Beyond the Man in the Iron Mask: by request, I post all three parts that I wrote as guest posts for other bloggers here for readability. ___________________________________ I like to read about old unsolved cases. We usually refer to them as historical mysteries. One of them is the story of the unknown prisoner or the man [...]
Tags: Cruelty, Evidence, France, Historical Mystery, Identification, Prisons, the Man in the Iron MaskUpdate Robert Boulin: murder or suicide. In 2011, I posted that the death of Robert Boulin remains a mystery. Yes, he was in troubled waters. However, the manner in which he died and the way he was found, do not match suicide. While checking the papers and the Internet, I found an article from February of [...]
Tags: Autopsy, Crime Scene, DNA, Evidence, Forensics, France, Robert Boulin, suicide, Unsolved Homicide, Victim, WitnessesMy mini blog tour for April has started today. In a three part series, I explore the historical mystery of the Man in the Iron Mask. Part 1 is hosted this weekend by Gary Lee Walters. David Swinson is the host for part 2 next weekend and Suzie Ivy will post the conclusion the weekend after that. In Gary’s part [...]
Tags: France, Identification, the Man in the Iron MaskWarning: crime scene photographs! In the autumn of 1979, press reports emerged that Boulin had abused his position to gain favourable terms for a series of property deals on the French Riviera. Boulin’s family believes that Robert, tipped in 1979 as a future PM before he was engulfed by that property scandal, did not commit suicide to avoid the investigation. [...]
Tags: Autopsy, Crime Scene, DNA, drowning, Evidence, Finger Printing, Forensics, France, Identification, Investigations Division, Police, Unsolved Homicide, Victim, WitnessesThe Lost King of France by Deborah Cadbury This book combines Vidocq’s passion for historical mysteries, cold cases, and forensics! My interest was peaked after watching the movie “the Scarlet Pimpernel” with Anthony Andrews and Jane Seymour. The book by Baroness Emmuska Orczy was tedious and less amusing than the movie. Vidocq’s attraction to “the Scarlet Pimpernel” is easily [...]
Tags: Anastasia Romanov, Anthony Andrews, Austria, Book Reviews, Burial, Child Abuse, Cruelty, Deborah Cadbury, DNA, Execution, Forensics, France, Historical Mystery, Louis-Charles, Marie-Therese, Maternal Line, Mitochondrial DNA, Prince, Princess, Public Execution, Queen, Robespierre, Royalist, Saint-Denis, Scarlet Pimpernel, the Dauphin
