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he tortured his victims. When questioned, Tissier declared that he had 'wanted' Volckaert and had felt insatiable urges on the weekend before killing her. When pressed as to why he waited an entire weekend between assaulting Gauze and killing
Volckaert, he said that he was afraid that the police would catch him and that's why he laid low. At the end of the trial, Tissier apologized for all the crimes and expressed his wish that the city of Perpignan never had 'another Patrick Tissier'.
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nothing, Tissier admitted that he had lied and that he had actually buried it somewhere else. On 13 September 1996, he was taken out of his cell and questioned again, and this time he finally admitted to concealing Lemma's body in the underground tunnel in Canohès. Three days later, an excavation team dispatched to the site uncovered her remains, and
Tissier was subsequently charged with her murder.
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Perpignan. Psychiatric examinations presented during the proceedings concluded that he did not suffer from any mental illnesses and that he instead could not control his inclinations towards physical and sexual violence, due to which
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and parked the car outside, before putting
Volckaert in the back, where he raped her. Because she fiercely resisted, Tissier started hitting her, and after finally realizing what he had just done, he ultimately strangled her. After raping the body anew, he carried it to a nearby abandoned house and
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Three days later, Tissier was waiting in the parking lot of the local elementary school for 8-year-old Karine
Volckaert, the daughter of his Mormon friends. As she knew him well, Volckaert gladly accepted a ride home from him, but on the way, Tissier proposed that they stop by a warehouse to play a
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Following his release, he was hired as a gas station attendant and started a relationship with 16-year-old Marie-Françoise Pinson, an apprentice hairdresser he had met at a bar. On 1 May 1971, as he was awaiting summons for military service, the couple decided to go out on a dance in
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following a brief chase, surrendering without any resistance. A search of his car revealed several weapons. During subsequent interrogations, he confessed to murdering
Volckaert and to assaulting Gauze, and even told the investigators where they could find the little girl's body. Following his
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several times and ultimately throw it into the river. Pinson's body was discovered on the next day, with suspicions quickly turning towards her boyfriend. Just two days later, he was arrested at a hotel room in downtown
Bourges and placed in a youth lock-up, as he was still considered a minor.
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and rapist who was convicted of killing three people from 1971 to 1993 in the southern regions of France. His case, along with that of
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