Yves Bureau
This story is truly not for the faint of heart. It literally gave me nightmares so be forewarned.
Yves Bureau defies explanation. Truly. Yves Bureau was a 56-year-old French farmer in the Dordogne region of France. He was married with two children. He lived an unremarkable life for those 56 years it seems. He did at some point achieve some status as a deputy mayor of Verdon, but that was the pinnacle of his achievements. He wasn’t rich, revered, noteworthy or very intelligent. He was burdened by debts and a boring life.
But then, inexplicably, on September 10, 2009 Yves Bureau erupted in such evil, such barbarity that he will be forever thought of with horror and revulsion.
His unfortunate victim, Edith Muhr, came face to face with that evil and did not survive.
Edith Muhr, a 68-year-old German pensioner, was by all accounts a lovely woman inside and out. She had been a well-liked and respected teacher before her retirement. She loved to walk in the countryside and feed the donkeys carrots she would bring along just for them.
Edith Muhr had retired to Dordogne six years before that fateful day and quickly made many good friends. She was popular and much admired in France just as she had been in Germany. She’d been a lifelong Francophile, loving everything French, and was very happy to realize her dream and live in the Dordogne village of Faux.
Edith Muhr did nothing, absolutely nothing to deserve her awful fate. Hitler would have deserved her fate, Robert Pickton deserves her fate, but not that lovely, friendly woman.
On September 10, 2009, Edith Muhr was walking from her home to meet her hubby Ralphe for lunch at a restaurant. She didn’t get there. She got as far as Yves Bureau’s mother’s farm. Possibly she was trying to cross the farmland and that’s what sparked the eruption of savagery from within Bureau’s deepest depths.
Yves Bureau forced the helpless woman into his van and drove her into a barn. He hauled her out of the vehicle and beat her mercilessly. That was only the beginning of the orgy of violence and cruelty.
Yves Bureau next tied Edith Muhr to a ladder that was leaning against a barn wall. She was secured with a ligature around her neck and then her legs and arms were tied to the ladder. Edith begged him for mercy. I cannot imagine her terror. She had good reason to be terrified.
The creature Bureau had no mercy.
At some point Edith Muhr’s clothes were cut off her body. It may have been at this point.
Yves Bureau began by cutting off one of her fingers.
And then another.
And then another.
Edith Muhr was screaming for mercy but still he continued. He cut off another and another until he had cut off every single finger on both hands.
What kind of creature could do that? A creature from the depths of hell no doubt.
I hope and pray to God Edith Muhr was unconscious by then, because the beast Bureau was not done.
She was still alive when Yves Bureau used butcher’s knives and a meat cleaver to cut off her arms and her legs. I cannot confirm this but I strongly suspect that her limbs were first cut at the elbows and knees. The tally of body parts seems to indicate this is true.
And then finally, finally Edith Muhr died when Yves Bureau cut off her head.
And holding the head in both hands he used it for sex. That’s right, this hellish creature had sex with a decapitated head.
Bureau continued the mutilations, slicing off the breasts and removing the uterus. Ultimately most of the remains of Edith Muhr were stuffed into six black bin bags and dumped, some in a pond and some in Bureau’s cornfield. One finger and her uterus were not included. They were never found.
Ralphe Muhr had been waiting patiently for his wife’s arrival for their luncheon date. She, of course, didn’t arrive so Ralphe Muhr immediately contacted the police.
Edith Muhr’s remains were found the next day.
Police tracked down Yves Bureau who began by admitting he’d disposed of the body in the bags but denied he’d murdered the poor woman. He first claimed Edith Muhr had been hit by his car so in a panic he disposed of her body. The police, of course, found no corroborating evidence of a car accident.
Bureau next claimed he found her unconscious at the roadside and, fearing he’d be blamed for killing her, cut her up and tried to hide the body. Kinda stupid, wasn’t it, to claim she was found unconscious instead of dead?
Anyway, Yves Bureau told a dozen or so fairy tales about how he came to dispose of Edith Muhr’s body, but one look at the barn told the police everything. The blood on the walls and floor, the blood on Bureau’s clothes and the blood on the instruments of mutilation were evidence enough of the brutality and violence Edith Muhr was forced to endure.
