in Paris. Marguerite, the artist's wife, claims to have seen on the night of the murder, a red-haired woman accompanied by three men.
Between Tahiti and the Pomotou Islands Joseph and Alexandre Rorique 2 brothers murder the 7 crew of the schooner Niuroahiti loaded with mother-of-pearl. They commit acts of piracy and use of forgery.
1829 Nicolas-Frédéric Benoît, slit the throat of his mother, then leaves for Paris and becomes the lover of Joseph Formage, whom he tells his crime. Formage tries to blackmail him, and is murdered by Nicolas-Frédéric with a razor.
Mathilde Jarry, daughter of rich merchants, marries Louis Danval, a pharmacist in Paris, After the marriage Danval resumes his gambling and cheating habits, his wife takes refuge with her parents. 1877 Mathilde died of arsenic poisoning.
Near Narbonne 1886 in an isolated farm Mr Pradiès and his wife are awakened by 3 Spanish thieves. His wife is stabbed. Before dying he names Guillaumet and Borras as the assassins. They are arrested at the border.
Limoges, 1928 Charles Barataud Rousseau, a rich industrialist, is sentenced to forced labor for life for having murdered André Coste, a taxi driver and stolen his car, and five days later shot his friend Bertrand Peynet .
Georges Meyer was assassinated on July 1920, the day he was to receive a commission of one million francs. The day before the murder, his wife Marie-Luce had booked two seats on the Transatlantic bound for Mexico.
Célestine Doudet, is hired by Doctor Marsden, as a tutor for his daughters. Marsden asks her to take his daughters with her to an apartment in Paris. Shortly after, the girls lost weight. One of them dies mysteriously.
Étienne Zecchini, owner of a hotel, often argues with his wife. She has been sleeping with her daughter in room 32. November 1926, he murdered his wife and daughter. He claim that she has killed his daughter and then committed suicide.
Chantelle, Allier, 1890, Maître Lépine, a rich notary, was killed by Madame Achet, a 34-year-old widow, to defend her honor. Moulins Assize Court April 30, 1891 she was accused of murder with premeditation and ambush, which she denied.
Aïn Fezza, Algeria, 1890 Jeanne Belikov, to leave with her lover, tries to poison her husband Georges Nazet. At the Oran court in 1891 she was sentenced to twenty years of forced labor. She committed suicide the day after the verdict.
The watchmaker Pel is accused of the murder of his wife in 1880 and then of his mistress in 1884. The two victims died of poisoning, as did Pel's mother and one of his previous mistresses a few years earlier.
Madame Herry, a rich 74-year-old widow, was strangled in her bed on April 26, 1896 in Brussels. The victim's safe was unsealed and stolen. Is the former police commissioner Courtois, already suspected of numerous thefts, also the murderer?
Brussels Count Sirey is killed with a cane and a sword by Édouard Caumartin, lawyer for Miss Heinefetter, a ravishing German opera singer. April 10, 1843, Édouard Caumartin is acquitted.
Sezegnin, canton of Geneva, a mutilated, half-submerged forty-year-old woman is discovered. Jean Balleydier and François Truffet are arrested. They deny it. François Felmrich is then arrested. He confesses and accuses them.
Reconstruction of the trial which took place on 12 May 1830, at the Cour d'assises de Paris. Jean-Charles Bouquet was accused of having poisoned his second wife and of having attempted to poison his third wife, as well as of having attempted to kill his eight-month-old son, born from this third marriage. His third wife, who had initially accused Bouquet, retracted her accusation and became his best defender. At the end of the trial, Jean Charles Bouquet was acquitted.
Fontainebleau 1867 Sidonie Mertens and Mathilde Alexandrine Frigard rent a car to go for a walk in the forest. Mathilde returns alone at the hotel and leaves by train. Sidonie's body is found in the forest.
Versailles 1891 Vladimirov, 20 years old, amoral, jealous, covered in debt, wants to marry Madame Dida, 32 years old, rich, pretty widow, ex-morphine addict. She refuses, he shoots her with a revolver.
