What lies beneath: the secrets of France’s top serial killer expert

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The Guardian

Society & Culture

4.3 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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An intrepid expert with dozens of books to his name, Stéphane Bourgoin was a bestselling author, famous in France for having interviewed more than 70 notorious murderers. Then an anonymous collective began to investigate his past. By Scott Sayare.. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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1:02.0	This long read contains graphic descriptions of violence, sexual violence and bad language,
1:08.9	all of which you may find distressing.
1:11.6	What lies beneath?
1:14.0	The secrets of France's top serial killer expert by Scott Sere,
1:20.3	read by Simon Vance and produced by Esther Apocou Jenny.
1:26.4	One night in the early 1990s at a dinner party at his home in Paris,
1:31.2	Stephane Bourgouin, an author and bookseller then of no particular renown,
1:36.6	began to hold forth on the matter of serial killing.
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