Due to the graphic nature of this killers crimes. Listener discretion is advised. This episode include discussions of murder and assault that some people may find offensive. We advise extreme caution for children under thirteen smoke was billowing out, o the lavish townhouse at twenty one rootless sore. The chimney was being fed from the basement where Doktor Marcel Patch, you was hard at work, oblivious to they be foment spewing into the Paris air in the basement. The only light came from the roaring flame of the furnace. It flickered, as the doktor heaved armful of detritus into the inferno business had been booming and Marcel had enough money to last his family for generations, but there still work to be done before

Him lay a small mountain, a body parts, men, women, children, their lifeless, forms the horrifying fruits of his labour. The corpses were in bearing states of decay, some had died recently. Others were a little more than skeleton Marcel greet his teeth at the stench coming from the bodies. It was grim, work heaving them into the furnace, but he needed to make sure no one ever discovered his secret. The fire so willing to devour would never tell anyone of that he was sure but unbeknownst to him, but flames had already. Trade him, while the bodies of his victims, burned away smoke, travelled up the chimney and dark in the sky above the town house, it was the shadow of death that could be seen.

For miles around five hundred paces. This is here. The killers. Apart, castor original every episode we dive into the minds and madness of serial killers today we're concluding our two parts: recent Marcel Patch, you, the werewolf of Paris, I'm here with my co host Tibet. S Richardson high everyone you can find episodes of serial killers and all other Parkhurst originals for free on Spotify or wherever you listened upon, casts to stream. Serial killers for free on Spotify, just open the app and type

Serial killers in the search bar in our last episode we looked at Marcel Pit, choose early life and explored is constant need to enrich himself at the expense of others when Paris fell under control of the Nazis. Doktor Fit to found a new way to get rich. By murdering desperate people today were taking a closer look at the fly. Talks scam, they claimed the lives of dozens from across Paris will also about use eventful time on the run, and what awaited him when he was at last brought to justice will explore the horrifying crimes of doktor. Myself. Put you right after this. Nineteen forty to Paris was a terrifying place to live. The city had fallen into the hands of nazi occupiers, who began targeting the community's

Hitler's regime deemed undesirable, namely Jews, the Romani and the queer community. Criminals, including sex workers and pimps, were also targeted for elimination. Understandably, many people within these groups feared for their lives and saw to escape Europe as quickly as they could. This meant that Marcel PET, you had an endless stream of a willing customers waiting to pay twenty five thousand, thanks to be transported to South America, Petty assumed the Alias Doktor Eugene and sought out associates who could help him spread the word about his cold vert escape route once a new customer showed up at the doctors townhouse. They were led into his basement there. He likely told them that they needed a vaccination before they could travel, but the vaccine was poising, probably cyanide, that killed pitches It was quickly. His first victim was a wealthy jewish neighbour. Follow

that initial murder anyone inventor pitches, townhouse unruly sewer, wasn't seen alive again. This worked out perfectly prepared to, as it suggested that his methods for helping people ask really worked it people knew their loved ones, had gone to fly, talks and then didn't hear from them again. The only assumed they had made it out safely. In reality, there are still warm bodies were stripped of valuables, their luggage stolen and their cash payments pocketed, but pay to use it don't listen, had no idea that they were sending people to their death. The doktor had Long boasted of connections to the french resistance, which gave his scheme a sense of authenticity, though his collar,

into the resistance was fabricated. It's true that, but you did help as fellow citizens in other ways in response to Germany's forced conscription of french citizens to help with the war effort, but you wrote phony medical reports for patients. The report's could then be turned in to avoid labour, but petty exaggerated. His aims far beyond writing. Doctors notes he claimed he was instrumental in developing secret weapons and installing booby traps that been used to assassinate nazis and collaborators across France. Not only did his, story, help pull in willing accomplices and perspective customers it inflated. His already swollen ego this is going to take over the psychology here and throughout the episode. Please note: Vanessa

