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

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