Episode 151: Disappearance of Pauline Picard

Hello      Welcome back This is survived with Sophie and LexiWe started telling our survived story (in college) and we are moving on to being you guys moreThrough many different topics True Crime news;It's week Three of spooky fest! On the morning of 6 May 1922, a pale spring light silvery with mist brought news that set the Picard household aflutter with both hope and confusion. Police in Cherbourg—nearly 250 miles (400 km) from the little village of Goas-al-Ludu—had reported finding a child they believed might be their lost Pauline. Newspapers seized upon every whispered detail: Le Matin claimed she’d been abandoned on a narrow lane called rue Coypel, her small frame left in the hush of dusk; two years later L’Ouest-Éclair placed her at a woman’s doorstep on rue Crespel; and as late as 2017 the magazine Ozy spun a haunting tale of a “mysterious woman dressed in rags” who bore the silent child through empty streets. Taken straight to the white-washed wards of Cherbourg’s hospital, the girl lay silent—her lips sealed against speech and tears alike.