Crime Most French

In 1986, a young girl is killed in a building basement in Paris. Some witnesses describe the suspect as having chickenpox scars on his face. He becomes "the pockmarked man" or "the Pockmarked". The case will take 35 years to come to a conclusion in September 2021. Visit our website, http://crimemostfrench.com, for photos.

What made an Italian painter decorator think it was a good idea to steal the world's most famous painting? And how did some "Half wit" slip through the Surete's fingers? Visit our website, http://crimemostfrench.com, for photos.

Episode 26: The Janet Marshall Murder On the Sunday 28th August 1955, a bunch of teenagers from Belloy-sur-Somme, in the North of France, discover the lifeless body of Janet Marshall in the bushes. The search for the killer will go on for months. Visit our website, http://crimemostfrench.com , for photos.

Episode 25: The Mingrat Affair In 1822. in the South East of France, Marie Gerin, a field labourer's wife, disappears without a trace. The whole village searches for her in vain. She is eventually found in pieces and suspicions turn toward the local priest. Visit our website, http://crimemostfrench.com, for images.

On the 25th September 1933, Oscar Dufrenne, a theatre manager, if found dead in his office at The Palace. For those who discovered the body there is no doubt: he was assassinated. Visit our website, http://crimemostfrench.com , for photos.

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. Visit our website, http://crimemostfrench.com/ , for photos.

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. Visit our website, http://crimemostfrench.com/ , for maps and photos.

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. Visit our website, http://crimemostfrench.com/, for photos.

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. Visit our website: http://crimemostfrench.com/, for photos and documents

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. Visit our website, http://crimemostfrench.com , for photos and additional infromation.

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. Visit our website, http://crimemostfrench.com , for photos.

Episode 17: The Boody 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 (see episode 4), everybody lies, and the consequences are a matter of life and death. Visit our website, http://crimemostfrench....

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. Visit our web site, http://crimemostfrench.com , for photos and image...

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? Visit our website, http://crimemostfrench.com , for photos.

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? Visit our website, http://crimemostfrench.com/ , for photos and maps.

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, an...

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...

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.