A man suspected of having killed the person whose decapitated body was discovered Friday at the side of a road in Albias (Tarn-et-Garonne) was arrested.
This man in his fifties, a roommate of the victim, allegedly confessed to having killed her after a brawl between them on the night of December 23 to 24, before butchering her body.
The decapitated body had been discovered by a couple of walkers on Friday, a few hours before Christmas Eve.
Several stab wounds to the thorax and back and post-mortem mutilation of the body
The victim is “a 31-year-old man known to the courts for traffic offenses and acts of theft,” the interim public prosecutor of Montauban, Anne Gaullier, said in a statement on Saturday. According to the magistrate, the forensic pathologist noted “several stab wounds in the thorax and back and put forward the hypothesis of post-mortem mutilation of the body”.
The head was discovered on Saturday “a hundred meters from the scene in a plastic bag” while “two cut forearms were found the same evening near the body”, further specified Anne Gaullier in her press release.
A criminal investigation was opened for “murder” and “attacking the integrity of a corpse” by the investigators who favored “the hypothesis of a heinous crime”.
The suspect could be presented to a judge on Monday.