Sunday June 4, 2023, at 9:10 p.m., RMC Story will broadcast an unpublished number of Bring in the accused, dedicated to Francis Heaulme. The opportunity to learn what famous criminal case fascinated the serial killer.
His name made the headlines… Nicknamed “the backpacker of crime”, Francis Heaulme is a serial killer arrested on January 7, 1992. Convicted of eleven murders in at least nine French criminal cases, this one, today 64-year-old has been four times sentenced to life imprisonment. If he was the victim of ridicule during his childhood and became alcoholic and unbalanced during his adolescence, it was the death of his mother that made him switch. Indeed, if his father was a violent man and locked him in the cellar, Francis Heaulme was very close to his mother, Nicole.
Nicole Houillon died of cancer on October 16, 1984. Devastated, Francis Heaulme, then 25 years old, fell into massive reactionary depression, as well as alcoholism. The death of his mother took place the same day as that of the little one Gregory Villemin. As a result, he was fascinated by this famous criminal case and collected press clippings relating to this case over the years. The four-year-old boy was found dead around 9:15 p.m. in Vologne, a river in the Vosges.
Francis Heaulme: where is the serial killer serving his sentence?
Convicted of eleven murders, Francis Heaulme serving his sentence in the prison of Ensisheim, in the Haut-Rhin. Among his co-detainees are Guy Georges, Nordal Lelhandais, but also Jonathann Daval. For the Sunday newspaperthe mother of Alexia Daval’s murderer confided: “For example, he rubs shoulders with serial killers Guy George and Francis Heaulme. It seems incredible to me. But today, I no longer have the same borders, there is the man and the act.“
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Courtroom before the opening of the trial of Francis Heaulme before the Moselle Assize Court, in Metz on March 31, 2014.
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Francis Heaulme is fascinated by the Grégory affair.
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Francis Heaulme arrives with the police for the second day of his trial before the Moselle Assize Court in Metz on April 1, 2014.
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Francis Heaulme’s mother died the same day as Grégory Villemin.
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Francis Heaulme collects press clippings relating to the Grégory affair.