In the case concerning the disappearance of Delphine Jubillar, the mystery of the traces of blood found on the quilt of the Albi nurse continue to cause many questions among investigators. Moreover, according to The Parisian of this March 12, the two investigating judges in charge of the case – Audrey Assemat and Coralyne Chartier – ordered on February 23 to have a new expertise carried out on these traces “for the purpose of researching biological traces“.
As a reminder, the first expertise of this white duvet cover with blue stripes had revealed the presence of ten traces of blood. Human blood tests were later found to be negative. Other tests had been carried out on a white duvet which had made it possible to detect six traces of blood. These had also tested negative in the human blood test.
Troubled by these results, the investigators then thought that they were potential traces left by the two dogs of the couple, who have a male and a female of the Shar Pei breed. But scientists still doubt these results and prefer not to favor any hypothesis. In addition, they specified that “their detection tests can not be significant given the fact that the duvet and duvet cover were washed before being seized by investigators“.
Conflicting explanations
Indeed, when the gendarmes arrived on December 16, 2020 at 4:50 a.m., Cédric Jubillar had just launched a machine to wash this duvet. Called to explain the reasons which led him to launch a machine in the middle of the night when he had just noticed the disappearance of his wife, the 34-year-old painter and plasterer – currently imprisoned in the prison of Toulouse-Seysses – got his brushes mixed up, claiming first that he was in the process of extending his machine when the gendarmes arrived.
He then went back on his remarks and claimed to have washed the duvet because one of his two Shar Peis had just urinated on it. In December 2021, he denied having launched the machine the morning of the disappearance of Delphine Jubillar and explained this time to have put it to wash a few days before before forgetting it in the drum.
Obviously not very convinced by the arguments of the Tarnais craftsman, the magistrates therefore asked for a new analysis of these traces as well as a statement of the associated genetic fingerprints in order to compare them with the DNA profiles of Cédric and Delphine Jubillar. These results will be known around mid-April according to The Parisian.
Cédric Jubillar remains presumed innocent of the charges against him until the final judgment of this case.