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 14, 2009
February 9, 2009
Courtroom sketch of Elisabeth Cons-Boutboul
The murder trial of Elisabeth Cons-Boutboul drew together the Paris smart set, the horse-racing fraternity, the underworld and the Roman Catholic Church. It was a case of lies, cynicism, make-believe and...
Oct 14, 2009
January 25, 2009
Céline Jourdan, age 6, went missing from her home in the tiny village of La-Motte-du-Caire
Homophobia had a field day at the trial of young Céline.
by Anthony Davis
One hot summer's evening in 1988, little Céline Jourdan went missing. Her father raised...
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...
Oct 13, 2009
March 29, 2009
Wrongly accused? Omar Raddad stands outside the courthouse.
French justice can be quite curious. After being pardoned but not exonerated in the murder of his employer, Omar Raddad risked being re-imprisoned by asking for a new trial to clear his name....
Sep 12, 2009
June 1, 2009
Emilie Tanay
by Anthony Davis
Saturday, June 11, 1994 was to have been a foretaste of the summer vacation for the children of Gruchet-le-Valasse, a small town (pop. 2,700) in Normandy. Their school was organizing its traditional end-of-term fete and 9-year-...
Sep 12, 2009
September 19, 2007 Updated June 22, 2009
Veronique Courjault
Nine recent cases of infanticide in France are causing the French to ask what is it in their psyche that makes the nation's mothers kill their newborns.
by Marilyn Z. Tomlins
Infanticide is a crime no one...
Sep 11, 2009
Kinga LeggThe murder of Polish millionairess Kinga Legg at the 5-star Le Bristol Hotel in Paris has been solved but her murderer may forever remain unpunished. by Marilyn Z. Tomlins In the language of luxury hotels, it was the quietest hour of the day: 8 p.m.The carpeted...
Apr 30, 2009
May 20, 2008 Updated Nov. 23, 2010 Josef Fritzl, photographed just after his arrest Josef Fritzl locked his 18-year-old daughter Elisabeth in his cellar and raped her repeatedly for the next 24 years. She would bear him seven children, three of whom he moved upstairs to live...
