A French serial killer has sensationally confessed to a multitude of lies about his personal life and career, including that he had a wife who was murdered and that he met Charles Manson. Stephane Bourgoin has carved a stellar career out of his alleged expert knowledge of serial killers, and has sold millions of books in France.
He is widely regarded as one of the foremost experts in the field and has hosted several true crime documentaries. Notably, the author claimed to have trained with the FBI at their headquarters in Quantico, Virginia, and that his wife was murdered in 1976 by a man who admitted to committing dozens of murders upon his arrest two years later.