El desconocido de correos

On December 19, 2008, the body of Catherine Burgod was found—bearing twenty-eight stab wounds—inside a post office in Montréal-la-Cluse, a French mountain village near the Swiss border. After ruling out the woman's ex-husband and her partner, police suspicions fell upon a young drifter with a background as an actor. Gérald Thomassin had gone from a very harsh childhood to being discovered through the film *Le Petit Criminel* (The Little Criminal), for which he won the César Award for Most Promising Actor. He appeared in a few other films, but his life spiraled out of control due to alcohol and drugs. At the time of the crime, he was living in squalor in a basement across from the post office. As for Catherine—who was pregnant—she was a well-liked woman, though she had a history of suicide attempts. Thomassin was arrested but released for lack of evidence. He became the obsession of the victim's father and ex-husband—until a new suspect emerged...