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NEVER open strange trash, it could ruin your life - MrBallen · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: In December of 1988, a young woman was having coffee
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  Speaker 1: at her friend's house in the city of Tours, France.
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  Speaker 2: And at some point, she excused herself to go use
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  Speaker 2: the bathroom.
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  Speaker 1: And when she opened the lid of the toilet, she
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  Speaker 1: saw in the bowl were two small gold objects floating
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  Speaker 1: in the water. They looked like beads at first, or
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  Speaker 1: maybe broken pieces of jewelry. And so she leaned down
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  Speaker 1: close to get a better look. And then she realized
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  Speaker 1: what they actually were. But before we get into that story...
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  Speaker 2: Okay, let's get into today's story.
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  Speaker 1: On the night of December 11th, 1988, a 38-year-old woman
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  Speaker 1: named Françoise Gendron touched up her lipstick in the bathroom
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  Speaker 1: mirror of a nightclub in the.
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  Speaker 2: City of Tours, France.
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  Speaker 1: Her best friend, Sylvie Ravirago, was washing her hands of
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  Speaker 1: the sink right next to her. Françoise and Sylvie were
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  Speaker 1: best friends. They had basically known each other forever, since
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  Speaker 1: they were just little kids. And these days, they went
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  Speaker 1: out together almost every single night. They were both divorced,
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  Speaker 1: and Françoise' s 19-year-old son had.
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  Speaker 2: Recently moved out of the house.
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  Speaker 1: So she was making the most of her new freedom
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  Speaker 1: and staying out late all the time, often with Sylvie. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Francoise and Sylvie were not exactly the same in terms
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  Speaker 1: of their attitude towards life. Francoise had always been much
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  Speaker 1: more sociable and had this huge circle of friends. And
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  Speaker 1: so really, she was the one who often had to
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  Speaker 1: push her much more introverted friend, Sylvie, to come out
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  Speaker 1: with her.
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  Speaker 2: But she usually did.
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  Speaker 1: However, tonight, it was Francoise who turned to Sylvie and
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  Speaker 1: said that she actually wanted to go home now.
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  Speaker 2: She told Sylvie that the men they.
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  Speaker 1: Were there with at the club, Michelle and Luke, were
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  Speaker 1: making her feel uncomfortable and she wanted to leave. Now,
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  Speaker 1: it was clear to Francoise pretty much immediately that Sylvie
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  Speaker 1: was pretty disappointed. You know, despite being introverted, now that
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  Speaker 1: they were out, Sylvie wanted to stay out.
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  Speaker 2: And also, I mean, they regularly went out.
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  Speaker 1: With Michelle and Luke and there was never any issues before.
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  Speaker 1: And so she said as much to Francoise, like, what
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  Speaker 1: do you mean? Like, what's what's the issue? But Francoise
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  Speaker 1: just said she was getting a weird vibe from both
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  Speaker 1: of them and just would feel better if she went home.
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  Speaker 1: And so a few minutes later, Francoise and Sylvie walked
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  Speaker 1: back to the table where Michelle and Luke were still sitting.
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  Speaker 1: And there was a receipt on the table and Michelle
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  Speaker 1: was putting his wallet away like he had just paid
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  Speaker 1: for it. And actually, Michelle, he turned to the women
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  Speaker 1: and he said, hey, are you guys ready to leave
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  Speaker 1: and go to the next club? But Francoise, she just
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  Speaker 1: kind of smiled and grabbed her coat and said that
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  Speaker 1: actually she was going to leave now. She said she
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  Speaker 1: had to get home to her boyfriend, who was probably
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  Speaker 1: already at her apartment and waiting for her. The men
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  Speaker 1: were pretty surprised by this, and maybe even.
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  Speaker 2: A little bit offended.
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  Speaker 1: And Michelle actually asked Francoise, like, hey, are you sure
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  Speaker 1: everything's okay here? Like, is that really the reason you're leaving?
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  Speaker 1: And Francoise just said, yep, everything's fine.
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  Speaker 2: I just gotta go.
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  Speaker 1: But she could definitely tell that the men did not
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  Speaker 1: believe her. But Francoise didn't really care. I mean, at
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  Speaker 1: this point, she really just wanted to leave. And so
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  Speaker 1: she just turned and gave Sylvie a hug, and then
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  Speaker 1: just said bye to the group who were just kind
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  Speaker 1: of sitting there somewhat stunned this is happening so quickly.
