In a podcast, Le Parisien looks back on the mysterious disappearance of Marie-Hélène Audoye, which occurred on the Côte d’Azur in 1991.
It is a still unresolved investigation that The Parisian wanted to highlight in a podcast. For 30 years, a family has lived in uncertainty. On May 21, 1991, Marie-Hélène Audoye left her apartment in Cagnes-sur-Mer, in the Alpes-Maritimes, to begin her commercial tour, being a representative in pharmaceutical products. She was last seen in the streets of Monaco around 2 p.m. Her companion at the time, Steven, warns the parents of the young woman after a worried call from Marie-Hélène’s employer. As the newspaper states:“traffic accident, feminicide on the part of her boyfriend Steven, prostitution ring…”, all the leads have been studied, but nothing. No trace of the young woman.
The trail of a criminal act?
Anguish for her mother, Annie Audoye interviewed by West France in 2018. “It’s like it was yesterday. We don’t have his body, a crime scene, or a confession. Nothing.”, she said. A courageous mother who has tried everything to find her missing daughter (rental of a helicopter and a sonar) and who unfortunately admitted thinking that her daughter is dead. “But I hope she’s alive, and no one has ever shown me otherwise. As a parent, I can’t wish she was dead. (…) I feel in solidarity with all the families whose child goes missing. We are brothers and sisters in distress. Every life is precious, we can’t wish that on anyone. In our bowels, it’s the same pain “, Annie Audoye added. Roads, mountains and lakes, all corners have been surveyed. The thesis of the accident is rejected. For his mother, it is a criminal act caused by “the jealousy of someone close to her.”
For all the missing victims and their families, Annie Audoye, has been committed for years to changing the statute of limitations in disappearances. But in March 2013, it was dismay. Justice declares a dismissal in the case of the disappearance of Marie-Hélène Audoye. “It was like the second death of my daughter. I had just experienced the death of my husband”, the mother told West France. And hoped for the future “that those who know appeal to their conscience, and speak”.
The 116 000 is a number European free whose mission is to listen to and support the families of missing children.