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I Am a Camera chapter 31

Sorry for the hiatus--bienvenue á Paris!

Sherlock searches for a serial killer in Occupied Paris; John waits.

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Marcel Petiot 

The Butcher of Paris

To most, Marcel Andre Henri Felix Petiot was a seen as a shining light during the time of the Nazi occupation of Paris during World War II. He was a doctor who would provide cheap to free medical care for the poor, but on top of that he worked for the French Resistance and helped many of the persecuted Jewish people flee to safety.

He was doing so well for himself, with more than three thousand patients, that he was able to buy a grand house at 21 Rue Le Sueur, a rather affluent part of Paris. There he worked and created his laboratory, but little did people realize the horrors that were going on within.

On Saturday March 11, 1944, a neighbor finally complained about the foul stench that was coming from Petiots’ home and the large amounts of smoke coming from the chimney. It had been noted before but many were trying to go about their own lives as best as they could with an enemy occupying their city and country.

However, on this day the smoke and stench was particularly noxious. One neighbor went to the house to complain and found a note saying Petiot would be away for a month, so the police were summoned.

On arrival the officers learnt that Petiot lived in another house and quickly sent for him, but as the smoke worsened they feared there was an internal fire, maybe one of the fireplaces had gone out of control, and firemen were summoned.

The firemen entered the house and tracked the source of the smoke to the basement where a coal stove was burning hot and thick, a human arm sticking out of its open door. Mixed in with the coal heap were more human remains, bones, limbs, and other parts too small to be identified then and there.

When Petiot arrived he explained they were the remains of Germans, Nazi collaborators, and traitors, that he was the head of a resistance group and that the Germans would have his head for this. This seemed good enough for the sergeant, who let Petiot go.

An investigation was carried out, and more remains were found. At the bottom of a staircase was a sack containing the headless left side of a human body, and in the garage was a lime pit filled with corpses at various stages of decomposition. In the stable another death pit was located.

Back in the house the basement sinks were discovered to be where the corpses had been drained of blood. Various bins were located about the property containing charred bones, fleshy pieces, scalps, and hair.

A soundproof hexagonal chamber was also located, complete with shackles and a peep-hole. Here Petiot could chain up victims and watch their anguish as they languished within the chamber.

The sergeant soon began to regret his decision to let Petiot go, as a telegram was received saying to apprehend Petiot immediately, that he was a dangerous lunatic!

It took about seven months to finally track down the killer. He hid with family and friends, stating that the Gestapo would kill him if he was captured. He adopted several aliases, allowed his hair and beard to grow, and enjoyed a sort of freedom, even if he was constantly looking over his shoulder.

He was finally recognized and apprehended in a Paris metro station. On his possession was a pistol, large sums of money, and fifty different sets of identity papers.

He was imprisoned while awaiting trial, and all the while he claimed the bodies were of traitors to the French. Then he changed his story, claiming he found the bodies, but yes they were Germans. However, the trial would find him guilty and that the murders were for profit.

Remembering that before this time Petiot was seen as working for the resistance and helped many people wanted by the Germans to escape to South America where they would be safe. The cost was twenty-five thousand francs per person. A good sum of money in those days but worth it if you wanted to keep your life.

People would learn of Dr. Eugene, Petiots’ alias, when helping the underground, and through several accomplices would find their way to him. Once in his laboratory he would tell the escapees that Argentine officials required them to be inoculated against various illnesses. However, rather than an inoculation, Dr. Eugene would inject them with cyanide.

From here he would take their money, steal their belongings, and get rid of the bodies. In the beginning the bodies were dumped in the Seine, and bags containing human remains were thrown onto passing trucks, but when that got too hard he destroyed them by dismembering them and submerging them in quicklime.

It was at this time people knew there was a murderer on the loose as one of the drivers of these trucks found the grisly contents of one bag containing two severed heads, two feet, the skin from two legs, and three scalps.

Later, after he purchased the house on Rue Le Sueur, he also had the option to dismember and incinerate them.

