Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris (60 page)

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distance-operated syringe
René Nézondet,
Petiot “le Possédé”
(Paris: Express, 1950), 76–78.

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“I do not have to know” … “stinking atmosphere”
Albert Massui,
Le cas du Dr Petiot
(Brussels: E.D.C., 1944), 66–76.

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“a load of crap”
Henry Sergg,
Paris Gestapo
(Paris: Grancher, 1989), 88.

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Raphaël’s testimony
Raphaël K escaped Petiot, he said, thanks to some extraordinary good fortune. The door to the triangular room had somehow not latched shut. He managed to wiggle out, exit through the narrow corridor, and after coming out of a window into the courtyard, reach the street. Petiot, due to some “incomprehensible distraction,” was nowhere in sight. Raphaël was sick for some time afterward.

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He could create
This is very similar to the method adopted by Nevada in June 1930, when they changed their execution procedure. Scott Christianson,
The Last Gasp: The Rise and Fall of the American Gas Chamber
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010), 98–99.

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© Albert Harlingue / Roger-Viollet / The Image Works

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© LAPI / Roger-Viollet / The Image Works

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© LAPI / Roger-Viollet / The Image Works

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Rue des Archives / The Granger Collection, New York

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Albert Harlingue / Roger-Viollet / The Image Works

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Courtesy of
Le Matin
, photographer unknown

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Photo by author, used with permission of the Service des Archives et du Musée de la Préfecture de police

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© LAPI / Roger-Viollet / The Image Works

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© LAPI / Roger-Viollet / The Image Works

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© LAPI / Roger-Viollet / The Image Works

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Courtesy of
Le Matin
, photographer unknown

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© LAPI / Roger-Viollet / The Image Works

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Rue des Archives / The Granger Collection, New York

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Rue des Archives / The Granger Collection, New York

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French Photographer (20th century) Private Collection / Archives Charmet / The Bridgeman Art Library

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© LAPI / Roger-Viollet / The Image Works

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Photo by author, used with permission of the Service des Archives et du Musée de la Préfecture de police

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Photo by author, used with permission of the Service des Archives et du Musée de la Préfecture de police

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© Roger-Viollet / The Image Works

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Marcel Petiot,
Le hasard vaincu
(1946)

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Marcel Petiot,
Le hasard vaincu
(1946)