Tea Time Crimes

The Gouffé Case: Gabrielle Bompard

Episode Summary

It’s Paris in 1889 (oui, oui!). Much to Alana’s dismay, we have a body found rotting in a traveling trunk and a man named Toussaint-Augustin Gouffé has gone missing. In a classic case of lovers turning to crime to save their hide, both Gabrielle Bompard and Michel Eyraud are charged with murder. But what really happened to Toussaint-Augustin Gouffé? And whose story is true?

Episode Notes

It’s Paris in 1889 (oui, oui!). Much to Alana’s dismay, we have a body found rotting in a traveling trunk and a man named Toussaint-Augustin Gouffé has gone missing. In a classic case of lovers turning to crime to save their hide, both Gabrielle Bompard and Michel Eyraud are charged with murder. But what really happened to Toussaint-Augustin Gouffé? And whose story is true? 

Tea of the Day: Zealong Tea

Theme Music by Brad Frank

Sources:

• Little Demon in the City of Lights: A True Story of Murder and Mesmerism in Belle Epoque Paris by Steven Levingston
• https://youtu.be/PzE-o4G2q8M
• https://victorianparis.wordpress.com/tag/gabrielle-bompart/
• https://the-line-up.com/gouffe-case-1889