Author: Our special author Nancheng Old News
First of all, I want to sigh that this Petiot's life is really hard to describe. He has a super IQ since he was a child and is a prodigy. When he grew up, he gathered a doctor with high IQ, a respected politician, a doctor who saved lives and a murderer who killed people without blinking. He is a serial killer who "legendary" throughout his life.
Secondly, the author wants to emphasize that the protagonist of this article is a serial killer who has committed 27 murders (he himself confessed 63). Therefore, when reading the first half of this article, don’t suspect that we wrote the wrong person.
is OK, the main text begins.
Marcel Petiot was born in 1897 in an ordinary family in the city of Auxerre, Burgundy, France. He showed extremely high IQ and maturity that was inconsistent with his age since he was a child. For example, when he was five, he learned the knowledge that only a ten-year-old child could learn; when he was in elementary school, he popularized the health knowledge of both men and women to his classmates.
But at the same time, he had a serious tendency to violence when he was a child. Cat abuse, shooting blackboards, and scaring classmates with knives are commonplace for Marcel. In addition, he is also a child who is a thief and almost stood in court for teenagers because of stealing in elementary school.
Time comes to World War I, and Marcel follows the French army to the battlefield. On May 20, 1917, Marcel was injured in his left leg by a bomb in a battle. Shortly after recovering in 1918, he was sent to recuperate due to another injury.
During the two treatments, the doctor found that Marcel seemed to have been mentally traumatized by the war. After he recovered from his leg injury, he still showed serious mental disorders: symptoms such as mental disorder, neurasthenia and forgetfulness.
Marcel is really sick? No one knows whether he is really sick or pretending to be sick and doesn't want to go back to the front line. If it was pretending, then he succeeded and he was indeed not sent back to the front line. But one thing is absolutely true. During this period of rest, Marcel was not idle. He passed his doctoral thesis from the medical school and achieved outstanding results.
In 1922, Marcel moved to the city of Villeneuve sur Yonne in Burgundy, France and opened a clinic. I have to say that Marcel's medical skills are indeed good, and local patients also went to see him for treatment. During this period, he participated in various social activities, was very friendly to people, was patient with children, and was very polite to women. At the same time, he also gave free medical treatment to the poor and vaccinated poor children for free. Gradually, the reputation of the excellent doctor Marcel spread in the local area.
At this time, Marcel decided to participate in politics, and in July 1926 he was elected as the mayor of the local area with an overwhelming majority of votes (1,000 votes in full). He was only 28 years old that year. On June 4 of the following year, he married Georgette Valentine Lablais, the daughter of a wealthy local businessman, and soon had a son Gerhardt (typical love, career and family harvest). His father-in-law has a good relationship with many French central government politicians. Every time Marcel goes to Paris, he will have meals with parliamentarians and even ministerial people. It can be said that Marcel's future is unlimited.
1930, just when Marcel's political career was at its peak, the court exposed his two major scandals: he exaggerated the fact that he helped the poor for free medical treatment; and he was suspected of embezzling public funds. But maybe his previous image was so good that his voters not only did not abandon him, but instead made him successfully elected mayor in the next election. In 1931, Marcel was elected as a member of the provincial committee.
1935 was the turning point in Marcel's political career: first the city government's safe disappeared for no reason (it was later confirmed that Marcel moved away...); then Marcel was accused of not paying electricity bills (fined 100 francs and probation of 15 days in prison); at the same time, Marcel was accused of forging various bills; and was closely related to the disappearance of his mistress Louisette (suspected to be killed by him). Marcel's behavior was too much, and his voters finally abandoned him. Marcel had to leave the city that once loved him in shame, and moved his family to Paris.
Marcel opened another clinic at No. 66 Caumartin Street, Ninth District, Paris. In order to attract patients to come to the hospital, he drafted an impeccable advertising slogan:
"Doctor Marcel Petiot Clinic, PhD, PhD in Paris School of Pharmacy in 1921, former Mayor of Villeneuve sur Yonne, former member of the Yonne Provincial Committee. The clinic has a superior geographical location (multiple bus lines, Carmartin and Saint-Lazare Metro Station), complete medical equipment (X-rays, electric scalpels and other most advanced medical equipment at the time, which is available in the clinic), and patients are welcome to come to the hospital."
As mentioned earlier, Marcel's medical skills are indeed very clever, and he has also pioneered many medical methods, such as painless delivery, which alleviates the pain of tumor patients, ulcer patients, shingles and other patients, etc. Since Marcel's Paris Clinic opened, there have been a steady stream of patients coming to see the doctor. Such days lasted until 1941 after the outbreak of World War II and the fall of France.
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After the fall of Paris, the Gestapo in Germany searched everywhere to arrest Jews . Marcel asked these people who wanted to escape to pack their luggage and prepare for their escape on the grounds that he could help Jewish "friends" escape to Argentina. Later investigations showed that the first victim was Marcel's neighbor Joachim Guschinow, a Jewish furry. On January 2, 1942, he came to Marcel's home with jewelry worth about 300,000 euros. Marcel warmly received him, reassured him, and asked him to give him a serum to prevent him from getting sick on the way to escape. And this serum is actually a deadly poison. After
, Marcel made the same move, creating more "good deeds" to help people escape, but these people have evaporated from now on, and their luggage is hidden in Marcel's mansion and become his property. After Marcel finished killing people, he began his biggest pastime: dissecting and dismantling corpses. He dismembered the bodies into small pieces of meat and then abandoned them to various places such as the Seine River, the streets of Paris, the sewers, etc.
His "abnormal" behavior was soon discovered and arrested on May 24, 1943, but the agency that discovered and carried out the arrest was the Gestapo in Germany. The Germans believed that Marcel was a member of the French resistance movement. However, after 8 months of torture, the Gestapo found that Marcel seemed to have nothing to do with the resistance movement, so he let him go...
This prison experience sounded a wake-up call for Marcel. After returning to the "luxury mansion", he began various tasks of destroying corpses. The efficiency of throwing corpses on the street before was too low, so Marcel decided to use his predecessor, Mr. Randu's method: burn it with a stove.
The disgusting smell of smoke from Marcel's mansion soon made the neighbors on Le Sueur Street feel something was wrong. The firefighters who came to check discovered a horror scene that would never be forgotten: the pipes were filled with all kinds of rotten meat.
Marcel ran away after realizing that the situation was wrong and was finally caught on August 31, 1945. The trial began soon. Marcel's lawyer spent 6 hours trying to shape Marcel into a real French resister, and all the killings were Germans or surrenders. However, the prosecutor had already checked the boxes and clothes of the victims who stayed at Marcel's home one by one. finally confirmed 27 victims, of which 15 were Jews, four clients and four prostitutes, three Marcel customers and an unidentified body. There is no doubt that these people are innocent people.
After more than 12 hours of trial, Marcel's defense was rejected and sentenced to death.
Marcel and was executed on May 25, 1946. His last words were: Please don’t look at it, I’m afraid (my image) is not very good-looking. I hope I can leave a wonderful memory in your hearts.
