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He Killed Her, Marched at Her Funeral: The Quiet Man's Secret · Haunted Horror Stories

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  Speaker 1: On the morning of October 28th, 2017, a man walked
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  Speaker 1: into his office in a small French town, said good
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  Speaker 1: morning to his colleagues, and fixed a broken printer. His
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  Speaker 1: name was Jonathan Duval. His wife had been dead for hours.
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  Speaker 1: His wife had been dead for hours. He knew exactly
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  Speaker 1: where the body was, and for the next three months,
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  Speaker 1: he would stand at the center of a nation's grief, weeping, marching, begging,
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  Speaker 1: while the answer to every question about her death lived
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  Speaker 1: inside his own hands. This is the story of Alexia Darvel,
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  Speaker 1: and the thing that still refuses to leave me about
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  Speaker 1: this case is not what Jonathan did, it is how
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  Speaker 1: long he did it in plain sight, while an entire
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  Speaker 1: community stood behind him. There is something about a case
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  Speaker 1: that begins with 10,000 people in the streets that I
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  Speaker 1: find deeply unsettling, because those people were not wrong to grieve.
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  Speaker 1: They just had no idea who was standing at the
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  Speaker 1: front of the march. Grayla Somme sits in the Haute
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  Speaker 1: Somme department of Eastern France. The kind of place where
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  Speaker 1: people stay because their families always have. Slow roads, river light,
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  Speaker 1: mornings that smell like soil and cold air. It is
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  Speaker 1: the sort of town where a missing woman is news
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  Speaker 1: by nightfall, and a confirmed murder becomes everyone's wound at once.
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  Speaker 1: Alexia Faurieu was born there on February 18th, 1988. She
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  Speaker 1: grew up running, literally. She ran competitively. trained regularly, treated
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  Speaker 1: the roads around Grès-la-Somme the way some people treat a
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  Speaker 1: language they speak without thinking. She worked at the local
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  Speaker 1: branch of Crédit Mutuel, pursued a master's degree in banking,
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  Speaker 1: and was, by every account, building something. She was 29
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  Speaker 1: years old. Jonathan Develle was three years older, born January 16th, 1984.
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  Speaker 1: He worked as an IT consultant, quiet, methodical, described by
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  Speaker 1: people who knew him as gentle. Shy, even, his father
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  Speaker 1: had died when Jonathan was 13, leaving him in the
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  Speaker 1: care of his mother, Martine Henry, who worked as a nanny.
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  Speaker 1: That relationship, Jonathan and his mother, would matter later in
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  Speaker 1: ways no one anticipated. They married on July 18th, 2015.
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  Speaker 1: The wedding was followed by a honeymoon in the Pacific Islands.
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  Speaker 1: They moved into a home that Alexia's family had renovated
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  Speaker 1: specifically for them. The old grandparents' house, restored, handed over
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  Speaker 1: as a foundation for the life they were supposed to build.
