The Man Behind Group 666: Joël Isidore Matencio
Summer 1976. A heatwave grips Grenoble. Two young people vanish. Then a third. Letters signed “Red Brigades – Group 666” demand a massive ransom… or the hostages die.
Police launch a manhunt. A city lives in fear of a terrorist cell.
But there was no cell. Only one man: Joël Isidore Matencio.
In this episode of A True Crime Podcast, Alexander Lawson examines the calculated kidnappings and murders of Christian Leroy, Muriel Ferrari-Trabelsi, and Olga Moïssenko, the elaborate hoax that terrorized the Isère region, and the eventual unmasking of the man who staged it all for money and notoriety…
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