This Sunday, March 5, from 9:10 p.m., RMC will broadcast Bring in the accused. An issue that will return to the mysterious suicide of Chantal Ternik, found hanged in her home in 2003. If the first elements lead to believe that the mother of the family killed herself, disturbing discoveries suggest that he could act of murder.
What happened to Chantal Ternik? On April 3, 2003, this mother of three children was found hanged in her house in Sanary-sur-mer by her 14-year-old son. The forensic pathologist not detecting any suspicious element on the body of the deceased, the investigators conclude to a suicide and the case is closed. But the relatives of Chantal Ternik, in particular her brother and her father, are convinced that her husband, Anton Ternik, was responsible for the death of the mother of the family. The couple, who were in the process of divorcing, had been torn apart for years and Anton was forbidden to go to Chantal’s home. The latter had filed numerous handrails against him and the police knew the couple’s home well since they had already had to go there several times after arguments.
Following numerous statements from relatives about behind the scenes of Chantal and Anton Ternik’s wedding, the forensic identification technicians return to the home of the mother of the family to sift the area but no DNA trace is exploitable. Three years after the tragedy, in 2006, the judge asked for a new expertise based on photos of the body taken on the day of death. Disturbing fact: the experts notice that a toe of Chantal Ternik’s right foot is between the blades of the chair on which she would have climbed to hang herself. Now, according to the latter, a body convulses at the moment of hanging, which would normally have caused the chair to fall.
Chantal Ternik, a “materially impossible suicide”
Second astonishing discovery: at the time of a reconstitution with a model supposed to embody Chantal, the experts realize that the rope is too short for the latter to have been able to grab it from her chair. “Suicide is physically impossible because the rope is too short for her to climb onto the chair and hang herself, even on her tiptoes.“, declared Advocate General Gérard Demory. Anton Ternik is then indicted for “murder, violence resulting in death and incitement to suicide“Before being acquitted, for lack of evidence. A case to be found on RMC from 9:10 p.m. this Sunday in Bring in the accused.