Episode 139: The “World Health Organization” Killer (Case of Jean-Claude Romand)
Jean was a successful doctor working as a researcher at the well respected World Health Organization. His wife was a pharmacist and they had 2 beautiful children. Ah yes, it’s another perfect family.
But we both know that there’s no such thing. Jean was cheating on his wife with a mutual friend - a child psychologist.
But the affair does something mysterious to Jean. He starts blacking out, has holes in his memory, but most alarming of all - he wakes up one day to find himself hovering over his wife’s dead body. What really happened here?
Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com
Source notes:
Book: “The Adversary” - by Emmanuel Carrere
Documentary - “The Man Who Faked His Life”
https://www.france24.com/en/20190628-notorious-french-doctor-who-killed-family-released-abbey
https://www.thelocal.fr/20190425/fake-doctor-who-killed-his-parents-wife/
https://murderpedia.org/male.R/r/romand-jean-claude.htm
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48790276
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/can-murderer-jean-claude-romand-be-trusted-after-his-release-from-jail-qtz3wrq6s
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