Guy Georges | |
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Born |
Guy Rampillon 15 October 1962 Vitry-le-François, France |
Other names | The Beast of the Bastille |
Criminal penalty | Life imprisonment |
Killings | |
Victims | 7 |
Span of killings
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24 January 1991–16 November 1997 |
Country | France |
Date apprehended
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26 March 1998 |
Guy Georges (born Guy Rampillon, 15 October 1962) is a French serial killer, dubbed "The Beast of the Bastille", who was convicted of murdering seven women between 1991 and 1997.
He was born Guy Rampillon to a French mother and a Black American father (George Cartwright, a soldier [1]) who abandoned him as a small child.
From 1991 to 1997, Guy Georges assaulted, tortured, raped and killed seven women in the neighbourhood of the Bastille, the Revolutionary-era Parisian prison.
Georges was arrested on 26 March 1998 and admitted his guilt to police. Described by psychiatrists as a "narcissistic psychopath", he was sentenced in April 2001 to life imprisonment, without the possibility of parole for 22 years.