Gendarme: How a notorious French serial killer was unmasked
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The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Nicknamed Le Grêlé, or ‘the pockmarked man’, a French serial killer evaded police for decades, until he claimed one last life – his own.
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| 0:46.9 | A friendly man, popular with his neighbours, retired Jean-Den Fonce-Marveau, |
| 0:51.8 | had a neat beard, a walking stick he'd had a motorcycle accident some years back, |
| 0:56.6 | and a cheerful disposition. Every weekend he could be seen taking his grandchildren |
| 1:01.6 | for a visit to the beach. During Covid, when people couldn't leave their homes, |
| 1:06.5 | he would do shopping for them. He just seemed like a friendly, pleasant, |
| 1:12.3 | retired policeman who was an upstanding member of the local community. |
| 1:16.7 | Three decades earlier, and 450 miles away, in and around the outskirts of Paris, |
| 1:22.7 | a string of rapes and murders had been committed, apparently by the same person |
| 1:28.0 | and had never been solved. In December 2014, a new investigating magistrate was appointed, |
| 1:35.2 | and she, like anyone coming in, took a fresh look at the case. |
| 1:40.8 | And soon she was about to crack it, but how? And what led her team to a retired policeman |
| 1:47.8 | in the south of France? People who I've spoken to, who knew him, were just stunned as his |
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