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Gilles de Rais: History’s First Serial Killer?: Media

Gilles de Rais was a wealthy nobleman and a war hero. Today, though, he is remembered for something much more sinister.

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History's first serial killer?
Gilles de Rais.
Le Procès Inquisitorial de Gilles de Rais, Maréchal de France, Paris, 1921