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  Speaker 1: And then Francoise turned and she hustled right out of
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  Speaker 1: the club and flagged down a cab before any of
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  Speaker 1: them could follow her. The next morning, Francoise woke up
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  Speaker 1: in her own bed to the sound of her boyfriend,
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  Speaker 1: Yves Martin, bustling around her bedroom and getting dressed. She
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  Speaker 1: rolled over to look at her alarm clock and saw
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  Speaker 1: that it was 8 a.m. Francoise sat up and Yves
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  Speaker 1: turned to her and said good morning, but She immediately
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  Speaker 1: noticed that his voice was cold, and she knew why.
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  Speaker 1: The night before, when she had come home, they had
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  Speaker 1: gotten into a big argument because, you know, he had
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  Speaker 1: been waiting for her for quite a while, for hours,
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  Speaker 1: you know, by the time she finally got there. That
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  Speaker 1: was the reason she had to leave, and it really
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  Speaker 1: had upset him. And in many ways, this was not
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  Speaker 1: like a one-off issue in their relationship.
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  Speaker 2: It was a recurring one.
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  Speaker 1: Francoise was always staying out super late with her friends
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  Speaker 1: and often with her male friends and Eve felt like
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  Speaker 1: she was basically prioritizing all of them over him. He
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  Speaker 1: worked during the day so the evenings were really the
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  Speaker 1: only time that he and Francoise could reasonably get together
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  Speaker 1: but Francoise never seemed to get home until super late
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  Speaker 1: and at that point it was too late for Eve
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  Speaker 1: to come over or vice versa and so they just
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  Speaker 1: didn't get to see each other as much as they
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  Speaker 1: could be. And so now Francoise knew she had to
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  Speaker 1: do something to try to smooth things over with her
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  Speaker 1: boyfriend So she turned to Eve and said, hey, do
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  Speaker 1: you want to come over tonight after you get off work?
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  Speaker 1: And she promised she would actually be home when he
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  Speaker 1: got there so they could cook dinner together and just
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  Speaker 1: spend some time together. It would be just a night
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  Speaker 1: for them. And at that, Francois saw Eve's shoulders immediately relax.
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  Speaker 2: And then he turned around and he smiled at her
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  Speaker 2: and said, you know what? I'd really, really like that.
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  Speaker 1: And so at this point, the mood in the room
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  Speaker 1: completely shifted. They were sort of back on good terms.
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  Speaker 1: And so as Eve finished getting dressed... He asked Francoise
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  Speaker 1: what else she had going on that day. She told
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  Speaker 1: him that she had a handyman she knew named Christian
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  Speaker 1: Moreau who was coming by that morning to put up
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  Speaker 1: new wallpaper in the apartment. So she'd very likely be
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  Speaker 1: stuck at home for most of the day while he
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  Speaker 1: worked on it.
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  Speaker 2: The two chatted for.
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  Speaker 1: A bit longer and then once Eve was ready to leave,
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  Speaker 1: Francoise kissed him goodbye and then after he left, Francoise
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  Speaker 1: pulled herself out of bed and put on a robe.
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  Speaker 1: And then she went into the kitchen and she opened
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  Speaker 1: up a can of food for her cat and then
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  Speaker 1: she made herself some coffee. She was a bit hungover
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  Speaker 1: from the night before, and she thought maybe a warm
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  Speaker 1: bath would make her feel better. So after she drank
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  Speaker 1: her coffee, she ran a bath, she got into the water,
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  Speaker 1: and she closed her eyes.
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  Speaker 2: At 11 a.m.
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  Speaker 1: The next morning, so December 13th, a janitor at the
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  Speaker 1: Trousseau Hospital in Tours, France, was carrying a trash bag
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  Speaker 1: out to the dumpster when he noticed something odd. There
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  Speaker 1: were two blue trash bags just sitting out on a
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  Speaker 1: strip of grass in the middle of the hospital's parking lot. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the trash bags they used at the hospital were gray,
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  Speaker 1: so the janitor knew these bags, these blue bags, had
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  Speaker 1: to have been left there by someone from outside of
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  Speaker 1: the hospital. So the janitor walked over to the bags
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  Speaker 1: and sort of inspected them from the outside, and they
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  Speaker 1: were sort of bulky, but he couldn't really tell what
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  Speaker 1: was inside of them. And then he just reached down
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  Speaker 1: and he opened one of them, and when he saw
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  Speaker 1: what was inside, he immediately stumbled back, turned, and ran inside,
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  Speaker 1: shouting for someone to call the police. About an hour later,
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  Speaker 1: so just before noon on December 13th, 1988, Chief Inspector
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  Speaker 1: Francois Barbier of the Tours Police Department walked across the
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  Speaker 1: parking lot of the Trousseau Hospital. He'd been sent out
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  Speaker 1: here to investigate human remains that had been found outside
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  Speaker 1: of the hospital, and he was the first officer to
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  Speaker 1: arrive on the scene, and so now a janitor was
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  Speaker 1: walking with him to show him the way to where
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  Speaker 1: the remains had been found. They walked over to a
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  Speaker 1: grassy strip in the middle of the parking lot, and
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  Speaker 1: they stopped next to a pair of blue trash bags.