Yves Bureau was accused of voluntary homicide, torture and acts of barbarity as well as voluntary homicide preceded or accompanied by another crime.
In court the beast Bureau offered no explanation as to why he tortured and murdered a woman he hardly knew. The prosecutor Jean-Luc Gadaud conjectured it was because of jealousy.
“She was everything that he was not – rich, intelligent and popular. He was crippled by debt, shyness and led a very boring life.”
Prosecutor Gadaud also suggested that possibly Edith Muhr’s German nationality sparked the violence as well.
“Perhaps it was an act of vengeance. His father was arrested by the Gestapo in 1944.”
Bureau’s father died six months before Edith Muhr’s murder.
Stuff and nonsense. In my mind the reason for the torture and murder was crystallized when I learned he had sex with the head. Yves Bureau is a sexual sadist. Torturing and murdering poor Edith Muhr sexually excited him and it got his rocks off.
The beast Bureau wasn’t thinking of Dad when he shoved his dick into his victim’s lifeless mouth. He wasn’t thinking of his wife and children or his mother. He wasn’t thinking of money he owed or popularity he lacked.
Yves Bureau had spotted the attractive Edith Muhr alone, on foot, and decided he would take her and use her to fulfill his every sexual, sadistic fantasy. Her screams ignited his savagery, and her agony fueled his cruelty.
Yves Bureau did not help his case when in court he laughed and joked when those stomach-churning photos of Edith Muhr’s remains were shown on a large screen.
The creatured showed no remorse, no empathy for his victim.
Not surprisingly Yves Bureau was found guilty.
Shortly before receiving his sentence, the pathetic creature burst into tears and sobbed, “It wasn’t me, it wasn’t me!”
Big surprise — his only tears were for himself.
Yves Bureau was sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole for 20 years.
That is some justice for the death of Edith Muhr. Real justice though would be for him to suffer as she had suffered.
Off to hell with you, Yves Bureau. May you rot in pieces.
Send Yves onto his fiery place, after the French eventually parole him?
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The French are so squeemish when it comes to capital punishment! Possible Parole in 20 years? Give me a break!
I believe, sexual Sadism made him kill her, but I doubt she was his first. He was pretty ruthless, and methodical.
Great write-up! Hope to see more soon!
PS: where is the “hell” button? I love it, even though I’m generally agnostic, lol.
I hardly think the Hell button is even remotely necessary in a case such as this…
Yves Bureau is my hero. I would let him fuck me senseless.
And this is why can’t have nice things. Some trolls just want to watch everything burn, usually starting with themselves. Don’t feed it, it will wither away shortly.
I think the quality of the trolls on here has gone downhill as of late. It’s sad. We deserve some quality sometimes, don’t we?
It’s probably because the site went through a long period of few/no updates.
if u r really like that your ticket too hell is waiting for u first class on me
would you let him fuck you lifeless? cuz that seems like the likely ending. have fun with that.
A crime like this makes me wish we still had Hammurabi’s Code. This (^&( knew exactly what he was doing.Dante needs to create another ring of Hell for a *&^**( like this!
Very good write up Cleo. I’m sure that was not his first either. It would be interesting if they look at their missing persons files. Poor woman.
That is disgusting! I can’t believe people are so sick, so mentally disturbed. I feel ashamed to even read it knowing that he is a human being in the flesh, but a freak in the head. Why is he even eligible for parole at all? He should never get out, I hope he dies in prison.
GTH Douche.
ApriL.
this demon has killed before and if he lives too see parole he will again. then it becomes France problem
Evil, demonic white man. ‘Nuff said.
I beg you to explain to me how the color of his skin is worthy of this discussion? I look paler than he is, but am of several “races,” would you impugn me by grouping me with him in deeds because of my phenotypic similarity?
I dare you to be less racist.
Oh please. Wherevare your objections to racist comments in articles concerning nonwhites?
