Dance Teacher

Jean de Koven

American dancer

Born 1915 · BostonDied 1937United States

Jean de Koven was an American dance teacher, born in 1915 in Boston, who died in 1937.

Biography

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.

From the Wikipedia article “Jean de Koven”, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Contemporaries

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