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Originally Posted by TimSJ
Dec 31 1898
Joseph Vacher, known as "Jack the Ripper of France", guillotined. He had a hideous appearance and suffered from Bell's Palsy, a partial paralysis of the face. Vacher killed and mutilated at least 14 victims, young men and women, and committed necrophilia on many of their corpses.
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Interesting story from the turn of the century Iowa free press on Vacher and his history
http://www.casebook.org/press_report...ss/990130.html