February 28, 1959 - Michel Piery
Operating across rural Switzerland over the course of six years, Peiry preyed on young hitchhikers in a methodical pattern of abduction, assault, and destruction of evidence that investigators would link to at least five confirmed killings, with eleven attributed to him in total. His case drew sustained national attention not only during the investigation but long afterward, resurfacing in Swiss public discourse in 2004 as a reference point in a referendum on how the state should handle violent offenders.
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Michel Peiry (born 28 February 1959), known as The Sadist of Romont, is a Swiss serial killer who killed at least 5 people between 1981 and 1987.
Described as the worst serial killer known in Switzerland since the Second World War, 11 murders were attributed to him, all of them carried out in the same way: he would take young teenage hitchhikers, tie them up, violate or sexually abuse them, then finally kill them and burn the corpses afterwards. These crimes upset all of Switzerland for many months and even after that, in 2004, more than 15 years after the events, Peiry returned to the debate when the people had to decide on a popular initiative concerning the treatment of violent offenders in the country.
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