5 lies from the massive list of lies by Stéphane Bourgoin

Season one of Killer Lies: Chasing a True Crime Con Man will show the deceptive nature of Stéphane Bourgoin. The documentary will arrive on National Geographic on August 28, 2024, at 8 p.m. E.T. It will have three episodes, which will air one after the other.

Stéphane Bourgoin was a crime expert, who wrote many crime stories, interviewed criminals and also featured in true-crime docs in the late 90's. However, it was later revealed that his career was all a lie and that he was a con artist. His books were found to be plagiarised and his claims were all stated as false by the 4th Eye.

Killer Lies: Chasing a True Crime Con Man, a three-part documentary will throw light on Stéphane's long list of lies. The official synopsis of the same reads:

"The New Yorker's Lauren Collins tracks the rise and fall of a serial killer expert, whose dark lies are exposed by his sleuthing fans."

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Five lies in Stéphane Bourgoin's extensive collection of fabrications

1) Stéphane Bourgoin lied about interviewing Ed Kemper

Stéphane was a habitual liar who forgot his lies too easily and later became immersed in his deception. The reason his statements were inconsistent ultimately brought him down.

Allegedly, he once admitted to the world that he spent more than 100 hours interviewing Ed Kemper, an American serial murderer who killed many women between 1972 and 1973.

In another instance, he claimed that he barely got the chance to interact with Kemper. The public was left perplexed as to whether his claims were accurate and true.

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2) Stéphane Bourgoin claimed that he met Charles Manson

He kept lying one after another (Image by Pawel Czerwinski/Unsplash)

Reportedly, Stéphane claimed to have met American criminal Charles Manson and said that he interviewed him too. However, when the 4th eye checked Manson’s website, there was no record of it.

It was discovered that most of his stories were similar to John Douglas, a retired FBI agent, who later revealed to the 4th Eye that Stéphane became an expert by reading true crime and that none of his stories were real.

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3) Stéphane stole a story from an autobiography

Reportedly, Oscar, the nephew of Dr. Micki Pistorius gave Stéphane a manuscript of his autobiography, that was yet to be published when Stéphane went to South Africa.

Stéphane took stories from that book and made them his own. However, later Mickey revealed to the world that Stéphane's story is true and so is the incident that he describes of the rotor spraying decomposing body parts on them.

However, Stephane was never present at the site or was a part of the incident. He had taken the story from the autobiography, claiming to be a part of it.

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4) He lied about his wife’s murder

His wife was never killed (Image by James Kovin/Unsplash)

According to Stéphane Bourgoin, his wife was brutally murdered and ra*ed after which he found her body dismembered in 1976.

Many readers of Stéphane's books thought that since Stephane had witnessed a homicide himself, it made him different from many true crime experts, which gave his stories an element of originality.

However, when the 4th eye started discovering his lies, they looked into the public records of California and couldn't find any woman by that name killed in the way Stéphane had described.

Later, when Stéphane confessed his lies, it was revealed that the story about his wife’s murder was a false claim and a cry for attention.

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5) Stéphane Bourgoin called himself an independent investigator

Reportedly, Stéphane Bourgoin made false claims that he provided the FBI with many hours of his recordings with serial killers, whom he interviewed, after which the FBI was impressed by Stéphane and his insights. They labeled him as an independent investigator with federal training.

However, it was revealed later that Stéphane had made up every part of this story and that the FBI neither trained him nor was he an independent investigator but rather a self-proclaimed one.

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To know more about this case and about Stéphane Bourgoin, watch season one of Killer Lies: Chasing a True Crime Con Man.