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

CHAPTER 28. TWO TO ONE

1 “calm and dignity” René Nézondet, Petiot “le Possédé” (Paris: Express, 1950), 152. Gollety investigates the author of the New York Herald Tribune article, May 9, 1946, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° IV.

2 “the expert in clandestine passages” PC, 192–193.

3 “an affliction I don’t care to name” … “any more than you have seen” Thomas Maeder, The Unspeakable Crimes of Dr. Petiot (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1980), 207.

4 “You are forgetting that Argentina” … “Do you respect” PC, 193–197.

5 “What gave you the right” Maeder, The Unspeakable Crimes, 210.

6 “If there had been” Ibid.

7 the towering stack of evidence started Paris-Matin, March 21, 1946.

8 he joked Ibid.

9 “The Wolffs were Jews” … “If Kahan had sent” PC, 198.

10 “What about the Schonkers?” … “Why didn’t you” Maeder, The Unspeakable Crimes, 211.

11 “never been more amused” Jean-François Dominique, L’affaire Petiot: médecin, marron, gestapiste, guillotiné pour au moins vingt-sept assassinats (Paris: Éditions Ramsay, 1980), 197.