not a licence, psychologist your psychiatrist, but she has done a lot of research for this show thanks Gregg, though not all of petty, whose claims can be proven false. It seems he often exaggerated to the point of the fantastic his compulsive patterns and the sheer magnitude of his lies suggest that he lived with narcissistic personality disorder. According to the American Psychiatric Association, people with NP can display a pervasive, pattern of grandiose city, a constant need, four admiration and a lack of empathy. We can see each of these clearly and patches repeated claims of belonging to the resistance he wanted to seen as a hero, sawdust from his community and loved boasting about his actions. He also cared little for the pain he caught. Along the way. All that matter to him was

keeping himself and his family living in blissful luxury, and to do that, he needed willing. Assistance to choose. Assembled crew of associates were kept in the dark about the truth. A fly talks as far as they knew they were doing a genuine good deed for fellow Parisians and making a little money for their efforts in exchange for a cut of the fees. They would surreptitiously direct people patches. A the doktor had cleverly assembled a group of people whose networks extended into various communities across the city maximum. The reach of his scheme. Raoul FU was a barber who would whisper tales of the region, thanks to clients, while working on their hair for those just been enough to he can escape. He would tell them of Doktor Eugene and fly talks. For years. Barbershop served as a central checkpoint for the group. It was from their that victims would be picked up and led to more cells estate. One of the other men,

unknowingly supplying these victims was Edmund Pain, tide of former cabaret singer. When Nazi shut down the Paris Cabaret seen Peter Todd needed a new source of income with few options open to him, he took up work with fly, talks to stay afloat himself, a victim of the occupying forces, new laws. He was can and to support himself by helping others. Also roped into the scheme was an acquaintance petty had known since childhood, like every else in the doctors, life Renee Goose uh no zone day was enthralled by patches, boasts and intelligence. He believed that Marcel was untouchable in his eyes, there was no chance that they would ever be caught by the car Lang, the french gestapo One of the later members to join fly talks was a woman named Ariane, Kahan Ariane.

What's a jewish romanian immigrants who died, her hair champagne blond in an effort to hide her background. She also refused to wear the star of David Patch forced onto Jews by the Nazis. It wasn't in her best interests and didn't match with well as a jewish woman, Kahan specialised in recruiting other Jews trying to escape nazi persecution in France. In fact, every had their role to play in a well oiled machine the marketing such as it was was divided between patches accomplices, who spread out through the city to seek out the desperate and they didn't have to look hard in the summer of nineteen. Forty two, when fly talks had been running for around six months. Pollyanna Brown, barracks sought out Doktor Eugene Brown Burger was an aging jewish doktor, anxious to facilitate an escape for himself at his wife. Unfortunately, his faith and fly talks was miss bond,

east. The last time he was seen alive was on the Paris Subway. It's likely he on his way to produce rulers sore townhouse to make arrangements when he didn't I'm home brown. Burgers wife was left to wonder for years. What had happened to him? Sometimes, if potu newest victims, families were likely to make a fuss, he forged letters filled with vague details, their escape. Not only was this attempt to smooth over any troublesome bumps in the road. It also helped attract new paying customers, but, unlike Brown, burger, not all of pet use, victims left left once behind, to wonder where they were. Sometimes entire families disappeared. After seeking help from fly talks,

pillars were a family of three german Jews who vanished after entering pitches house. Likewise, the Wolf family of three and six of their friends made their way to the pitchy estate, never to be seen again. Large groups like this must have been a huge boon to pet. You who was able to collect double fees at once. Then again, their word downsides to the growing success of his hustle more bodies. At first put, you do remember the bodies of his victims and under cover of darkness dump the parts to the sin, but it was soon apparent that this method attracted too much attention between one thousand nine hundred and forty two and one thousand nine hundred and forty three at least nine. Adds for thighs, and several other assorted limbs were fished out of the river this initial method of disposal proving unsustainable pet. You came up with a new plan. He dug pits throughout his property,

