Hello, campers. Grab your marshmallows and gather around the true crime campfire.

We're your camp counselors. I'm Katie and I'm Whitney.

And we're here to tell you a true story that is way stranger than fiction.

We're roasting murderers and marshmallows around the true-crime

campfire.

There aren't many darker places to be than in a city occupied by an enemy during a brutal war,

living without freedom, in constant fear, and with little or no recourse to justice.

For a crime to be able to shock even people living under those conditions,

it has to be something truly terrifying.

And that is what the people in Paris during World War II experienced when a series of gruesome murders were uncovered.

This is the people's monster, a serial killer in the city of light. So, campers, for this one, we're in Paris, France, March 11th, 1944, during the German occupation in World War II.

Jacques and Andrea Marquet were not happy. Thick, dark stinky smoke was seeping

into their fifth floor apartment on the roulester from a chimney on the townhouse across the street.

The chimney had been smoking for days now, even though the

weather was unusually warm. After work, Jacques went across the street to have a word. The shutters and

curtains on the townhouse were closed.

Nobody answered the doorbell or his knocks on the door.

He found a little note fixed to the doors.

It said, the occupant was away for a month and that mail should be forwarded to an address in Oseer, a small city about a hundred miles southeast of Paris.

Rulisser was a narrow street with unbroken lines of townhouses on both sides. A house fire would be a

calamity and a smoking chimney in an unoccupied house was a serious worry. He called

the police. Two officers arrived on bicycles shortly after and got the property owner's name and phone

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