From 1938: Jean DeKoven, a young dancer, was found buried under Eugen Weidmann’s porch. Then four more murders were discovered. NewYorkerArchive
The late Miss Jean De Koven was an average American tourist in Paris but for two exceptions. She never set foot in the Opéra, and she was murdered.
The De Koven case started the next morning when her aunt received a telegram stating that all was well and not to worry . That evening a letter came, mentioning “Chikago” gangster methods but assuring her that the girl was sound and safe, kidnapped, and held for ransom $500, the Teutonic phrasing and spelling being illustrated by the Gothic shaped “j”s, the triangular “t”s, and the general Nordic slant of the handwriting. Miss Sackheim went immediately to the American Consulate and the police.
The reaction was immediate and twofold. No more checks were cashed, and Jean De Koven, once her photograph was published, was reported as being seen all over France. A sharp-eyed M.
It was at this point that what began and ended as the De Koven case entered into the peripheries of a master detective story, transferred, for once, from the folly of fiction into grim, real life. It was at this moment that an unusually intelligent and lucky criminal began to be tracked by an unusually intelligent and lucky detective.
Next morning, with a cigarette which the police put into his manacled hands and a brasier which they put at his feet , Weidmann started on his orderly confession. Saying that there was one thing he couldn’t say, but could write, he wrote down the name Jean De Koven. For her he then shed his only repentant tears. “She was gentle and unsuspecting,” he said. “I enjoyed speaking English to her, which I learned in Canada. When I reached out for her throat, she went down like a doll.
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An American Murdered in ParisFrom 1938: Jean DeKoven, a young dancer, was found buried under Eugen Weidmann’s porch. Then four more murders were discovered. NewYorkerArchive
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