Stéphane Bourgoin | Image: Daily Mail
A famous French serial killer expert and true-crime book author has confessed that most of his life and work is based on made-up stories, including the murder of his non-existent wife.
Stéphane Bourgoin, 67, has enjoyed a prestigious career and he was once considered one of the most knowledgeable experts on serial crime in France. He has authored 40 crime books which have sold millions of copies. He also hosted a number of French television documentaries and claimed to have interviewed more than 70 serial killers.
However, Bourgoin has admitted that most of his experiences are based on lies.
“My lies have weighed me down,” he told Paris Match magazine in an interview about the accusations last week.
“I’m ashamed to have lied, to have hidden things,” he said in an interview with the Le Parisien on Sunday. “It is true that when I was in the public eye I sometimes happened to embellish, to extrapolate, to exaggerate my importance…
Source: Guardian Newspaper
