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Podcast: Crimes, Killers, Cults and Beer: A True Crime Podcast
Episode: 79 Marcel Petiot: A Doctor's Lucrative Death Plot
Description: Ok, after 6 hours of Panzram, we're going to switch gears, and have a shorter episode. During the Nazi occupation of France in WW2, Dr. Marcel Petiot hatched a scheme to get rich quick. He pretended to be with the French Resistance, and set up an operation where he would get Jews out of occupied France to safety. But he didn't do that. He just killed them, and stole everything they had.
We cover his troubling childhood, his criminal practices and scams in politics, as well as his most sinister scheme, as well as his downfall.
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