Dark Crimes of Old France: A Historical True Crime Compilation

Описание: 🇫🇷 Dark Crimes of Old France | Six Sinister Cases That Haunt a Nation 🇫🇷
News of the Times | Episode 525 | 1831 - 1905

Step into the shadowy streets and sun-dappled villages of historical France, where elegance and brutality often shared the same parlour.

Today we cross the Channel for a special deep-dive into some of the most chilling, peculiar, and rarely revisited crimes in French history.

From poison in the parlour to bodies buried in the countryside, this gripping compilation features over two hours of real historical crime, drawn from the darker pages of the archive.

☕ If you like your true crime with a dash of absinthe and a shadow of the guillotine — you’re in the right place.

🔍 What’s Inside (Timestamps Below)
Each case includes original newspaper accounts, translated where needed, and carefully woven together for clarity and suspense.

📌 Chapters:

00:00 – Intro
00:04:55 - Case 1 – Inn of Death (1831)
A roadside inn offers warm meals… and something far more sinister. Travellers check in, but don’t always check out.

00:28:54 - Case 2 – The Serial Killer Nun (1852)
Helene Jegado seemed like a quiet housemaid — until 40 people turned up dead. Her weapon? Arsenic. Her alibi? Piety.

00:59:01 - Case 3 – Murders in Paris (1856)
A jilted clerk. A butchered lover. And thousands queuing at the Paris morgue to see the results. The city would never be the same.

01:22:06 - Case 4 – The Case of Martin Dumollard (1862)
Seven years. Dozens of victims. And one survivor who blew open the case of France’s most methodical maid-killer.

01:52:29 - Case 5 – The French Ripper (1863)
Before Jack stalked Whitechapel, Joseph Philippe was carving a bloodstained path through Paris — with 23 brutalised victims to his name.

02:21:44 - Case 6 – The Ogress (1905)
Jeanne Weber: mother, victim… or child murderer? Accused of killing 20 children, France couldn’t believe what she was capable of. Until it was too late.

02:51:27 - 🧪 Further Particulars
A Parisian herb doctor claimed he needed £40 to fetch a rare Pyrenees plant. He returned four days later with a potion… and one less patient. A deadly little finale from the archives.
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▶️ Related episodes from the vault:
1684 - 1831: Newgate Nasties & Bloody Broadsides | Ep300
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1776 - 1893: Stranger than Fiction - Crime Stories You Couldn't Make Up | EP317
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1864 - 1934: Terrifying Tales of Trunks and Trains | EP339
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1679 - 1936: Curious Cases of Murder | EP356
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