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.

In part one last week, we introduced you to the strange world of Marcel Petio,

Dr. failed politician and serial killer in wartime Paris.

The horrific discovery of dismembered bodies at Dr Petio's mansion had triggered a massive

manhunt.

And we're going to pick up the police investigation now in part two of the People's Monster,

a serial killer in the city of Light. A quick note, Katie is sick today, so I'm going to be tackling this one all by myself.

I'm sure we'll all miss her.

So the lead investigator of the Petio case was Commissaire George Victor Masu, a stocky

mustache dude who would often bring his 20-year-old son Bernard with him on investigations, which already sounds like the setup for one of those

cozy BBC mystery series like Inspector Morse. I love those shows, oh my God.

But Masu probably regretted bringing the kid along when he got to the horror scene in the

basement of the property on Rulisur, which he would later describe as something from Dante's

Inferno.

We described the bizarre horrors of Dr Petio's mansion last week and

keeping that in mind it might surprise you to hear that Masu did not immediately

send officers over to Petio's apartment to try and nab him before he could skip town.

He did have his reasons for the delay though.

As it happens, Rulisser connects with the Avenue Fosch, which is where the occupying Germans

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