Lucien Léger, born in Paris on March 30, 1937, and died in Laon in July 2008,[1] was a French criminal, sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a child in 1964.
Eugène Lucien Léger was born on March 30, 1937, in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, into a modest family of seven children, originally from Château-Regnault in the Ardennes department.
On May 27, 1964, around 5 a.m., Jules Beudard, while walking in the woods of Verrières-le-Buisson, in Essonne, before going to the factory, discovered the body of the child, mutilated and strangled,[4] at a place called "Le Salvart".
Four days later, he returned to the police station and claimed to have found his vehicle in a parking lot following a phone call from the Strangler.
Summoned for interrogation on July 4, Lucien Léger was the main suspect, especially as the search of his hotel room uncovered that he kept newspapers relating to the case and a draft novel entitled Diary of an Assassin.