The French Ripper
The French Ripper Joseph Vacher was a French serial killer known as "The French Ripper" owing to comparisons to the infamous Jack the Ripper murderer of London, England, in 1888 Born in 1869, Joseph was the fifteenth child of illiterate peasants. He spent much of his childhood in a strict Catholic school where he was taught to fear and obey God. In 1892 a 23 year old Vacher would join the army and become infatuated with a with a young servant girl called Louise. Louise did not reciprocate the soldiers affection and openly mocked his proposal. Vacher did not take this well, returning with a pistol he shot the servant girl four times and attempted suicide, neither of these attempts were successful though and Vacher would be forever paralyzed on one side of his face. Following this incident Vacher was placed into a mental institution though was deemed to be cured within a year of entering. He would start his killing spree not long after, his first victim being murdered in 1894...