Disappearance of Pauline Picard

Pauline Picard (born  1919 or 1920) was a Breton girl who disappeared on 6 April 1922 in the rural village of Goas-al-Ludu, in Saint-Rivoal, Brittany, in northern France where her family lived and had their farm there. At the time of her disappearance, Pauline Picard lived in the village with her parents François and Marianne and eight siblings. Of her family, only her father François spoke French, the rest of the family spoke Breton solely.

The deceased and mutilated body of a young girl was later discovered in a hidden ditch in the open field outside Pauline Picard's village of Goas-al-Ludu, almost two months later, on 25 May 1922. The body was decapitated and missing its hands and feet. Authorities discovered bloodstained clothes nearby, which Pauline Picard's family identified as belonging to Pauline which she wore on the day she disappeared. The body was brought to Pauline Picard's family and was buried in the cemetery under Pauline Picard's name, as her family and inhabitants from the village were convinced it was Pauline Pauline's body. 
Category:1922 deaths
Category:People from Brittany
Category:People murdered in Europe
Category:Murdered children