The Terrifying Historical True Crime Case of Gabrielle Bompard (1889, Paris)

In the summer of 1889, while Paris celebrated the new Eiffel Tower and the Exposition Universelle, a twenty-year-old woman named Gabrielle Bompard helped lure a Paris court bailiff to a quiet apartment on Rue Tronson-du-Coudray — and into one of the most sensational murders of the Belle Époque. The body was sealed in a London-bought trunk and shipped 480 kilometres south to Lyon. What followed was a transatlantic manhunt, the first international wanted notice in police history, the birth of modern forensic pathology under Dr Alexandre Lacassagne, and a four-day trial that put hypnosis itself on the stand. This is the true story of the Gouffé Trunk Murder, the rise of forensic science in 19th-century France, and the woman France remembered as the Little Demon of the Belle Époque. Sources: https://victorianparis.wordpress.com/... https://h-france.net/fffh/maybe-misse... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gouff%C... https://the-line-up.com/gouffe-case-1889 Brief Ledger Cases:    • Brief Ledger Station   Subscribe:    / @briefledger   #GabrielleBompard #TrueCrimeDocumentary #HistoricalTrueCrime #DarkHistory #BriefLedger #19thcentury #VictorianTrueCrime