Bloody cave of Sète: what becomes of Rémi Chesne and Audrey Louvet?

In July 2009, Nadège Chesne was found dead, hanged at her home, in Sète in the Hérault. Before dying, the young woman took care to leave a letter in which she expresses her remorse for having cheated on her husband the day before with a colleague, Patrick Isoird.

Five years later, on July 17, 2014, the corpse of the lover is found tied up and half charred in the gallery of the cave du Vignerai, in Sète. The investigators will then discover that the murderer is none other than the husband of Nadège, Remi Chesne. The latter, a hairdresser by profession, had indeed lured the hospital agent into the cave on June 23, with the help of an acquaintance, Audrey Louvetwhich served as bait.

The body of Patrick Isoird discovered thanks to an escape game

Inside, Patrick Isoird had been shot twice before being calcined. His body was not finally found until nearly a month later. This is thanks to a group of young people who participated in a kind of escape game on the night of July 6 to 7 that the corpse was discovered. But at first they just thought it was a dummy. “VSIt was my friend Nicolas who showed it to me. There was no smell, the skin on the feet was white like plastic, I concluded it was a dummy and we walked out”, knows Benjamin Attal during his testimony. The young people finally decided to report their strange discovery a few days later, allowing the authorities to identify the body of Patrick Isoird.

Rémi Chesne has always denied the crime

After denying the facts to the investigators, Audrey Louvet had admitted having been used as bait to lure the victim into the cave, but claimed to have been manipulated by Rémi Chesne, who, for his part, has always claimed his innocence. The investigators, however, were still convinced that the former hairdresser had killed the hospital employee in revenge for the affair that the latter had maintained with his wife Nadège.

On January 29, 2021, almost seven years after the discovery of the body of Patrick Isoird, Rémi Chesne was finally sentenced to 30 years’ imprisonment by the Assize Court of the Hérault. For her part, Audrey Louvet was acquitted for the assassination of Patrick Isoird, but sentenced to 12 years in prison for forcible confinement. Neither of them then decided to appeal the decision.