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  Speaker 1: Inspector Barbier knelt down, and he opened up one of
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  Speaker 1: the bags, and inside, he saw very clearly there were
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  Speaker 1: two severed arms and the lower part of two legs.
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  Speaker 2: He opened up the other.
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  Speaker 1: Blue bag, and he found it contained a woman's torso,
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  Speaker 1: but there was no pelvis, no thighs, and no head.
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  Speaker 1: Barbier turned to the janitor, who he knew had found
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  Speaker 1: the remains, and he asked him, like, when did you
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  Speaker 1: find this? And the janitor said that he'd been out
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  Speaker 1: doing his rounds, throwing his own trash away around 11 a.m.,
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  Speaker 1: and that's when he had seen them But they definitely
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  Speaker 1: had not been there when he had done his rounds
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  Speaker 1: at 9 a.m.
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  Speaker 2: That day. So clearly these.
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  Speaker 1: Had to have been dropped off sometime between 9 and 11.
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  Speaker 1: Barbier stood up and looked around, and he noticed there
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  Speaker 1: actually was a medical school right down the street. And
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  Speaker 1: for a second, he wondered if maybe this was all
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  Speaker 1: just a tasteless prank by some of the students who
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  Speaker 1: could have maybe stolen a cadaver from the hospital's morgue
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  Speaker 1: and dropped it here. But as he thought about it,
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  Speaker 1: he just couldn't imagine medical students desecrating a human body
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  Speaker 1: like that. I mean, even as a prank, it just
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  Speaker 1: seemed not possible. And so to him, it just seemed
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  Speaker 1: like the more obvious answer here, albeit a gruesome one,
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  Speaker 1: was that this woman contained in these two bags had
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  Speaker 1: been murdered. And whoever killed her chopped her body up
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  Speaker 1: and put them in these bags because it would be
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  Speaker 1: easier to dispose of her body that way. And so
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  Speaker 1: Barbier hoped that when the forensics team showed up, they'd
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  Speaker 1: be able to find fingerprints from the killer on the
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  Speaker 1: blue trash bags. Because at this point, I mean, they
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  Speaker 1: didn't have a head of this woman. The victim didn't
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  Speaker 1: have a head. And so it could be very challenging
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  Speaker 1: to identify who it was. And if you didn't know
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  Speaker 1: who the victim was, it would be even harder to
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  Speaker 1: narrow down who might have killed her. Four days later,
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  Speaker 1: on the afternoon of December 17th, Barbier was reading over
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  Speaker 1: an autopsy report at his desk. After the initial discovery
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  Speaker 1: of those blue trash bags at the hospital, more body
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  Speaker 1: parts from what appeared to be the same body had
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  Speaker 1: been found dumped.
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  Speaker 2: Behind a clothing store in a commercial part of town.
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  Speaker 1: But the head was still missing, and with no clues
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  Speaker 1: as to who the victim was, the investigation really was
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  Speaker 1: just barely crawling along. The police had put out a
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  Speaker 1: press release about the body's discovery, but so far no
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  Speaker 1: one had come forward with information, and there had been
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  Speaker 1: no women who had been reported missing in the area recently. Also,
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  Speaker 1: no usable fingerprints have been found on the trash bags.
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  Speaker 1: And so at this point, they really just didn't have
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  Speaker 1: forensic evidence. And so they were not able to even
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  Speaker 1: begin to track down who the killer was or what
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  Speaker 1: happened to them. And now, as Barbier continued to read
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  Speaker 1: through this autopsy report, he saw that the medical examiner
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  Speaker 1: had run the victim's fingerprints through the database, but there
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  Speaker 1: was no match. And so again, there's just like no
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  Speaker 1: leads in the case so far. However, as Barbier continued
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  Speaker 1: reading through this report, he saw that the autopsy did
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  Speaker 1: reveal that the victim had died recently, probably only one
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  Speaker 1: day before her remains were discovered. She appeared to have
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  Speaker 1: bled to death from two deep gashes on her wrists.
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  Speaker 1: And there were also traces of an anti-anxiety medicine that
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  Speaker 1: was in her blood, which suggested she might have been
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  Speaker 1: drugged before she was killed. And Barbier was sort of
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  Speaker 1: baffled by this because the method of murder almost seemed
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  Speaker 1: gentle and controlled compared to the extreme violence that was
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  Speaker 1: done to the body post-mortem. Like those two things were
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  Speaker 1: totally in contrast with each other. And so he wondered
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  Speaker 1: if this was all done this way out of necessity.