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  Speaker 1: Her parents, Jean-Pierre and Isabelle Fouret, approved of Jonathan completely
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  Speaker 1: at first. Her sister Stephanie and brother-in-law Gregory Gay were
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  Speaker 1: close to the couple. From the outside, the family formed
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  Speaker 1: a tight, warm circle. That warmth is part of what
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  Speaker 1: made what came next so difficult to process, and part
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  Speaker 1: of what made Jonathan so easy to believe. Within two
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  Speaker 1: years of the wedding, the marriage had developed fractures. Alexia
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  Speaker 1: and Jonathan were trying to conceive a child. She had
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  Speaker 1: a miscarriage. Text messages recovered later would show both of
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  Speaker 1: them in pain. Accusations about impotence, about desire. about what
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  Speaker 1: each wanted from a life that was no longer matching
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  Speaker 1: its own blueprint. Alexia had been prescribed Zolpidem for sleep,
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  Speaker 1: Tramadol for pain, and Tetrazepam, a muscle relaxant that had
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  Speaker 1: been pulled from French pharmacies in 2013, and her use
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  Speaker 1: of all three had been increasing through late 2017. Her
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  Speaker 1: family would later ask questions about those prescriptions. those questions
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  Speaker 1: were never fully answered. Jonathan, meanwhile, was carrying a secret
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  Speaker 1: that had nothing to do with the marriage publicly and
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  Speaker 1: everything to do with it privately. He was regularly disappearing
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  Speaker 1: for hours to visit his mother and lying about it
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  Speaker 1: to Alexia, to the family. He used fake work appointments
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  Speaker 1: as cover. The people around him accepted this without suspicion
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  Speaker 1: because Jonathan had spent years making himself appear exactly as
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  Speaker 1: trustworthy as he needed to be. On the evening of
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  Speaker 1: October 27th, 2017, Jonathan and Alexia returned home after having
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  Speaker 1: dinner with her parents. That was the last time anyone
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  Speaker 1: other than Jonathan saw her alive. What happened between midnight
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  Speaker 1: and morning, according to Jonathan's own account, given more than
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  Speaker 1: a year later, began with Alexia asking for sex, Jonathan refusing,
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  Speaker 1: and a physical struggle that ended with his hands around
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  Speaker 1: her throat, he pressed until she stopped. Then he struck
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  Speaker 1: her face between five and ten times. Then he wrapped
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  Speaker 1: her in bedding from their home. Then he drove her
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  Speaker 1: body to a forest near Grayleville, concealed it under branches,
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  Speaker 1: and returned. And the next morning, at approximately 10.45, he
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  Speaker 1: walked into his office and fixed a printer. The body
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  Speaker 1: would not be found until October 30th. By then, Jonathan
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  Speaker 1: had already started making phone calls. The morning of October
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  Speaker 1: 28th began the way any ordinary Friday might. Jonathan de
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  Speaker 1: Vala arrived at his office at around 10.45 in the
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  Speaker 1: morning to fix a printer. He exchanged greetings with colleagues.
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  Speaker 1: He laughed at something someone said. He was, by every
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  Speaker 1: account from those who saw him, completely normal. Alexia had
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  Speaker 1: been dead for hours. He had driven her body to
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  Speaker 1: a forest near Graylorville sometime in the early hours of
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  Speaker 1: that morning, covered her with tree branches, and returned home.
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  Speaker 1: Then he showered, dressed, and went to work. The rational
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  Speaker 1: explanation for behavior like that, shock, dissociation, The mind refusing
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  Speaker 1: to process what the body has done, stops working when
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  Speaker 1: you add the next detail. He had also called her phone,
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  Speaker 1: multiple times, letting it ring through to voicemail, her recorded
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  Speaker 1: voice answering back, while he stood in the break room,
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  Speaker 1: or sat at his desk, or drove home through the
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  Speaker 1: same roads he had used, hours earlier to move her body.
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  Speaker 1: He and his brother-in-law, Gregory, searched her usual running route
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  Speaker 1: that afternoon. They walked the path she took every morning,
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  Speaker 1: calling out, looking at the tree line. Jonathan knew exactly
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  Speaker 1: where she was. He walked anyway. That evening, he reported
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  Speaker 1: her missing to the police. What investigators found when they
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  Speaker 1: looked at the physical evidence was not ambiguous. A neighbor
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  Speaker 1: had heard a vehicle leaving the couple's home in the
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  Speaker 1: early hours of October 28th. That same vehicle, Jonathan's work car,
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  Speaker 1: had been tracked by GPS to the residence that night.
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  Speaker 1: When tire tracks were recovered near the location where Alexia's
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  Speaker 1: body was discovered, forensic analysis returned a match to Jonathan's
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  Speaker 1: work vehicle. 100%. The bedding found partially covering her body
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  Speaker 1: was identified with high certainty as coming from the Davil home.
