The Pantin Massacre: How a 20-Year-Old Murdered an Entire Family
In September 1869, a farmer digging in a field outside Paris uncovers a child’s hand rising from the earth. By nightfall, six bodies are pulled from a shallow grave — a pregnant mother and five of her children, their faces destroyed, throats cut, and skulls crushed. Two more members of the same family are already dead.
The killer is only twenty years old.
This is the story of Jean-Baptiste Troppmann, the young Alsatian mechanic whose cold-blooded slaughter of the Kinck family became one of the most shocking crimes of 19th-century France. From a poisoned glass of wine in the Alsatian woods to…
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