"He sat on the communal committee for social action," he said.ĭidier Saban, a lawyer representing the families, is now calling for an investigation. Jean-Marc Lussert, who’d been mayor of Prades-le-Lez when Vérove was on the council, said it was "shocking". To Vérove’s neighbours, who described him as a "happy" father. His DNA matched the DNA found at crime scenes. The note explained that he had experienced "previous impulses" but since getting married and having children, he had "got himself together" and hadn’t committed any crimes since 1997. "I admit being a great criminal who committed unforgivable acts until the end of the 1990s," it read. His body was found in a rented flat on the Mediterranean coast. Three days after Vérove received the letter, his wife reported him missing. He had been a gendarme and then a police officer, and had been elected to his local council. One of the men sent a letter in late September this year telling him he would have to give a sample was 59-year-old François Vérove, living in the south of France with his wife and children. A magistrate put in charge of the cold case ordered that 750 men who had been working as gendarmes, or military police, in the Paris region at the time of the crimes should give DNA samples, in the hope of finding the It is not possible that no one knows! Then I can go."Īnd then finally, a breakthrough. She said she lived only to "understand what happened that day and what was done to my daughter. In 2019, she spoke to La Marne as she was preparing to mark the 25th anniversary of her daughter’s death by installing a pink granite plaque where her body was found. Karine Leroy's mother Annick Cagnet never got over it. "I manage to live, but I have a great feeling of injustice, irreparable," he said. Luc Richard spoke to Sud Ouest about his half-sister’s death a few years later. Post continues below.Ĭecile Bloch’s father, Jean-Pierre, devoted the remaining years of his life to trying to find his daughter’s killer, even hiring a private investigator. Listen to Mamamia's True Crime Conversations, which features interviews with experts on the world's most fascinating, terrifying and mysterious crimes. Gilles Politi’s father was convinced that the killer actually was in the police or the military, from the way his son had been immobilised – with his feet and hands tied behind his back – before being murdered.īut despite having a description as well as DNA evidence from several crime scenes, police were unable to track down The Pockmarked Man.
He would claim to be a police officer, sometimes showing his identity card and handcuffing them. He was also believed responsible for more violent rapes around that time, with an 11-year-old and a 14-year-old among the victims. The Pockmarked Man was suspected of committing both of those crimes. Her body was found in nearby woods a month later. Karine Leroy was a high school student and twin who disappeared on her way to school. In June 1994, there was another murder that horrified France. He’d given a fake name, Elie Lauringe, and an address that matched a former police photo lab. She’d kept a list of 30 or so men she’d dated, and there was only one who couldn’t be tracked down. It was believed that the killer was one of the au pair’s lovers. The crime scene shocked police, with both victims having been bound and tortured before their deaths. The following year, aeroplane mechanic Gilles Politi and his family’s German au pair, Irmgard Muller, were found dead. He’d left her for dead, but she’d regained consciousness. He had taken her to the basement, raped her, and strangled her with a scarf. The eight-year-old had been accosted in the lift of her apartment building by a man who said he was a police officer. Police linked the crime with another attack on a young girl just a month earlier. He’d seemed very confident, and had said one thing to Richard: "Have a very, very good day." The man was in his late twenties and athletic, with a pockmarked face. Her older half-brother, Luc Richard, and a number of other people had seen a stranger in the lift that morning. The schoolgirl’s body was found under an old carpet in the apartment building’s basement.
She rang the school and found out Cecile hadn’t turned up. When her mother rang home at lunchtime to check she’d come back, there was no answer.
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