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Oct 2024
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Gilles de Rais, Baron Serial Killer of L...

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Gilles de Rais was a powerful, wealthy French baron who fought alongside Joan of Arc. But a castle sale gone-wrong would lead to an investigation, revealing gruesome and salacious details of murder.

CW: murder, pedophilia

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