Jan 9, 2012
(Photo used by permission of BlueStar Forensic)
Extra-marital affairs are accepted in France. Wives and husband who indulge in them are even admired. It means that a woman, though married and probably a mother, is still attractive and desirable to the male of the species,...
Nov 14, 2011
Marie Besnard
In France, in the 17th Century, alchemists became wealthy grinding arsenic rock into a colorless and odorless powder and selling the powder to their countrymen who wanted to do away with a wealthy old parent, grandparent, uncle or aunt. There was even an “...
Sep 23, 2010
An excerpt from the opening chapters of Marilyn Z. Tomlins’s Die in Paris, published in the United States in September of 2010 by Raider Publishing International. The book is available at amazon.com, barnesandnoble.com and borders.com. by Marilyn Z. Tomlins In the early evening...
Apr 11, 2010
Was her death really an accident, or was there a hidden hand at work? Many still say that she was assassinated. Not long before her tragic end, she predicted in a letter to her loyal butler that she would be murdered in a car accident.
By Marilyn Z. Tomlins
The...
Jan 20, 2010
Updated Oct. 4, 2013
Tony Musulin
It’s always about the money – but was it this time? No one had heard of security van driver Tony Musulin until he drove off with $16.7 million – France’s biggest robbery ever – without having even uttered one threatening word...
Nov 17, 2009
Updated Nov. 7, 2011 and June 22, 2014
André Bamberski
For 27 years the heartbroken André Bamberski kept an eye on the fugitive serial rapist who murdered his 14-year-old daughter. Then he arranged a vigilante kidnapping to deliver the murderer to the police. ...
Oct 26, 2009
Updated March 9, 2010
Treiber Police Photo
Awaiting trial for murder, Frenchman Jean-Pierre Treiber goes on the run and makes the police look like idiots.
by Marilyn Z. Tomlins
Before the invention of television, head hunters rode on horseback into dusty towns and in...
Oct 14, 2009
March 8, 2009
The Durban Castle Steamship
Dubbed "The Porthole Murder Case" by the British tabloids, a steward was sentenced to hang for the disappearance at sea of an aspiring actress.
by Marilyn Z. Tomlins
At noon, shining Chevrolets and Fords began pulling up...
Oct 13, 2009
December 02, 2007
Daisy de Melker, mugshot 1932
Daisy killed the old fashion way, with arsenic and strychnine.
by Marilyn Z. Tomlins
No one present at the birth of Daisy Louisa Hancorn-Smith had reason to believe that she would one day be famous or, for that matter,...
Oct 13, 2009
October 07, 2007
Main street, village of Villeneuve-sur-Yonne. It was here that Dr. Petiot murdered for the first time.
Sixty-one years after Dr. Marcel Petiot, dubbed "Dr. Satan" by French newspapers, was guillotined for the murder of 26 people, he remains France's most...
