Source: World Wide Web
[World Wide Web Report] Decades of hunting finally failed? According to a report by CNN (CNN) on October 1, 35 years after a series of murder and rape investigations in France, the police identified a retired policeman as a suspect, but he was about to be arrested. On the eve of the crime, the suspect committed suicide...
The DNA sample collected by the police from him was consistent with the genetic data collected at the crime scene.
Paris prosecutor Laurei said in a statement that officials have been looking for the perpetrators of five cases, including the rape of a 15-year-old minor, murder, attempted murder, armed robbery and so on. The above-mentioned cases all occurred between 1986 and 1994.
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After years of investigation, the investigators gradually identified the murderer. The statement said that the DNA test results showed that there is a connection between a retired police officer and these crimes. The collected evidence shows that the perpetrators may be serving in the French gendarmerie when these cases occurred. The report also mentioned that at the time of the incident, about 750 military policemen in the Paris area were summoned for inspection.
reported that the man is 59 years old and lives in in southern France. On September 24 this year, he received a notice that as part of the investigation, he will be inspected on September 29, local time.
But soon, a bizarre event happened.
The prosecutor said that the man's wife reported on the 27th local time that he was missing. Two days later, on the day he was scheduled to be examined, the man's body was found in southern France.
Prosecutor Lao Lei said that before joining the police, the man was a military policeman. Although the name of the man was not mentioned in the statement, CNN 's media BFMTV said that a source with knowledge of the investigation stated that the man was named François Verov.
BFMTV also quoted local media as saying that Verov left a suicide note, acknowledging that he was a murderer, but did not disclose the name of the victim. However, he said that he later "controlled himself" and "has not done anything (illegal) since 1997."
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