The Legionnaire: Michel Sydor and the Murder That Changed French Law
On a summer night in 1993, seven-year-old Jessica Blanc vanished from a village fair in the French Alps. Hours later her body was found in the garden of a man neighbors knew as “the Legionnaire.”
Michel Sydor had already killed twice before — once in the 1950s, once when he shot his own wife in 1961. The justice system had set him free. What followed shocked France and helped force a permanent change to the country’s life-sentence laws.
Host Alexander Lawson traces Sydor’s decades-long trail of violence, the investigation that finally stopped him, and the lasting impact of one child’s murder.
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