{"id":849650,"date":"2021-10-05T16:29:20","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T20:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=849650"},"modified":"2021-10-05T16:29:24","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T20:29:24","slug":"retired-french-cop-commits-suicide-admits-to-being-notorious-serial-killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/retired-french-cop-commits-suicide-admits-to-being-notorious-serial-killer\/","title":{"rendered":"Retired French Cop Commits Suicide, Admits To Being Notorious Serial Killer"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fretired-french-cop-commits-suicide-admits-to-being-notorious-serial-killer%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=849650&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/GettyImages-523355598.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>In the 1980s and 90s, a serial killer and rapist terrorized Paris, France. Last week, he was finally identified as a retired French police officer.<\/p>\n<p>The killer, identified as Fran\u00e7ois V\u00e9rove, 59, had been on the police radar for some time, and was due to give police his DNA. He was supposed to provide his DNA on September 24, but didn\u2019t show up, and was found on September 29 to have committed suicide by overdosing on pills, The Daily Beast <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/french-cop-leaves-suicide-note-unmasking-himself-as-notorious-grele-serial-killer?ref=scroll\">reported<\/a>. In his suicide note, V\u00e9rove reportedly admitted to being the serial killer known as \u201cGrele\u201d who was given the name because of his pockmarked face. The Beast described the killings:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"22\">\n<p><em>He was responsible for a string of rapes and killings in Paris in the 1980s and 1990s, including the murders of 11-year-old C\u00e9cile Bloch, and 38-year-old Gilles Politi and his 21-year-old au pair Irmgard Mueller, both of whom were savagely tortured.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The murder of a 19-year-old woman named Karine Leroy has also been attributed to \u201cThe Pockmarked Killer.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The serial killer terrorized Paris for years, and was also accused in six different rapes. The crimes were shockingly brutal. Block [sic] was snatched up as she left her apartment building for school in May 1986. She was later found dead in a basement of the building, half naked and covered by an old carpet. She had been raped, strangled, and stabbed in the chest.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Bloch\u2019s half-brother, Luc Richard,  a French news outlet in 2015 that his sister\u2019s killer was \u201cvery polite.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe seemed very sure of himself. He spoke to me in a very bold, very polite way, too. He said something to me like, \u2018Have a very, very good day,\u2019\u201d Richard said.<\/p>\n<p>Bloch\u2019s parents died without ever knowing who killed their young daughter. Richard said he has been traumatized by the case.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI manage to live, but I have a great feeling of injustice, irreparable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ten years after Bloch\u2019s murder, genetic testing showed that her killer had also raped numerous women, including an 11-year-old girl.<\/p>\n<p>Besides the pockmarked skin, some of V\u00e9rove\u2019s&nbsp; rape victims told investigators that their attacker had identified himself as a policeman. Detectives initially thought the attacker could be lying in order to get his victims to do what he wanted. Victims also said their attacker used police terminology, handcuffs, and police or military restraint techniques. The Beast reported that police uncovered evidence that the serial killer was, in fact, a member of the police and drove a white car.<\/p>\n<p>As the Beast reported, V\u00e9rove wrote in his suicide note that he was \u201cnot well in life\u201d when he committed the murders. The Guardian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/01\/paris-serial-killer-of-80s-and-90s-was-ex-police-officer-dna-shows\">reported<\/a> that DNA taken from V\u00e9rove proved he was the serial killer he claimed to be in his suicide note, calling the discovery \u201cone of the biggest cold-case reviews in the history of the Paris police.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Didier Seban, an attorney representing families of V\u00e9rove\u2019s victims, told French media outlet France Info that \u201c\u201cWe are going to ask the justice system to continue investigating, to know if he had accomplices and to determine the number of victims. The families must have answers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are going to ask the justice system to continue investigating, to know if he had accomplices and to determine the number of victims. The families must have answers,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 1980s and 90s, a serial killer and rapist terrorized Paris, France. Last week, he was finally identified as a retired French police officer.The killer, identified as Fran\u00e7ois V\u00e9rove, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-849650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}