On January 9th, 1993, Jean-Claude Romand killed his wife, Florence, and their two children, aged seven and five. Then he shot his parents, swallowed a bottle of sleeping pills and set fire to his mansion in Femey-Voltaire, a smart suburb of Geneva just over the border in France. Yet, though widely known as a doctor of some repute working for the World Health Organisation, he had not checked the date on the pills: they were too old to kill him and he survived. Before long the police found out something even stranger about Mr Romand: he was never a doctor, he had never set foot in the WHO and he had kept up his imposture undetected for 18 years.
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