Who was the French doctor that was guillotined for mass murder?
April 21, 2010 · Filed Under Trivia
Dwayne R asked:
He was convicted of multiple murders after the discovery of the remains of 26 people in his home in Paris after World War II. He is suspected of killing more than sixty victims during his life.
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He was convicted of multiple murders after the discovery of the remains of 26 people in his home in Paris after World War II. He is suspected of killing more than sixty victims during his life.
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That would be Marcel Petiot.
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Dr. Marcel Petiot (January 17, 1897 – May 25, 1946)
After deliberating for three hours–a mere 90 seconds for each of the 135 criminal charges–the court convicted Petiot on all but nine counts. He was acquitted of killing Nelly-Denise Hotin, but found guilty of 26 other premeditated murders. Petiot’s death sentence was a foregone conclusion, although it did not seem to faze him in the slightest.
Petiot had been scheduled to die on the day his appeal was rejected, but the guillotine malfunctioned that morning and his execution was postponed. At 3:30 a.m. May 25, a portable guillotine was delivered to the prison, assembled and ready to do its grim work by less than an hour later.
The blade dropped at 5:05 a.m. According to the witnesses, Petiot was smiling as his head tumbled into the basket.