[Spyder]

Interesting. I just finished a novel by Ann Benson, half of which was based on a true character by the name of Gilles de Rais, a nobleman who fought alongside Joan de Arc but later confessed to killing over 200 children, mostly boys, after sodomizing them and disemboweling them. I was able to find his story in several places on line that corrorborate the major parts of her novel. He was executed by hanging after a full confession to avoid torture by the Inquisition (NO one expects the Inquisition!)

[egarvue]

True story. Gilles de Rais was the "Marquis de Sade", from whence we get our modern word "sadism", for sexual cruelty. This guy did deserve all the torture the Inqusition could muster - too bad they gave him the easy out.