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Killer Lies - Chasing a True Crime Con Man Review · Murder Files Unsealed

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  Speaker 1: Stefan Bourgeois born on March fourteenth, nineteen fifty three, and
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  also recognized as Etienjalieux, is a French writer with a
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  focus on true crime literature. From nineteen ninety to twenty twenty,
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  he portrayed himself as an authority in offender profiling and criminology,
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  gaining recognition from the French media as such. However, in
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  twenty twenty, following the emergence of various reports questioning the
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  veracity of his biography, he was compelled to acknowledge that
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  he had fabricated several aspects of his background that supported
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  his claimed expertise. Steffan Bourgeois gained notoriety through his interviews
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  with murderers conducted within prison walls. Subsequently, a nameless group
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  of true crime enthusiasts began to delve into his personal narrative.
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  At that time, Bourgeois was engaged in the B movie industry,
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  where he reviewed fantasy and horror films for various fanzines
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  and explored the adult film sector. Eventually, he transitioned to
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  writing his own books, which achieved significant popularity and solidified
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  his status as a leading authority on serial killers in France.
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  His most recognized publication, Serial Killers, is an extensive, thousand
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  page examination of criminal depravity, released in five editions by
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  the esteemed publisher Grasseer. By traveling to book festivals across
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  the nation, Bourgeois cultivated a particularly dedicated following within the
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  fervent true crime subculture. One admirer, as Bourgeois recounted, sent
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  him annotated versions of his own works, adorned with items
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  such as scissors, razors, and pubic hairs affixed to the
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  pages corresponding to specific words in the text. Bourgeois also
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  garnered respect from legal professionals and law enforcement officials. He
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  was among the first in France to assert that serial
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  killers were not exclusive to America, remarked Jacques Daleste, the
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  General prosecutor of the Grenoble Appeals Court. Daaleste was so
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  taken with Bourguin's insights that he invited him to present
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  at the Eccul Nationale de la Magistrateurs, France's national academy
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  for judges and prosecutors. Additionally, Bourguin delivered lectures at the
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  Center National deformacient A la Police Judicieire, a training institution
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  for one of France's primary law enforcement agencies, where he
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  claimed to have established the nation's inaugural unit of serial
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  killer profilers. When one devotes their life to studying serial killers,
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  the inevitable inquiry arises why. Bourgeois explained that the death
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  of Helene compelled him to confront the darkest aspects of humanity,
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  serving as a form of catharsis or even a personal exorcism.
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  At one point, he began to pronounce her name as Eileen,
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  adopting the American pronunciation. He recounted that he had met
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  her in the mid seventies while residing in Los Angeles
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  and working on b movies. In nineteen seventy six, he
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  took a trip out of town, and upon his return
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  to their shared residence, he discovered her lifeless body, mutilated, raped,
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  and practically decapitated. The perpetrator was captured two years later
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  and ultimately confessed to nearly a dozen additional murders. He
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  is currently awaiting execution on death row. In the early
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  months of twenteen twenty, Bourgui's narrative came under scrutiny due
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  to a series of videos released by the YouTube channel
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  fourth I Core Operation. This investigation was subsequently echoed in
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  various other media outlets, revealing that a significant portion of
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  Bourguin's biography and accounts appeared to be fabricated or plagiarized.
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  Their findings were published in two thousand nineteen, and following
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  coverage by French media, Bourguin admitted to the inaccuracies. In
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  twenty twenty, he disclosed to a reporter from Paris Match
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  that his frequently mentioned assertion regarding a serial killer being
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  responsible for his wife's death was untrue. He extended an
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  apology to his audience for the misleading information lies. In
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  April twenty twenty, the website are Surimage's highlighted discrepancies within
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  Bourgeois's biography, raising questions about its authenticity. The site cast
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  doubt on the credibility of bourgeois purported encounter with Charles Manson,
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  as well as his claimed experience as a professional footballer. Furthermore,
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  it alleged that Bourgeois had appropriated the narratives of South
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  African police officers Mickey Pistorius and Derek Norsworthy, along with
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  FBI agent John E. Douglas confession in twenty twenty, Bourgeois
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  admitted that the narrative was in reality, a fabrication inspired
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  by the case of Susan Bickrest, who was murdered at
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  the age of twenty four by serial killer Gerald Stano
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  in nineteen seventy five. In twenty twenty one, he informed
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  a reporter from The Guardian that he had encountered only
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  thirty serial killers, not seventy seven, and clarified that he
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  had never received training from the FBI. Following the controversy,
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  Bourgwin was abandoned by his publishers and producers. Bourgois, aged
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  sixty seven, established him himself as the leading authority on
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  serial killers in the nation, authoring over seventy five books
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  and creating numerous documentaries until an investigation led to his downfall.
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  His expertise in the field resulted in invitations to serve
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  as a guest lecturer for trainees.