Claude Lastennet

Claude Lastennet (January 19, 1971 – December 19, 2023) was a French serial killer who was convicted of murdering five elderly women in several Parisian suburbs between August 1993 and January 1994. He was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment with the possibility of parole for these crimes, and died behind bars.

Early life Lastennet was born on January 19, 1971, in Brest, just a few minutes after his older brother Frédéric. The son of a sailor who never interacted with the family, and the two boys were raised separately by aunts and uncles in Crozon, while their mother Jacqueline left for Paris to earn money as a postal worker. She took in her children two years later to live with her in the capital, but all three returned to live in their native region in 1983, settling in Morlaix. This, coupled with the bad relationship with his alcoholic stepfather, led the then-14-year-old Lastennet to flee from home in 1985. Her body was not found until three days later by the building block's concierge, who was alarmed by the amount of postcards stacked at her door. While in police custody, Lastennet gave another confession giving a detail account of all his crimes, claiming that he chose his victims based on certain things that captured his attention - for example, he claimed that he chose Dolisy because of the big glasses that she was wearing. He also revealed that whenever he strangled his victims to death, he would dip his right little finger in the blood gushing from their ears or nose, as blood "excited [him]." During his incarceration, he claimed that psychotherapy lessons helped him regain his sense of self and that he was improving as a person behind bars.

List of victims Date Name of victim Age at death 24 August 1993 Marcelle Cavilier 87 15 November 1993 Antoinette Bonin 76 16 November 1993 Raymonde Dolisy (née Fournier) 72 18 December 1993 Augustine Royer 91 8 January 1994 Violette de Ferluc 92