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  Speaker 1: And so maybe the killer was just too small or
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  Speaker 1: too weak or maybe both to kill the victim without
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  Speaker 1: sedating her first. And then also along those same lines,
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  Speaker 1: maybe they couldn't move her body without chopping it up first.
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  Speaker 1: And so as Barbier is just sort of thinking through
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  Speaker 1: what could have happened here, the phone on his desk rang.
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  Speaker 1: He put down the report and he picked up the
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  Speaker 1: phone and it was a woman who said that she
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  Speaker 1: had just seen a newspaper article about the dead body
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  Speaker 1: and she thought it could be a woman named Francoise
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  Speaker 1: Gendron who lived in an apartment complex called La Vallée Violette.
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  Speaker 1: And so Barbier immediately sat up, he grabbed his pen
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  Speaker 1: and he He wrote down the name and the address.
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  Speaker 1: But before he could ask who the caller was or
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  Speaker 1: why she thought the victim could be this woman Francoise,
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  Speaker 1: the caller hung up. BetterHelp is the paid partner of
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  Speaker 1: walked through the hallway on the first floor of the
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  Speaker 1: Lavallee Violette apartment complex, where his mystery caller had told
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  Speaker 1: him his victim lived. This was the first lead he
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  Speaker 1: had gotten since the body was found, so he was
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  Speaker 1: hopeful that something would come of it. Now, the woman
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  Speaker 1: who called didn't actually give the apartment number for Francoise,
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  Speaker 1: just that she lived in this complex. And so Barbier
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  Speaker 1: just literally walked down the hallway and knocked on an
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  Speaker 1: apartment door at random and And the man who answered,
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  Speaker 1: Barbier asked him if he knew a woman named Francoise
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  Speaker 1: Gendron and did she live here? And the man just
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  Speaker 1: nodded and said, yep, she lives here. And then he
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  Speaker 1: pointed to a door right down the same hallway. And
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  Speaker 1: then the man, unprompted, told Barbier that he hadn't seen
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  Speaker 1: anybody go in or out of that apartment for at
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  Speaker 1: least a few days. And he was starting to get
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  Speaker 1: worried about Francoise's cat. Barbier's heart began to race because
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  Speaker 1: if Francoise really did live in that apartment... And she
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  Speaker 1: really hadn't been around in days? Well, it seemed very
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  Speaker 1: possible that she was his victim. So he thanked the
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  Speaker 1: man and said he would handle it. And then he
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  Speaker 1: walked down the hallway to the door and he knocked.
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  Speaker 2: And there was no answer. But he could hear a
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  Speaker 2: cat meowing inside.
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  Speaker 1: And so at this point, Barbier was feeling really confident
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  Speaker 1: about the anonymous tip. And so he just turned and
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  Speaker 1: hurried back out to his car. And he radioed for
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  Speaker 1: a forensics team to come to this apartment complex. And
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  Speaker 1: then a few minutes later, they arrived carrying a battering
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  Speaker 1: ram to break down the door. So Barbier and the team,
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  Speaker 1: they go back down the hallway to Francoise's door.
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  Speaker 2: Barbier got out of the way.
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  Speaker 1: And then the officers smashed it down with this ram.
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  Speaker 1: And then once it was open, Barbier stepped inside the apartment.
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  Speaker 1: As soon as Barbier was in this apartment, he was
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  Speaker 1: standing in the living room. And he looked around and
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  Speaker 1: nothing seemed disturbed. However, when he left the living room
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  Speaker 1: and went into the kitchen, it was a different story. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the kitchen was not a total disaster, but there was
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  Speaker 1: a broken dish on the ground and some food items
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  Speaker 1: that must have been on the dish at some point
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  Speaker 1: that also were scattered across the floor. And so just
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  Speaker 1: at first glance, it appeared like maybe some sort of
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  Speaker 1: struggle happened in here. However, Barbier looked around the kitchen
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  Speaker 1: and he didn't find any blood anywhere. So it was
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  Speaker 1: just this broken plate. And then when Barbier checked the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the apartment... No drawers or closets looked like
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  Speaker 1: they'd been ransacked, so this didn't appear like an apartment
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  Speaker 1: that had been robbed at any point. However, one thing
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  Speaker 1: Barbier did notice was in the bedroom, there were a
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  Speaker 1: few unopened rolls of wallpaper on a stool, like as
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  Speaker 1: if somebody had been about to do some work in
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  Speaker 1: the bedroom, but then just didn't. Barbier told the forensics
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  Speaker 1: team to first make sure the cat got fed, because
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  Speaker 1: there was a cat in here, and the cat was,
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  Speaker 1: you know, a little malnourished, but basically okay. And then
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  Speaker 1: to sweep the apartment for fingerprints to see whether Francoise's
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  Speaker 1: prints matched the victim. And if she was the victim,
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  Speaker 1: he was hoping they might also find fingerprints or blood
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  Speaker 1: inside the apartment from whoever might have killed her.
