Jacques Rançon

Jacques Rançon, born on 9 March 1960, is a French rapist and serial killer known as the ‘Perpignan Station Killer’, French: le tueur de la gare de Perpignan. After committing crimes in Perpignan between 1997 and 1998, Jacques Rançon was arrested in 2014. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in March 2018, after being found guilty of the rapes, murders and mutilation, of two young women as well as the attempted murder of a third woman, who was left for dead, and the attempted rape of a fourth. A few months later, he was charged with murdering a 20-year-old student in 1986 in the Somme department and sentenced to a further 30 years in June 2021.