“Passionate” motives, criminals on the loose, murders of women sponsored from abroad… Who killed Karen Carter in Périgord?

In the fall of 1969, Claude Chabrol filmed several scenes of his film “Le Boucher” in Trémolat with Jean Yanne and Stéphane Audran in the main roles. Chronicle of a charming village in the Dordogne that turns into tragedy after the inexplicable murder of a young woman, killed with a knife. Some fifty years later, reality has caught up with fiction in Trémolat.

On the border of the Black Périgord where wealthy retirees spend happy days, Karen Carter, holder of dual South African and British citizenship, mother of four, was killed on April 29 with eight stab wounds to the chest. Any one of these eight blows would cause his instant death.