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Buy one thousand nine hundred and forty three forty six year old Marcel that you had been successfully running his murderous Flyertalk scheme for a year with his largely Lula Associates continuously feeding him victims. He took twenty five thousand francs for every or he carried out. He also pocketed his victim valuables brought with them in anticipation of their journey to a new life beyond the Nazis. Clutches, but put choose. Success was, double edged sword. The more people who heard about him spiriting people out of Paris, the more he was able to bring in, but using the resistance as a ruse to disseminate their marketing made it more likely that the Gestapo would find out about fly talks before long word of the new resistance operation made its way to Officer Robert Yod. Come of the car Lange's Jewish Affairs Department, the fifty nine

old german thug was responsible for rooting out Jews in hiding and then sending them to concentration camps. News of a ship. Written network, helping Jews and other perceived enemies of the state as skate from Paris would have alarmed yod, come undermining none The authority in this way was unacceptable and undermine their occupation of France. He knew he had to put a stop to it, but yeah come had no idea that fly talks was a scam that was responsible for the deaths of dozens of Jews. If he had realized, he might not have been in such a hurry to dismantle the operation. Yod committee colleagues theorize that fly talks was creating fake spanish passports, their clients, criminals and other undesirables were then escaping France via Spain. Before heading to Argentina. When he was put in charge of the investigation, Yod comes first plan was to get

more information through the use of an undercover informant rather than have a gestapo I poses a hopeful immigrant. He turned to a jewish nor named Yvonne Dreyfuss draperies. His wife was told that her husband would be released in exchange for helping expose the fly Taksim and she had to give the Gestapo one hundred francs as well. Even though her husband was a committed resistance fighter MRS Dreyfuss agreed to the terms in May of nineteen. Forty three she eight year Old Dreyfuss was released from prison, given twenty five thousand francs and sent to find flight talks under the guise of seeking an escape from France once he had made contact. He was to report back to Yod, come with names

locations and any other information he could gleam. But after we want to meet with fly talks, representatives, even Dreyfuss was never heard from again a frustrated yod come assumed his pipe nor had escaped through fly talks or had been unmasked as a mall and executed by the resistance. Whatever the reason he was more determined to infiltrate the network, his next term proved more successful, petty thief and newly released prisoners. Charles barometer successfully made contact with lie, talks members and took careful No it's about US interactions with them. Arrangements were made for barometers to use the fly. Talks escape route to Spain and traced bank notes were and it over as payment on Friday may. Twenty first broke showed up to Raul food as barbershop as instructed by fly talks. He had brought a lightweight bag and all the money he possessed, but before he could be taken to the mysterious

Doktor Eugene Gestapo agents arrived to arrest. The fly talks conspirators FU yea Edmund, PIN Todd were both taken into custody and it didn't take long for the men to give up the real name of Doktor Eugene. Marcel PATH to picture was arrested at his home at rue de Kumar tongue. He confidently told his wife Georgette not to worry it. Seeing the cocky doktor was sure he'd be home before long, along with FU, yea and Keen Todd. It too was taken to friend prison, just south of Paris and there he stayed for some eight months subjected to when torture by the gestapo its little wonder it took their interrogators so long to get any information from their prisoners. According to the sociology for psychological science. Torture is not a real viable way of extracting information from a person the

not only serves to increase resistance to cooperation. It also reduces the likelihood that a subject will be able to recall details from memory. Crucially, the physically and psychologically harsh conditions of torture, make it almost impossible to detect, lies eager to bring down the resistance. The Carlyle demanded information from a to witness associates about the movement. They wanted to know the names of resistance fighters, but you worked with or who were involved in fly talks they also for a list of the people. He had helped flee the country, but because none of the man actually had resistance connections, they were unable to give their Harry Gaiters, what they wanted. Shoes associates did give up the names of their fellow fly talks members, but that was all meanwhile procured painted himself into a corner He didn't give a single name for any. The people he'd helped escape either because he couldn't remember them or he was afraid of admitting guilt to confess, to help

