THE MURDER NETWORK

France, 1940. A serial killer stalks the streets of Occupied Paris. Using the chaos of the war to his own advantage, psychopathic doctor Marcel Petiot poses as a resistance operative and preys on those most desperate to flee the Nazi regime – Jews, criminals and underground partisans. Creating a false ‘escape network’, he lures his victims to a luxurious Parisian apartment, murders them, steals their most valuable possessions and then disposes of their body parts in the River Seine. As the body count rises, both the French police and the Gestapo race against time to bring him to justice.

Featuring extensive film and photographic archive of the crime scenes, the police investigation and Petiot’s remarkable court case, plus interviews with: Petiot biographers Thomas Maeder and Marilyn Z Tomlins; author of ‘Paris At War: 1939-1944’, Dr. David Drake; Modern French historian Dr. Daniel Lee; psychopathy expert and author of ‘Making A Psychopath’, Professor Mark Freestone; and many more.