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  Speaker 1: Then there were his injuries. At his first police interview,
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  Speaker 1: officers noted scratches on his neck and chest. and bite
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  Speaker 1: marks on his hands. He had an explanation ready. He
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  Speaker 1: told them Alexia had been violent the previous evening, that
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  Speaker 1: things had escalated, but that they had calmed down and
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  Speaker 1: slept together peacefully. The mourning, he said, had been completely
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  Speaker 1: normal before her run. That explanation required the injuries to
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  Speaker 1: be consistent with a brief domestic quarrel that ended in reconciliation.
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  Speaker 1: They were not. The bite marks on his hands were deep,
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  Speaker 1: The scratches ran in patterns that did not match a
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  Speaker 1: momentary struggle. The rational explanation stopped working here. Investigators also
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  Speaker 1: found a two-page document on Jonathan's personal computer. It described
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  Speaker 1: the events of October 27th and 28th in detail. Jonathan
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  Speaker 1: would later claim that his sister Stephanie had dictated it
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  Speaker 1: to him. Stephanie denied this. Stephanie denied this. Every member
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  Speaker 1: of the family denied it. The document remained on his computer,
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  Speaker 1: typed in his account, timestamped on November 5th, 2017. Approximately 10,000
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  Speaker 1: people gathered in the streets to march in Alexia's name.
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  Speaker 1: The town of Grey had not seen anything like it.
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  Speaker 1: Her family walked together, her friends carried photographs, local officials
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  Speaker 1: stood alongside the crowd. Jonathan stood at the front. He
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  Speaker 1: gave a speech. He spoke about Alexia with a detail
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  Speaker 1: and warmth that moved people around him to tears. He
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  Speaker 1: called for the capture of whoever had done this. He
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  Speaker 1: demanded severe punishment. He spoke about justice with the authority
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  Speaker 1: of a man who had loved and lost. Those who
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  Speaker 1: stood near him described his grief as total, as the
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  Speaker 1: kind that takes over a person's face and hands and
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  Speaker 1: voice at the same time. He had organized the search parties,
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  Speaker 1: he had given interviews, he had held Alexia's parents while
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  Speaker 1: they wept. The entire community had wrapped itself around this quiet,
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  Speaker 1: kind man who had lost his wife and he had
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  Speaker 1: let it. He had stood inside their grief and used
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  Speaker 1: it as insulation. This is the detail that still reaches
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  Speaker 1: me when I go back through the timeline, not the
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  Speaker 1: crime itself, but the five weeks after it. The extraordinary,
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  Speaker 1: sustained effort of performance in the middle of people who
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  Speaker 1: loved Alexia and believed in him completely. There is no
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  Speaker 1: version of this story where everything makes sense. Jonathan Duval
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  Speaker 1: was arrested on January 29th, 2018, 93 days after Alexia's
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  Speaker 1: body was found. What happened next is not a confession
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  Speaker 1: so much as a series of performances. each one calibrated
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  Speaker 1: to the pressure investigators had just applied. His first response
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  Speaker 1: was to implicate Gregory Gay, Alexia's brother-in-law. He alleged a
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  Speaker 1: family conspiracy. He described a fence in which Gregory had
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  Speaker 1: been present, had been responsible, had been the one whose
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  Speaker 1: hands were involved. Gregory was questioned. The evidence did not
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  Speaker 1: support a single element of Jonathan's account. There was nothing.
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  Speaker 1: No physical evidence. No digital trace. no witness, connecting Gregory
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  Speaker 1: to Alexia's death. The accusations collapsed within days. On June 27th, 2018,
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  Speaker 1: Jonathan offered a second version. He admitted being present when
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  Speaker 1: Alexia died, but described it as an accident. Gregory had
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  Speaker 1: been trying to calm her, he said, and things had
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  Speaker 1: gone wrong. He was present, but not responsible. This version
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  Speaker 1: also required evidence that did not exist. It was withdrawn.
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  Speaker 1: November 23rd, 2018. Jonathan admitted, strangling Alexia. He said it himself, clearly.
