125: The Sadist of Romont, Michel Peiry | Switzerland

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🗓️ 31 January 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Michel Peiry is said to have committed as many as 11 murders in the 1980s. He’s also known as the Sadist of Romont, or the Swiss Hitchhiker Killer. He picked up teenage hitchhikers, restrained them, beat them, sexually assaulted them, and then burned their bodies. Some of his victims were burnt alive. When he was arrested he said that he was glad police caught him, because he didn’t think he’d be able to stop otherwise. He advised the police to lock him up and throw away the key.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the evidence locker.
0:11.8	Our cases have been researched using open source and archive materials. and discretion is advised. Each episode is produced with the utmost respect to the victims, their
0:25.4	families, and loved ones.
0:27.0	Warning. This episode contains details of sexual assault of adolescence and may not be suitable for all listeners.
0:36.0	Some names have been changed for privacy.
0:39.0	The 24th of April, 1987, was a crisp spring evening in Lazan.
0:47.0	17-year-old Thomas and his friends had a fun night out at the Lazan carnival.
0:52.0	But in the early morning hours of the 25th he found
0:55.0	himself in a nightmare. He was running for his life through a field with blood seeping from
1:00.8	wounds on his head. Earlier, he had accepted a lift from a clean-cut man driving
1:07.1	the station wagon. The man was broody and restless, and drove past the turn off to Thomas's house.
1:15.0	When the teenager asked where they were going, the driver told him that he had just
1:19.1	escaped from prison and needed a place to hide.
1:23.0	Thomas knew then that he had to get out of the car
1:26.0	and tried to open the passenger door,
1:28.0	but the handle had been removed.
1:31.0	There was no way out.
1:32.0	Thomas was at the mercy of his captor.
1:35.0	Near the village of Modon, they drove down a dirt road into a forest until Thomas could see a river.
1:42.0	In the dead of night, the driver climbed out of the car and walked around to the passenger side.
1:48.0	He opened the door for Thomas, who by this time knew he was in trouble.
1:54.0	The emotionless man pointed a handgun at him and ordered him to get out of the car.
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