The French Ripper: Joseph Vacher, Killer of Shepherds
In the lonely fields of southeastern France, a scarred wanderer in a white rabbit-fur hat left a trail of mutilated adolescents between 1894 and 1897. They called him the Killer of Shepherds. They called him the French Ripper.
Host Alexander Lawson unravels the true story of Joseph Vacher—his brutal crimes, his capture, and the guillotine that finally ended his reign of terror. A forgotten serial killer whose body count may have surpassed Jack the Ripper’s… and whose victims were mostly children watching sheep under an open sky.
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