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  Speaker 1: And then, within the same interview session, he reversed course
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  Speaker 1: and returned to the conspiracy. Two admissions and two retractions
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  Speaker 1: inside a single conversation, December 7th. In 2018, the investigating
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  Speaker 1: judge arranged a confrontation. Jonathan in a room with Alexia's
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  Speaker 1: entire family. Sheen Pierre, Isabel, Stephanie, Gregory, Gregory. At some
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  Speaker 1: point during that session, Isabel reached into something she had
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  Speaker 1: brought with her and took out a photograph. It was
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  Speaker 1: a picture of Alexia with her cat, Happy. Jonathan looked
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  Speaker 1: at the photograph. He broke. Not slowly, not with dignity.
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  Speaker 1: He broke the way. A structure fails when the last
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  Speaker 1: point of support gives way. He admitted full responsibility. He
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  Speaker 1: admitted that no one else had been involved. He admitted
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  Speaker 1: that every version he had offered before that moment was
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  Speaker 1: constructed to protect himself. A photograph of a cat and
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  Speaker 1: a woman who loved it was what finally reached something
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  Speaker 1: real in him. The reconstruction took place on June 17th, 2019,
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  Speaker 1: beginning at five in the morning, the same hour he
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  Speaker 1: would have been moving through the darkness with her body.
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  Speaker 1: At the site near Grayleville, Jonathan admitted for the first
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  Speaker 1: time to burning her. He described what he had done
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  Speaker 1: after the strangulation, after the blows to her face, after
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  Speaker 1: he had carried her from their home. The investigator stood
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  Speaker 1: with him in the early morning forest and listen to
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  Speaker 1: him describe the sequence of it. The trial began in
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  Speaker 1: November 2020. On November 18th, three years after Alexia's death,
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  Speaker 1: Jonathan DeVoe stood before the court and said something that
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  Speaker 1: had not appeared in any of his previous statements. He
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  Speaker 1: said that taking someone by the neck, the way he
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  Speaker 1: had done, was intended to kill. He used those words,
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  Speaker 1: and then he fainted. The court did not adjourn long.
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  Speaker 1: On November 21st, 2020, he was convicted of intentional homicide
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  Speaker 1: of a spouse and sentenced to 25 years with a
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  Speaker 1: mandatory security period, meaning he cannot be considered for parole
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  Speaker 1: before July, 2030. The defense did not appeal. What the
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  Speaker 1: psychiatric evaluations produced across two years of examination was a
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  Speaker 1: portrait that resists simple categories. The initial assessment found perverse traits,
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  Speaker 1: and high capacity for manipulation. A second evaluation in July
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  Speaker 1: 2018 described him as not psychiatrically dangerous, but criminologically dangerous.
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  Speaker 1: A distinction that matters more than it sounds. He was
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  Speaker 1: not unstable. He was not unpredictable in the clinical sense.
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  Speaker 1: He was, according to that evaluation, a person capable of sustained,
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  Speaker 1: hidden aggression. With chameleon-like social behavior, and a self-esteem tightly
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  Speaker 1: bound to his short stature. A third evaluation, conducted in
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  Speaker 1: summer 2019, found obsessive-compulsive traits, and confirmed what the text
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  Speaker 1: messages had already suggested, that his impotence was psychological in origin,
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  Speaker 1: connected to the pressure of the fertility crisis inside the marriage.
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  Speaker 1: The same evaluation described him as well-integrated, athletic, financially stable,
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  Speaker 1: and dominated by Alexia. That last phrase, dominated by Alexia,
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  Speaker 1: became a flashpoint. It was not the family's word. It
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  Speaker 1: was not the prosecution's framing. It came from a clinical document,
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  Speaker 1: and the defense would reach for it when the trial arrived.
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  Speaker 1: The question of the prescription drugs was never fully resolved.
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  Speaker 1: Alexia had been taking Zolpidem, Tramadol, and Tetrazepam a muscle
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  Speaker 1: relaxant that had been withdrawn from the French market in 2013.
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  Speaker 1: For approximately one year, with increasing frequency in the months
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  Speaker 1: before her death, her family had asked investigators to trace
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  Speaker 1: the purchases through bank records. They believed someone might have
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  Speaker 1: been obtaining and administering medication to her without her knowledge.
