Nicolle Millet, murdered by her husband or spontaneous combustion?

In the last 300 years there have been approximately 200 reports of alleged spontaneous combustion .The scientific community does not agree on this phenomenon.The most frequent explanation is the mecha effect of which we already talked about in the article on The extraordinary spontaneous combustion of Cornelia Zangari.On this occasion we bring you the controversial case of Nicolle Millet, murdered by her husband or spontaneous combustion ?

Nicolle Millet, murdered by her husband or spontaneous combustion?

To know the facts as explained in several documents we have to go back to 20 February 1725 .In the French city of Reims lived a marriage of a certain age, surnamed Millet. At 8 pm on the 19th, the the couple went to sleep as they normally did, but at midnight Mrs.Millet got up and went to the cooks since he couldn't sleep. A few hours later the husband woke up when he noticed a strange pungent smell that slipped into the room.He went to the kitchen and found his body burned of his wife sitting in a chair that practically had not suffered any damage.

Mr.Millet gave notice to the guard and these when they arrived at the home He was arrested for the murder of his wife. There was no other explanation; He had killed her and then burned the corpse so that there was no evidence against him.In addition, it was considered that he had committed the crime to be able to establish relations with a young girl who had been hired to work in the house.

Nicolle Millet, murdered by her husband or spontaneous combustion?

Of Mrs.Nicolle Millet There was nothing left but a lot of ashes and a part of the head, lower limbs and a piece of intestine without burning.The body was half a meter from the chimney There were no signs of combustion in the kitchen and the objects around it.

Nicolle Millet, murdered by her husband or spontaneous combustion?

The husband was tried for murder and his lawyer did declare a young surgeon well known in the Epoch.It was Claude-Nicolas Le Cat [1700-1768], who f He was a famous French doctor, surgeon and urologist. Le Cat declared in favor of the defendant, since his observations and the fact that Mrs.Millet was a drinker made him hopeless to think that he had been a victim of a "spontaneous combustion" .The thesis of Le Cat, an educated, intelligent man and a good argumentative in defense of the existence of spontaneous combustion convinced the court that he finally declared innocent to Mr.Millet .Unfortunately, the man, who was already older, with so much stress and was admitted to the hospital from which he was not alive again.

Nicolle Millet, murdered by her husband or spontaneous combustion?

What do you think of the story? Do you think that spontaneous combustion is possible, or that Mr.Millet murdered his wife and read this adducing phenomenon?

If you have been interested in this article and want to know more about it, you may want to read the post: Spontaneous Combustion, myth or reality?

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