| Intro | French spree killer |
| Was |
Murderer Criminal Spree killer |
| From | France |
| Type | Crime |
| Gender | male |
| Birth | 5 October 1848, Brunstatt, canton of Mulhouse-Sud, arrondissement of Mulhouse, Haut-Rhin |
| Death |
19 January 1870, Paris, Île-de-France, France (aged 21 years) |
Jean-Baptiste Troppmann was a French spree killer born in 1848 and executed on January 19, 1870.
His crimes are referenced in Mikhail Bakunin’s book God and the State, and his execution was witnessed and written about by Ivan Turgenev. A reference is made to him in Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar.