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On March 11, 1944, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, foul odors coming from the chimney of a private mansion intrigue. In the cellar, firefighters discover the unimaginable: human corpses dismembered and ready to be incinerated in a boiler as well as a pit of quicklime mixed with body parts. On site, a man, Doctor Marcel Petiot, claims that the corpses are those of collaborators and Gestapo members eliminated by the Resistance. The police then let him go. Two years later, on April 4, 1946, the doctor is sentenced to death by the Seine Assize Court for 24 murders. He is guillotined on May 25, 1946. A look back at the career of the man nicknamed "Doctor Satan." In this episode of Shadow of a Doubt, Franck Ferrand looks back on the career of the man nicknamed "Doctor Satan", to watch or re-watch on Histoire TV. February 23 at 8:50 p.m. on Histoire TV.