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Commemorative postage stamp for criminologist Edmond Locard. Engraving by Claude Andréotto. Communiqué de Presse, February 2016: La Poste. Dr. Edmond Locard is the most renowned French criminologist of twentieth century. He founded the police forensics laboratory in Lyon and was a prolific author of true crime books. In the nineteenth century, retired Paris Police Prefects…
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Engraving by Louis Dupré, “Mr. Fualdès” (1817). Private Collection: Ciminocorpus. The morning of March 20, 1817, the corpse of retired prosecutor Antoine Bernadin Fualdès was discovered with a slashed jugular vein along the banks of the Aveyron River, outside the city of Rodez in Southern France. Over the next two years, an entirely fabricated and…
Shady Detectives, Elegant Criminals & Dark Avengers 