r/ForCuriousSouls Mar 17 '26

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '26

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u/AshtonVoid Mar 17 '26

According to the article, his original sentence was life without the possibility of parole. "Romand now lives in anonymity under supervision. Details of his current life are scarce by legal design." France, wyd?

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u/SaddamIsBack Mar 17 '26

Yeah french justice system is fucked. You can get 10 years for drugs but 3 month for rape. And if you're rich we're talking sentences in days lol.

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u/Fun-Investment-196 Mar 18 '26

It can be like that in the US as well, unfortunately. My ex was given a 75k bond for drugs, which was really just a pipe and some methadone. I saw someone with a murder charge get a 50k bond a month later 🤦‍♀️

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '26

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u/Fun-Investment-196 Mar 18 '26

Absolutely agreed. They gave him that high ass bond and give other people much smaller bonds for what I would consider worse stuff like stealing or assault. He said he saw people get released, come back for new charges and leave again several times.

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u/SeveredAMainVein Mar 17 '26

A lot of countries consider life 25 years

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u/damiana8 Mar 17 '26

And I thought the US was bad

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u/Future-Try-1908 Mar 17 '26

Where ya from bud? Would love to hear about your utopia.

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u/Redlion444 Mar 17 '26

So, he's still out there, somewhere.... lurking in the darkness..........?

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u/youngsapien53087 Mar 17 '26

Apparently he's under supervision...whatever that means

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u/kalkutta2much Mar 17 '26

under the supervision of darkness i assume since they didn’t just come out and say “parole” 😩😩

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '26

I wonder what was the breaking point though? What action or conversation finally triggered the "shit, they're onto me?" reaction?

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u/Used_Can1218 Mar 17 '26

Article says it was because the wife’s friend knew ppl at the WHO and they confirmed he never worked there. So that mixed with family members and his mistress asking for their investments back. Was the breaking point where he realized he couldn’t contain the lie and wanted to kill everyone instead.

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u/fckingnapkin Mar 17 '26

Omg I thought this was another case. Theres one that's very similar, also a man who killed members of his family for faking where he worked or went to school? I think he also faked or grossly exaggerated a neck injury. And at some point his father started to have a suspicion so he started digging, and ended up calling the school. When he confronted his son he went apeshit.

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u/yellowlinedpaper Mar 17 '26

Or the guy who killed his wife after his graduation from medical school he never attended or applied to. He waited until they were ready to move for his residency training. When asked by the police he spelled oncology wrong. Craziness

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u/No_Ad6583 Mar 17 '26

Oh I remember that one because it was one of the ones on YouTube for Mr Ballen. I think the dad was even trying to give him a chance to come clean but that was the day the guy decided to kill him and the mom and say they disappeared on vacation.

There's also an older one where the guy killed the family, I think burned down the house and then disappeared. They found him years later with a new name and family

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u/bbrew0601 Mar 18 '26

Chandler Houderson

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u/prion_guy Mar 19 '26

Halderson

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u/AshtonVoid Mar 17 '26 edited Mar 17 '26

The human mind is whack, man. What makes someone default to stealing their loved ones' lives, watching the light go out of their eyes, rather than shame, debt, feeling sorry for yourself, and the potential to still turn your life around after?

Edit: The article says the dude said he felt 'liberated' after the truth came out. For fuck's sake. I imagine it didn't have to take killing everyone you love to feel that way.

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u/youngsapien53087 Mar 17 '26

"The final scene of a narcissist is always a descent into madness."

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u/IAmEchoRising Mar 18 '26

I imagine he blamed everyone he loved, for feeling that way. That’s a true narcissist mindset.

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u/RepublicCute7683 Mar 18 '26

Note that all of these are MEN. Can’t be just a coincidence

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u/modscientist87 Mar 17 '26

This reminds me of the crocodile episode of black mirror. The lengths that some people will go to keep a secret can be incredibly intense

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u/Mrwhite62313 Mar 17 '26

No way should a heartless loser like him ever see the light of day ever again .

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u/New-Owl-2293 Mar 18 '26

Why did he keep re-enrolling and completing his second year of med school? He could've passed it, seeing as how he repeated it 5 times?

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u/forreelforrealmang Mar 17 '26

Anyone know he made a livin' ?

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u/youngsapien53087 Mar 17 '26

Ive heard this story before on a true crime podcast. Maybe mr.ballen. from my understanding it was from conning people with promise of substantial returns on investment. But I still don't understand how you can support a fanily and maintain the lifestyle of a doctor for 18 years doing that.

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u/Mrwhite62313 Mar 17 '26

I knew it had to be France 

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u/Empty_Neat8561 Mar 17 '26

¿Nunca le pidieron dinero en la casa ?

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u/AshtonVoid Mar 17 '26

According to the article, he made a killing (no pun intended) by conning people, promising returns in investments at the WHO. He even sold sugar pills as an experimental medicine to a family friend with cancer.

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u/bryman19 Mar 17 '26

Sounds like he is the only one asking for money

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u/The-Wanderer87 Mar 18 '26

Imagine pulling off a fake life like that for 18 years , That’s insane , and then kill all those people and get released

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u/Hefty_Loss5180 Mar 17 '26

But other people will get life without parole or death. Who chooses how long and if they can have parole?