We had to wait four years to find out the identity of the person who killed Jean-Claude Muller, 58 years old, and his wife Sylviane, 50 years old, even though he was only a few meters from their home. On the night of December 14 to 15, 2019, the couple was murdered with several stab wounds in their home located in Izon, in Gironde. In November 2023, David D., aged 53married with two children, is confused by his DNA which had been taken from him a few days after the tragedy, but which had not been compared with the unknown genetic trace spotted under Sylviane Muller’s nails. The couple’s neighbor was then indicted for “assassinations” and “rape” then imprisoned on November 15, 2023. According to information from Parisian, dated February 4, 2024, a few days after his placement in pre-trial detention, the main suspect was heard by the investigating judge. If he is not very talkative, he denies having premeditated the murder of the Muller couple. According to him, he would have simply defended himself when he wanted to find Sylviane Muller with whom he would have started a romance a few weeks earlier. Only, upon entering his room, he would have come across her husband who would not have “shouldn’t have been there that night”.
“I took out the knife and cut his throat.”
David D. then explained that a fight broke out between him and Jean-Claude Muller. “I pushed him, he pushed me, I fell and that’s when I got up and took out the knife and cut his throat.”he would have said, still according to The Parisian. Then, he allegedly explained that he had stabbed him several times in the chest. The murder weapon was never found and he simply indicated that he found it in the pocket of the construction pants he wore that evening. Asked about the death of Sylviane Muller, he allegedly declared having given her a first blow in the chest when she wanted to intervene. Then, he would have been taken by “loss of control” and allegedly slit his throat before stabbing the knife blade multiple times into his stomach and heart area. “At an undetermined time, before or after Sylviane’s death, he even introduced and left an object in her vagina”we can still read in the columns of the daily newspaper.
Statements considered “delusional”
The lawyer for the main suspect, Me Anne-Charlotte Moulins, did not wish to comment on the merits of the case. “Psychiatric expertise should allow us to better understand the mechanisms behind the act, only lets us know the Bordeaux criminal lawyer. It could also provide information on the level of dangerousness of Mr. Daouphars, on possible personality disorders and a possible alteration of discernment at the time of the facts., she declared. On the other hand, for the lawyer of the daughters of the Muller couple, Me Benoît Ducos-Ader, the statements of the man suspected of having killed their parents are correct “delusional and reveal a psychopathic profile”. David D. remains presumed innocent of the charges against him.