Michel Piery

Michel Peiry (born 28 February 1959), known as The Sadist of Romont, is a Swiss serial killer who killed at least 5 people between 1981 and 1987.

Modus operandi Peiry corresponds perfectly to the typical portrait of an organized psychopath. Despite having an unhappy childhood and a violent father, he managed to lead a normal life, and was appreciated by everybody in his social life and work. However, behind the "mask of normality", he was tortured, first by his repressed homosexuality, then by violent fantasies, which he acquired early. By his own admission, he discovered his sexuality through a review of bondage: in his mind, sexuality and violence became inseparable. In France, he is often compared with Pierre Chanal, as there were similarities.