
One side of me says, ‘Wow, what an attractive chick. What does it feel like to sit on your living-room couch and look over and see two decapitated girls’ heads on the arm of the couch? The first time, it makes you sick to your stomach. What is it like to have sex with a dead body?. I was the hunter, and they were the victims. It was kind of an exalted triumphant type thing, like taking the head of a deer or an elk or something would be to a hunter. I just wanted the exaltation over the party. Well, that’s not quite true: there’s a lot left in the girl’s body without the head. The body is nothing after the head is cut off. I remember being told as a kid, you cut off the head and the body dies. Here are some of his most noteworthy quotes.

QUOTES FROM, AND ABOUT, EDMUND KEMPER III Edmund Kemper III has granted scores of interviews over the years. "La série Mindhunter est-elle réaliste? L'expert Stéphane Bourgoin répond". "Serial killer expert Stéphane Bourgoin made up his entire life history".

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"French serial killer author confesses to lying about imaginary wife's murder and admits he needs therapy". "French serial-killer expert admits serial lies, including murder of imaginary wife". "What lies beneath: the secrets of France's top serial killer expert".

La Nouvelle République du Centre-Ouest (in French). "Stéphane Bourgoin, l'homme qui parlait aux serial killers". In response to the scandal, Bourgoin was dropped by his publishers and producers. They published their findings in 2019, and after French media covered the issue Bourgoin confessed in 2021 he told a Guardian reporter that he had in fact met only 30 rather than 77 serial killers. Some of his thousands of Facebook followers formed a group to more thoroughly investigate Bourgoin's stories, and found that many appeared to have been invented or plagiarized. He occasionally lectured police on the subject, and critiqued media depictions of serial killers. He was regarded as France's best known serial killer expert. Works īourgoin has written 75 books and produced dozens of documentaries, with his books selling thousands of copies in France. In 2020, however, Bourgoin confessed that the story was in fact an invention drawn from the case of Susan Bickrest, murdered at age 24 by serial killer Gerald Stano in 1975. He said that the event led him to try to understand what goes on in the mind of serial killers.

īourgoin claimed to have moved to the United States in the early 1970s, where he allegedly found his then-girlfriend murdered, raped and mutilated by a serial killer in 1976 in Los Angeles. He was expelled from high school three times and does not hold any diploma. Stéphane Bourgoin was born in Paris on 14 March 1953, one of four children of Jean Bourgoin, a military engineer. He presented himself as an expert on serial killers for many years, until he admitted in 2020 that he had lied about many of his claimed experiences. Stéphane Bourgoin (born 14 March 1953) is a French true crime writer.
