In this new season of the podcast Home(icides), it is a story of servants who revolt against the bourgeoisie, a class struggle that ends in a bloodbath. The case we are going to tell you about takes place in the 1930s, in Le Mans, in the Sarthe region. One evening in February 1933, behind the walls of a wealthy house, a drama will play out which will mark by its violence the criminal annals of the beginning of the 20th century. Christine Papin, 28, and her sister Léa, 22, exemplary domestic workers, savagely murder their boss Léonie Lancelin and her daughter Geneviève. So much so that the forensic pathologist will speak in his report of “Bloody porridge”.
Like many tragic news items, this story has fascinated and inspired the greatest novelists, filmmakers and directors. The play The good ones by Jean Genet, the film Ceremony by Claude Chabrol or even The murderous wounds by Jean-Pierre Denis are free adaptations of this true story… A story you may have heard of before. Is it a crime of madness or a crime of revenge? Even today, we wonder. Who were the Papin sisters? Why after years of good and loyal service, did they decide to massacre in the wildest way he was their boss? Behind the heinous crime, what is this story really telling?
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