Antoine le Blanc

Antoine le Blanc (c. 1800 – September 6, 1833) was a 19th-century murderer and a French immigrant to the United States.

[1] In 1833, a few weeks after his arrival in the country, le Blanc was allowed to live in the small, dank basement of the Morristown, New Jersey farmhouse of the Judge Samuel Sayre family, in exchange for chopping wood and feeding hogs.

After two weeks of taking orders and hard work, he became angry and murdered the farmer by hitting him in the back with an ax, his wife Sarah, whom he killed with a club, and their servant Phoebe, who may have been a slave.

After his death, le Blanc was taken to a medical lab and experimented on with electrical currents.

The death mask of Antoine le Blanc and some other products eventually passed to Carl Scherzer, a collector of 19th-century artifacts.