October 5, 1849 - Jean-Baptiste Troppmann
The murders he carried out over less than a month in 1869 — wiping out an entire family of eight, six of them children, for financial gain — made Troppmann one of the most sensational criminal cases in nineteenth-century France. What followed his capture was as historically significant as the crimes themselves: the trial and execution became a catalyst for the mass-circulation tabloid press, with a single newspaper more than doubling its readership on the day he went to the guillotine. His case drew witnesses and commentators of literary stature, including Ivan Turgenev, and left traces in the work of Rimbaud and Cortázar.
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Jean-Baptiste Troppmann (October 5, 1849 – January 19, 1870) was a French spree killer who between August 24 and September 19, 1869, murdered eight members of the Kinck family, including six children aged between 2 and 16 years old, in order to gain access to their money. He was caught at the port of Le Havre at the end of September 1869 while attempting to flee the country.
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