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  Speaker 2: And so the forensics team, they got to work.
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  Speaker 1: And Barbier, he just continued sort of walking around the apartment,
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  Speaker 1: looking at photos that were out on display. to maybe
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  Speaker 1: get a sense of Francoise's body size, to sort of
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  Speaker 1: mentally compare it to the victim's body. And as he
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  Speaker 1: was doing this, he happened to glance out the window
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: and he saw a young man standing on the sidewalk
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: outside who clearly was watching the police through the glass.
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: And when Barbier locked eyes with this guy, the guy
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: suddenly looked terrified and he just turned and began speed
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: walking away, at which point Barbier opened up the window
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: and shouted at this guy to stay right where he was.
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: An hour later, Inspector Barbier walked into an interview room
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: at the Tor police station and sat down across from
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: the young man who had been watching Francoise's apartment.
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: By now, he knew this man's name.
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: Was Yves Martin, and he claimed to have been Francoise's boyfriend.
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: And so Barbier sits down and he asks Yves, you know,
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: what were you doing outside of Francoise's apartment when I
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: saw you?
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: And Yves said that he had just come.
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: By the apartment to see if Francoise was home, but
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: like he got there and saw police inside and he
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: knew something was wrong. But he specified that he hadn't
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: seen or heard from her in about five days and
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: didn't know she was missing. Like the last time he
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: spoke to her was the morning of December 12th. Now,
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: the instant Eve said December 12th, Barbier thought of two things.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: One is that was actually the day before the body
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: was found in the parking lot. And two, based on
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: the autopsy report, it was presumed that the victim was
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: killed the.
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: Day before her body was found. So December 12th. And
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: so it's pretty.
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: Suspicious that this guy is mentioning December 12th. That's the
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: last time he saw Francoise. And so Barbier leaned in
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: and he asked Eve to elaborate about the last time
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: he saw Francoise on the 12th. And Eve said he
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: had seen Francoise at her own apartment when he left
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: the apartment around 8 a.m.
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: On the 12th.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: And the two of them had made plans to meet
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: up again at her place that evening. But he said
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: when he got there that night, she wasn't home. But
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: this was not unusual for her. So Eve explained that
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: he just let himself inside her apartment with the spare
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: key she had given him, and he just made himself dinner,
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: and he watched TV while he waited.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: For her to eventually show up.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: And then he said at around 8 p.m., her landline,
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: her home landline phone.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: Began to ring.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: Eve said that he answered the phone, which was not
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: totally unusual, and he said the person who was calling
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: claimed to be one of Francoise's friends. Eve said he
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: didn't recognize the voice, but he said Francoise had a
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: big circle of friends, and he for sure did not
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: know all of them.
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: But Eve told Barbier.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: That this caller was not calling the apartment to try
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: to reach Francoise. They were calling the apartment to reach him, Eve,
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: to tell him that apparently Francoise had decided to go
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: out of town this weekend with some other friends and
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: that she would not be home tonight. And Eve said
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: this was not the first time that Francoise had ditched him.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: And so in his frustration after being told this by
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: this friend, he said he grabbed his dinner plate and
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: just chucked it on the floor and shattered it and
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: then he left. Barbier was surprised to hear this, and
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: he was thinking, if Eve was the type of person
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: who would immediately start breaking things over something that, you know,
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: didn't seem like that big of a deal, well, what.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: Else was he capable of?