Oh please. Where are your objections to racist comments in articles concerning nonwhites?
one fucked up individual, yes…sexual sadist…don’t really think so…
If he was truly a sexual sadist, he would have tortured her in a different way then cutting off limbs, if the head was the last thing he cut off, it seems as though he never got a sexual “thrill” until after the acts, not realizing that it turned him on until after all of the brutality, and possibly after her death (she was most likely dead before he cut off her head because the amount of blood loss from loss of limbs would be great. So it seems hes more of a necrophiliac then a sexual sadist. Plus to me with the type of brutality its reminiscent of Ed Gein more then say jeffrey dahmer (sexual sadist, yes he was homosexual but still you get my point)
With him cutting off body parts, and the way he did the act, it seemed as though it was his first kill because of the lack of covering up the evidence, and how he didn’t have an answer to what specifically happened, he definitely wasn’t a seasoned killer.
I say rage killer, because of stress and a history of violence in his family (it stated his father was arrested in 1944 so there could have been a lot of problems in his family life leading to this culmination of anger.
If he was released i would bet that he WOULD kill again, this time more methodical, more careful, and would probably get away with it…hes too late to be saved sadly…
Interesting conclusions. Unhappily for the victim, it was determined by the coroner that she was indeed alive when her head was removed, and it was removed after she was dismembered. I certainly hope the blood loss had rendered her unconscious and oblivious to pain long before that point.
I remember reading about this some months ago in the UK paper The Daily Mail, and it affected me quite badly. For about a week after I read it, I would wake up at night, not able to get Ms. Muir’s suffering out of my mind. I spoke to my husband about it all the time as I could not bear to think how she suffered, and he said she wouldn’t have felt a lot of the mutilation, due to being unconscious and the loss of blood. But I’m not sure if he was just saying that to make me feel better.
Do people think she would have passed out? I can’t bear to think of her being aware all the time this thing, this godforsaken creature, was attacking her.
This is all conjecture, of course, but it may be true. There is a point when there’s not enough blood loss or trauma to actually render a person unconscious. However, there does seem to be an opinion of some, that if the pain is just too much the brain shuts everything down and causes the person to pass out or faint. This may be a cold comfort, but I hope it helps.
Hi fellow-Claire. :) Thanks so much for your reply – I think you could be right in that the brain just shuts down. I hope this is what happened, or that she passed out through blood loss. The cruelty in this story is just beyond belief. I wonder if he would have treated another man this way, or is he one of those demonic men who just target women.
Torture is torture, in whatever form it takes. It’s hard to imagine he would have done all that he did if he didn’t enjoy it, and it’s hard to imagine that he would have had sex with the head if the whole thing hadn’t turned him on. Clearly it was the fact of her suffering that aroused him.
Oh cripes. A lot of stories on this site begin with disclaimers about how horrible they are, but this one truly deserves its disclaimer. My mouth was hanging open through most of this story.
Same here. And I have read and posted on some horrible stuff in my own blog. But it did not take long for me to be amazed at the cruelty this man had.
I read this story a few days ago and couldn’t even think of the right words to say and still don’t know if I have but eh here it goes. I do not think this was his first time killing either. This story is freaking sick as hell. I just keep thinking of someone having sex with a decapitated head….I mean how exactly does one do that? I really am curious. How would you get off by doing that? Not that this really matters just wondering did he have sex with her mouth or the part that he decapitated? Either way that’s some sick shit!!!
Oh and the excuse that he did it because he lost his father….that’s bullshit. My husband also lost his father,brother,cousin murdered by her husband and many many more but he hasn’t killed someone and damn sure hasn’t had sex with a decapitated head. OMG is all i can say.
Edmund Kemper, a 6′ 9″ serial killer who murdered his grandparents the age of 15, murdered six women (one was his mother) and one 15-year-old girl by using similar methods. He cut his own mom’s head off and used it for oral sex.
That he did, and yeah this case is a lot like it. And I’m damn sure there’s more than one victim by this waste of skin.
I agree. He was extremely methodical, as if he had an MO, and showed absolutely no remorse. And he also blamed the murder on the loss of his father. Many serial killers blame their murders on someone/something else (for example, Ted Bundy blamed it on pornography).
The mark of a sociopath; they NEVER except blame.
*accept
I can only imagine that this guy didn’t suddenly decide to up and murder someone…I’m sure that we’ll find more victims of his as time goes on.
BTW is it okay for a pagan (me) to say someone deserves to burn in “hell,” or is it just silly?
