- Recidivist killer, punitive expeditions, vitriol poisoning ... Fifty-nine authentic Toulouse news items surfaced online on the UrbanHist site.
- The municipal archives exhumed them from the precious capitol criminal justice fund.
- "Crimes à la carte" allows you to explore history by taking roundabout ways and very bad things.
You have seen all the issues of Bring the Accused in without being bored with autopsies, jumps and twisted mobiles. There is another way to quench your secret passion for the news. Direction the UrbanHist site, on which the municipal archives of Toulouse had the rich idea of bringing out the black files of the Pink City.
For the moment 59 murders - resolved or become “cold cases” for eternity - are available for consultation. They were exhumed from the criminal justice fund of the famous Capitouls, these municipal elected officials, decidedly multi-card, who carried out the investigations, judged some of them and lent the Capitol walls for autopsies.
Skinning killer and hit and run
Businesses, all geolocated on a map of Toulouse, just to make your back cold the next time you turn around your corner, can be quickly scanned thanks to brief instructions. But you can also immerse yourself in it, by consulting autopsy reports and sometimes surreal hearing reports.
The opportunity to cross paths with the “charming” Arnaud Julia, a pig slaughterer by trade, but also a hot-blooded butchering killer, and to finally say that the judicial chronicle of the Ancien Régime was not that different from ours.
She too had her share of binge drinking which degenerated, of merciless fights between rival gangs, of crimes of passion caused by infidelities, or of involuntary suicides which prevent the powerful from finding themselves in a panic. Not counting accidents with hit-and-run accidents. Except that these are carts that crush the unfortunate pedestrians. "It must be said that there was no sidewalk, it was a bit as if today we were walking on the ring road," notes one of the members of the archivists specializing in the fonds.
Horrible and varied punishments
Other times, other customs all the same. As proof, the sad variety of punishments inflicted, from hanging to the wheel, passing by the pyre, in order of gravity of the crime, knowing that at the time a robbery was much more unforgivable than a stroke of blood leading homicide.
Since its launch in September, "Murders à la carte", little stories that allow you to explore the great, have not only seduced the quidam. "They also allow the university community to use our data in different ways," said Gaelle Mignot, deputy director of municipal archives. His "detectives" are preparing to reoffend with eleven new cases and assure that the fund is far from having revealed all its dark secrets.
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