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: However, as potentially suspicious as Eve was, Barbier had not
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: actually confirmed whether Francoise was even his victim. This could
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: just be a coincidence here, that she left town right
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: before this body was found.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: Like, she could be just fine.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: And so, before Barbier let Eve go, because he couldn't
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: really hold him at this point, He asked Yves to
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: just give him a detailed account of what else he
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: had done on December 12th. He wanted to get the
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: full timeline of what he did on that day. And
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: Yves just said after he had left Francoise's apartment that
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: morning when he and Francoise had made plans to meet
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: up that night, he said he had spent most of
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: the day at work and then he had gone back
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: to Francoise's apartment after work and then after he had
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: waited around for a while and got that phone call
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: and broke the plate, he said he had just left
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: and gone straight to his own apartment which he shared
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: with his mother and he was there all night. And
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: so Barbier wrote down what he said and made a
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: note to follow up on his alibi. And then before
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: he let Eve go, he just asked him if Francoise
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: was planning to go anywhere or meet anybody on the
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: day he.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: Last saw her.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: And Eve, he thought about it for a moment. And
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: then he said, yeah, actually, there was one thing Francoise advised.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: Mentioned to him.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: She had told him that an acquaintance named Christiane Moreau
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: was supposed to come over her apartment later that morning
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: to put up some new wallpaper in her apartment. The
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: next morning, December 18th, Inspector Barbier knocked on the door
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: of Christiane's.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: Apartment, the guy who was going to put up the wallpaper.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: Now, at this point, forensics still had not confirmed whether
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: or not Francoise was the victim. But for the time being,
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: Barbier was working under the assumption that she was. A
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: few seconds later, a young man answered the door and
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: confirmed he was Christian Moreau. And so Barbier asked him
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: if he remembered going to Francoise Gendron's apartment on December 12th.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: And Christian said, yes, he did remember.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: But he seemed confused about why he was being asked
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: about it by a police officer. Barbier explained that Francoise
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: was presumed to be missing and had even been possibly
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: killed on the same day that Christiane was at her apartment.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: And Christiane looked very surprised to hear this. And he
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: just said, you know, I was there on the 12th.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: I got there around 10 a.m.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: That morning.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: Francoise seemed perfectly fine. She appeared to have just gotten
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: out of the bath and it just didn't seem like
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: anything was wrong. However, Christiane said he He was only
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: in the apartment around Francoise for like a minute because
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: he just dropped off the new wallpaper and was going
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: to install it on another day. So it was a
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: very brief interaction. But again, she seemed fine during this
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: very brief interaction. Barbier obviously had seen those rolls of
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: new wallpaper just sitting in Francoise's apartment. So he figured
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: this part of Christian's story had to be true, that
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: he must have dropped them off. But it did seem
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: a bit odd to drop the wallpaper off on one day.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: and then come back at another time to actually perform
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: the work. Like you could easily just do those two
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: things at the same time. So he wondered whether this
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: had actually been the plan all along, or if something
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: unexpected had happened inside of the apartment with Francoise that
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: had somehow stopped Christiane from installing the wallpaper on that
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: first visit. So Barbier asked Christiane for his alibi for
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: the rest of the day that Francoise had last been seen,
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: which was the 12th, And Christian went over his entire day,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: he provided all the information, and then afterwards, Barbier, after
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: taking down some notes, he said he would be in touch. Now,
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: at this moment, Barbier didn't have enough evidence to hold Christian.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: For more questioning.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: But, as he walked back to his car, Barbier hoped
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: that forensics might find some fingerprints or blood in Francoise's
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: apartment that could implicate Christian. A day later, Barbier sat
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: down at his desk and read over a forensics report
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: on Francoise's apartment. Now, there hadn't been any blood traces found,
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: but a set of fingerprints had been pulled from the phone,
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: and they matched the hands that had been found inside
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: the blue trash bag. So this confirmed that Francoise was
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: indeed the victim. But so far, there was no evidence
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: pointing to who killed her. Eve, Francoise's boyfriend, his alibi
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: checked out. And that handyman, Christian Moreau, he also had
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: a solid alibi. And then as for Francoise's 19-year-old son
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: who was serving in the military, well, he was confirmed
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: to have been at his barracks over 200 miles away
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: at the time of the murder. And so he was
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: ruled out as a suspect. And then also he would
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: say that he had not heard from his mother since
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: several days before she was actually killed. Barbier was still
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: trying to figure out who was that person who called
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: Francoise's apartment and when Eve was there, to tell Eve that, hey,
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: your girlfriend's going to be out of town this weekend,
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: because it just seemed like that was pretty suspicious, and
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: this person who was calling must know something about Francoise's death.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: But this was the 1980s, so it was harder to
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: get a hold of phone logs than it is today. Now,
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: Barbier had submitted an order for those phone logs, but
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: the order had to be signed by a judge still,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: and then it could also take several more days beyond
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: that to actually get the records, and so there was
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: a bit of a wait. However, just then, another officer
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: knocked on Barbier's door and said that a phone call
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: had just come in from someone claiming to have information
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: about Francois Gendron. And so Barbier, he picks up the
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: phone and he hears a woman's voice. And this woman
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: tells him that she has information on Francois. And Barbier
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: immediately wondered, like, is this the same anonymous woman who
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: called in before with that tip that Francois was the victim?
