The Butcher of Lyon: Gioanni-Luigi Richetto
January 1900. Workers digging in a muddy cistern on the outskirts of Lyon pull out packages they first mistake for veal. Then a human torso. Then two severed heads wrapped in old newspapers.
One belonged to a milkmaid collecting a debt. The other to a widow who simply vanished. The soft-spoken Italian concierge living just steps away—the man who fixed shoes, smiled at neighbors, and worked for a religious order—never raised his voice.
His name was Gioanni-Luigi Richetto. For nearly seven years he turned the streets of Lyon into a slaughterhouse.
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