Crime Scene Solvers

Shot In the While Sleeping (Richard Alessandri Case): On the night of July 16, 2000, the life of Edwige Alessandri changed forever. This mother, married to a supermarket boss, made a frantic emergency call in the town of Carpentras. She recounted that shortly after midnight, some men burst into her room and shot her husband while he slept. Who could have despised Richard Alessandri enough to kill him in cold blood in his own bed? Was he the victim of a robbery gone wrong, as claimed by his wife? Very quickly, the clues found at the crime scene would guide investigators to another, completely unexpected lead. But what really happened on that Sunday night in the couple's room? Let's return to an extraordinary criminal case that, 17 years after the fact, still hasn't revealed the entire truth...

A Dire Deception (LAURENCE MAILLE CASE): On November 28, 2007, Laurence Maille disappeared. It was her partner, John Zablevski, who alerted the Vimy police in Pas-de-Calais. He explained that the young woman had left in the morning for a walk with their dog and never returned. An unprecedented search was immediately launched to try to find her. Beautiful, intelligent and generous, Laurence Maille had everything to be happy about and for 18 months, had found the perfect love in her partner. Thanks to the clues patiently collected throughout the investigation, the police quickly turned their attention to a suspect that was the least likely. But to prove their guilt will turn out to be very complicated.

The Mystery of Room 602 (Véronique Pirotton Case): On October 31, 2013, Belgian politician Bernard Ouessfal rushed down the six flights of a hotel in Ostend where he had met up with his wife, Véronique, the day before. He had just found her unconscious on the bathroom floor with a mysterious plastic bag next to her. Despite the emergency rescue response, Véronique Pirotton died a few minutes later. For Bernard Ouessfal, there was no doubt: his wife, very psychologically unstable, had ended her life. But in this case, the investigators went from one surprise to another. And over the course of their discoveries, convictions would constantly alternate between one scenario and another: did Bernard Ouessfal, despite himself, cause the suicide of his wife? Or did he himself commit this irreparable act?

The Case of Stéphane Kameugne - On December 24, 2008, the body of Stéphane Kameugne was fished out from a canal in Châlons-en-Champagne. The young man had been missing for two weeks and no one had seen him since the evening of his graduation ceremony from his engineering school. A theory soon emerged: the very drunk student had fallen over thea bridge over the canal which led to his death. But his parents and relatives did not believe this. Thanks to their persistence, all the clues were reviewed by the experts who soon determined a completely different theory: the young man's death was not due to an accident but a murder. Who killed Stéphane Kameugne? Let's return to this criminal mystery...

The Savage Murder of a Mother and her Daughter (Amato Case)- On March 31, 2003, firefighters were called to a fire in a housing estate of Meyrargues, near Aix-en-Provence. On site, they discovered a horrific scene: the tortured and charred bodies of a mother and her daughter, Chantal and Audrey D'Amato, aged 53 and 24 respectively. It would take almost 10 years for investigators to solve this incredible mystery and finally identify the murderer, in particular thanks to the intervention of one of the police force's first female criminal profilers. In this extraordinary case, the clues did not fail to play tricks on the investigators, muddling up all the leads ... until the truth was finally revealed.

A Night of Horror at Devil's Plateau (Marie-Jeanne Meyer Case) - On June 18, 2011, Marie-Jeanne Meyer, 17-years old, waved goodbye to her little sister before leaving for her daily jog on the heights of Tournon in Ardèche. She never came back. Three days later, her mutilated body was found in a freshly dug pit, near an area known to be cursed, "The Devil's Plateau." What's more, the crime scene looked like a mystical ritual ... Was it a ritual murder? Revenge? An unfortunate encounter? ... It was thanks to the careful analysis of all the clues found at the scene that investigators were able to identify Marie-Jeanne Meyer's murderer and shed light on the circumstances of her death.

A Mysterious Murder at the Farm (Valérie Bary Case)- On Friday, March 26, 2004, in the region of Dijon, Laurent Bary came home from his work to discover the lifeless body of his wife, Valerie, bathing in a pool of blood. According to the investigators' initial findings, the 38-year-old nurse's aid had been stabbed several times, seeming to validate the theory of a robbery gone wrong. But the investigation would soon take a different turn, thanks to the exploitation of one unexpected clue: barking dogs.

The Key to the Enigma (Farid Ouzzane Case) - On July 13, 2011, two boaters retrieved a suitcase that was floating in the bay of Lorient. Inside, they discovered the tied up corpse of a man. In order to identify this unknown man, whose face was unrecognizable, investigators carried out an exceptional investigation for 18 months. After creating a facial reconstruction, they published the image in the press...but without any results. They finally managed to put a name to this man thanks to a clue found in his pocket: a simple key! The police then went back to several leads to identify his murderer: mafia revenge, a lover's quarrel, a heinous crime... It's a fascinating investigation that proves once again that truth is stranger than fiction ...

Bloody Christmas next to the Leman lake (Case Of Ruth Légeret) - On January 4, 2006, Ruth Légeret was found dead in the middle of a pool of blood at her luxurious property in Vevey, Switzerland. Next to her was the lifeless body of her friend, Marina Studer. Who could have killed these two simple and wealthy widows? Clue after clue, the Swiss police's investigation would revolve around an environment of family jealousy and financial greed. With, at the center of this astonishing case, another mystery: Marie-José Légeret, Ruth's daughter, has not been found since the day of the tragedy...