The stories of the family members and survivors are heartbreaking. The Guardian says some even organized into a vigilante group, while one father turned to the bottle and ultimately died in a car accident. The mother of the final victim, Magali Sirroti, was haunted by the fact that the final voicemail she left her daughter — "There's no need to call me back, it's nothing important" — played alongside her child's already-dead body.
Ann Gautier is the mother of Georges' fifth victim, Helene Frinking. She has been a vocal critic of the police working on the case, saying that they told her they didn't believe the deaths were the work of one man at all. Serial killers, they claimed, "were an Anglo-Saxon thing." It took a year for Frinking's neighbors to be interviewed, and when one woman escaped from The Beast of Bastille, it was 28 months before the police did a sketch of the man who tried to kill her.
Even London's Sunday Mirror ran a piece in 1998 that pulled no punches, per The Free Library. In particular, the piece speaks to Sirroti's mother, who condemned police for spending their time, energy, and resources investigating Princess Diana's car crash, which captured headlines and priorities. "If only the police spent as much time trying to find my daughter's murderer as investigating that crash," she said. "Poor Diana's death was a tragedy, but she didn't suffer the horrendous death of my daughter or the other victims. So many lives have been wasted and so many families destroyed."
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