The Canal Butcher: The Crimes of Nadir Sedrati
A fisherman pulls a human foot from the Marne–Rhine Canal near Nancy. Days later, a severed head, hands, and kneecaps surface—pieces of two men, deliberately sawn apart.
Behind the grim discovery is Nadir Sedrati, a lifelong fraudster and identity thief known as Le Dépeceur du Canal. In 1999 he lured three former cellmates to his apartment with promises of money and work, poisoned them with cyanide-laced coffee, dismembered their bodies in his kitchen, and dumped the remains in the canal.
Host Alexander Lawson recounts Sedrati’s decades of deception, the coldly calculated murders, the…
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