Jews and criminals escape Paris could mean a death sentence for a two and telling the truth was hardly a viable option, so he stayed quiet, but the doktor couldn't keep all of his secrets for long Gestapo agents investigated as medical practice and the houses he had bought with his ill gotten wealth. Unfortunately, they missed the property and ruthless sore. Had they found a town house, they would have discovered the truth about fly talks, as it was they were unable to honour, is anything that definitively tied pet you to the crimes he was accused of, but they were only looking a conspiracy to help people escape France, not applaud to murder those people and hide their bodies. It was a crucial over site that caused the investigation to drag on in January nineteen, forty four after eight months in prison petulant associates, were finally released. The war

was draining the car lengths resources and they needed to focus their attention elsewhere. It was something of a lucky break for the men after their release pet, you fool, yea and PIN Todd went their separate ways its None of them was willing to risk their lives for fly talks for now his ass she had still had no knowledge of the truth behind the scheme and without the cover of a fake resistance, work. There was no way for the two to continue alone he was at an impasse. In the meantime, forty seven year old pet, you knew the best thing he could do was make sure he kept a low profile. Perhaps fearing the gestapo were still watching him. He asked his younger brother Maurice to keep an eye. It is TAT House at ruler, sore he couldn't risk having his house of murder discovered before he had a chance to get rid of the bodies

but while acting as caretaker Maurice noticed a disturbing smell coming from the buildings basement thinking it best to investigate, he made the fateful decision to check on the oder. What he found was, unlike anything he'd ever seen. Stacks of corpses lay rotting in the pits his brother had dug into the earth. The bodies were covered with a quick lie. Maurice himself had supplied to pursue, disturbed and unsure who turn to Maurice confided. In former fly talks colleague, Rene nasal. Andy dead bodies were being stored. His brothers estate. He described them ass, black ass, the black play, eggs. The new shock days, Andy, who shared it with his girlfriend. She in turn told another friend about the piles of dead bodies in the home of the popular doktor. Eventually Maurice felt compelled to tell patches, wife Georgette. According to reports, the food

you're old woman fainted several times as her brother in law. I told her about the corpses she was aware of. Her husband had been somehow involved in a scheme to help people is She also knew he had a criminal history of embezzlement and fraud, but she could not believe he had anything to do with the deaths of dozens of people. Despite knowing her husband's fondness for breaking the law georgette, What two was exhibiting classic signs of denial, this defence mechanism acts to protect a person psyche from emotional conflict or anxiety by ignoring or excluding from conscious awareness, unpleasant thoughts or thence according to the male clinic. Denial can be a good thing at first It allows time for the mind to adjust to the pain or stress of new information, but in the end, ignore bring the reality of her husbands. Crimes wasn't going to do much to help Georgette. While she tried to remain

wilfully ignorant reality. Her husband set out to destroy the evidence once and for all. He left behind his wife and son. While he went to stay in the murderous, townhouse unruly sore. When he arrived at the sight of his long killings pre. He lit the basement furnace, making the fire as hot as he could manage into the hungry flames. He began feeding any evidence of fly talks and the people he had murdered. He spent hours on end, pushing luggage, clothes and bodies into the fire. Ironically, it was this attempt to conceal his crimes that lead authorities write to him unbeknownst. To bet you his days. Long fire fed by rotting corpses had resulted in a plume, a black smoke that poured from the chimney a dark haze smelling of death settled over the town house

announcing to the city that something was not right to the neighbors patches townhouse had always been vacant. He'd never lived there and had only brow his victims under cover of darkness. So the sudden evidence of a fire within the building had people worried. No one wanted a fire to threaten the rest of the buildings on the street. They knocked at the door in case someone had moved in secretly, but whether Knox and calls went on answered, they summon the police and fire departments On March, eleventh, nineteen forty four officials arrived at the town house and broke through a ground floor window that led directly into the basement. The smell in the basement was unspeakable police and fire fighters covered their faces against the stench and steel themselves against the horror into which they had stumbled in the basement. Furnace flesh, melted from the bone of an arm. Turning to charcoal authorities found

