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

CHAPTER 29. INSIDE MURDER HOUSE

1 “four hundred prostitutes” John V. Grombach, The Great Liquidator (New York: Zebra Books, 1980), 314.

2 “If he’s a Jew” Jean-Marc Varaut, L’abominable Dr. Petiot (Paris: Balland 1974), 247.

3 Nézondet’s allegation René Nézondet, Petiot “le Possédé” (Paris: Express, 1950), 73–74.

4 “an informer of the” … “Dreyfus was” PC, 202.

5 “Petiot ranted, roared, stamped” Sydney Morning Herald, March 23, 1944.

6 “Yes … he was” Combat, March 22, 1946.

7 “ ‘Was’ is the operative word” Thomas Maeder, The Unspeakable Crimes of Dr. Petiot (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1980), 214.

8 “Those must be” … “You could have” PC, 202–204; Claude Bertin, Les assassins hors-série: Gilles de Rais, Petiot, vol. 10 of Les grands procès de l’histoire de France (Paris: Éditions de Saint-Clair, 1967), 181–182.

9 Dupin stood Le Pays, March 22, 1946.

10 “I do not know if it is” Associated Press, March 22, 1946.

11 “face of a kindly boxer” France Soir, March 22, 1946.

12 a rainy Friday Le Pays, March 23, 1946.

13 wooden barricades Associated Press, March 22, 1946.

14 Other people looked out L’Aube, March 23, 1946.

15 from Place Dauphine Report, March 25, 1946, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° III.

16 “enlightened justice” Maeder, The Unspeakable Crimes, 217.

17 “a strange conglomeration” Time, April 1, 1946.

18 “the leprous walls” Le Figaro, March 23, 1946.

19 “Where is the viewer?” … “Stories like this” PC, 207–209.

20 “It is here at the bottom” … “half a corpse” Grombach, The Great Liquidator, 319.

21 “This sack is” PC, 210.

22 “This is truly incredible” Ibid. Maeder, The Unspeakable Crimes, 219.

23 rugby scrum L’Aurore, March 23, 1946.

24 “Do you want to see the boiler?” Dominique Jean-François, L’affaire Petiot: Médecin, marron, gestapiste, guillotiné pour au moins vingt-sept assassinats (Paris: Éditions Ramsay, 1980), 211, and house invaded, L’Aube, March 23, 1946.

25 “human shin bones” Le Pays, March 23, 1946.

26 “Death to the assassin!” L’Aurore, March 23, 1946.