The Sedan public prosecutor's office confirmed on Monday August 10 the death of the ex-companion of the forties who claimed to have killed two people before committing suicide in Sedan (Ardennes) in mid-July. " DNA analyzes made it possible to identify that it was formally Steve Kochhafen ", 44 years old. " We were able to return the body to his family, " said the prosecutor of the Republic of Charleville-Mézières, Laurent de Caigny.
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On July 18, a 49-year-old woman, presented as psychologically unstable, called her daughter, warning her by phone that she had killed two people and intended to end her life by jumping from the top of the castle of Sedan. The police then discovered his body and two firearms at the foot of the ramparts.
The investigating police services set out to search for " possible victims ", first discovering the lifeless body of a 74-year-old man, shot dead and identified as " acquaintance " with the victim. forty years old.
Steve Kochhafen, known to be a former companion of the forties, whom she had " contacted " shortly before dying, had been " missing " since July 18. His body had been found ten days later in a wood of Saint-Menges (north of Sedan), but his identity had so far not been confirmed due to the advanced state of decomposition of the corpse, which complicated the analyzes. .