the killer of little shepherds

CSI: Lyon... Author: Douglas Starr He was one of the most fearsome serial killers of the 19th century, terrorizing the denizens of the French countryside for much of the 1890s.  Yet the criminal science of the time was so primitive, that it wasn’t until he’d killed his 27th victim that Joseph Vacher was finally captured and convicted.  In The Killer of Little Shepherds, Boston University professor Douglas Starr tells Vacher’s gruesome story, as well as the story of the heroic criminology pioneers who caught him. Growing up poor and attending a strict Catholic school, Vacher appears to have always been [...]