Hey, I’m athiest and I do it all the time. It’s metaphoric hell for some of us. “If this place actually existed and I had any say in the matter, your ass would be in there NOW.” So to speak.
As an agnostic, I think a hell button is fitting for all. Especially the pagans. (to push, not to get turbo-boosted to hell)
My now college age daughter and I loved ” The Devil’s Rejects” and “The House of A Thousand Corpses”. Rob Zombie and Quentin Tarantino are favorites of ours. Generally because the premises are silly.
Right?
Reading this, though, reminded us of an unspoken reason we watch these and compare it to the real world and why the Conservative Right does us a disservice: we must witness evil as it is in order to see it in plain sight. We can’t ignore it and hope it goes away. We must shine the light of day on bad behaviors and run perpetrators out of town before anyone comes to harm.
All too frequently we hear that a perp didn’t look like a monster; but I submit somebody somewhere saw something but couldn’t say as to what it was. Because he didn’t recognize evil due to banned books or whatever.
Stories like this make me really wonder about my boring neighbors.
yugggg funny stuff LOL I DID THAT TO SATAN ONCE
Ship em to hell!
I don’t know if anyone reads this story (or more especially, the comments) but these cutting of limbs one by one, is actually a very old japanese execution style. Not used anymore of course. I do however find it extremely unlikely that this beast had any knowledge of that.
reads this story ANYMORE
Really?? Some of the methods used in the past by Japan were horrific, weren’t they? I remember when I first read about Unit 731 I was almost sick, and in despair at the depths of depravity and cruelty human beings could sink to. But I thought we had seen an end to that kind of blind evil and torture.
The Polish and Russians did far worse.
Mmmnnn…I dunno Jason. Some of the things that went on in Unit 731 were just unreal in their gross inhumanity. I couldn’t get my head around it. Having said that, II know hardly anything about the crimes of the Russians/Poles…I know the Red Army committed mass rape but that is about the height of what I know.
I feel you, unit 731 used Chinese POW’s and civilians like cosmetic companies use rabbits, and was directly responsible for around 200,000 deaths.
The NKVD in the early purges have a mass grave at Kurapaty that may have between 200,000 to 300,000 people in it. That was just one aspect of the purges and this was before the height of WWII. After the invasion of Poland, units lead by Polish Communists had other ideas and crash programs to develop biological and chemical weapons followed. It’s a matter of scale really. We hear about the holocaust(rightfully so), but we rarely hear about Stalin’s attacks on the kulaks or purging the nobility of Mongolia, the Georgian purges or a host of other major events seemingly “white washed” from the agonizing history of the world. Stalin was on the winning side, so we didn’t hold trials for him and his officers. They got medals and died in their beds.
Skin the motherfucker alive and throw him in a vat of salt.
This is why I have a carry concealed license and a 9MM Glock. Try and shove me in a van and your brains will be the new interior paint!
It’s hard to believe this man was able to pass for normal for half a century. Like some of the other commenters here, I wouldn’t be surprised if this weren’t his first murder at all. People don’t just snap like this, and it’s very rare for a killer of this sort to start so late in life.
He shot his rocks off sex with a dead head, and led a very boring stomach-churning life. He took all his vengeance when he shoved his dick into his victim’s lifeless mouth head.
He just woke up one day and decided to butcher someone? No he’s done this before the police need to look at missing persons because someone just doesn’t wake up one day from a non assuming life and butcher someone. The poor women’s family.
There’s no way this twisted f***er just “snapped” ’cause of Dear ‘ol Dad – and I agree that it’s highly unlikely this was his first murder. It may have been opportunistic, but it seems to have followed a sickening fantasy situation.
It’s one heck of an escalation to go from “boring & normal” to dismemberment & no doubt keeping trophies (the missing finger & uterus). I wish Interpol would make more of an effort to sift through old missing persons cases.
I agree with Wendy.. someone committing a crime so brutal and so barbaric would have to of done this before.. SICKO.. UH and they say human’s are supposed to be the smartest (animal) on earth….
Ugh ….. Just ugh!
Go to hell!
Do not pass go. Do not collect $200
Aw man… I stopped reading at “… One finger and her uterus were not included. They were never found…” Really? I never wanted to imagine that…
Well there you go. Payback is a bitch!