A 61-year-old woman was indicted on Wednesday for “violation of the integrity of a corpse“After the discovery of human remains in the greenhouse of his garden, in Oradour-sur-Glane (Haute-Vienne), ten years after the unsolved disappearance of his spouse, we learned Friday, May 13 from the prosecution of Limoges. This woman, who had mentioned at the time, in 2012, a voluntary departure of her spouse, is now suspected of having hidden the body. Without a criminal record, she was released under judicial supervision at the end of her police custody on Wednesday.
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Heard earlier this week by investigators, the now 61-year-old woman said she found her husband dead on the bed one morning, a source familiar with the matter told AFP. “Panic“And not knowing where to turn, she would then have pulled the body to the garden of the house to bury it under the greenhouse, according to her declarations. Then she had told those around her that her spouse, born in 1951, had left home “overnight“, without leaving a trace, indicated the same source, specifying that the couple had lived for thirty years in a climate of domestic violence.
A matter of inheritance
Since then, the disappearance had not attracted any attention, until a notary tried in vain to locate the man whose name appeared in an inheritance case. A gendarmerie investigation for a worrying disappearance was then opened in the fall of 2021, leading to the hearing of the woman as a simple witness on Monday. After her confession, she was taken into custody.
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The corpse was extracted from the ground on the indications of the spouse and analyzes, probably long, will begin on the bones and the samples taken on the spot by the technicians of the criminal identification. They were entrusted toexpertsof the Criminal Research Institute of the National Gendarmerie (IRCGN), whose headquarters are located in Pontoise (Val-d’Oise). The investigations entrusted to the gendarmes of the research section of Limoges will continue to determine the origin of the death, intentional or unintentional.
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