the words bouvier and vacher describe the same profession, herdsman). In the 1949 novel The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles, in private dialogue with her husband Port, the character Kit Morseby says of the Eric Lyle character: "He looks like a young Vacher". In the episode "Probable Cause" of the TV series Castle, serial killer 3XK uses Vacher's name as an alias. In the film Psychopathia Sexualis Vacher is the first case study of a sexual mental illness presented. See also List of French serial killers Citations General bibliography Lacassagne, Alexandre, Vacher l'éventreur et les crimes sadiques, 1899 On-line (French) Bouchardon, Pierre, Vacher l'éventreur, Albin Michel, 1939, 252 p. Deloux, Jean-Pierre, Vacher l'éventreur, E/dite Histoire, 2000 (1995), 191 p. (Main source used to improve this article) Garet, Henri and Tavernier, René, Le juge et l'assassin, Presses de la cité, 1976, 315 p. Hülsmanns, Dieter. Vakher, Joseph Melzer Verlag, Darmstadt, 1966, 97 p. Kershaw, Alister. Murder in France, Constable, London, 1955, 188 p. Lane, Brian. "Encyclopedia of Serial Killers", Diamond Books, 1994. Koq. La peau de Vacher, Edilivre, 2013, 404p. Starr, Douglas: The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science. Alfred A. Knopf, New York 2010. [hard cover, 300 p], [eBook] External link 1869 births 1898 deaths 19th-century executions by France Executed French people Executed French serial killers Executed people from Rhône-Alpes French murderers of children French people convicted of murder French rapists Male serial killers Necrophiles People convicted of murder by France People executed by France by guillotine People executed by the French Third Republic People from Grenoble