The mother has not given any sign of life since May 1986. A 56 -year -old man has confess, a twist made possible by the tenacity of the victim’s family.
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Thirty-six years almost day after the disappearance, in Pontcharra (Isère), by Marie-Thérèse Bonfanti, a mother then aged 25, one of the oldest French Colds was undoubtedly been resolved. Placed in police custody on May 8, a 56 -year -old man admitted the next day that he strangled the victim and reiterated his confession before the investigating magistrate in charge of the file. “He explained, details the deputy public prosecutor in Grenoble, Boris Duffau, having had, on May 22, 1986, a verbal altercation with Marie-Thérèse Bonfanti, his car annoying the passage of his.”
This twist, in a case which had been the subject of a dismissal in November 1987, was made possible “by the conjunction of several factors”, advanced the public prosecutor Eric Vaillant, at the ‘Occasion of a press conference, Thursday.
The victim’s family has continued to continue their own investigations from the first day of the facts. In March 2020, one of the brothers of Marie-Thérèse Bonfanti thus addressed to the Grenoble prosecution a very precise memory in which, assured justice, he had argued “in a particularly detailed manner the reasons according to which it seemed to him to reopen investigation “. This step crossed, a real steamroller then set in motion: the Grenoble research section has a cell of three investigators who work precisely on the classified, long -term business, and has developed its own protocol in 18 points on the driving to be held in this type of file.
Not only is the procedure fully reread, but it is, moreover, supplemented by meticulous research. These make it possible to bring together certain scattered pieces, to carry out a new analysis of the seals and to reconstruct, thanks to simulations, testimonies, photographs taken at the time, the configuration of the places at the time of the facts.
Already placed in police custody
“You have to investigate in the past, explains Colonel Lionel James, at the origin of the creation of the Cold Cases cell, finding aging witnesses, diving back in places as they were at the time, Soak up the atmosphere and question each hypothesis raised years ago because, since then, everything has changed ” – like the dilapidated house near which had been found the car of M me Bonfanti, which has become a mcdo.
To this strategy has been added the expertise of an investigator and a psychocriminologist from the gendarmerie unlimited business division but also criminal coordinators, to the most recent methods of scientific investigations, and up to genius legionaries, specialized in “operational excavations”.
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