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

CHAPTER 19. THE LIST

1 “doctoress Iriane” Anonymous letter, March 26, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° I.

2 masseuse AN, 334 AP 65, 4354–4355.

3 close friend Louise Nicholas, Report, April 26, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° I.

4 Welsing had little to say Herbert Welsing, Audition, April 26, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° I.

5 It was about March 20 Fernande Goux, Audition, in Report, April 26, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° I.

6 On April 12 List, April 12, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° III.

7 His wife, Marie, feared Marie Lombard, Audition, March 27, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° III.

8 But police soon learned Report, May 1, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° I.

9 A number of invoices Report, May 6, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° II.

10 The list of probable victims Report, May 10, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° III.

11 “the most difficult and complicated” Stephen E. Ambrose, Eisenhower: Soldier and President (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1990), 142; Winston S. Churchill, The Second World War (New York: Bantam Books, 1962), Volume V, 499–512, 528–544.

12 He introduced himself Charles Rolland, Audition, June 24, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° III.

13 It was in Marseille Ibid.

14 “He seemed in a” Ibid.

15 later criticized Massu discusses it briefly in L’enquête Petiot: La plus grande affaire criminelle du siècle (Paris: Librairie Arthème Fayard, 1959), 241–242.

16 “The Greatest Bluebeard” New York Times, July 26, 1944.

17 Three weeks later Washington Post, August 17, 1944.