Jealous husband in South Africa kills his wife’s lover.
Alexia Daval case: other acts and hearings to come

L’est Républicain : 07.07.2018
New forensic experts
About forty experts of all kinds have already worked on the case: no less than five forensic doctors; several automobile experts from the Gendarmerie’s criminal research institute (tire tracks, tracker analysis, etc.); an army of criminal identification technicians for the collection of traces left in various places (DNA, pollen, fingerprints, sheets, etc.); fire specialists and computer experts…
“Everything has come back without interest, except for the autopsy which shows that Alexia was massacred”, sighs Me Florand (read elsewhere). An outburst of violence that makes the lawyer say that “nothing fits between Daval’s different declarations and the objective elements of the case”.
Does this mean that everything has been tried in terms of expertise? Probably not. The investigating magistrate will have to take into account the last statements of Jonathann Daval and act quickly. New telephone expertises (analysis of fadettes, boundary markers, SMS…) should be launched, this time concerning the communications made by the members of the family entourage, which Daval is now blaming. The video surveillance system of the city of Gray could be scrutinized.
If a search of the parents’ house seems difficult, a search for traces at their home, according to the “blue star” method, seems “inevitable”, concedes their lawyer. It is there, indeed, that Daval now places the crime. “The judge is investigating the case against him, so he is going to check it out,” observes the lawyer for the civil parties. According to Me Randall Schwerdorffer, Jonathann Daval’s lawyer, many investigations “have not been done” and “will have to be done” in the light of his client’s statements.
Alexia Daval case: other acts and hearings to come (Audio)
JESSIE BARDWELL CASE: WAS TEXAS WOMAN’S DEATH AN ACCIDENT OR MURDER?
A father dreams his daughter has been killed, then she disappears -- what does her boyfriend know and could the dad's nightmare have been an omen?

CBS NEWS : 23.06.2018
Jessie Bardwell, 27, a beloved daughter and friend seemingly vanished from the Texas home she shared with her boyfriend, Jason Lowe. Fearing the worst, her father traveled from Mississippi to Texas to start the search for his daughter. Jessie’s body was later found in a remote spot of farmland wrapped in a sheet.

Jessie Bardwell GARY BARDWELL
Police suspected murder, but was it?
“This story is about a young girl,” Richardson, Texas. Detective Eric Willadsen tells “48 Hours” correspondent Maureen Maher. “Thinks she finds love and it turns out he’s pure evil.”
Jessie was fun-loving and outgoing, say friends and family. She lived in Orange Beach, Ala., where she worked at a local hotspot.
Then she fell for Lowe. To the surprise of her family, one day she moved to Texas. Turned out she was following Lowe, who had landed a job in Dallas. She suddenly disappeared in May 2016.
“I knew she was dead,” Jessie’s father, Gary Bardwell, tells Maher.
Bardwell said he had nightmare before his daughter disappeared. “Something was terribly wrong. Jessie was … was killed. …And when I woke up, it was just a dream.”
“And I felt it – she was not on this earth anymore,” he says.
Gary Bardwell immediately filed a missing person’s report. After multiple visits to Jason and Jessie’s home, detectives had a sense something was wrong. There were things out of place and the unmistakable scent of death. Soon after, Lowe was arrested and charged with murder.
Lowe later claimed Bardwell’s death was an accident. His attorney had a plan, and he put together a mock trial to test the defense theory. The result of the stand-in jury? Lowe was not guilty. Prosecutors, however, maintain it was murder and Lowe tried to hide her body.
“I think about what I think happened to her. And I couldn’t protect her,” Bardwell tells Maher. “It’s just unimaginable. It’s unthinkable. It’s unforgivable.”
What happened to Jessie Bardwell?
A GUT FEELING
Gary Bardwell: Yesterday — I went down to the river and just — set there and watched the boats go by and took some deep breaths and said, I don’t know how much of this I can take, you know, any longer.
There are days when it’s hard for Gary Bardwell to get out of bed. But he always does, determined to get justice for Jessie, his 27-year old daughter who disappeared from her apartment in Richardson, Texas, in May 2016.
Gary Bardwell: I’m doin’ it for Jessie, takin’ one day at a time, one step at a time.
Bardwell knew something was wrong before he even knew Jessie had gone missing.
Gary Bardwell: Somethin’ from my soul was gone. And I was afraid that it was her.
“I called her my beautiful daughter. And I still do. Beautiful Jessie,” said her father, Gary Bardwell GARY BARDWELL

That connection, that bond deeper than words, formed the moment Jessie was born, says Bardwell.
Gary Bardwell: As soon as she was born I immediately started crying. …It was just such a happy moment — such a happy moment.
Jessie grew up alongside her older brother, Brandon.
Brandon Bardwell: Me and Jessie have been two peas in a pod since we were young.
Gary Bardwell, a now-retired firefighter with the Pascagoula, Mississippi, Fire Department, loved being a dad.
Gary Bardwell: She kinda didn’t want me out of her sight … She just liked to know where I was.
[Holds Jessie’s teddy bear] She slept with this every night.Gary Bardwell: I just loved those days.
Gary Bardwell: Daddy’s little girl, for sure.
When Jessie was 14, Gary and her mother, Carla, divorced.
Gary Bardwell: She loved her mother too. …Very much so.
Jessie spent her high school years with her father and her new stepmother, Gina.
There were a few tries at college life.
Gary Bardwell: Somewhere along the line, she was having more fun than school.
That’s when Jessie moved to Orange Beach and started working tables at Cobalt, a popular beachside restaurant.
Gary Bardwell: She just loved being around the water …. She would be in the water fighting the waves and having fun.
Gary Bardwell: We talked every day. She’d text me every day.
Jessie’s good friend, restaurant manager Kimberly Asbury found out Gary Bardwell was an accomplished musician, and booked him at the restaurant.
Kimberly Asbury: Like he came and they went boating and they went fishing … She’d go to his gigs. I mean they were friends. They weren’t just father and daughter.
Jessie had been living with a long-term boyfriend, but surprised everyone when she fell for a new guy, Jason Lowe.
Kimberly Asbury: It kind of came out of nowhere.
Jessie’s friend Terri Ellis saw the romance start.
Terri Ellis: Jason seemed friendly. …He definitely — was outgoing as well.

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He was handsome, had two college degrees and was ambitious. For Jessie, not just a new love - but a ticket to a more exciting life. When Jason went to Dallas for a six-figure job in the tech industry, Jessie decided she would join him and pursue her own dream of cosmetology.
Terri Ellis: She thought of it as more of an adventure. Like,” I’m trying something new.”
But Jessie failed to mention that she was about to go to Dallas when she saw her family that Christmas.
Gary Bardwell: I had no clue of what was going on.
Gary Bardwell: She knew that she was fixing to leave for Texas and I would have done everything I could to try to talk her out of it.
Shortly after the holidays, Jessie left for Texas. And suddenly the girl who always had her iPhone was now never on it.
Kimberly Asbury: You couldn’t reach her.
Kimberly Asbury: It just went from hearing from her a lot and talking to her to nothing.
Terri Ellis: The moment that I really started to get worried was when her phone number was cut off and everything that we talked to her had to go through Jason.
The only way to get Jessie was to call Jason’s phone or the house phone. They would come to find out that Jason was monitoring all her calls. Eventually, every time Bardwell called Jessie, he only got Jason.
Gary Bardwell: I said, “Let me speak to Jessie.” He said, “She said she’ll call you later.”
Two months later, Bardwell finally got his chance to meet Jason Lowe. Jason and Jessie came to Pascagoula for a visit. Bardwell tried to persuade Jessie not to go back to Texas.
Gary Bardwell: I remember Jessie was — huggin’ me more than normal … And I was goin’, “Are you OK?” “Yeah, yeah. I — I definitely wanna go to Texas. I just want you to be proud of me, you know?” …They left. I watched the car drive away.
Even though Jessie never let on that anything was wrong, Bardwell had a bad feeling. He went into his studio — Jessie’s childhood room — and wrote the song, “Taken Away.”
Gary Bardwell: That song, “Taken Away” was written the very last time I saw Jessie. …It was written about seein’ them leave, me gettin’ a gut feelin’ of something was bad wrong.

In May, four months after Jessie moved to Texas, she stopped answering his calls all together. Bardwell called Jason, and insisted on knowing where Jessie was. He says Jason told him he didn’t know.
Maureen Maher: What was he saying?
Gary Bardwell [mimicking Jason’s voice]: “I don’t know where in the hell she is. We don’t live co-dependent … She can go … and come as she pleases.”
But when she didn’t call her mom and stepmom on Mother’s Day, Bardwell had had enough.
Gary Bardwell: I said, “We’re leaving in the morning. Let’s pack some bags. And we’re going to Texas.”
A FATHER'S MISSION
When Gary Bardwell got in his truck and headed to Texas, he was angry. Very angry.
Gary Bardwell: I get so angry that it scares me.
His little girl was missing and he believed Jason Lowe was behind it.
Gary Bardwell: I text him on the way there. I said, “If Jessie’s not there when I get there, you are in a tremendous amount of trouble.”
But when he got to Jessie and Jason’s apartment, she was nowhere to be found. Bardwell immediately filed a missing persons report with the Richardson Police Department. Over the next 24 hours, the police repeatedly visited the apartment and still she never showed up. That’s when Detective Chiron Hale got assigned to the case.
He first made contact with Jason by phone.
Det. Chiron Hale: He stated … the last time he saw her was on May 8th, which was Mother’s Day — that morning at 10:00 a.m. and she left in her Acura.
AUDIO RECORDING:
Det. Chiron Hale: And is that car still gone?
Jason Lowe: Yes.
The next day, Detective Hale, the lead detective, made a house call and made another audio recording:
AUDIO RECORDING:
Det. Chiron Hale: Still haven’t heard from Jessie, right?
Jason Lowe: I haven’t.
By then Jessie had been reported missing for three days.
Det. Chiron Hale: As the father of three girls, I was very determined to get to the bottom of what had happened to Jessie Bardwell.
It seemed everybody was desperate to find Jessie except the man who claimed to be in love with her.
AUDIO RECORDING:
Jason Lowe to Det. Chiron Hale: We just did our own thing, always. I didn’t question her she didn’t question me and it worked.
The detective looked around the apartment and saw no sign of a struggle. Jason stuck to his story that she left home in her Acura.

Jessie Bardwell posing with the Acura that police learned had been sold three weeks before her disappearance.
GARY BARDWELL
There was just one problem with that story. The police learned that Jessie and Jason had sold that Acura three weeks before Jason claimed she drove off in it. They found it in the new owner’s driveway.
Det. Eric Willadsen: Jason’s lies were not very smart. Who would lie about an Acura that had been sold? … it was pretty clear that there was definitely something — going on other than just a missing person.
It became even clearer the following day. A team of detectives including Hale and his partner Eric Willadsen returned to the apartment. They saw what appeared to be a line of cocaine
AUDIO RECORDING:
DETECTIVE: You have coke on the countertop? A line of it? Yes or no.
JASON LOWE: Yes, sir.
But it was an odor coming from the garage that really got their attention.
Det. Eric Willadsen: It’s a smell that you never forget. Once you’ve smelt it, you know instantly when you smell it again.
It was the smell of death. And it was coming from the back of Jason Lowe’s black Audi. Detective Hale opened the hatch door. There was no Jessie Bardwell, but a body had clearly been there.
When police searched the garage, they came across Jason’s Audi. It was covered in mud and the bumper was ripped-off and stuffed inside the car. The thing that stuck out the most to the detectives was the odor emitting from the back hatch of the vehicle. It was the smell of death. COLLIN COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE

Det. Chiron Hale: There was standing fluid in the back hatch. And it smelled like just decaying flesh. …It had front-end damage. It did not have the bumper. The bumper was inside the vehicle … it had a lot of mud on the inside and on the outside.
One explanation was that he had gotten stuck in the mud while searching for Jessie.
Det. Chiron Hale: He still held onto the fact that he did not know where Jessie was.

When the detectives sprayed the luminol-based chemical Bluestar in the Audi, the cargo compartment lit up — indicating the presence of blood. COLLIN COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE
But when they sprayed the chemical Bluestar in the cargo compartment of the Audi, it lit up like crazy – indicating the presence of blood.
Det. Chiron Hale: It pretty much turned into a homicide investigation at that point.
AUDIO RECORDING:
DET. CHIRON HALE: We’re wondering if you wouldn’t mind coming down to the station so we could talk?
JASON LOWE: Like right now?
DET. CHIRON HALE: Yeah.
Jason Lowe was initially arrested on drug charges and thrown in jail. Detectives used the opportunity to further question him on Jesse’s whereabouts.
Det. Eric Willadsen: We spent a long time speaking with him to try to relate to his emotions, his feelings.
DET. HALE TO LOWE: You see this picture? Look at the picture. Jason.
DET. WILLADSEN TO LOWE: The girl you were in love with. The girl that you wanted to marry.
Det. Eric Willadsen: …and nothing seemed to work.
JASON LOWE: Don’t f—ing patronize me.
Det. Eric Willadsen: He didn’t seem to care … He seemed irritated and thought that — we were trying to pin things on him that he hadn’t done.
DET. WILLADSEN: Will you tell me where she’s at.
JASON LOWE: I don’t know any of that, man I’m wrapped up –like I’m good—I’m not going to be accused of stuff and I’m done talking.

Jason Lowe was charged with the murder of Jessie Bardwell RICHARDSON POLICE DEPARTMENT
Even without a body, Jason Lowe was charged with murder.
Det. Eric Willadsen: I had no doubt that he had killed her.
But they did have doubts — grave doubts — that they would ever find Jessie.
Det. Eric Willadsen: Texas is a huge state. We’ve got lots of rivers, lots of lakes, lots of ponds, fields. There are — 100 million different places you could hide a body in Texas.
Back home in Pascagoula, the town rallied around the family.
Kitty Bardwell | Jessie’s grandmother: They had a candlelight vigil at the beach … praying that she’d be found, maybe safe somewhere.
On May 19, almost three weeks after Jessie was last seen alive, they finally got an answer. The police had reason to believe Jessie was on a remote ranch in North Texas. Gary Bardwell says they wouldn’t tell the family how they knew; only that it was a reliable source. Chief Jimmy Spivey called the Bardwell family into the station.
Gary Bardwell: The chief said, “It’s gonna be a bad day for y’all today because we do not expect to find your daughter alive.”
A team of detectives, FBI investigators, and prosecutors made their way to that remote ranch in Farmersville, Texas. They arrived late afternoon and started walking through the fields.
Det. Eric Willadsen: We saw where he had gotten stuck in the mud.
Maureen Maher: You could still see the car parts on the ground?
Det. Chiron Hale: You could.
Det. Eric Willadsen: We found a piece of metal…looked like it was shielding something — kind of a makeshift burial area, and at that point you could start to smell, you know, decaying flesh, so…
Det. Eric Willadsen: …we walked closer. She was covered with a sheet, so you could tell — but you could see the outline of the body under the sheet.
Jessie Bardwell had been crudely wrapped in a blue fitted sheet and covered with a pile of debris, including a red blanket and two red and gold towels.
Maureen Maher: What was the condition of this body?
Det. Eric Willadsen: It’s one of the worst we’ve seen.
It would take seven days to officially identify her body. The medical examiner ruled Jesse’s death a homicide. But her body was so badly decomposed officials could not say how she was murdered.
Against his better judgment, Jessie’s father read the autopsy report.
Gary Bardwell [overcome with emotion]: I felt it was my responsibility as Jessie’s daddy to read the report. …she was brutally murdered. And she was thrown away like a piece of trash … wrapped up in a sheet barely looking like a person.
Gary Bardwell [overcome with emotion]: They sent the hearse to Texas to pick her up and my firemen buddies loaded her into the back of the hearse … This is my life now.
Over 900 people showed up at First United Methodist Church to mourn the death and celebrate the life of 27-year-old Jessie Bardwell.
Kitty Bardwell: If this town could be washed with all the tears that were shed over Jessie, it’d be real clean. We wouldn’t even need for it to rain for the tears that were shed for Jessie.
While the Bardwells spent the next year grieving, a very different looking Jason Lowe was in a McKinney, Texas, jail cell preparing his defense.
Andy Farkas | Defense attorney: One of the key issues in this case is whether or not to have our client testify.
Jason’s court appointed attorney, Andy Farkas, says he is sure that Jason did not murder Jessie. He’s not so sure Jason can convince a jury. But he has a plan.
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The apparent suicide of an erotic model in western Cali has taken another course, after a series of technical tests conducted by professionals at the scene, whose results suggest that it would be a suspected case of femicide.
On April 22, police officers arrived at an apartment in the west of the city where they found the lifeless body of Paula Andrea López Flores , who had an obvious gunshot wound to the head . At that time, the statement was taken from Iván Alfonso Rubio Londoño, the sentimental partner of the woman, who assured that he found her dead when he arrived at the residence. The first hypothesis suggested that it was a suicide. (Read also: the shooting in the disco of Juanchito leaves one dead and one injured)
However, members of the Criminal Investigation Section continued to investigate to clarify the facts. Everything began with the process of gathering information; The autopsy report was reviewed, in which it was determined that the characteristics of the wound presented by the victim were not the result of a suicide; It was carried out the monitoring of security cameras that seem to the show entering the Rubio Shut garbage can where it was found the firearm
…and tests carried out by Bluestar (a luminol-based blood visualization agent) showed blood in different parts of the apartment, including the sink.
All of these findings, plus the unconvincing version of the victim’s romantic partner, were presented to the 47th District Attorney’s Office, which issued a warrant for Rubio’s arrest, which became effective in the last few hours. (You might be interested in: seven-month-old baby died in hitman attack allegedly directed at his father )
“According to the information we have, they were already organizing a separation . To date, we have not found any formal complaint before the family prosecutor’s office or the police station for abuse or domestic violence and the investigations that have been made with neighbors give no indication that the woman was raped ” , said Colonel Fabián Ospina , police. Metropolitan Subcommander of Cali, who added that the captured had no criminal record.
Scientific advances have made a blood trail speak for itself
Maëlys: how scientific progress made a microscopic trace of blood talk
FRANCE 3 : 09.12.2019
They escaped the meticulous cleaning of Nordahl Lelandais. Then, at first, from the attention of the investigators. It is micro traces of blood, discovered under floor mats, in the trunk of the Audi A3 of the suspect of the homicide of Maëlys de Araujo, which allowed to confound him and to extract a confession.

