There were two more murders, 15 miles away.

When police arrived, they found the telephones and electricity lines.

We have a weird homicide.

A scene described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird...

The older the crime, the harder it is to prove.

On October 26th, 1440, a man was executed for crimes that, in some opinions,

more than warranted a death sentence, and in the opinions of others, might just not have happened

at all. So if you like your coffee hot, but your bones chilled, sit back and start your day

with a morning cup of murder.

Gilles de Ré was born on an unknown date sometime in 1406, inside the family castle at the

Champosse, Sir Luas. As a member of the House of Montmorency Laval, and after the deaths of both

his mother and father, he and his brother were placed under the tutelage of their maternal grandfather, Jean de Crohn.

When Gilles was just 12 years old, his grandfather attempted to arrange the marriage between he and one of the richest heiresses in Normandy,

who just happened to be four years old at the time, and when that fell through, he tried and failed again to pair him off with the niece of the Duke

of Brittany.

Finally, getting it right, Jill was married off to Catherine de Thoars of Brittany, another heiress.

Their fortune was increased greatly, and together the pair had their one child, Marie, in either 1433 or 1435.

Earning the favor of the Duke of Brittany, Jeal was admitted to the French court, and from 1427 to 1435, he served as a commander in the French army, fought alongside Joan of Arc, proved his bravery

during the renewal of the Hundred Years' War, and was appointed as the Marshal of France.

While all of his success was happening, in November of 1432, just before Jill withdrew from

both the army and the public eye,

his grandfather, the man who raised him, passed away,

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