In the murder of Luc Taron and the annoying motif of the murderer

• Luc Tarron, 11, was murdered in 1964
• In the following weeks, his murderer mocked the police and family of the boy, who was signed by “L'Trangleur” or “The Strangler”.
• When he became prison, the accused murderer screamed a lot: “You are right! I'm a monster!”

In 1964 Luc Taron's parents believed that they had already lived through their worst nightmare when their 11-year-old son was murdered in the forests near their suburb of paris. But when the murderer began to mock both you and the police with dozens of letters, it became clear that her nightmare had just started.

Luc, an 11-year-old boy from the southern suburbs of Paris, left his family's house abruptly in the night of May 26, 1964 after he had been in a dispute with his mother over CHF 15 that he had secretly taken away from her. Assuming that the boy had just run away from home, the Tarons expected Luc soon be back.

But the next morning the 11-year-old boy's body was mutilated in the forest in the forest in the suburbs of Paris.

Then, almost two months after Luc was found dead, the boy's murderer mocked the boy and the boy's family with dozens of letters, so TimePresent Le mondeAnd L'As. People looks back on the case of 1964 and, as the police say, she ultimately tracked down the man who became known as “The Strangler”.

Letters from “The Stranger”

After Luc's body had been discovered, his murderer began to bomb the local police, the media and the boy's parents with dozens of letters, what are the dozens of letters. L'Aswho revised the once front page case in 2005. The investigators could not combine him with additional murders and the authorities believe that he had incorrectly claimed responsibility for more crimes than he actually committed. L'As reported.

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The notes were always signed as “L'Trangleur” or “The Strangler”, so Le monde. And soon news reports began to identify him as such while the police were looking for answers.

A arrest – and a withdrawn confession

Time It reported that the police later arrested the 27-year-old Lucien Léger in 1964 and accused him for Lucs Mordes after making several calls that boast of the murders. The French authorities brought Léger, a student nurse, to interview and searched his apartment during the interview. Time reported. Inside, the police found newspaper clippings about the case and a “pink” notepad that was used for the killer letters.

Léger confessed to the outlet after 24 hours of police interviews, and when he became prison, the accused murderer screamed a lot: “You are right! I'm a monster!”

But later according to information Le mondeLéger withdrew his statements about the murder and said he had only written some of the news to the police. Nevertheless, Léger was convicted of the boy's murder in 1966, according to the European Human Rights Court, the Légers argued that he should have been released from prison. During his almost 40-year prison sentence, Léger claimed that he had a “loss of memory” in the events of the night, which was killed Luc, and submitted several appeals for a repetition and sale.

Léger was ultimately released from prison in October 2005 and lived three years before he was found dead in his house in his house for the case of the European Court of Human Rights.

Why Luc?

The 1964 Time The story of Léger portrayed the convicted murderer as a “disappointing” normal man with a hobby of “banal” writing – although he was once announced in the press as a criminal mastermind, the one who Le monde Said had “persecuted” Paris with his Braggadocious letters about Lucs Murder for several weeks.

When the police asked Léger why he was doing Luc, the murderer said that he had chosen the 11-year-old boy to kidnap and murder because “he seemed as unhappy as at his age.”