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  Speaker 1: The prosecutor acknowledged the request and deferred to the investigating judge.
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  Speaker 1: The toxicology confirmed sustained use, no finding of non-consensual administration
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  Speaker 1: was ever entered into the record. That gap, what the
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  Speaker 1: drugs were doing in her system, who acquired the tetrazepam
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  Speaker 1: four years after it was banned, and at what doses
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  Speaker 1: she was taking them, remained open when the verdict was delivered.
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  Speaker 1: The conviction rested on the strangulation, everything else stayed unresolved.
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  Speaker 1: What closes this phase is not an answer, it is
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  Speaker 1: Jonathan's own words. On November 18th, 2020, before he fainted,
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  Speaker 1: taking someone by the neck the way he had was
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  Speaker 1: intended to kill. After 18 months of shifting versions, after
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  Speaker 1: a march of 10,000 people, after a photograph of a
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  Speaker 1: cat broke through everything else, that is what he finally said.
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  Speaker 1: The sentence was 25 years. The defense signed the paperwork,
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  Speaker 1: and Alexia's parents, Jean-Pierre and Isabelle, went home to finish
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  Speaker 1: writing a book they would publish on October 28th, 2020, 1,
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  Speaker 1: the fourth anniversary of the mourning. Jonathan reported her missing.
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  Speaker 1: On November 21st, 2020, Jonathan Derval stood before a court
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  Speaker 1: in Vesal and heard the word that could not be
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  Speaker 1: walked back 25 years. The mandatory security period meant no
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  Speaker 1: early release, no negotiated reduction. No quiet exit through a
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  Speaker 1: side door. His earliest parole eligibility, July 2030. The defense
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  Speaker 1: did not appeal. Jonathan accepted the sentence, and that acceptance
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  Speaker 1: was its own kind of statement. The kind that arrives
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  Speaker 1: when there is nothing left to argue against. The appeals
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  Speaker 1: court reviewed the case in June 2022, and confirmed the conviction.
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  Speaker 1: It did reduce the civil damages awarded to Alexia's family.
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  Speaker 1: settling the figure at approximately 160,000 euros. Jean-Pierre and Isabelle
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  Speaker 1: had sought more. The court gave them a number. Numbers
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  Speaker 1: are not the same as answers, and everyone in that
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  Speaker 1: room understood the difference. What the trial could not give
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  Speaker 1: the family was resolution on the question they had carried
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  Speaker 1: since the toxicology results. Solpidem. Tetrazepam. Banned since 2013. Tramadol.
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  Speaker 1: all present in Alexia's system, all confirmed, and all without
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  Speaker 1: a final verdict on whether she took them herself, or
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  Speaker 1: whether someone helped her take them. The investigating judge deferred,
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  Speaker 1: the prosecutor pointed to the clear cause of death, and
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  Speaker 1: moved forward. The drug question was documented, entered into the record,
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  Speaker 1: and left there, open, unresolved, a drawer that closes, but
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  Speaker 1: does not lock. Jean-Pierre and Isabelle published a book on
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  Speaker 1: October 28th, 2021. The date was not a coincidence. Four
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  Speaker 1: years to the day after the morning Jonathan reported their
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  Speaker 1: daughter missing, they put her name on a cover. Alexia,
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  Speaker 1: our daughter. The book did not give them back what
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  Speaker 1: they lost. It gave Alexia a voice that existed outside
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  Speaker 1: of courtroom transcripts and psychiatric evaluations. and Jonathan's shifting versions
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  Speaker 1: of who she had been. The case traveled further than
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  Speaker 1: Grayla's song could contain. were written. A television series was produced.
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  Speaker 1: A film followed. Jonathan's mother, Martine Henry, publicly criticized the
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  Speaker 1: film's portrayal of her son. She said it was unfair.
