The investigator who tracked down the serial killer Patrice Alègre in signature

The lieutenant-colonel of the gendarmerie is enjoying his retirement at the foot of the Pyrenees peaks of his childhood. Near Bagnères-de-Bigorre, he watches over his mother and stirs up her memories. Obviously dark when you have spent a good part of your career tracking down the worst criminals.

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Alègre affair, Escadeillas affair: gendarme Daniel Soucaze recounts his life as an investigator in a book

Before the summer, Daniel Soucaze, 62, published “Autopsy of the Assassin” with Mareuil Éditions. A book where he takes us on the trail of corpses, those who haunted his life as an investigator. Their names were Laure Martinet, Mireille Normand, or Isabelle Chicherie, young women killed and raped among the last recognized victims of Patrice Alègre, the Toulouse serial killer.

The hunt until the arrest

Daniel Soucaze and the gendarmes of the SR of Toulouse tracked down this killer. First without knowing it from 1992 then in a race against time until September 1997 and his arrest the day after his last murder. Daniel Soucaze also remembers the investigation into Martine Escadeillas, killed and disappeared in December 1986 in Ramonville. A case that was mysterious for a long time before being relaunched by an astonishing letter and sadly closed by the suicide, in detention, of suspect number 1.

In his work, a true thriller but without any invention (reality has long surpassed fiction), Daniel Soucaze talks about his successes but also his errors which still torment him. This is the whole point of “Autopsy of the Assassin”.

This Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., the author leaves his Pyrenees to dedicate his book at the Leclerc cultural space in Roques-sur-Garonne. A recommended detour for a good Christmas present.