What French doctor was guillotined for mass murder?

Answer 1

Dr Marcel Petiot(born 1897: died May 26th 1946) Born in 1897 in Auxerre he was a childhood sadist who stole from his fellow schoolmates, and while serving at a casualty clearing station during World War 1 started selling drugs. Qualifying as a doctor in 1921 and set up shop in Villeneuve-sur-Yonne as a drug supplier and performing illegal abortions. He was elected mayor in 1928. However question marks soon began to gather about the doctor. Screams were heard late at night from his home. His housekeeper became pregnant and then disappeared, another patient was robbed and killed, and a persistent patient who accused the doctor of being responsible suddenly died- 'of natural causes,' wrote the doctor on the death certificate. Petiot moved to Paris to escape the speculation and stared to work as a doctor again where he set up a successful practice in the rue Caumartin. He was popular with patients and bought a new home, which he then rebuilt to his 'specification'. The new home contained a furnace and an air tight triangular room with peepholes,'for my mental patients' said doctor Petiot. He then put out that he was working for the French Resistance and was able to get people out of Paris. His 'customers' included Jews, Resistance fighters and those on the run from the Gestapo. They were injected with a poison- to protect them from Typhus and then placed in the airtight room to watch them die. Their bodies were disposed of by treating them with quick lime and what was left was burned in the furnace. When, in 1944 the police and Fire Brigade were called after a neighbor complained about the smoke coming from the doctors home they found the furnace surrounded by dismembered corpses. The doctor claimed these bodies were German soldiers and collaborators condemned to death by the Resistance for which he was working. The police half believed the story and the left the Doctor and his family, who then quickly left Paris. It was only after Petiot left Paris the Police conducted a proper investigation of the home and uncovered the grisly truth. Once Paris was liberated a few weeks later Petiot became Frances's most wanted man. Petiot was finally caught after joining then free French forces under the name of Captain Valery serving in Reuilly. He was arrested and charged with murdering the twenty seven people whose remains had been found by the Firemen. Interestingly, Petiot had aroused the attention of the Gestapo and was arrested by them as a member of the resistance. He was allowed to go on the grounds that by killing of Jews and people on the run he was actually assisting the Gestapo with their work Dr Marcel Petiot was guillotined on May 26th 1946 for the murder of more than 60 people. Work on your writing!!!who ever wrote this!!