November 18, 1946 - Pierre Chanal
A career soldier whose crimes extended well beyond his single conviction, Chanal became the focus of investigations linking him to the disappearances of several young male hitchhikers in northeastern France during the 1980s — a series of cases that remained unresolved at the time of his death. His military background and the prolonged uncertainty surrounding the full scope of his actions made him a troubling figure in French criminal history, and the cases he was suspected of are still among the country's most haunting unsolved disappearances.
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Pierre Chanal ([pjɛʁ ʃanal]; 18 November 1946 – 15 October 2003) was a French soldier and suspected serial killer. He was convicted of the rape and kidnapping of a young man, Balázs Falvay, whom he picked up hitchhiking in 1988. He received a ten-year sentence for the attack and was released in 1995 on probation. He was accused of murdering three of eight young men who disappeared in northeastern France between 1980 and 1987. One of his alleged victims was Trevor O'Keeffe. Chanal killed himself in prison in 2003 while on trial.
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