"One of history's most macabre bouts of serial killing. Petiot was eventually captured and charged with twenty-seven murders, but in the sensational trial that followed, his brilliance and wit threatened to win the day.ĭrawing on many new sources, including the massive classified French police file, Death in the City of Light is an unforgettable evocation of Nazi-occupied Paris and a harrowing exploration of murder, betrayal, and evil of staggering proportions. The doctor took flight and thus began an eight-month manhunt into a twilight world of Gestapo, gangsters, Resistance fighters, pimps, prostitutes, traitors, and other shadowy figures of the Parisian underworld. It was in the basement of his townhouse that the French police discovered a macabre spectacle of skulls, bones, and dismembered body parts.
By night, he preyed upon the most vulnerable people of society with unspeakable deviousness. Marcel Petiot was, by day, a handsome and charming physician with remarkable charisma. Death in the City of Light is the gripping true story of a brutal serial killer who unleashed his own reign of terror in Nazi-occupied Paris.ĭr.
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