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Article 3
“My lies have weighed me down,” he told Paris Match last week in his first
interview about the accusations. “I have arrived at the balance-sheet time.”
In a wide-ranging interview with Le Parisien on Tuesday, he went further,
describing himself as a mythomaniac. “I completely admit my faults. I am
ashamed to have lied, to have concealed things,” Bourgoin said.
The wife he had said was murdered never existed, he admitted, saying that
she was drawn from a young woman called Susan Bickrest, who he briefly
met in a Florida bar. In 1975, 24-year-old Bickrest was murdered by the
serial killer Gerald Stano, who later admitted to killing 41 women and was
executed in 1998.
“It was bullshit that I took on,” Bourgoin told Le Parisien. “I didn’t want
people to know the real identity of someone who was not my partner, but
someone who I had met five or six times in Daytona Beach, and who I
liked.”