A former French military police officer confessed in his suicide note that he was the horrific serial killer behind several rapes and murders in the 1980s.
Francois Verov, 59, admitted he was “the Grauel” or “the pockmarked man” after police arrested him for crimes including the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl in 1986, according to the French-language newspaper Le Parisien. Recount.
Le Parisien said Verov committed suicide with a lethal dose of the drug in the town of Grau-du-Roi on Wednesday after rejecting a DNA test that could link him to long unsolved crimes.
The suspected killer, who was reportedly married with two children, said in his note that he was “not doing well” during his madness, which apparently ended in the 1990s, but added that he got together, the BBC reported.
According to the BBC, “The Pockmarked Man” is believed to be behind the rape and murder of 11-year-old Cecil Bloch at Fountainblue in 1986. The report says the girl’s body was stabbed to death in the sub- floor of the apartment where his family lived.
A witness said he collided with a man in the elevator on the day of the murder, who had bruises on his skin, giving the nickname – and an artist’s sketch that hung on the walls of the police department local for decades, the BBC mentioned.
The man in the elevator asked the witness to “have a very, very good day,” the witness said in an interview with South West in 2015.
DNA has linked “the pockmarked man” to other crimes, such as the 1987 double murder, the 1994 murder of 19-year-old Karine Leroy, and six rapes of 11-year-old victims, according to the report.
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