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  Speaker 1: What she could not change was the record, the GPS data,
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  Speaker 1: the tire tread, The bedding, the two-page document, the photo
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  Speaker 1: of a cat named Happy that finally broke through every
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  Speaker 1: version of the story Jonathan had constructed. There is something
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  Speaker 1: that stays when you look at the arc of those
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  Speaker 1: three years. From the night of October 27th to the verdict,
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  Speaker 1: Jonathan gave speeches. He stood at a podium in front
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  Speaker 1: of approximately 10,000 people and called for justice. He searched
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  Speaker 1: the running route. He sat with the family. He performed
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  Speaker 1: grief with a precision that psychiatrists later called chameleon-like, that
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  Speaker 1: investigators described as hidden aggression behind a surface of cooperation.
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  Speaker 1: Not one person in that crowd. On November 5th, 2017,
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  Speaker 1: suspected they were watching the person responsible stand among them
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  Speaker 1: and ask for answers he already held. The psychiatric record
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  Speaker 1: did not explain him fully. It described him Obsessive-compulsive features,
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  Speaker 1: psychological impotence confirmed, low self-esteem, tied to physical stature, a
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  Speaker 1: pattern of compartmentalization so refined that he had practiced it
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  Speaker 1: on small things for years before. He needed it for
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  Speaker 1: the largest thing, the secret visits to his mother, covered
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  Speaker 1: by fabricated medical appointments, the lies told to Alexia, to
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  Speaker 1: her family, to himself. the two-page document written the morning after,
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  Speaker 1: which he then attributed to his sister Stefani. She denied it.
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  Speaker 1: The family denied it. The document remained. What broke Jonathan
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  Speaker 1: Duvall was not forensic evidence, though the evidence was overwhelming.
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  Speaker 1: It was not the GPS data, or the tyre tread,
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  Speaker 1: or the bedding, or the psychiatric reports. It was a photograph.
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  Speaker 1: On December 7th, 2018, Isabel brought a photo of Alexia
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  Speaker 1: with her cat, happy, into the confrontation room. Jonathan looked
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  Speaker 1: at it and collapsed. Every version he had built, the
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  Speaker 1: grieving husband, the innocent man, the victim of a family conspiracy,
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  Speaker 1: came apart in front of the photograph of a woman
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  Speaker 1: holding a cat. He had strangled her with his hands.
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  Speaker 1: He had struck her face between five and ten times.
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  Speaker 1: He had carried her body to a forest near Grey Laville,
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  Speaker 1: hidden it under tree branches, and partially burned it. Then
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  Speaker 1: he had gone to his office at 10.45 in the
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  Speaker 1: morning to fix a printer. There is no framework that
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  Speaker 1: makes that sequence of events feel fully human. The psychiatrists tried.
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  Speaker 1: The trial tried. The sentence gave it a number. None
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  Speaker 1: of it closes the distance between the man who stood
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  Speaker 1: at a podium and wept and the man who drove
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  Speaker 1: to work the next morning. Alexia Folot was born on
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  Speaker 1: February 18th, 1988, in Gré-la-Saône. She worked at Crédit Mutuel,
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  Speaker 1: studied for her master's degree, ran every morning before the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the house woke up. She renovated her grandparents'
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  Speaker 1: home with Jonathan. and married him on July 18th, 2015,
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  Speaker 1: with a honeymoon in the Pacific Islands. She had a miscarriage.
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  Speaker 1: She wanted children. She sent messages. She came home from
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  Speaker 1: dinner at her parents' house on the night of October 27th, 2017,
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  Speaker 1: and she did not leave again. Her parents named a
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  Speaker 1: book after her. Her name is on the cover. The cat, Happy,
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  Speaker 1: was part of the only thing that finally worked. Jonathan
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  Speaker 1: Davell is eligible for parole in July 2030. The drawer
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  Speaker 1: with the drug question is still closed, but not locked.
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  Speaker 1: And somewhere in a forest near Grey Laville, there are
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  Speaker 1: still branches over a patch of ground where she was left.
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  Speaker 1: And the morning after, a man drove to work and
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  Speaker 1: fixed a printer, and no one knew yet to look
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  Speaker 1: at him. This show is made by Hope Media.