At his trial he refused to name his Resistance associates. As part of the evidence against him was forty-seven suitcases belonging to those who had paid him to escape the Germans, only to be killed. In the end he was found guilty of twenty-four murders, but it is believed he killed as many as 160 men, women, and children.

On May 25, 1946, Marcel Petiot went to the guillotine. He accepted a cigarette but refused the traditional glass of rum. He approached the device of his death as if he were comfortable with his destiny. His final words were, “Gentlemen, I ask you not to look. This will not be very pretty.”

Witnesses say his face still carried a smile as his head dropped into the awaiting basket.

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Marcel Petiot - WTF fun facts 

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Even amongst serial killers in general, Marcel Petiot is a total fucking piece of trash.

He was a French doctor during WWII. After the occupation of France he told Jews he had a secret passage to get them safely out of occupied terrority for the low low price of 25 thousand fracs. He would tell them before they left they had to get innoculations which, of course, they had no reason to question. The "inoculation" was actually a shot of cyanide. He killed them, robbed them, and disposed of their bodies in the Seine or burning their bodies in his basement (ironic, right?). That is, up until the Gestapo sent a spy to find out how this man was saving Jews By pretending to be one that needed safe passage and he was never heard of again.

This was his most finaniclly lucrative scheme. He killed between 27 and 63 people, including children who "aren't doing anything in the world but pestering it's mother."

So yeah, big time Fuck You to Marcel Petiot.

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Marcel Petiot (1897-1946)

Marcel Petiot, also known as Captain Valery and Docteur Satan, was a French doctor and serial killer who was convicted of multiple murders after the remains of 23 people were found in the basement of his home during World War II. He is suspected of murdering around 60 victims but the true number is unknown. Marcel Andre Henri Felix Petiot was born on January 17, 1897 in Auxerre, France. There were various reports of his delinquent and criminal acts during his youth. A psychiatrist diagnosed Petiot as mentally ill on March 26, 1914, and he was expelled from school multiple times. He finished his education in a special academy in Paris in July 1915. During the First World War, Petiot volunteered for the French Army, beginning his service in January 1916. In the Second Battle of the Aisne Petiot was wounded and gassed and he began to show symptoms of a mental breakdown. He was sent to several rest homes where he was arrested for stealing blankets, morphine and other army supplies, as well as wallets, photographs and letters. He ended up being jailed in Orleans. In a psychiatric hospital in Fleury-les-Aubrais Petiot was again diagnosed with various mental illnesses but was sent back to the front line in June 1918. 3 weeks after allegedly injuring his own foot with a grenade he was transferred but was attached to a new regiment in September. A new diagnosis managed to get him discharged with a disability pension.

Following the war, Petiot began the accelerated education program that was set up for war veterans. He completed medical school in just 8 months and became an intern at the mental hospital in Evreux. Petiot received his medical degree in 1921 and then moved to Villeneuve-sur-Yonne where he received payment for his medical services from both the government medical assistance funds and from his patients. At this time he was already addicted to dangerous narcotics. Whilst in this job Petiot gained a reputation for dubious medical practices (such as supplying narcotics, performing illegal abortions and theft). His first murder victim is believed to have been Louise Delaveau, the daughter of an elderly patient of Petiot’s, with whom he was having an affair in 1926. Delaveau disappeared in May of the same year and neighbours later claimed to have seen the doctor load a trunk into his car. The same year Petiot ran for mayor of the town and hired someone to interrupt a political debate with his opponent. He won and whilst in office embezzled town funds. In June 1927 Petiot married Georgette Lablais, 23, the daughter of a rich landowner and butcher in Seignelay. The couple’s son, Gerhardt, was born in April the following year. The Prefect of Yonne Departement (state government) received many complaints about Petiot and he was eventually suspended from his position as mayor in August 1931 – he later resigned. He still had a lot of supporters and the village council also resigned in sympathy. 5 weeks later, on October 18, he was elected as a councillor of Yonne Departement. In 1932, he was accused of stealing electric power from the village and lost his council seat. By this time he had moved to Paris, where he attracted patients by using fake credentials and managed to built an impressive reputation for his practice (located at 66 Rue de Caumartin). There were rumours of illegal abortions and excessive prescriptions of addictive narcotics. In 1936 Petiot was appointed “medecin d’etat-civil” (medical officer) with the authority to write death certificates. The same year he was briefly institutionalised for kleptomania but was released within the year. He continued to evade his taxes.

