A hamlet of ten farms, surrounded by fields at the entrance to the Perche regional park. A bucolic setting in the heart of Eure-et-Loir for a “sordid” scene, a “striking” discovery, even a regular victim of crime scenes. In the tall grass that runs along this small departmental road in Autels-Villevillon, this Wednesday afternoon, a walker spots a dark mass. A human trunk. A carved corpse, without head or arms.
It will take five hours for investigators from the Orleans research section to find, abandoned in a ditch, the arms and head of this man, a few hundred meters from his home. At the first observations, a coroner said that the victim, quickly identified as Samuel F., a 44-year-old roofer, seems to have been cut using a saw after his death. Investigators also note wounds that resemble stab wounds in the chest.
Victim had no known enemies
This Friday, the autopsy carried out by a forensic doctor allowed a new discovery: pellets, found in the body of the victim. "The causes of death are still unclear, but the victim seems to have been hit by gunshots," confirms the Chartres prosecutor, Rémi Coutin. Presumably a "hunting weapon", according to a source close to the investigation. The autopsy also made it possible to estimate that the death of the forties dates back to “24-48 hours” before the discovery of the body.
The gendarmes of Orleans are now trying to understand what could have happened to this father of two, separated from his partner for a few years. According to our information, his family had been worried for a few hours about his disappearance.
Described as "fairly marginal" and suffering from alcohol consumption problems, the forties had no known enemies, according to the first elements of the investigation. He was also known to the courts only for driving under the influence of an alcoholic state. "The track of the settlement of accounts seems excluded, blows someone close to the case. He does not have the profile, has never had a drug problem, and the abuse he suffered does not fit this hypothesis. "