Justice ordered the exhumation of the body of an 18-year-old young man, Thomas Rauschkolb, who died in 2015 in Savoy, to carry out an autopsy, and to examine the possibility of a homicide by Nordahl Lelandais.
Until now, the death has been attributed to an accidental fall into a river leaving a nightclub.
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The body of Thomas Rauschkolb was found on December 28, 2015, on the banks of the Sierroz, in Grésy-sur-Aix (Savoie).
According to the investigation, he had spent the evening in a nightclub, Studio 54, then fled towards the river.
In 2019, Francis Rauschkolb, the victim's father, learned, from a photo provided by a waitress, that Nordahl Lelandais had frequented this nightclub.
A little later, the killer's ex-companion herself evoked this file with the
Parisian
: "
In particular, the file of young Thomas Rauschkolb who was found dead next to a nightclub in December 2015 should be explored. […] He was in the same state of anger and frustration as when he killed Corporal Arthur Noyer, in the night of April 11 to 12, 2017. The day before, he had scared me with a chainsaw,
”she explained in particular.
So many elements which now suggest that Nordahl Lelandais could be at the origin of the death of the young man.
The father, Francis Rauschkolb, studied in detail the circumstances of his son's disappearance and sees other corroborating clues: “
My son left his jacket in the locker room at the nightclub when it was 5 degrees outside that night. .
He walked in the opposite direction to our home which was about a mile away.
He entered a housing estate, crossed a wooden fence on a property, crossed a garden, then passed over a fence.
For me, he was trying to escape someone who was chasing him.
Or a dog thrown at him.
And as Lelandais had dogs…
”, he explains to the
Parisian
.
Nordahl Lelandais is to be tried from May 3 for the murder of Corporal Arthur Noyer, whose family is defended by Me Bernard Boulloud.
The latter is also the lawyer of Francis Rauschkolb, and declared that the autopsy of the young Thomas "
should make it possible to know if there are suspicious fractures related to blows and not to the fall of Thomas.
Which would then accredit the criminal track
”.
DNA samples have also been requested.
The Rauschkolb case is part of the forty or so cases intended to be re-examined by the courts and potentially linked to Nordahl Lelandais.
They were themselves sorted from 900 unresolved cases.