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: But Barbier just couldn't quite tell if it was the
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: same voice. And so this woman told Barbier... that she
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: had been a very close friend of Francoise's, and she
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: knew about two men named Michel and Luc who might
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: have been involved in Francoise's death. She said right before
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: she died, Francoise had found out that these two men
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: were secretly involved in drug trafficking, and apparently they had
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: talked about killing Francoise if she reported them to the police. Specifically,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: the caller said these two men had threatened Francoise that
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: they would drug her, bleed her out, chop her into pieces,
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: and then cut off her head so she could never
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: be identified. Early the next morning, so on December 20th, 1988,
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: seven days after Francoise's body was found, Chief Inspector Barbier
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: pulled up outside of a discount store in a shopping
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: area in Tours. In front of the store, there were
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: two men unloading boxes from a semi-truck. Barbier, he got
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: out of his car, and he began walking towards them.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: And when these two men saw the detective approaching, they
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: immediately seemed sort of panicked. And when Barbier got close enough,
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: he asked them if they were the store's owners, Michelle
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: and Luke. And one of the men nodded. At which
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: point Barbier said, you two are coming with me. About
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: an hour later, Barbier walked down the hallway at the
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: police station, past the doors of the interrogation rooms where
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: Michelle and Luke were currently being held. But first, he
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: wanted to speak to the third person the police had
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: brought in for questioning that morning.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: Sylvie Reverigo, who happened to be.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: Francoise's best friend and friends with Michelle and Luke. And
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: he sat down across from her and he basically said, look,
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: like we know you're connected to the two men, Michelle
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: and Luke, and also to Francoise.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: And we want to know if you know anything.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: About these two guys, because apparently they could have been
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: threatening Francoise.
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: We think they could be involved.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: Tell me everything you know. And Sylvie would tell Barbier
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: that she was actually scared of Michelle and Luke.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: And that was why she had not come to.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: Police yet, because she was worried if she told them
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: what she knew, they would hurt her. She told Barbier
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: that those two, those two men had told her, Sylvie,
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: that they intended to kill Francoise because they were worried
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: that Francoise was going to report them to police for
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: drug trafficking and selling stolen cars. And Sylvie said she
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: didn't know if they were actually capable of that, but
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: she just was too worried about going to the police
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: about it and feared they would find out and then
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: she would become a target as well. And so he
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: and Sylvie chatted for a bit longer and he got
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: some additional information about when exactly they spoke to her
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: and said this and some other details about sort of
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: their demeanor and the people.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: They hung out with.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: And then after that, Barbier got up, he left the
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: interrogation room and in the hallway, he caught up with
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: the detective who had actually already begun interrogating Luke. And
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: the detective said that so far, Luke had totally refused
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: to cooperate and he'd outright denied even knowing who Sylvie was.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: Barbier sighed when he heard this, and he had a
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: feeling right away that Michel was not going to be
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: any more cooperative.
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: But he was going to try his best to crack him.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: So Barbier went into the room where Michel was being held,
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: and after he sat down, he just asked Michel if
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: he had seen the news about that woman who was
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: found chopped up in trash bags in a hospital parking lot.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: And Michel said yes, he had heard about that. And
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: then he made a joke that maybe a surgeon at
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: the hospital had made a pretty bad mistake or something.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: Barbier didn't react to the joke, and instead he just
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: pulled out a folder and slid it across the table.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: And then Michel, he opened it up, and what he saw.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: Were photos of those blue trash bags, and also photos
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: of the severed body.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: Parts that had been found inside of them.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: And when Michel saw these pictures, he went completely pale.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: Barbier then asked Michel, do you know who that.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: Body belonged to? And Michel, he just looked up and
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: shook his head and said no. Barbier just stared at
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: Michel for a moment, sort of just gauging his reaction.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: And then eventually he said, well, the body belonged to
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: Francois Gendron. When Michel heard this, he really looked like
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: he was in complete shock. But Barbier immediately followed up
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: and said, Michel, did you kill Francois? And Michel, his
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: reaction was to immediately shout, no, that Francois was a
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: great friend of his and he would never hurt her.