After the German defeat of France in 1940, French citizens were drafted for forced labour in Germany. Petiot would provide fake medical disability certificates to people who were drafted and also treated the illnesses of workers who had returned. In July of 1942, Petiot was convicted of overprescribing narcotics despite the fact that 2 addicts who would have testified against him had disappeared. He ended up being fined 2,400 francs. Petiot would later claim that during the period of German occupation he was engaged in Resistance activities. He is alleged to have developed secret weapons to kill Germans without leaving forensic evidence, planted booby traps across Paris, had high-level meetings with Allied commanders, and worked with a group of Spanish anti-fascists. There was, however, no evidence to support these statements, but in 1980 he was cited by former U.S. spymaster Col. John F. Grombach as a World War II source. Grombach was founder and head of a small independent espionage agency, later known as “The Pond”, which was operational between 1942 and 1955. Grombach stated that Petiot had reported the Katyn Forest massacre, German missile development at Peenemunde and the names of Abwehr agents sent to America. Whilst these claims weren’t supported by any records of other intelligence services, in 2001 some “Pond” records were discovered, including a cable that mentioned Petiot.

Petiot’s biggest money-earner during the Occupation was his false escape route. Using the codename “Dr. Eugene”, Petiot pretended he had a way to get people who were wanted by the Germans or the Vichy government to safety outside France. He claimed to be able to arrange passage to Argentine or elsewhere in South America via Portugal for just 25,000 francs per person. 3 accomplices, Raoul Fourrier, Edmond Pintard, and Rene-Gustave Nezondet, directed victims to “Dr. Eugene” – including Jews, Resistance fighters, and criminals – and once in his control, Petiot would tell them that Argentine officials required anyone entering the country to be inoculated against disease, using this excuse to inject them with cyanide. He then stole their possessions and disposed of the bodies. At first Petiot threw the bodies in the Seine, but later destroyed the bodies by submerging them in quicklime or incinerating them. In 1941, Petiot bought a house at 21 Rue le Sueur, buying it the same week that Henri Lafont (head of the French Gestapo) returned to Paris with money and permission from the Abwehr to recruit new people for the French Gestapo. Petiot failed to keep his head down, and the Gestapo eventually found out about him. By April 1943 they had heard all about his “escape route” which they assumed was part of the Resistance. Robert Jodkum, a Gestapo agent, forced prisoner Yvan Dreyfus to approach the so-called network but Dreyfus disappeared. A later informed managed to infiltrate the operation and the Gestapo arrested Fourrier, Pintard, and Nezondet. Whilst being tortured, they confessed that “Dr. Eugene” was Marcel Petiot. Nezondet was later released but 3 others spent 8 months in prison on suspicion of helping Jews to escape. Even under torture they didn’t identify any other members of the Resistance because they didn’t know of any. The Gestapo released the 3 men in January 1944.

