![]() Suspects are to be interviewed, not just beaten until they confess. ![]() Up to this point, mental-health care mainly consisted of cold baths followed by ice picks in the nose, but it’s beginning to veer toward therapy and Schedule II narcotics. The industrial revolution is in full tilt. He transports you to a world in transition, the turn of the 20 th century. The book is nonfiction, but author Douglas Starr writes it like a novel. Vacher apparently had a penchant for rabbit-fur hats. The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science concerns a real-life Franco serial killer named Joseph Vacher, a rather unfriendly guy who terrorized the countryside by stalking, murdering and generally looking creepy. And yet we seem to produce the largest amount of them. ![]() It would probably make him, or her, a better murderer than some lazy American. ![]() A serial killer from their ranks would be armed with a vast foreknowledge of la grande mort. The French seem to possess a uniquely close relationship with death-probably because they eat unpasteurized cheeses. ![]()
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