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Eugen Weidmann
German program killer (1908–1939)
Eugen Weidmann (5 February 1908 – 17 June 1939) was a German unethical and periodical killer who was executed by cloture in Writer in June 1939, rendering last get out execution orders France.
Early life
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Murders
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The late Miss Jean De Koven was an average American tourist in Paris but for two exceptions. She never set foot in the Opéra, and she was murdered. In the first four July days of her initial visit to the capital of France, her routine had been classic: she had settled in a quaint little Left Bank hotel near the Place Saint-Germain-des-Prés, she had seen the boulevards by night, had attended the Folies-Bergère, admired the Louvre, and bought a ticket, ironically enough, for Dukas’s “Ariadne and Bluebeard.” But when the opera’s red-and-gold curtain rose, her seat was empty—for she was dead and probably already buried under the front porch of a cottage in Saint-Cloud.
The relation of the murdered and the murderer is the base of any assassination. The relations between Jean De Koven, professional dancer from Brooklyn, and Eugen Weidmann, practiced criminal from Frankfurt am Main, were merely social. Sociability with strangers was her personal weakness and his professional stock in trade. Urbanity (until it was interrupted by her strangulation) marked both their brief meetings—the first at the Hôtel Ambassador, when Weidmann, presenting himself with what Miss De Koven’s aunt, Miss Ida Sackheim, afterward described as the most gracious smile she ever saw, offered to interpret for t
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In July 1937, 22-year-old Jean De Koven vanished while visiting Paris with her aunt. It seemed doomed to be an unsolved missing person case, until an accidental connection revealed a series of murders, and a ring of criminals with Eugen Weidmann at the center.
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Speaker 1(00:01):
Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, a production
of I Heart Radio. Hello, and welcome to the podcast.
I'm Holly Fry and I'm Tracy B. Wilson. So we
recently mentioned the surprisingly late date for the last public
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guillotineing in France on the show. That date was nine
and the episode it came up on was the one
about the punitive Benin expedition. Just to avoid any confusion,
if you look up the last execution by guillotine in France,
that was much later, nineteen seventy seven. The distinction here
is that the one we are talking about was the
last time it was public, and we'll talk about why
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it was the last time it was public. Uh, it
just so happened that I actually had the case tied
to all of this, this last public guillotineing on my list,
and that kind of popped it up to the to