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Author: Emmanuel Carrère
First Published: 2000
Type of Work: Current affairs
Time of Work: The 1950’s to the 1990’s
Setting: Prévessin, France
Principal Characters: Jean-Claude Romand, Florence Romand, Luc Ladmiral, Corrine Hourtin
Genres: Nonfiction, Current affairs
Subjects: 1950’s, 1960’s, 1970’s, Suicide, Crime or criminals, Murder or homicide, Twentieth century, 1980’s, Fratricide, parricide, or filicide, Truthfulness and falsehood, 1990’s, Fraud, Mass murderers or serial killers
Locales: France

On the morning of January 9, 1993, Jean-Claude Romand, a respected physician and researcher at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, Switzerland, bludgeoned his wife to death and shot his two small children. Then he drove to his elderly parents’ home, had lunch with them, and soon afterwards shot them, too. He returned home the following night, set fire to the house, and tried to take his own life by swallowing twenty Nembutal tablets. Unfortunately for Romand, he was more proficient at murder than suicide. He survived because firefighters arrived and pulled him from the...

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