The Criminal Backpacker: Francis Heaulme’s Trail of Blood Across France
Between 1984 and 1992, a quiet, drifting man with no car and no fixed address left a trail of brutal, impulsive murders across France. Hitchhiking, jumping trains, sleeping in shelters and psychiatric wards, Francis Heaulme — later dubbed “le routard du crime” — killed without pattern or warning. Children, elderly women, a nurse on a crowded beach… no one was safe when he “saw red.”
In this episode, host Alexander Lawson follows the eight-year path of one of France’s most elusive serial killers: the childhood violence that shaped him, the sudden explosions of rage, the gendarme who finally…
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