Robot Chicken
Seriously?
On Channel Four tonight:
The Man Who Faked His Life
22:00 to 23:05
Jean-Claude Romand appeared to have everything: a beautiful wife, two children and a prestigious job as a doctor at the World Health Organisation. But it was all a lie. For nearly 20 years he had lived a torturous double life, and when it finally began to unravel the result was fatal. As part of Psycho, a series that examines the dark pathology of the human mind, The Man Who Faked His Life reveals how one trivial lie led a man to murder his entire family.
When Romand's wife, children and parents were found murdered, no one could understand why. But as the police investigated they discovered that Jean-Claure Romand didn't work at the WHO, nor had he worked in the hospitals in Paris as he claimed: he wasn't even a doctor. Finally he revealed the truth behind his double life. The fatal turning point had come one morning in 1975. He couldn't face a crucial medical exam and stayed in bed.
Unable to bear those closest to him finding out, he told them he had passed, a lie that would set in motion a lifetime of deceit. He convinced everyone he had qualified as a doctor and had gained a high status post at the World Health Organisation. Every day he set off for work - but he would drive off into the country or wander around the public areas of the WHO. Romand paid for the family's lavish lifestyle by taking money from family and friends who thought he was investing it for them in a Swiss bank account.
But as the money ran out, and his secret world crumbled, Romand took the only, terrible, route he thought was left to him.
I guess there's a moral there somewhere
The Man Who Faked His Life
22:00 to 23:05
Jean-Claude Romand appeared to have everything: a beautiful wife, two children and a prestigious job as a doctor at the World Health Organisation. But it was all a lie. For nearly 20 years he had lived a torturous double life, and when it finally began to unravel the result was fatal. As part of Psycho, a series that examines the dark pathology of the human mind, The Man Who Faked His Life reveals how one trivial lie led a man to murder his entire family.
When Romand's wife, children and parents were found murdered, no one could understand why. But as the police investigated they discovered that Jean-Claure Romand didn't work at the WHO, nor had he worked in the hospitals in Paris as he claimed: he wasn't even a doctor. Finally he revealed the truth behind his double life. The fatal turning point had come one morning in 1975. He couldn't face a crucial medical exam and stayed in bed.
Unable to bear those closest to him finding out, he told them he had passed, a lie that would set in motion a lifetime of deceit. He convinced everyone he had qualified as a doctor and had gained a high status post at the World Health Organisation. Every day he set off for work - but he would drive off into the country or wander around the public areas of the WHO. Romand paid for the family's lavish lifestyle by taking money from family and friends who thought he was investing it for them in a Swiss bank account.
But as the money ran out, and his secret world crumbled, Romand took the only, terrible, route he thought was left to him.
I guess there's a moral there somewhere
well said BAG.