Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris

CHAPTER 10. “GOODBYE ARROGANCE”

1 a success popularized Stephen G. Michaud with Roy Hazelwood, The Evil That Men Do: FBI Profiler Roy Hazelwood’s Journey into the Minds of Sexual Predators (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998), 6.

2 “homicidal triad” John Douglas and Mark Olshaker, Mindhunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit (New York: Pocket Books, 1995), 105.

3 the third was The fire and suspicions of Dr. Petiot, Inspector Hernis report, March 22, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° II.

4 Detectives searched banks Report, March 18, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° III.

5 staking out the auction houses Surveillance report, March 18, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° II.

6 “I have never noticed anything” Marie Le Roux, Audition, March 13, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° III.

7 “nothing suspicious” Transport et Perquisition, March 15, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° III.

8 to “kill the bugs” Maurice Petiot, Nouvelle Audition, March 16, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° III.

9 “Goodbye arrogance” Georges Massu, L’enquête Petiot: La plus grande affaire criminelle du siècle (Paris: Librairie Arthème Fayard, 1959), 118.

10 “My brother did not” … “I wanted to know” Maurice Petiot, Nouvelle Audition, March 16, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° III.

11 as Massu soon learned Report, March 24, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° IV.

12 “I am convinced” Albert Massui, Le cas du Dr Petiot (Brussels: E.D.C., 1944), 56.