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What Makes a Killer

S2 Ep2: Thierry Paulin

What Makes a Killer

Audioboom Studios

Documentary, True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

On November 25th, 1987 in Paris, France. 87-year old Bertha Finalteri was strangled and robbed. It was the latest in a string of older women being robbed, tortured, and murdered . . . but Bertha survived. The culprits were a pair of young lovers, Thierry Paulin and Jean-Thierry Maturin. And when they split up, Paulin continued to steal from helpless women – and admitted to killing at least 21 people.

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Original music by Ben Krejci, Daniel Birch, Kai Engel, Lee Rosevere

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What makes a killer contains graphic details of sexual assault and violence and is not intended for all audiences?

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0:44.1

It's November 25th, 1987 in Paris, France.

0:49.3

87-year-old Berta Finanautry is attacked by a young man who strangles her and leaves her for dead.

0:59.6

Two days later, he strangles a 73-year-old woman and robs her.

1:05.4

She will be his last victim.

1:09.7

Days later, the assailant throws himself a lavish 24th birthday party.

1:17.0

He invited around 30 friends with the money he had stolen from his last victim and everyone said that

1:23.7

Yerei Polau was the perfect friend to party with that he was a fantastic party mate

1:28.4

but no one knew where the money had come from.

1:33.4

The money came from his elderly victims.

1:37.5

Remarkably, Bertha Finan survives her assault. She's able to give detectives a detailed description of

1:45.8

her attacker. Athletic man mixed race with an earring. His hairstyle resembled that of the popular 1980s top fade and Berta said

1:57.6

it reminded her of American track and field Olympian Carl Lewis. On December 1st, a police officer recognizes Paulon on the

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