Emmanuel Carrère betrays his parents
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In January 1993, a man called Jean-Claude Romand killed his wife, their two children, his parents and his parents’ dog, then took an overdose of sleeping pills and set fire to his home in eastern France, just outside Geneva. Firefighters pulled him out alive. It soon emerged that he’d killed his family because a bizarre deception had started to unravel. For 18 years he’d mimicked a successful career, telling everyone he was a senior doctor…
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