Overview
- French media report he died of old age Thursday at a hospital in Marseille at the age of 91.
- Outlets differ on his total time behind bars, citing either more than 55 years or 62 years when combining two incarceration periods.
- He was convicted for the murders of three supermarket cashiers in Béziers on December 22, 1979, and of a girl, her father, and a neighbor in Carqueiranne on January 18, 1980.
- Recco consistently denied the crimes and submitted more than twenty requests for early release, which were not granted.
- In his final years he was transferred from Borgo prison to Salon-de-Provence and then to Luynes before his last hospitalization.