Rémy Roy

Rémy Roy (born 1958), known as The Minitel Killer , is a French serial killer who killed three gay men between 1990 and 1991. His motive was a self-admitted hatred towards homosexuals. He earned his nickname because he messaged prospective victims using a "pink Minitel" (, a term referring to the use of the Minitel, a telephone-based French Videotex, for erotic purposes) and offering to engage in BDSM with victims to lure them.

Biography Rémy Roy was born in an indeterminate region of France in 1958. He grew up pampered by his parents and studied at a religious school, the Brothers of Saint-Vincent de Paul, but was considered a mediocre student. After graduating, he went to a sailing school and eventually became a skipper, with his profession allowing him to meet people such as Florence Arthaud, Philippe Poupon and Olivier de Kersauson, and even worked with a close companion of Nicolas Hulot. During this time, he also met his future wife, the owner of a local bookstore, whom he later married and moved in with at a house in Villejuif, where they soon had two children together.

According to Roy's wife, he was a kind, generous father who always looked after his family and even volunteered at her bookstore. This changed in 1988, when his wife hired a friend to help out, leaving Roy with nothing to do. Now left with much free time, he decided to open a promotional video company based in his home, but this failed to generate any interest. Due to the failure of his business, Roy became depressed and started spending most of his time in bed eating, causing him to become overweight, weighing 120. For some time, Duquesnoy's dachshund followed him, but eventually returned to the apartment. Roy eventually threw the hammer into the Marne and later disposed of the remaining items at the Nogent-sur-Marne station. Approximately two days later, Alain, Duquesnoy's partner, asked some neighbours to go and check on him since he was not answering his phone calls. After entering the apartment, they found the man lying naked on his bed, an open briefcase with sex toys next to him, and the house ransacked. While incarcerated in Fresnes Prison, he confessed responsibility for the crimes and explained in great detail what had transpired, but denied being gay and claimed that he had killed each victim because he was a homophobe. When interviewed by psychiatrist Jean Martel and psychologist Caroline Legendre, Roy made several revelations about his life that attracted interest: he claimed that he suffered a lot from the absences of his father, who travelled a lot, and was frequently whipped with a leather strap by his mother.

List of known victims