Jerome Verdier

A French labor activist. At one point of his life he stayed in Gravelines, France.

He made a research on the Calais Riot interviewsing onlookers who said they had been threatened by authorities and would speak only anonymously. In 1928 he compiled an oral account of the event which quoted witnesses as saying that it was a massacre staged by the factory owner Hermès Bouchard, to kill the rioters. He recorded that the demonstration had been peaceful until police and Lessard detectives fired into the crowd before rounding up and executing the injured. He also recorded that there were bad smells at the factory before the massacre. V. M. Straka made similar claims, but it is not known if they knew about each other.

He was married in 1934. He was last seen in Dover, England, before his disappearance in January 1937.

In 1964, his manuscript was discovered in his former abandoned house in Gravelines.

Milton Nunley believed that there was a similarity between Verdier and a photograph of the first Santorini Man (although the body was found in 1936, months before his disappearance).