
The Serial Homicide Case
of the Day, from
"Hunting Humans, the Encyclopedia of 20th Century Serial Killers"
, by
Michael Newton
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Paulin, Thierry and Mathurin, Jean-Thierry
From 1984 through 1987, elderly Parisian women lived in terror of a savage killer whom they dubbed the "Monster of Montmarte." His targets were selected from the ranks of helpless senior citizens, the youngest 60 and the oldest 95. Attacked in their apartments, victims had been variously beaten, strangled, stabbed and smothered. One was nearly hacked in two, with 60 stab wounds, while another had been forced to swallow bleach. In every case, their humble dwellings had been ransacked, and the terror was escalating, three old women murdered in the final weekend of November 1987. A survivor of November's rampage offered a description to police, resulting in the ultimate arrest of 24-year-old Thierry Paulin, on December 1. In custody, the suspect - a Guyana native and narcotics addict cheerfully confessed to 21 sadistic slayings, naming a 22-year-old waiter, Jean-Thierry Mathurin, as his accomplice in some of the crimes. As outlined in the killer's statement, chosen victims would be followed home, accosted as they entered their apartments, tortured to reveal the hiding places of their meager cash or jewelry, and murdered in whatever fashion caught his fancy at the moment. Paulin's fingerprints, on file from previous burglary and drug arrests, were matched to latent prints recovered from a number of the murder scenes, corroborating his confession. Mathurin, an immigrant of French Caribbean origin, was charged in nine of the slayings and bound over for trial. Since the abolition of capital punishment in France, the killers face a maximum penalty of life imprisonment. This
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