Giriat, Madame (b. 1866)

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Giriat, Madame (b. 1866)

French murderer. Born 1866 in France.

Worked as a lady's companion to wealthy Eugénie Fourgère; became involved in a plot (with her lover Henri Bassot and a man named César Ladermann) to rob Fourgère, who was strangled to death, along with her maid, during the attempt (Sept 1902); implicated by Bassot as plot's mastermind, was sentenced to life for killings, as was Bassot (Ladermann shot himself before he could be apprehended).

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