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Episode 16: The Man Who Pretended To Be a Doctor - The Jean-Claude Romand Case

27 min · 5. juni 2026
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Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2599742/fan_mail/new] In this episode of Tell Me The Crime, we examine the disturbing case of Jean-Claude Romand, the French man who spent nearly eighteen years pretending to be a doctor and researcher connected to the World Health Organization. His wife believed him. His children believed him. His parents, friends, and even people who trusted him with money believed him. But there was no real medical career, no WHO job, and no normal workday. When Romand left home “for work,” he often spent his days in cafes, libraries, parking lots, service stations, and airport hotels, waiting until it was time to come home and continue the lie. When that false life finally started to collapse, Romand did not confess. He killed his wife, his two children, his parents, and tried to kill another woman who had trusted him. This episode looks at identity, shame, family annihilation, deception, status, and the psychology of a person who seemed to find exposure more unbearable than destruction. The central question: did Jean-Claude Romand kill because he could not live without the lie, or because he could not live with the people closest to him seeing the truth? Support the show [https://buy.stripe.com/fZuaEQ5F0cx5cqefeVfMA00]

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