In 2007, Christian Maréchal, police chief of Chambourcy, suburb west of Paris, was found savagely stabbed to death. Investigators fast decided two assailants were responsible and that Marechal knew them, because there was no forced-entry.
Unusual turn for "Non Elucide," the Francisco Benitez story begins with the suicide by hanging of a French Foreign Legionnaire after the disappearance of his wife and beauty-queen daughter. Additional suspicions about Benitez are addressed.
The "Gendarme Jambert" appears to have committed suicide on the eve of singlehandedly solving the serial murders of handicapped adolescent girls, but shot himself twice--in the head.
Clement Roussenq was a school principal fatally stabbed in a parking lot within yards of his residence after being awakened from his sleep by a phone call. The murder remains unsolved.
Tragic story of dismembered 50-something who settles in a small town near the Belgian border, gets involved with a married man...but whose murder shares similarities with deaths attributed to a Belgian serial killer.
Small-town beauty, daughter of popular Breton bakers, moves into her own apartment and is found bludgeoned. The doors were locked. A boyfriend is suspected but has an alibi. Obsessed neighbors--one male, one female--are the prime suspects.
A look into the odd, specialized of earning a living in the sale of fireworks. The Moritz investigation has led to an arrest in a case originally with many, and varied, suspects.
Unsolved, very unsettling rest stop murder of a young father, shot head-to-toe while his two little sons waited for him in the car. Unusual ammunition links it to a massacre in a nearby region of eastern France.