Jean de Koven

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Jean de Koven (29 March 1913 – 23 July 1937) was an American ballet dancer and dance tutor from Boston, Massachusetts, who was murdered in Paris, France, in July 1937. She had been staying with her aunt, Ida Sackheim, in a hotel on the Left Bank, where she disappeared on the afternoon of 23 July. Her body was discovered beneath the front porch of a villa at La Celle-Saint-Cloud on December 8, 1937. De Koven was the first of six victims of German-born serial killer Eugen Weidmann, also known as "Karrer", a gang leader who confessed to his crimes and had as many as nine accomplices.

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