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In 1972, a French judge jailed a man for murder and told reporters his only real evidence was a feeling. Weeks later, a national newspaper printed the verdict itself — guilty — before any court ever did.

Content warning: this episode covers the murder of a fifteen-year-old girl (Brigitte Dewèvre, Bruay-en-Artois, France, 1972). It quotes graphic, explicit threats of violence that a French Maoist newspaper printed in 1972 against a man who was never convicted of any crime — including threats to cut him apart with a razor and drag him behind a car. It also references an unrelated attempted-rape arrest of another man, and the false murder ...