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6 “If there had been” Ibid.

7 the towering stack of evidence started Paris-Matin , March 21, 1946.

8 he joked Ibid.

9 “The Wolffs were Jews” … “If Kahan had sent” PC, 198.

10 “What about the Schonkers?” … “Why didn’t you” Maeder, The Unspeakable Crimes , 211.

11 “never been more amused” Jean-François Dominique, L’affaire Petiot: médecin, marron, gestapiste, guillotiné pour au moins vingt-sept assassinats (Paris: Éditions Ramsay, 1980), 197.

CHAPTER 29. INSIDE MURDER HOUSE

1 “four hundred prostitutes” John V. Grombach, The Great Liquidator (New York: Zebra Books, 1980), 314.

2 “If he’s a Jew” Jean-Marc Varaut, L’abominable Dr. Petiot (Paris: Balland 1974), 247.

3 Nézondet’s allegation René Nézondet, Petiot “le Possédé” (Paris: Express, 1950), 73–74.

4 “an informer of the” … “Dreyfus was” PC, 202.

5 “Petiot ranted, roared, stamped” Sydney Morning Herald , March 23, 1944.

6 “Yes … he was” Combat , March 22, 1946.

7 “ ‘Was’ is the operative word” Thomas Maeder, The Unspeakable Crimes of Dr. Petiot (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1980), 214.

8 “Those must be” … “You could have” PC, 202–204; Claude Bertin, Les assassins hors-série: Gilles de Rais, Petiot , vol. 10 of Les grands procès de l’histoire de France (Paris: Éditions de Saint-Clair, 1967), 181–182.

9 Dupin stood Le Pays , March 22, 1946.

10 “I do not know if it is” Associated Press, March 22, 1946.

11 “face of a kindly boxer” France Soir , March 22, 1946.

12 a rainy Friday Le Pays , March 23, 1946.

13 wooden barricades Associated Press, March 22, 1946.

14 Other people looked out L’Aube , March 23, 1946.

15 from Place Dauphine Report, March 25, 1946, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° III.

16 “enlightened justice” Maeder, The Unspeakable Crimes , 217.

17 “a strange conglomeration” Time , April 1, 1946.

18 “the leprous walls” Le Figaro , March 23, 1946.

19 “Where is the viewer?” … “Stories like this” PC, 207–209.

20 “It is here at the bottom” … “half a corpse” Grombach, The Great Liquidator , 319.

21 “This sack is” PC, 210.

22 “This is truly incredible” Ibid. Maeder, The Unspeakable Crimes , 219.

23 rugby scrum L’Aurore , March 23, 1946.

24 “Do you want to see the boiler?” Dominique Jean-François, L’affaire Petiot: Médecin, marron, gestapiste, guillotiné pour au moins vingt-sept assassinats (Paris: Éditions Ramsay, 1980), 211, and house invaded, L’Aube , March 23, 1946.

25 “human shin bones” Le Pays , March 23, 1946.

26 “Death to the assassin!” L’Aurore , March 23, 1946.

CHAPTER 30. BLACK FINGERNAILS

1 “It is absurd” Claude Bertin, Les assassins hors-série: Gilles de Rais, Petiot , vol. 10. Les grands procès de l’histoire de France . Paris: Éditions de Saint-Clair, 1967, 191.

2 “Did you find any” PC, 210.

3 “No, we did not” Ibid.

4 “Why do these civil servants” Le Figaro , March 23, 1946.

5 Although he had not Georges Massu, L’enquête Petiot: La plus grande affaire criminelle du siècle (Paris: Librairie Arthème Fayard, 1959), 245, 247–250, 253–254.

6 “I can assert” … “Who is the criminal” PC, 213–215.

7 “Yet you have” Bertin, Les assassins hors-série , 197.

8 “how many” Paris-Matin , March 25, 1946; L’Aurore , March 25, 1946.

9 “completely unknown” Bertin, Les assassins hors-série , 199.

10 “an adventurer without scruple” Jean-Marc Varaut, L’abominable Dr. Petiot (Paris: Ballard, 1974), 213.

11 “Before he accused Petiot” Thomas Maeder, The Unspeakable Crimes of Dr. Petiot (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1980), 226–227.

12 “the Parisian newspapers continue” PC, 216–217. One example of such a photograph is Paris-Matin , March 23, 1946.

13 “thin as an umbrella” Maeder, The Unspeakable Crimes , 227.

14 With quivering voice St. Petersburg Times , March 26, 1944.

15 “You are very intelligent” … “render us invisible” PC, 219–223. Cadoret de l’Epinguen elaborated his points in a series of interviews and police reports from December 1944, in APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° VI.

16 Robert Malfet Liberation-Soir , January 27, 1945, and a report of January 12, 1945, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° VI.

17 “The mad doctor” Maeder, The Unspeakable Crimes , 232. Petiot scoffing is in Paris-Matin , March 26, 1946.

18 “his secretary” Report, December 13, 1945, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° VI.

19 “He had black stains” AN, 334, AP 65, 3365–3366.

20 “It’s very important” PC, 224.

21 “Will we have the pleasure” Ibid.

CHAPTER 31. “A TASTE FOR EVIL”

1 “grit its teeth” Le Pays , March 27, 1946.

2 “one hundred bony pieces” … “globular” L’Ordre , March 27, 1945, APP, Série EA, carton n° 181.

3 The latter included … “very mummified” Dérobert, Paul, et Piédelièvre, Report, January 10, 1945, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° VII.

4 “We were able to conclude” PC, 226.

5 “No, not a scrap” Paul was referring to his section, “Examen des cheveux et des poils,” in Report, January 10, 1945, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° VII.

6 “Five were men, five women” AN 334, AP 65, 3323.

7 “We can say that these” AN, Ibid.

8 “Not a single” … “Pardon me” PC, 226–227.

9 “putrefied and damaged” … “diptera and coleoptera” Thomas Maeder, The Unspeakable Crimes of Dr. Petiot (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1980), 235. Elaboration about the seven tubes of insects as well as the musca, muscina, ophyra, calliphoridae, drosophilidae, phoridae, piophilidae, and others is in “Rapport entomologique” inside Dérobert, Paul, et Piédelièvre, Report, January 10, 1945, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° VII.

10 “Yes, you know” L’Aurore , March 27, 1946.

11 Petiot agreed and invited himself Paris-Matin , March 27, 1946.

12 “that does not mean” … “It would have been easy” Claude Bertin, Les assassins hors-série: Gilles de Rais, Petiot , vol. 10 of Les grands procès de l’histoire de France (Paris: Éditions de Saint-Clair, 1967), 212–213.

13 “That’s only a hypothesis” … “I see” Maeder, The Unspeakable Crimes , 235–236, PC, 228–229.

14 “I have examined” Bertin, Les assassins hors-série , 213.

15 “fully responsible” … “His thesis received” PC, 229.

16 “ ‘mediocre’ in dissection” The laughter following this statement was noted by the Reuters correspondent, March 28, 1944.

17 “She is in good health” Bertin, Les assassins hors-série , 214.