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: Barbier was crazy for.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: Thinking he would do that. And then again and again,
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: he just insisted that that he was completely innocent here. Now, immediately,
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: Barbier thought Michel's reaction here was pretty genuine. But just then,
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: there was a knock on the door, and so Barbier,
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: he got up and he stepped out into the hallway,
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: and another officer told him that the forensics team had
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: just found a piece of evidence that almost certainly would
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: crack this case wide open. Based on forensic evidence and
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: an eventual confession, This is what police believe happened to
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: Francoise Gendron on the morning of December 12, 1988. Around
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: 10 a.m., the killer knocked on the door of Francoise's apartment.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: Francoise answered the door, wrapped in a towel, and told
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: the killer to come on inside. The killer stepped in,
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: and they acted very friendly and casual, as if this
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: visit was nothing out of the ordinary. but after the
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: two had chatted for a while, the killer decided it
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: was time to put their plan into action. After all,
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: Francoise was a problem for them, and they had to
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: deal with her once and for all. So, at some point,
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: the killer told Francoise that they had something they wanted
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: to show her, and asked if she would come over
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: to the killer's home just for a minute to show them.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: Francoise eventually agreed, and once she got dressed, the two
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: of them headed out together. And so the two of them,
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: they walk their way to the killer's home, they go inside,
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: and then before the killer is going to show Francoise,
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: you know, what they brought them over here to show them,
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: they first made them both a pot of tea. And critically,
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: the killer crushed up a few anti-anxiety pills and put
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: those in the bottom of Francoise's cup of tea. Then
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: the killer brought the tea over to the kitchen table
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: where Francoise was sitting and the killer sat down with
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: her and they both drank their tea. The killer made
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: sure Francoise drank her entire cup. But by the time
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: Francoise had finished her tea, she was so sedated from
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: the drugs that she could barely sit up. At this point,
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: the killer knew they could move on to the next
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: phase of their plan.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: And so the killer at this point lifted Francoise up
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: out of the seat.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: She didn't put up a fight and they carried her
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: over to the bathroom and they put her into the
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: tub and they turned on the water. Eventually, when the
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: water filled up high enough, the killer just pushed Francoise's
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: head under the water. And again, Francoise, because of the drugs,
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: couldn't do anything to stop it. And she remained under
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: the water until she fell unconscious. After Francoise was dead,
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: the killer simply drained the tub and then cut Francoise's
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: body into pieces to make it easier to dispose of.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: They took the pieces and shoved them into blue trash
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: bags and then dumped them in the parking lot of
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: a nearby hospital 10 minutes away. But the bigger problem
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: for the killer was Francoise's head. The killer wanted to
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: completely erase Francoise's identity. So, for that reason, they kept
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: her head at their home, they would flush Francoise's teeth
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: down the toilet, and they would take the other pieces
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: of her head, and they would throw them into a
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: nearby river. However, despite all this effort, the killer forgot
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: one thing. which was they put Francoise's hands in those
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: blue trash bags, and so her body was identified by
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: her fingerprints just a few days later. And then not
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: long after that, a tip soon led the police right
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: to the killer's door, and when they investigated the killer's home,
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: they found crucial pieces of evidence in her bathroom. The
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: killer was Francoise's own best friend, Sylvie Reverigo. Sylvie had
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: always been sort of jealous of Francoise, primarily because she
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: seemed happy all the time. And on top of that,
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: Francoise got a lot of attention from men, which just, again,
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  Speaker 1: made Sylvie jealous. And since the two women, post-divorce, were
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  Speaker 1: spending so much time together, even more than in their childhood,
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  Speaker 1: their friendship had gotten suffocatingly close. And over this recent
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  Speaker 1: period of time where they were sort of on top
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  Speaker 1: of each other, Sylvie's jealousy and sort of resentment towards Francoise.
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  Speaker 2: turned into full-blown hatred.
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  Speaker 1: Initially, Sylvie had tried to pin the murder on Michelle
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  Speaker 1: and Luke by telling another friend of Francoise's, a woman
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  Speaker 1: named Yvette, that those two men had threatened to kill Francoise.
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  Speaker 1: And just as Sylvie had hoped, Yvette had called the
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  Speaker 1: police and passed along what she had said. But unbeknownst
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  Speaker 1: to Sylvie, Yvette also shared another tip with the investigators,
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  Speaker 1: which was that a few days after the murder, Yvette's
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  Speaker 1: own daughter had happened to go to Sylvie's house and
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  Speaker 1: her daughter had found two gold dental crowns in the toilet.
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  Speaker 1: And the daughter and Yvette both knew that Francoise had
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  Speaker 1: gold dental crowns. So by the time Sylvie was brought
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  Speaker 1: in for questioning, Inspector Barbier was already pretty sure she
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  Speaker 1: must have had something to do with Francoise's death. And
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  Speaker 1: so police would search Sylvie's home and they would find
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  Speaker 1: traces of blood and they would also find some of
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  Speaker 1: Francoise's jewelry hidden inside of a box. And then when
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  Speaker 1: Sylvie was confronted with all this evidence and testimony during
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  Speaker 1: her interrogation, Sylvie broke down and confessed. Sylvie Reverigo was
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  Speaker 1: charged with Francoise's murder on December 21, 1988. Three years later,
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  Speaker 1: she was convicted and sentenced to life in prison.
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