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2 young and beautiful Sylvie Givaudan, Marseille Police Report, March 28, 1944, APP, Série J, Affaire Petiot, carton n° I. See also Paris-Soir , March 20, 1944, and Le Parisien of the same day.

3 Joséphine Aimée Grippay Grippay is “Josephine G” in Georges Massu, L’enquête Petiot: La plus grande affaire criminelle du siècle (Paris: Librairie Arthème Fayard, 1959), 137–143.

4 “It was good” Massu, L’enquête Petiot , 138.

5 “La Chinoise” Marseille Police, March 28, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° I.

6 By the time Piereschi police record, forwarded from Marseille, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° I. He is “P” in Massu’s memoir.

7 “sunny farmhouse” Fabienne Jamet, One Two Two: [122 rue de Provence] (Paris: O. Orban, 1975), translated by Derek Coltman as Palace of Sweet Sin (London: W.H. Allen, 1977), 10–11.

8 Petiot had drawn APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° I.

9 “the same reasons” Report, May 20, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° I.

10 “nearly all the drug addicts” Report, June 29, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° I.

11 “It is through” … “pinch nipples” Jean-François Dominique, L’affaire Petiot: médecin, marron, gestapiste, guillotiné pour au moins vingt-sept assassinats (Paris: Éditions Ramsay, 1980), 31.

12 “All human preoccupations” … “a foul muddle” Piédelièvre Souvenirs , 11, 73–79.

13 clearly after the skin Premier Rapport préliminaire et succinct , APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° VII.

14 “The smallest testimony” Massu, L’enquête Petiot , 145.

15 “Would you please” … “It is for you to prove” Maurice Petiot, Audition , March 15, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° III.

16 “He told me it” Enquête Auxerre , March 16, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° III.

17 “Have you seen any lime” Maurice Petiot, Audition , March 15, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° III.

18 Maurice hesitated Massu, L’enquête Petiot , 111.

19 “the electrical material” … “I should tell you” Maurice Petiot, Nouvelle Audition , March 15, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° III.

20 “As long as” Massu L’enquête Petiot , 114.

21 Maurice Petiot, protesting Le Petit Parisien , March 17, 1944.

22 That night, he and Bernard discussed Massu, L’enquête Petiot , 114–116.

CHAPTER 10. “GOODBYE ARROGANCE”

1 a success popularized Stephen G. Michaud with Roy Hazelwood, The Evil That Men Do: FBI Profiler Roy Hazelwood’s Journey into the Minds of Sexual Predators (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998), 6.

2 “homicidal triad” John Douglas and Mark Olshaker, Mindhunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit (New York: Pocket Books, 1995), 105.

3 the third was The fire and suspicions of Dr. Petiot, Inspector Hernis report, March 22, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° II.

4 Detectives searched banks Report, March 18, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° III.

5 staking out the auction houses Surveillance report, March 18, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° II.

6 “I have never noticed anything” Marie Le Roux, Audition , March 13, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° III.

7 “nothing suspicious” Transport et Perquisition , March 15, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° III.

8 to “kill the bugs” Maurice Petiot, Nouvelle Audition , March 16, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° III.

9 “Goodbye arrogance” Georges Massu, L’enquête Petiot: La plus grande affaire criminelle du siècle (Paris: Librairie Arthème Fayard, 1959), 118.

10 “My brother did not” … “I wanted to know” Maurice Petiot, Nouvelle Audition , March 16, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° III.

11 as Massu soon learned Report, March 24, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° IV.

12 “I am convinced” Albert Massui, Le cas du Dr Petiot (Brussels: E.D.C., 1944), 56.

CHAPTER 11. SIGHTINGS

1 Monster of rue Le Sueur Variants were also used, particularly the “Vampire de l’Etoile” (Le Petit Parisien , March 23, 1944) and “Vampire de la rue le Sueur” (Le Petit Parisien , March 29, 1944).

2 the Werewolf of Paris Chicago Daily Tribune , April 10, 1946.

3 In the métro Paris-Soir , March 25, 1944.

4 scalping Le Cri du Peuple , March 26, 1944.

5 The police Le Cri du Peuple , April 8–10, 1944.

6 “Satan in person” A reporter for Le Matin heard similar comments, March 18–19, 1944.

7 A psychic claimed Letter, March 22, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° V.

8 on a country road in Yonne Or, in a variant form, in the river, though this was proved false, the New York Times reported, March 25, 1944.

9 “If Petiot is still alive” Georges Massu, L’enquête Petiot: La plus grande affaire criminelle du siècle (Paris: Librairie Arthème Fayard, 1959), 238.

10 Fifty thousand concierges Maurice Toesca, Cinq ans de patience 1939–1944 (Paris: É. Paul, 1975), entry dated March 12, 1944, 218.

11 A man in Orléans Le Petit Parisien , March 20, 1944. There is also a police report from Orléans of a sighting about this time in Report, March 17, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° III.

12 “Pity” Albert Massui, Le cas du Dr Petiot (Brussels: E.D.C., 1944), 59.

13 “freemason brothers” Paris-Soir , April 1, 1944.

14 “It is a myth” March 29, 1944, Léon Werth, Déposition: Journal 1940–1944 (Paris: Viviane Hamy, 2000), 594.

15 “Petiot, he runs” Massu, L’enquête Petiot , 238.

16 “fatal injections” … “crowded war news” Time , March 27, 1944. The author of the piece also noted the belief that Petiot was a fabrication.

17 “Madame, your bones” Jean-Marc Varaut, L’abominable Dr. Petiot (Paris: Balland, 1974), 160.

18 “real-life equivalent” St. Petersburg Times , May 28, 1944.

19 “Will Dr Petiot” Paris-Soir , March 18, 1944.

20 “Who would have believed” Massu, L’enquête Petiot , 75–76.

21 about nine fifteen or nine twenty Verification , March 18, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° III; Maria Vic, Audition , March 24, 1944, also in n° III.

22 “Burn the papers!” Report, March 18, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° III.

23 purchased about three hundred kilos Report, March 19, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° III.

24 Redouté would later Georges Redouté, Audition , November 4, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° V.

25 The concierge Report, November 4, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° V.

26 “only went out” Ibid.

27 If only, he mused … “impatient as a young dog” Massu, L’enquête Petiot , 56, 58, 60–61, and 74.