Jean-Bernard Desjardins

A French researcher and scholar from Paris.

Biography
In 1952 he married Signe Rabe in Carcassonne.

He was Moody's thesis advisor but they two were estranged.

Around 1975, a "kind and polite Frenchman" comes to F. X. Caldeira and Arturo and hands her an envelope contaınıng the actual 10th chapter of the Ship of Theseus. Caldeira apparently never opens it.

In 1979 he writes a document supporting that V. M. Straka had apparently predicted his own disappearance.

In 1982 he wrote that Straka knew many languages but was not truly fluent thus needing translators. He also theorizes the existence of the secret S group. In 1986 he released a document about leaked Kremlin docs when USSR fell. In 1989 he wrote a theory that Straka, and/or some of the candidates of his identity, were part of a literary group committed to political change and/or subversion of power.

Desjardins took annual inventory of his books. He generally believes that the Santorini Man murders must be connectd to Straka + Bouchard. He also believes that Torsten Ekstrom was closely connected to Straka, if not himself.

He went to New York to attend an auction of a photo from the Hotel San Sebastian where Straka was murdered. There he met Eric Husch. He talked a lot about "theft", and Eric thought he was testing how people would react. It seemed like he was confiding in Eric but also holding back. After that meeting, Eric couldn't get in touch with him. Later however he sent Eric a stuff of documents with the inventory of his books for the last 3 years, which included one of the obsidian pieces. A book L'Esse (perhaps he got it from Signe) was missing. He also had a copy of the registry of Hotel Voliéry in Prague after Vaclav Straka's "suicide".

He was at the Hotel des Deux Martres where he died by fall from a balcony one Sunday. His obituary was written at http://www.labalise.fr. His funeral was at Paris and Serin Institute funded Eric so that he could attend. Nobody there believed that his death was a suicide.