from twenty three rotting body, scattered around the town house, mostly pieces. The corpses had been dismembered to make them easier to cram it at the furnace. And be discovered more evidence of murders numbering in the dozens. A random awesome men of belongings were haphazard, Lee stored about the place, mostly in the numerous suitcases that had been left behind and then in the middle of their investigation, Doktor Marcel picked. You walked in the door when questioned about the horrific seen her to play, cool. He told authorities that the bodies they saw were, in fact those of France's enemies conspirators

traders and nazis. His fly talks network he claimed had been aiding in the war effort. It was a well timed lie that gave the police pause. French forces were regaining power in revolt against the Nazi occupiers were becoming more common. Epicure claims were true. He was a patriot, a hero they needed. Time to investigate. In the meantime, pet, you was released, knowing it was only a matter of time before the truth was uncovered. He decided to make his get away while he still cod coming up are so put. You runs for his life now. The conclusion of our story

In March of nineteen forty four forty seven year old Marcel put, you had been club trying to burn the bodies of his dozens of victims inside the basement of his Paris townhouse thinking quickly. He told the police that the murdered individuals were actually enemies of France and that he had been doing is patriotic duty by taking them out. While these claims are investigated, the killer doktor went on the run. It didn't take long for police to realise they'd been duped by pat to they quickly discovered that the bodies in his house were not nazis and collaborators They were refugees, local criminals and even enemies of the popular doktor among the belongings and corpses were the bodies of John Mark Van Beaver and marked Kate. Both had been set to testify against pitched you and is now caught Ex trial the previous year, but had disappeared

as the sheer size and gravity of the bizarre case emerged. Paris's police, Commissioner Judge Victoria Sue took charge when the Susan, Two gaiters question the neighbours of pet choose murder house. They were all incredulous that the doktor could be capable of such horrors. They vouched for his abilities as a doctor and for his outstanding character. Even as the community rallied to defend pet to his wife, forty one year old, Georgette decided to follow his lead with a warrant out, for her husband's arrest. She fled Paris and made for pet two's, hometown of whose Sair police caught up with just a few days later, when she was arrested, She reportedly claimed Marcel as the most kind, loving husband, father and doktor. It seemed

was still in denial about her husband's true nature. She refused to acknowledge what he had done. The back in France picked. You continue to evade police by taking advantage of a network of former patients at friends. He was somehow able to convince everyone he met, but Was in desperate need of their help, he insisted he was a resistance fire, the bodies in his, we were all nazis. He was helping France psychologist Maria Conic Kova describes the typical victims of con artists as people who are also a victim of circumstance. People who are going through financial huh, chip grieving. The death of loved ones or those going through emotional life transitions. This perfectly describes the people petty relied on for help the effects of world WAR two

had reverberated around the globe but were particularly felt in occupied France having been on edge for years. It was all too easy for better use, acquaintances to be fooled by the charismatic con man. Far from covering up the truth of the situation, pick two continued to spout, lies and boastful propaganda to those sheltering him. After moving from one house to another one friend to the next page, you found a more permanent residents with a former patient judge red dude. He stayed with reduced for months only leaving the house at night and in disguise or heavily clothed, even grew beard to better Conseil his identity last he meet anyone. He knew around him. Germany's grip on France was slipping than Paris itself was descending into chaos. The city's police went on strike in August of nineteen. Forty four clashing with a Nazi occupiers did

in tide of the war, gave rise to a new french resistance Group and army, known as the french forces of the Interior or f f. I sensing a chance for a new start or perhaps craving the valor of being a perceived hero Marcel PET. You joined the f by under a false name, all re Valerie after years of boasting about being a resistance fighter, but you finally was he even climbed to the rank of captain. But, unsurprisingly, he was far from an upstanding member of the team during an alpha vi, operation and tests on core in the north of France, men under patches command, were sent to weed out potential. Nazi collapse it still operating in the city there in front of an assembled crowd of locals the men brutally beat and murdered the towns elderly mayor. They then