In the last ten years, science has made spectacular progress in making tiny bloodstains speak for themselves. “In 2000, a trace of half a centimetre was needed to identify a victim, but today it can be done when the traces are not visible to the human eye,” explains Colonel Patrick Touron, the director of the Gendarmerie’s criminal research institute (IRCGN).
Nylon instead of cotton
For a criminal, it is becoming increasingly difficult to remove evidence. “The blade of a knife may have been carefully cleaned, and by taking the object apart, we can find traces inside the handle that will be useful, even if there is not much left. Or in the case,” says Marie-Gaëlle Le Pajolec, co-director of the Institut Génétique Nantes Atlantique (IGNA).
Over the past ten years, the whole chain leading to the identification of victims from their blood has evolved, starting with the detection of blood cells. “Blood developers such as Bluestar allow us to find invisible traces. There are also devices that trigger lights at particular wavelengths,” continues Marie-Gaëlle Le Pajolec. These are the kind of tools that were used to find the micro traces of Maëlys’ blood.
The next step, sampling, has also been perfected. “We used to use swabs with cotton stems where moulds could grow. Today, we use swabs with nylon stems that dry much faster,” adds the IGNA expert.
Study the projections
Extracting DNA from the cells and duplicating it for investigative purposes (‘amplifying’ it in scientific language) is also made easier. “Blood is a very rich material in DNA. From very small traces, it is now possible to obtain fingerprints. For DNA extraction, we have much more efficient kits than ten years ago,” says Marie-Gaëlle Le Pajolec. This stage, which used to take a week, now only takes a few hours…
Investigators can also count on the experts in morpho-analysis of blood traces from three French centres, including the IRCGN and the IGNA. This discipline, developed in France since the end of the 1990s, makes it possible to develop scenarios based on blood projections: was the victim hit? Were there several protagonists? As in the case of Maëlys, the size, shape and distribution of each drop of blood are carefully examined.
Invisible bloodstains revealed by Bluestar
Mallouk case: the long trial of a murder without a confession (FRANCE 3)
Hafid Mallouk is to be tried for a fortnight for the murder of his girlfriend, a young nurse whose body was found burnt in a forest in Villers-les-Nancy.

Invisible bloodstains revealed by the Bluestar
In particular, he is unable to explain where his girlfriend has gone. This suspicious behaviour prompted the police to search the flat. They used “Bluestar“, a product that reveals bloodstains invisible to the naked eye. They then realised that there were significant traces of blood throughout the flat, from the bathroom to the bedroom and the kitchen, and that everything had been cleaned.

For the investigators, it is clear that Julie Martin has been killed and they are at the scene of her murder. But there is no body. The victim remains unaccounted for. Until 14 July 2014. A walker discovers the completely charred body of the young woman in the Clairlieu forest in Villers-lès-Nancy.
This was the starting point of a marathon of scientific investigations. Everything was examined: analysis of the soil from the pyre as well as various objects found burnt with the body, autopsy of the charred bones, DNA research, study of the shape of the bloodstains found in the flat on Rue Jean-Prouvé and analysis of the couple’s mobile and fixed telephone lines.
All of this leads to a body of damning evidence against Hafid Mallouk. The last investigating judge in charge of the case retained nine elements to send him back to the court of assizes (see elsewhere). However, the thirty-year-old persists in denying it.
His psychological health seems to have deteriorated since he has been in detention. He regularly turns his cell into a dumping ground or degrades it. What will be his attitude at the trial? The answer will be given on 22 January. He is facing life imprisonment.

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A blue and white column slowly progresses through a wooded and soggy landscape. Death caterpillar in the mist…
…An examining magistrate, a forensic doctor, an anthropologist and investigators from the judicial police lead the way, followed by a dozen agents from the technical and scientific police, a cohort of CRS and peacekeepers. The group makes its way through this rugged and marshy terrain, tormented by the Zeus storm that has just hit Brittany. The buildings of the Stang farm stand in the background.
Heads are bent, looking for the slightest clue. Thirty-two hectares to be combed for fragments. Body parts, scattered, pulverized. We are not at the site of an air disaster, but at a crime scene. There are four victims, Brigitte and Pascal Troadec, aged 47 and 49, and their two children, Charlotte and Sébastien, aged 18 and 21.
It is on this image, captured on 8 March in Pont-de-Buis (Finistère), that the case of the missing persons of Orvault, which has become that of the Troadec family, closes. A terrible story, which began two weeks earlier, 280 km away, in a house in Loire-Atlantique. The story.

THE DISAPPEARANCE
Still no message, no call. From Landerneau (Finistère), Denise is worried. For several days now she has had no news of her daughter, who lives in Orvault (Loire-Atlantique).
His phone doesn’t answer anymore. Brigitte is used to calling him every week. A few streets away, Hélène is just as worried. No sign of her sister or her family. She can’t take it anymore and calls her work, the tax office in Nantes. Brigitte didn’t show up on Monday 20 February, the day she was supposed to return to work after a few days’ holiday. Her anxiety grew. Hélène contacted the police to report her disappearance.
The police arrived at the Troadec family’s house, located in a residential area of Orvault. The shutters are closed, the one-storey house is empty. The heating was turned off and the temperature was 8°C. The sheets have been removed from the beds. In the bathroom, no toothbrush or hairbrush. A cup and a glass are found in the kitchen sink. In the fridge, several items of food had expired. Sheets, not quite dry, are spread out inside. Wet clothes are still in the washing machine.
It is as if the house had stopped living at a given moment. (Pierre Sennès, public prosecutor in Nantes, in Presse Océan).
The investigators notice pinkish marks on the staircase, as if blood had been summarily wiped off. In a room on the ground floor, a mobile phone and its earpieces were stained with blood, as was a pair of socks. The technical and forensic police arrive as backup. With the help of the Bluestar, they detect other traces of blood in significant quantities on the floor. A watch, broken and stained with blood, was found under a bed. Everything suggests that a “scene of violence”, in the words of the prosecutor, took place in this house. The analyses quickly confirm these fears: the blood does belong to three members of the family, Brigitte, Pascal and Sébastien.
An empty house, traces of blood, no body… The case immediately evokes another, which has marked the minds in Nantes. In 2011, the remains of the wife and four children of Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès were found after several days under the terrace of a bourgeois house in the City of Dukes. The father, the presumed murderer, is still untraceable today. In the Troadec case, the investigation, opened for “deliberate homicide, kidnapping and sequestration”, is quickly directed towards a family member. Especially since a detail intrigues the investigators. In front of the house, the couple’s two cars, an Audi and a BMW, are still parked. But the son’s car, a Peugeot 308, is missing.

THE SON'S FALSE TRAIL
The neighbourhood investigation begins. With its share of banalities. The Troadecs are described as “reserved people” who had been living in Orvault for at least ten years. “They were people who didn’t talk about themselves and who didn’t necessarily want to make friends”, according to a neighbour. In the neighbourhood, the morning “good morning” has dried up over time.
Some people mention the “depressive disorders” from which the father, employed in an SME specialising in the manufacture of illuminated signs, suffered “in the past”. His son is portrayed as having “suffered from psychological fragility”. The possibility of a father-son family dispute is emerging. Investigators and the media are looking into the digital life of the teenager, a second year student of BTS Digital Systems in Saint-Laurent-sur-Sèvre (Vendée). The son of Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès attended the same school. The fantasy machine is running wild.
Sébastien had created, like many teenagers of his age, several profiles on different social networks. In the midst of hundreds of harmless comments, a few old messages were enough to obscure the portrait of the young man. In 2014, at the age of 18, he tweeted: “I can’t take it anymore, I want to die but I can’t even do it”. On the Ask.fm forum, someone asked him if it was “possible to justify murder”. “The thing I hate the most? My reflection,” he writes again, quick to denigrate himself or talk about his own death.
In 30 years, I’ve been dead for 27 years.
Sébastien Troadec, on his Twitter account, in 2014.
Sébastien Troadec also confided on social networks his disagreement with his father. “I’m fed up with this, I’m going to the police station to lodge a complaint against my father”, “for moral harassment :'( #LT”, he stormed in April 2013. “My father is a big fucking alcoholic asshole because he farts in the shower and says it’s my fault when he’s the last one to have taken one,” he ranted a week later. There is also this message, dated May 1: “If they really knew what was going on in my head, they’d think I was crazy without morals. Photos of him posing with a knife or with his face hidden by a scarf were reported in the media. Le Parisien reported that he was sentenced to community service in 2013 for death threats.
While some testimonies confirm Sébastien’s “somewhat special” personality, his friends argue that it is only the construction of an online persona. In Le Parisien, his maternal aunt assures us that “Sébastien was getting better and better since he entered the BTS. He had many friends and went out with them at the weekend. He was more open. My nephew had literally transformed himself. He felt better about himself.
Nevertheless. If the investigators remain cautious and are exploring all avenues of investigation, the wanted notice broadcast to the whole of France mentions the possibility of “a disastrous project” by the son, “aimed at eliminating the members of his family and perhaps himself”. Among the disturbing elements, his mobile phone, the last to be switched off on the night of 16 to 17 February.
THE MORBID TRAIL GAME
The case of the missing persons of Orvault holds the country in suspense. But the investigation is stalling. At least in appearance.

The journalists cling to the slim elements that are filtering through: Charlotte, 18, went to the police station with her mother to lodge a complaint on the day of the disappearance. The reason was that her bank card had been hacked to buy video games… The focus was again on Sébastien, who was described as a “geek”. Mother and daughter would then have bought sushi. Consumable until 17 February, they were found in the fridge. So many clues reported by the press but which do not provide the beginning of a serious lead…
One detail is bothering the investigators: the blood of Charlotte, who has been at school since the beginning of the school year at the Notre-Dame de Fontenay-le-Comte high school (Vendée), in the first year of a BTS, was not found in the house. What happened to her? Plane tickets for Portugal, dated 10 April, were also found in the letterbox.
It was 27 February, ten days after the Troadecs’ disappearance, and the mystery remained. The public prosecutor’s office opened a judicial investigation and appointed two investigating judges. Two days later, the case had its first twist: a pair of trousers, a bank card and Charlotte’s Vitale card were found by a jogger in Dirinon (Finistère), near Brest. The next day, 500 metres away, investigators discovered two children’s books belonging to Pascal Troadec. But the real turning point came when Sébastien’s car was spotted in the car park of a church in Saint-Nazaire (Loire-Atlantique). The floor mat had disappeared, but no trace of blood was visible to the naked eye.
For the psycho-criminologist Jean-François Abgrall, the perpetrator “favours disorienting the investigators”. During a new press conference, eagerly awaited by all the media, the prosecutor Pierre Sennès confirmed “a possible morbid game of chance” and an “extraordinary case”. The magistrate also dismissed the hypothesis that Charlotte’s credit card had been stolen or used by Sébastien. The teenager and her mother went to the bank, not the police station, to stop Charlotte’s card. Charlotte herself had bought video game credits on the internet as a gift for Sébastien, and realised that the sum debited via an American server exceeded the purchase price. The brother’s trail seems to have gone cold.
THE BROTHER-IN-LAW'S CONFESSION
Officially, Sébastien’s car has not yet revealed its secrets. The prosecutor had warned that the results of the analyses would not be communicated in real time, to preserve the investigation. Unofficially, the investigators have a major clue: the DNA of Hubert Caouissin, Pascal Troadec’s brother-in-law, was found in the vehicle – on the headrest, according to Le Parisien. Another secret point: the companion of Lydie Troadec, Pascal’s sister, also left his genetic fingerprint in the Orvault house, on a glass.
If it is impossible to date this DNA, these elements contradict the version of the individual, heard in the early stages of the investigation. While in police custody, Hubert Caouissin had explained that he had not seen the Troadecs for a long time, because of a dispute over an alleged inheritance. On 5 March, the man and his companion were again placed in police custody. The information circulated, giving a whole new direction to this drama.
Time was running out, as the investigators had already used up the number of hours in custody. During the night, Hubert Caouissin breaks down and confesses. Yes, he killed the four members of the Troadec family for a story of “gold coins”. France wakes up with the name of a presumed culprit. A few hours later, Pierre Sennès gives another press conference and literally transports the audience to the scene of the quadruple murder. A one-shot story, based on the statements of the 40-year-old.
On the evening of Thursday 16 February, Hubert Caouissin went to the Orvault pavilion with “the intention of spying to see if he could gather information on this inheritance problem”. He applied “a stethoscope” to the window to try to listen inside the house. Later that evening, the suspect waits for the family to go to bed before entering the house and hiding in the laundry room. “He enters with the intention of retrieving a key seen on a piece of furniture,” the magistrate continued. But in trying to achieve his goal, the suspect made a noise, attracting the attention of the Troadec couple, who went downstairs “with a crowbar”. Hubert Caouissin managed to get hold of it. Refusing to give “more precise details”, the prosecutor evokes a “criminal scene of great violence”.
The rest of the scenario was recounted by Pierre Sennès and then clarified by Le Parisien the following days: Hubert Caouissin stayed with the Troadecs until the early hours of the morning, before returning home to the Pont-de-Buis farm, where he had been living for two years with Lydie Troadec. According to the newspaper, the presumed murderer immediately confided in his 8-year-old son, even before talking to his partner.
You will see, they will tell you that your father is a monster. But I’ll explain and tell you the truth.
Hubert Caouissin to his son, according to comments reported by Le Parisien.
The couple returned to Orvault on the evening of the 17th and 18th. Hubert Caouissin washed the house while Lydie waited in a car with a walkie-talkie, Le Parisien reported. A macabre detail reported by the newspaper: exhausted by the cleaning, the presumed murderer fell asleep for four hours in Sébastien’s bed. The duo left with the bodies, loaded into the 308. For two or three days, Hubert Caouissin tried to make the bodies disappear,” said Pierre Sennès. It seems that the bodies were dismembered, one part buried, the other part burned.
Then, with the help of his companion, Hubert Caouissin cleaned Sébastien’s vehicle and left it in Saint-Nazaire “a little bit at random”. “His idea was to direct the search towards the port. A sort of diversion,” the magistrate said. The suspect also took the family’s belongings with him to make it look like he was going on holiday. Hubert Caouissin is under investigation for “murder” and “attacking the integrity of a corpse”, his companion for “altering the state of a crime scene and receiving corpses”. Both were imprisoned.
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He got confused on his own and finally had to take responsibility for the murder of the woman with whom he had 3 children. This is the fate of Dionicio Mamani Laura who was sent to prison for 9 months to await his sentence.
He took an early leave and accepted all the charges against him during the hearing that took place yesterday at around 8am at the Judiciary headquarters in the city of Puno.
Andrea Condori Curasi, to whom he was married, was murdered in the house also occupied by Mamani and several of his relatives who alerted the police about it. At first, Dionicio tried to deny any connection with the death.
The Depincri agents soon discovered this because, after his confused statements, they decided to apply a reagent called “luminol blue star”.

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This was the tip of the iceberg in terms of finding out everything because, when confronted with the evidence, the suspect at the time confessed to taking part in the murder along with a hitman.
Both had covered the woman’s face to ensure her silence, while with a knife they stabbed the pillow in the hope of hitting the victim’s head or neck as she tried to defend herself.
One of the attempts hit the old woman’s eye and she turned her head in pain and received the next attack with the back of her head. The gruesome scene took place at 4 a.m.
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It’s done, the words are out. They are few to do so and “no, it has nothing to do with the film Léon”, warns Julien Martel, the director of Groupe NAD, a young Alsatian company specialising in this field, whom 20 Minutes met.

Visit to an Alsatian company specialising in cleaning up after a death. It uses mainly organic products and respects to the letter safety and hygiene procedures

It’s a job that is rarely mentioned, as if to ward off bad luck. The very mention of it brings to mind crime scenes seen on television in a second. “Cleaner after death”. It’s done, the words are out. They are few to do so and “no, this has nothing to do with the film Léon”, warns Julien Martel, the director of Groupe NAD, a young Alsatian company specialising in this field, whom 20 Minutes met.
Although he denies that his job is shrouded in mystery, the thirty-year-old unwillingly sets the scene for a US series from the outset. Julien Martel leads us into his office where demonstration containers are lined up for soiled waste. I don’t like the term “cleaner”, this is not the United States, the relationship with death is not the same”, he warns. I’ve already had, as one anecdote among others, a phone call from someone who told me they had a “problem” and wanted me to come and clean it up, no questions asked. And wanted to pay in cash…”. The innuendos and silences are long. “We have very strict intervention protocols. For example, in the case of a homicide, we only intervene once the seals have been removed; moreover, we ask the police or the gendarmes to be there when they are removed and we attach these documents to our file. It’s a job where you have to be very rigorous, meticulous but also passionate. As for natural deaths, the body must have remained at the scene for at least 48 hours, or the death must be due to an infectious, viral or bacterial disease, otherwise we have no reason to intervene. “

Illustration. Group NAD agent gelling agent sprinkling operation – Group NAD
Like in a movie, or almost
Come, follow me,” he says before leading us into his back garage, where his “laboratory” is located. And this is not CSI Miami. A small, dark space where a cement pavement with blood splatters and a white protective suit, mask and gloves hang. “There is no projection, you are safe. This is blood, the scene is frozen,” says the cleaner. “This is pig’s blood, very close to human blood.
We use this laboratory as much as necessary for our blood homicide or suicide intervention protocol, as we are constantly improving our techniques and research. “. A place where every employee, before going out into the field, is trained for a month before taking an assessment test. “There is no such thing as training,” says Julien Martel. So it is he who personally oversees the training of the employees, who are considered to be a “band of friends” and who, all together, meet every fortnight in the company of a psychologist, in order to share or discuss the problems encountered.
This research allows it, and this is a particularity, to use no (or very few) chemical products. The young company has chosen to invest in innovative technologies for cleaning and disinfecting surfaces, but also for airborne disinfection, including the destruction of odours using an ozone generator. This prevents any resistant and allergenic strains after our visit,” says Julien Martel, “without using chemicals automatically. And to ensure that nothing is left behind, the cleaners use Bluestar or a UV lamp on homicides or suicides, whenever they have a doubt during certain interventions to look for traces of blood that would have been washed away, so as not to leave anything behind after their passage.

Illustration. Taking pictures to study the behaviour of blood – NAD Group
Dry steam cleaning

While clients will not get back their mattresses or carpets stained with blood and organic matter where bacteria proliferate, the premises will be disinfected, clean. “We have the same protocol as in operating theatres. In fact, after a homicide or suicide, we use the same machine for cleaning and disinfection as the one used in the Versailles hospital. It sprays dry steam, the temperature of which rises to 180°, and not a single interstice escapes it,” says Julien Martel. We restore the premises so that the families do not see the other side of the coin, to help them. “
A field that the young entrepreneur knows very well. A former soldier, he “comes from the world of the funeral industry” and has spent three long years thinking about the needs of his profession before launching his business. “It is a service that we offer. A continuation of the funeral service. “

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