CRIME IMITATES ART Courbevoie–Tremblay Juge Deschamps, investigating magistrate in the double murder committed in Courbevoie, has revealed that a fake fingerprint found at the crime scene links the killing to the murder of Manuela Constanza, a 24-year-old prostitute whose mutilated body, hacked in two, was discovered on a rubbish dump. It would appear that Commandant Verhœven, the officer in charge of the case, is dealing with a serial killer. However, this new information, which should theoretically have made solving the cases easier, seems to have made it more complex. The first surprise is the killer’s modus operandi. Usually, serial killers dispatch their victims in the same way, but the details of the two cases show no similarity. In fact, the manner in which the women have been killed is so dissimilar that one cannot but wonder whether the fake fingerprint found in Courbevoie is a red herring. Unless there is some other explanation, one in which the disparities between the killings are precisely what connects them.