On March 11, 1944, Petiot’s neighbours in Rue le Sueur complained to the police about a foul stench in the area and large amounts of smoke billowing from the chimney of a house. Worried about the possibility of a chimney fire the police called firemen, who entered the house and discovered a roaring fire in a coal stove in the basement. In the fire, and scattered throughout the basement, were human remains. David King, in his book Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris, writes: “The extensive coverage of the Petiot affair soon escalated into a full-blown media circus. Newspapers dubbed the doctor the Butcher of Paris, Scalper of the Etoile, the monster of rue Le Sueur, the Demonic Ogre, and Doctor Satan. One of the first and more popular sobriquets was the Modern Bluebeard. [...] Later, other names would be proposed for the murder suspect, from the Underground Assassin to the Werewolf of Paris.” The massive media coverage went international, the same source reporting: “In Switzerland, Belgium, and Scandinavia, the Petiot affair dominated headlines on a daily basis.” For the next 7 months Petiot hid with friends, telling them the Gestapo wanted him because he had killed Germans and informers. He eventually lived with a patient, Georges Redoute, let his beard grow out and adopted different aliases. During the liberation of Paris in 1944 Petiot took the name “Henri Valeri” and joined the French Forces of the Interior in the uprising. He became a captain in charge of counterespionage and prisoner interrogations. When the newspaper “Resistance” published an article about Petiot his defence attorney from the 1942 narcotics case got a letter in which his fugitive client claimed that the published allegations were all lies. This gave police the idea that Petiot was still in Paris. The search restarted – with “Henri Valeri” among those who were drafted to locate him. Finally, on October 31, Petiot was spotted at a Paris Metro station and arrested. In his possession were a pistol, 31,700 francs, and 50 sets of identity documents.

Marcel Petiot was imprisoned in La Sante Prison. He proclaimed his innocence and stated he had only killed enemies of France. He said he had discovered the pile of bodies in 21 Rue le Sueur in February 1944 but had assumed that they were collaborators who had been killed by members of his Resistance “network”. Police found out that Petiot had no friends in any of the major Resistance groups – in fact some of the Resistance groups he mentioned had never even existed, and there was no proof of any of his claimed exploits. Prosecutors eventually charged him with at least 27 murders for profit. Their estimate of his gains ran to 200 million francs. He went on trial on March 19, 1946, facing 135 criminal charges. Rene Floriot acted as his defence, against a team of state prosecutors and 12 civil lawyers hired by relatives of Petiot’s victims. Petiot taunted prosecutors claiming that various victims had been collaborators or double agents, and that vanished people were in fact alive and well in South America under new names. He admitted to killing just 19 of the 27 victims found in his house and claimed that they were Germans and collaborators, part of a total of 63 “enemies” killed. Floriot tried to portray Petiot as a Resistance hero, but the judges and jurors weren’t impressed. Petiot was convicted of 26 counts of murder and sentenced to death. He was beheaded on May 25, 1946, after a stay of a few days due to a problem in the release mechanism of the guillotine.

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As a child, Petiot was seen to be highly intelligent although exhibiting some abnormal behavior. In fact, he was expelled several times from school. At the age of 17, he was arrested for mail fraud but found mentally unfit to stand trial. He joined the army and was caught stealing blankets but found not guilty by reason of insanity. The army discharged him because of mental unfitness. Eventually, he was able to earn a medical degree in 1921 and started his practice in Villaneuve, France. He became the mayor in 1926 but was suspended more than once. Two of his patients were murdered, but he never was charged. He lost his seat after he was found stealing power from the city. In 1933, he moved to Paris, where he soon developed a good reputation as a doctor, while he continued his crimes. When WWII struck, he came up with a plan to enrich himself. He offered help to Jews wishing to escape Nazi-occupied France. He injected them with poison, telling them it was medicine to protect them against disease. After he watched them die, he stole their money and valuables and placed their bodies in a furnace in the basement of his specially soundproofed house. In 1943, he was arrested by the Gestapo but released after several months. After the liberation of Paris in 1944, he was arrested, and 30 corpses were found in his basement. He admitted to killing 60 people and was convicted for 26 murders. He was guillotined in 1946.

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All’alba del 25 maggio 1946, Marcel Petiot sale sul patibolo conservando il suo consueto atteggiamento distaccato. «Anche se non sono un uomo religioso, la mia coscienza è pulita», dice alla folla mentre il boia prepara la ghigliottina. «Ora pregherei lor signori di volgere lo sguardo altrove, perché lo spettacolo che seguirà sarà poco gradevole». Malgrado il gentile invito del condannato, i…

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