The Vidocq Society sounds like something straight out of a Sherlock Holmes novel. Once a month, the members of the 20-year-old club -- mostly detectives and forensic experts -- meet at an old ...

The Vidocq Society has now been instrumental in solving hundreds of crimes. Adam Higginbotham meets the founding members. Photographs by Jens Umbach. 21 November 2008 • 12:01am Frank Bender ...

Most of us, if we’re very lucky, can live full lives. Then you have people like Eugène-François Vidocq (1775-1857), whose jam ...

The boy was found dead 61 years ago in Philadelphia's Fox Chase neighborhood. The Vidocq Society is not giving up hope on figuring out who this boy is. The society says the sadness and tragedy is ...

Modern-day "Sherlock Holmes" society takes on slaying of Oregon girl, 15. Aug. 11, 2010 — -- In the summer of 2000, 15-year-old Leah Freeman went missing in Coquille, Ore. For almost a week ...

So on the Thursday in question, Hargett and Williams found themselves eager (and hopeful) lunch guests of the Vidocq Society, whose unique self-appointed mission is solving cases that have defied ...

I first heard of Vidocq when, in college, I read several of Balzac's novels. In "Pere Goriot," the book's provincial young hero, at sea in 19th-century Paris, is befriended by a daring criminal ...

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Jean-Francois Richet ('Blood Father,' 'Mesrine') tackles the story of criminal-turned-cop Vidocq in historical action-thriller 'The Emperor of Paris,' starring Vincent Cassel. By Jordan Mintzer If ...

François Vidocq, the eternal escapee, has been captured and is on his way to the Toulon penal colony. But he escapes with his comrades, the acrobat and Henri Desfossés. When the alarm is raised ...

One is a Frenchman named Eugene Francois Vidocq. The other is an American, born in Scotland, named Allan Pinkerton. Over the next two columns, we’ll look at each of their lives and influences on ...