A 48-year-old man was indicted on Thursday for the rape and murder of an octogenarian who disappeared in May 2019 in Charente-Maritime and whose headless and handsless body was found three weeks later, indicated on Thursday on parquet floor of La Rochelle.
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This man, caretaker of the seniors' residence where the victim lived, is prosecuted for " murder preceded by another crime and attack on the integrity of a corpse ". Arrested Tuesday, he acknowledged the rape and murder of the octogenarian and was placed in pre-trial detention. " In a panic, he mutilated the body to delay his identification, " wrote the prosecution in a statement.
The gendarmes of the Poitiers research section and the Rochefort research brigade explored many avenues during the investigation but were particularly interested in the concierge because he " had adopted suspicious behavior when the death was announced And because her DNA was found at the deceased's home, said the prosecution.
The victim's body, mutilated and in a state of advanced decomposition, was found in early June 2019 by walkers in a forest in Saint-Laurent-de-la-Prée, three weeks after the disappearance of this 85-year-old woman.
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