Godard case: what the last pictures of the missing family discovered by the gendarmes show

It’s one of the biggest mysteries of the late 1990s. At the beginning of September 1999, the doctor Yves Godard and his two children, Camille, 6, and Marius, 4, disappear off Saint-Malo, in Brittany. While research is being organized to find the trace of their rental sailboat, the Nick, blood belonging to Yves Godard’s wife, Marie-France, is discovered in the combi and the family home. The Godards thus become the protagonists of one of the most sordid news items of the end of the 20th century.

However, nothing predestined this small Norman family to experience such a tragedy. As revealed in the documentary Doctor Godard – The Man Who Wanted to Leave Everything, whose first episode will be broadcast this Sunday March 5 on TF1, Yves, Marie-France, Camille and Marius Godard led a life like the others. Moreover, in the family camera, the last shots ever taken by the Godards testify to this ordinary life. In these photos, taken on a Normandy beach on a Sunday afternoon, we see little Marius, lying by the sea on a crocodile buoy. His sister, Camille, is pictured with her landing net. Marie-France Godard, she appears relaxed, lying on the sand. As for Yves, we see him playing badminton…

The Godard affair, twenty-five years of mystery

Almost twenty-five years later, we still don’t know what really happened to the Godard family. In June 2000, the skull of little Camille was fished out by a shellfish collector in the bay of Saint-Brieuc, off Erquy. Yves Godard’s tibia and femur were in turn six years later, in September 2006. The bodies of Marius and Marie-France Godard, meanwhile, were never found and no one was ever charged in the case.