Albert SOLEILLAND

Classification: Murderer
Characteristics: Sex with corpse - Dismemberment
Number of victims: 1
Date of murder: January 30, 1907
Date of arrest: February 16, 1907
Date of birth: January 2, 1881
Victim profile: Marthe Erbelding, 11
Method of murder: Strangulation
Location: Paris, France
Status: Sentenced to death on July 24, 1907. Commuted to life in prison on September 13, 1907. Died in prison in May 1920

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French homicide; raped and murdered a little girl on January 30, 1907.

On January 30, 1907, Albert Soleilland, a carpenter, goes to the home of his friends workers, Erblinger. Claiming that his wife has to go to a show at the Ba-Ta-Clan, he proposes to take the little Martha, 11. Needless to say, the girl jumping for joy, and follows Soleilland.

In the evening, Soleilland returned alone and said that his wife could not go to the show, and it was he who accompanied her, but that he had lost sight of the crowd. He seemed surprised that it is not returned.

Wanted child, without success, until 14 February when pressed with questions Soleilland finally confessed his crime. His wife was away, he dragged the girl into his home, intending to rape her. As she resisted, crying loudly, he strangled and abused his body. Then he cut up the corpse that he went to drop the reference to the Gare de l'Est.

After the police discovered the abomination, the public is passionate about the case: one hundred thousand people accompanied the little coffin in the cemetery of Pantin, and six tanks were required to bring all the packages offered by anonymous.

The trial was not far away, and July 23, the Court of Assizes of the Seine condemned the despicable character to death, having held responsible for his actions. The crowd applauded and even cheered the verdict Mrs Soleilland! September 13, despite pressure from the majority of French, Armand Fallières signs the grace of all those sentenced to death recently. Which Soleilland. The people growing up in arms, 15 on Sunday, an event arrives at the Elysee Palace in demanding justice and resigned Fallières.

The satyr was sent to Guyana. His homosexuality is revealed. In September 1912, he tried to strangle a young convict who refused to him, and who, by defending the seriously injured with a blow of lime. The "pointers" (rapists, in slang) are the most hated prisoners, and Soleilland no exception to the rule. Tuberculosis, he died alone and hated at the hospital of Kourou in May 1920.