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Smoke was billowing out of the lavish townhouse at 21 Rulassur.

The chimney was being fed from the basement, where Dr. Marcel Petu was hard at work, oblivious

to the befallment spewing into the parisair.

In the basement, the only light came from the roaring flame of the furnace.

It flickered as the doctor heaved armfuls of detritus into the inferno.

Business had been booming, and Marcel had enough money to last his family for generations.

But there was still work to be done.

Beside him lay a small mountain of body parts, men, women, children,

their lifeless forms, the horrifying fruits of his labor. The corpses were in varying sense. the skeleton. sure no one ever discovered his secret. The fire so willing to devour would never tell

anyone. Of that he was sure. But unbeknownst to him, the flames had already betrayed him. While the bodies of his victims burned away, smoke traveled up the chimney and darkened the sky above the townhouse.

It was a shadow of death that could be seen for miles around. Hi, I'm Greg Polson. This is Serial Killers, a parcast original.

Every episode, we dive into the minds and madness of serial killers.

Today we're concluding our two-part series on Marcel Petieu,

The Werewolf of Paris.

I'm here with my co-host, Vanessa Richardson.

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