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On the left breast, there are numerous bruises produced in the living or during the agonic period, which seem to indicate strong pressures and as a strangely special mark. On 8 January, Marceline Luce-Catinot recognized the head exhibited in the morgue as that of her mother, Augustine Penet. She
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and admitted to the Royal Asylum of Aliénes in Turin, where he died on 14 January 1873. Richetto's mother would eventually also be admitted to that same asylum on 11 January 1881, diagnosed as suffering from "hysterical madness in a melancholic form", dying there on 17 September 1882.
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On 2 January 1900, two packages containing strange meat were found on the Noack property on 116 Route de
Francheville. Two days later, in the presence of a rural policeman, a third package was found. A butcher misidentified the meat as veal, and the packages were reburied on-site.
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Auguste Delorme, a retailer, disappeared from her home on 27 Rue des Trois-Pierres on 21 July 1898. Her neighbours suspected that she had been murdered in an ambush for her money, but police found no evidence to support that theory.
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Lacassagne took a particular interest in Richetto, after meeting him at trial. He would eventually convince him to write an autobiography. Richetto wrote a 117-page long memoir entitled "The Memoirs of Richetto", done between 14 and 21 July 1901, during his
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Due to a lack of evidence concerning the murder of Bernaz, Richetto wasn't charged in her death. The human body parts found in the Rhône in 1894 and 1895 couldn't be formally identified as those of
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Planial, a 55-year-old furniture dealer, disappeared from his home at 68 Rue Montesquieu on 7 December 1894, leaving the door open and the lamp on. His concierge reported the disappearance the next day. Four days later, a sailor fishing in the
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Chapelle de Saint-Suaire. In May 1872, again detained for theft, he was declared as suffering from mania and
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Professional School. After graduating, he found a job at the Railway Company of Upper Italy.
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Richetto was sentenced to life imprisonment. His appeal was dismissed on 10 May 1901.
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Augustine Penet née Luce-Catinot, in order to facilitate the fraudulent transaction stated below;
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François Marie Lucien Bernaz, born in 1811, married Marie
Pierrette Couturier (born in 1828) in Lyon on 18 October 1849. The couple temporarily moved to
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in Lyon on 21 July 1898, the fraudulent subtraction of various objects, to the detriment of the aforementioned Marguerite Long née Delorme;
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Report on the discovery of a corpse by gendarmes Maillet and Parenthoux on January 6, 1900, Arch. dép. Rhône 2 U 644. (in French)
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in Lyon on 16 December 1893, the fraudulent subtraction of a quantity of wine, to the detriment of Monsieuers Guigue and Jovet;
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Report on the mental state of Luigi Richetto, by Dr. Rebatel and Pro. Boyer, Arch. dép. Rhône 2 U 644. (in French)
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Report by gendarmes Personne, Suzzoni and Pouccat, dated December 11, 1894, Arch. dép. Rhône 2 U 645. (in French)
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Report by Special Commissioner Edmond Sech, dated September 2, 1898, Arch. dép. Rhône 2 U 644. (in French)
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Hearing of witnesses Derville, Lacroix and Renaud, January 8, 1900, Arch. dép. Rhône 2 U 644. (in French)
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Following a quick search of Richetto's home on the next day, the policemen found issues of the newspaper
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Deposition of Francesca Rubella, cousin of Gioanni-Luigi Richetto, Arch. dép. Rhône 2 U 644. (in French)
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Letter from the Royal Asylum of Alienes in Turin (June 28, 1900), Arch. dép. Rhône 2 U 644. (in French)
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Deposition of François Marie Lucien Bernaz, dated May 16, 1893, Arch. dép. Rhône 2 U 645. (in French)
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Judgment of the Cour'd Assizes of Turin against Luigi Richetto, Arch. dép. Rhône 2 U 644. (in French)
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prison colony in the Salvation Islands in French Guiana. He died there on 14 December 1901, aged 48.
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Report from the examining magistrate, dated April 25, 1893, Arch. dép. Rhône 2 U 645. (in French)
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Hearing of witnesses Ruet and Simonet, January 8, 1900, Arch. dép. Rhône 2 U 644. (in French)
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His father, having spent all of his inheritance in "gambling, wine and debauchery" left for
1033:"Written crimes. The collection of autobiographies of criminals by Professor A. Lacassagne"
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Deposition of Annette Butin, dated December 8, 1894, Arch. dép. Rhône 2 U 645. (in French)
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Report of transport dated January 26, 1900, Arch. dép. Rhône 2 U 646. (in French)
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Notes and instructions of March 19, 1900, Arch. dép. Rhône 2 U 644. (in French)
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The following day, in the presence of examining magistrate
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This book takes up and presents the writings of Richetto
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981:(in French). Presses Univ. Franche-Comté. p. 156.
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892:Kalifa, Dominique (14 September 2000).
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568:(in French) (160). 11 January 1900.
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975:Stora-Lamarre, Annie (2002).
517:List of French serial killers
447:Trial, imprisonment and death
746:(in French). 18 October 1849
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1075:Categories
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