In bygone days when news traveled slowly and records were kept poorly, you have to wonder how many serial killers got away with their crimes completely just by traveling from town to town. But occasionally someone connected the dots, as in the case that became known as “the French Ripper.
” The 1897 murder of 13-year-old shepherd Pierre Laurent piqued the interest of French detective Émile Fourquet (pictured).Fourquet was an investigating magistrate, working in the market town of Belley, near Aix-les-Bains in the foothills of the Alps. When he read about the murder of the shepherd boy in the local press, it reminded him of the similar killing of Victor Portalier, aged 16, two years earlier in Bénonces, some 30 km…
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