# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pierre-chanal
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:02:50.514Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pierre-chanal"
name: "Pierre Chanal"
slug: "pierre-chanal"
description: "Pierre Chanal was a French soldier and suspected serial killer. He was convicted of the rape and kidnapping of a young man, Balázs Falvay, whom he picked up hitchhiking in 1988. He received a ten-year sentence for the attack and was released in 1995 on probation. He was accused of murdering three of eight young men who disappeared in northeastern France between 1980 and 1987. One of his alleged victims was Trevor O'Keeffe. Chanal killed himself in prison in 2003 while on trial."
tagline: "French murderer (1946-2003)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
birthDate: "1946-11-18"
deathDate: "2003-10-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.81
  momentum:             0.8306320907617505
  historical:           5.659122666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Chanal"
    title: "Pierre Chanal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%84"
    title: "پير تشانال"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Chanal"
    title: "Pierre Chanal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Chanal"
    title: "Pierre Chanal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Chanal"
    title: "Pierre Chanal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Chanal"
    title: "Pierre Chanal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q331530"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump