A smile, frozen forever.
On the milk cartons of Agen supermarkets (Lot-et-Garonne), the childish portrait of Marion Wagon appears followed by a phone number.
A few months after his disappearance, associations and the police are looking for any report to help the investigation.
Since November 14, 1996, the 10-year-old girl has vanished from school, lost to follow-up at a bend in a pedestrian crossing while she was returning to her parents for lunch.
At the time, Roland Courdesses, a police officer at the Agen police station, centralized in his office the 300 to 400 calls per day which flowed in thanks to calls for witnesses launched throughout France. The numbers sometimes come from Japan or South America, mediums and marabouts report what they believe they have as information, but no serious leads can be traced back to Marion.
Only in the spring of 1997, a suspect was arrested. The man has a disturbing profile, he has already been implicated in cases of sexual assault and above all, he is the godfather of one of the girlfriends of the little Wagon. Placed in police custody, he confesses to the kidnapping and murder of Marion, indicating that he had thrown her into the city's Side Canal. In May, the investigators therefore decided to empty the stream over 14 km. They leave empty-handed, no trace, not even a slight clue. The suspect storyteller is released.
While the investigation is stalling, the investigating judges will change their strategy.
In September, they summon Marion's parents to their office.
A camp bed is installed in a corner of the room.
Objective: to subject the mother to hypnosis so that she can go and look for memories that she might have omitted to divulge… The family lawyer refuses, the session comes to an end.
Disillusionment after disillusionment, the gendarmerie which recovered the affair tries a last blow.
Agents fly to Martinique where a woman claims to have met a girl claiming to be called Marion Wagon.
Again, white cabbage.
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Over the years, the hope of finding the girl "from the milk packs" fades.
One last element, however, could change the situation.
In the winter of 2021, new samples were taken from objects that belonged to Marion, with the aim of comparing them with the DNA found on a mattress of the van of predator Michel Fourniret.
The question is therefore simple: on November 14, 1996 in Agen, did Marion Wagon cross paths with the most chilling of French serial killers?