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Nicolas CLAUX

Nicolas Claux, upon his arrest. He was held for questioning in the murder of 34-year-old
Thierry Bissionnier, while police searched his apartment and revealed far more
evidence than they wanted.

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Perelachaise cemetery, one of Claux haunts. Sometimes he would go in broad daylight,
with his set of grave-robbing tools, and look for graves to desecrate.

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Nico Claux poses outside one of the Mausoleums he robbed.
France has many such places in cemeteries all over, and can be very elaborate.
Claux would break into tombs and take pieces of bodies back to his apartment.

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Inside the morgue at St. Joseph's. Claux worked as a morgue attendant,
and was left alone with bodies to perform his job, such as sewing up incisions done during autopsy.
Claux would sometimes remove pieces and eat them, or take them home for later.

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Outside the world famous cabaret, Le Moulin Rouge.
Claux was arrested by police here after he attempted to use a victim's check
with a forged driver's license.

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Number 9, Rue Coustou. This was Nico's apartment at the time of his arrest.
Upon a warrant search by investigators, the apartment showed many items
that shocked them, and helped close several unsolved cases.

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Nico Claux poses in catacombs, holding a skull.
As a grave robber, Claux would take items from corpses and bring them back home.
There, he would display the items in hanging morbid mobiles or shelves.

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Gilbert Thiel was the lead investigator on the case. He believed that one person
was responsible for a string of murders in the area over the month of October, 1994.

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Part of the evidence used at Claux's trial were his dental records.
Bite marks can link a suspect directly to a victim.

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Judge W. Waechter presided in the Claux trial. He was also responsible for picking the jury.
After a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity, the court was shown
photographs of the crime scene and Nico's apartment.

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Maison Centrale Poissy Prison exercise yard, where Claux posed for this picture.
Poissy is one of six maximum security prisons in France, which house the most serious of criminals.

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While in prison, Claux tried his hand at painting to pass the time.
He poses here with a picture he painted while in his cell.

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Nico Claux, after his release from prison. He wears his hair in similar fashion
to the actor who plays Vlad in the movie "Bram Stoker's Dracula."

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