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The "Hail" (Part 2): the mysterious killer was a gendarme ... the epilogue of a 35-year-old cold case

2021-10-11T16:39:41.652Z


PODCAST. Continuation and end of our story on the hunt for this rapist and serial murderer. Not found for decades, he says he did not


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Abstract.

He had been summoned a few days earlier to the PJ of Montpellier as part of the investigation into "Hail", a man suspected of at least three murders and six rapes between 1986 and 1994.

Cornered, François Vérove, a retired 59-year-old policeman, empties his bank accounts and evaporates without notifying his relatives.

He committed suicide during the night of September 30 to October 1, at Grau-du-Roi in the Gard, and left a letter in which he confessed to having committed "unforgivable crimes" in the past.

The analysis of a DNA sample taken after his death confirms this: this grandfather above all suspicion has indeed been the wanted criminal for 35 years.

Source code recounts this affair in two parts with two journalists from Le Parisien: Denis Courtine from the Île-de-France investigation unit and Damien Delseny, head of the police-justice service.

Second part.

Credits.

Editorial management: Pierre Chausse - Editor-in-chief: Jules Lavie - Reporter: Ambre Rosala - Production: Sarah Hamny, Marion Bothorel, Raphaël Pueyo and Thibault Lambert - Production and mixing: Julien Montcouquiol - Music: François Clos, Audio Network, Epidemic Sound - Graphic identity: Upian - Archives: LCI, BFM TV.

About Source Code.

Source Code is Le Parisien's daily news podcast.

Stories told by the editorial staff or by those who have experienced them directly.

An appointment carried by the presenter Jules Lavie and the reporter Ambre Rosala, to find from Monday to Friday from 6 p.m. on LeParisien.fr or on the main listening platforms.

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