The Butcher of the Yonne: Émile Louis and the Seven Disappeared
Seven young women with intellectual disabilities vanished from the French countryside between 1975 and 1979. No one searched for them. Officials called them runaways. For twenty-five years, their cases gathered dust—until a bus driver named Émile Louis sat down with police and confessed to raping and murdering them.
In this episode of A True Crime Podcast, Alexander Lawson examines the Affaire des disparues de l’Yonne: a story of predation, institutional failure, and a justice system that looked the other way for far too long. Only two bodies were ever recovered. The rest remain missing.
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