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DEATH BY CHOCOLATE

MURDERED BY MOUSSE

In 2008 a French farmer was sentenced to 20 years in jail for offing his parents. Ghislain Beaumont, then 45, carried out the kills by lacing their chocolate mousse with poison.

Beaumont, who lived with his parents in the town of Chalmaison east of Paris, served the deadly dessert to Liliane and Claude Beaumont, both 75, after they refused to let him move in his with his girlfriend.

It’s thought that he mixed a potent

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