His grenades to blast open the murdered man safe and loot, millions of francs as captain already Valerie. But you had the offenders rounded up at a rest it, but he ultimately released the men and likely pocketed a good deal of their stolen money. It seemed that even when in hiding petty was unable to curb his desire for riches, he had done nothing to earn. Likewise, his inflated and fragile ego remained intact, ripe for puncture ring. It was some time after the tests on core incident when Petru was back in Paris that his ego would finally get the best of him. The newspaper racy stalls

an article dealing with the standing warrant for purchase arrest. It also claimed that, in March of nineteen, forty three he had done to german uniform and executed french resistance heroes in a ton of having young the paper label, the Doktor S a nazi collaborator. It was an insult to refuse to accept, even when in hiding so he sent a letter to his lawyer decrying. The article raising stance was true, to smear his good name. He claimed, and something had to be done for someone Narcissistic personality disorder as petty likely suffered from the public tarnishing of his reputation was unacceptable in Two thousand eleven study. You probably think this papers about you narcissist perceptions of their personnel. In reputation researchers found that narcissists likely to understand that other people view them less favourably than they. View themselves. Even still, that presents might consider him

nazi collaborator was distasteful to pursue and his great pride was to be his undoing, the to his lawyer was intercepted by authorities because of the speed at which it had been sent after publication of the article they knew pitched too was still in Paris. The calm went out for people to be on the look out for the murderous doctor even the f. I was involved in the man Hunt, which led to the bizarre circumstance of pet you ass captain, all three, being given orders to capture himself and though he ignored their particular instruction, but you couldn't avoid capture forever wanted posters featuring his face had been plastered across the city and on October thirty, first nineteen, forty four a commuter spotted him in a subway station police were summoned and he was arrested at last. During questioning

A two again tried to convince authorities that his victims were all nazis, but it was no use in the aftermath of the Nazis fall. His claims of heroism fell on deaf ears, they'd finally uncovered the truth of his actions and a date was set for his trial. In March of nineteen forty six forty nine year old, Marcel PET, you finally stood trial for his crimes. News of his murder for profit scheme spread throughout Europe and the public eagerly awaited the fate of the man dubbed the werewolf of Paris and Doktor Satan at trial. Tattoos lawyer maintained the lie that his client was patriotic resistance fighter, who had murdered only enemies of the state. He suggested that operators in the newly reformed french government were setting him up for the more of Jews, murders that had never happened on the opposing side of the court. Federal prosecutors were

backed up by a dozen civil lawyers who had been hired by the families of pitches, many victims, they had united against the man responsible for their pain and were determined. He should be brought to justice All the bodies found in his townhouse petru admitted to killing nineteen, but for that all of them were nazis and collaborators. Those nineteen would, just a small part of the sixty three victims, the doktor claim to have killed as a resistance fighters during the war in total catch. You was found guilty of twenty seven murders, though authority suspected he could have killed over one hundred. The three judge Paddle decided that, but you would pay for the murders with his life. The riches he had stolen from his victims were no good for this debt

on May 25th, one thousand nine hundred and forty six forty eight year old, Marcel Tattoo, was executed by guillotine witnesses, reported that he had an eerie smile as he laid his head on the block and even when separated from his body, the evil smirk remained thanks again for turning into serial killers, will be back soon. With the new episode you can find more episodes of serial killers and all other par cast originals freon, Spotify, Natalie Spotify already have all of your favorite music, but knows defies making it easy for you to enjoy all of your favorite Parkhurst originals like serial killers for free from your phone, desktop or smart speaker just said,

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