Inexhaustible.īut his future, he knows, looks less rosy. Multicolored shirt or T-shirt with the effigy of a serial killer, the writer adjusted his fine glasses, ran a hand over his bald head and launched himself, without notes or hesitation. I apologize "įor almost thirty years and the release, in 1991, of his first documentaries on American killers for a French channel, Stéphane Bourgoin took care of his staging, whether to take place on a television set, settle in at a table to sign one of his 40 books or lead a conference. Stéphane Bourgoin, self-proclaimed expert on serial killers: “I lied. He confides to our magazine: "I completely admit my faults, I am ashamed to have lied, to have concealed things. Three days later, Stéphane Bourgoin, 67, goes further. To the point of pushing him to confess to Paris Match, on May 7, that he had "amplified" reality. Logic: in recent weeks, his aura has cracked over the revelations posted on YouTube by a group of anonymous bloggers called 4th Eye Corporation. At the end of the line, the one who boasted of having interviewed 77 serial killers since 1979, of being the world specialist in serial killers, has lost its luster. Our exchange will last about fifty minutes. He swears, it will be his last interview with the written press. “I didn’t want people to know the real identity of someone who was not my partner, but someone who I had met five or six times in Daytona Beach, and who I liked.On May 10, Stéphane Bourgoin picked up the phone from his house in the west of France. “It was bulls-t that I took on,” Bourgoin told Le Parisien. That story stemmed from his brief acquaintance with a Florida woman named Susan Bickrest, who was killed by serial killer Gerald Stano in 1975, he said. He also confessed to making up the story that his wife was murdered by a serial killer. I am ashamed of what I did, it’s absolutely ridiculous,” he told the outlet. He was never a footballer either, according to the report. Turns out, he only interviewed about 10 of the 77 serial killers he claimed to have, and, as a result, many of his 40-plus books the product of work carried out by actual criminal profilers, Le Parisien reports. I am ashamed to have lied, to have concealed things.” On Tuesday, he told Le Parisien, “I completely admit my faults. “I have arrived at the balance-sheet time.” “My lies have weighed me down,” he told Paris Match. "His television interviews convinced us that he was truly making it all up," a spokesperson for the group told CNN.īourgoin began responding to the allegations last week. They also found inconsistencies in his books and television interviews. The group also questioned his claim that he was a professional football player, noting there was no record of such. It also pointed out that other experts in his purported field have seemingly ignored him or called him an impostor. A post questioned many of Bourgoin’s claims and asked for evidence to prove several of them. However, the 4ème Oeil Corporation, an anonymous French collective, pointed out earlier this year that the Bourgoin may have been lying about his past. He even said that his own wife had been slain by one. He claimed he had been trained by the FBI and interviewed 77 serial killers over his career. Stéphane Bourgoin, 67, was widely viewed to be one of France’s top serial killer experts. A self-proclaimed serial killer expert from France, with dozens of books under his belt, has now been exposed as a serial liar.
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