A serial killer targets prostitutes in Paris, 20 years before Jack the Ripper.
In 1930s Paris, a young girl poisons her parents and claims it was a double-suicide.
A would-be poet becomes an instant celebrity after he is convicted of murder.
A murder case enthralls the French public in the early years of the Bourbon Restoration.
The commuting of a killer's death sentence sparks public outrage in the early 1900s.
At the end of the 19th century, a bloodthirsty killer eludes capture until an early form of police profiling is employed.
A self-confessed killer's charm does not prevent his from being the last public execution in France in 1939.
A serial killer preys upon war widows in Paris throughout the years of World War I.
A domestic servant is suspected of killing 36 people with arsenic from 1833 to 1851.
A criminal anarchist gang terrorizes France using cutting-edge technology in the early 1900s.
Two sisters admit to a gruesome double murder in a case that shocks the nation.
Built in 1820, the Peyrbeilles Hostel is the scene of a horrific massacre.
The 1909 execution of four cold-blooded killers reinstitutes the death penalty in France.
A serial killer terrorizes mid-19th century Paris
A respected legal advisor leads a secret life as an acid bath murderer.
The murder of a wood merchant leads to a controversial French court case in 1924.
A woman, locked away by her family for 25 years, is discovered in 1901
The wife of a former prime minister literally murders her husband's critics in 1914
The killing of a family of peasant farmers in 1946 remains unsolved to this day
A bloody gang war erupts in Paris at the turn of the 20th century
At the start of the Second Empire, near Lyon, Martin Dumollard, a miserable peasant, targeted young servants, taking everything from them and murdering several. This would earn him the nickname of the ‘monster of Ain’ between the years of 1855 and 1861 and his murders caused quite a commotion. He attacked young women who he had lured in with the promise of a decent job with high wages. He sought out his victims in Lyon on the Pont de la Guillotière. It was the assault of Marie Pichon on 26th May 1861 that put the police on the trail of Martin Dumollard. Upon his arrest, the raid on his house held a surprise for the investigators
A respected businessman turns out to have led a double life at the height of the Great Depression. Directed by Patrick Schmitt and Pauline Verdu, 2017.