Investigations into the crimes of François Vérove continue. Investigators are trying to find out if a man shot and killed in 1990 in Saint-Aubin is one of his victims.
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This Friday, the Nanterre prosecutor's office “confirms that the investigation of the serial or unsolved crimes unit is aware of these facts as part of the file bringing together various facts attributable to François Vérove“.
Investigators notably found a bullet casing corresponding to those used by the gendarmes for their service weapons, according to BFMTV.
-However, François Vérove, or “the Grêlé”, is a former gendarme, identified in September 2021 as a serial killer wanted for 35 years. Summoned by investigators, he killed himself, leaving behind a confession letter.
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His DNA matches the genetic profile found at the scenes of several crimes.
He is suspected of several crimes, including the rape and murder of Cécile, 11, found dead and raped in May 1986 in Paris in the 19th arrondissement, and the murder of a strangled couple in the Parisian district of Marais in 1987.
The Nanterre serial or unsolved crimes unit, or “cold cases” unit, is now seeking to identify potential other victims, and was therefore alerted to the shooting death of a man in June 1990.
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