Joseph Vacher was a French serial killer, sometimes known as The French Ripper, or as L'éventreur du Sud-Est (The South-East Ripper) due to comparisons to the more famous Jack the Ripper murderer of London, England in 1888. His appearance became infamous for his scarred face, his accordion and his plain white rabbit-fur hat which he made himself. Wikipedia
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By century's end, in 1897, a tramp named Joseph Vacher , 29, was tried in France for eleven murders. He had been arrested after a seventeen-year-old shepherd was found strangled, stabbed, and with his belly ripped open. Vacher wrote a confession for the www.crimelibrary.com/criminal_mind/psychology/werewolf_ki...
On this date in 1898, "the French Ripper" Joseph Vacher was guillotined for a three-year homicidal spree through the French countryside. Less renowned to posterity than the unidentified British contemporary to whom his nickname alluded, Vacher was thorou www.executedtoday.com/2007/12/31/1898-joseph-vacher/