This book covers the investigation, trial, and historical record of the attempts to answer these questions. The real questions are “who are the victims?” and “why were they killed?” In Paris, in 1944, the answers to the last two questions are the difference between murders motivated by greed and killings justified, as best they can be, by the clandestine war fought by resisters to occupation. “Who was the killer?” is not the most interesting question in this macabre story. Further investigation uncovered more bodies and body parts culminating in a pit in the carriage house filled with “a revolting mix of quicklime and decomposing bodies of varying stages–the dumping ground, in effect of a veritable slaughterhouse.” Men from the fire brigade broke into the mansion to find human remains burning in a coal stove and scattered throughout the basement. Summary: On a late winter day, about three months before the D-Day invasion, a grisly discovery was made in a building in the 16th arrondissement of Paris after neighbors reported a horrible smelling smoke. Book: Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris by David King
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