In the summer of 1994, the parisian "Brigade Criminelle" was investigating a series of random homophobic .22 caliber shootings, when they arrested a 22 years old mortician, Nico Claux. In custody, Nico confessed to one murder, claiming to be a practising satanist. A body search revealed that he was covered in occult tattoos. A search of his apartment in the Pigalle district turned up unidentified skeletal remains, blood bags stolen from a hospital's blood bank, funeral jars filled with human ashes, and hundred of hardcore S/M videotapes. Described by court psychatrists as being a "nearly psychotic sadist", Nico shocked investigators when he described how he enjoyed eating strips of muscles from the corpse lying on the slab of the St Joseph hospital mortuary. He also described in full details how he prowled the parisian gothic cemetaries, digging coffins and stabbing the corpse inside with a screwdriver, and how he would drink human blood mixed with human ashes and powder protein. Due to the lack of evidence connecting him to the other crime scenes, Nico was only charged with one count of premeditated murder and six counts of grave robberies. During his trial, psychatrists confirmed that he couldn't be held entirely responsable for his crimes, because he lacked substancial ability to appreciate the wrongfulness of his acts and ability to control his impulses, where as the prosecution maintained that he was aware that killing and mutilating corpses was wrong.