The wife accused of murder breaks her silence and proclaims her innocence to Le Figaro

• The decapitated body of hunter Christophe Doire, found on the side of a road in Allier in 1995, haunts the hills of Bourbonnais and the minds of its inhabitants. Investigations, as much as rumors, have focused on an ideal suspect without ever managing to prove his guilt. Nearly thirty years later, the thick fog surrounding this bloody crime dissipates and a new potential murderer emerges. The shock is total when the arrest takes place in the victim’s close circle. Through unpublished documents and testimonies, “ The Figaro » delivers an exclusive investigation into this news item which conceals one last mystery : what did the murderer do with the victim’s head ?

The slats of the parquet floor, browned by time, creak under the steps of the public prosecutor of Cusset (Allier). On the first floor of the court, Éric Neveu crosses the long corridor that connects his office to the sealed room where the objects seized during investigations are kept. Arriving at his post in the fall of 2018, he pushes open the door of this well-ordered room and discovers with astonishment « a pile of cardboard boxes with the words “Derry” in black felt »he recalls to the Figaro. « This is our cold case file. We know who did it but we will never be able to prove it. »sweeps the clerk who accompanies her. She refers to the discovery of the decapitated body of hunter Christophe Doire on Christmas morning 1995. A former rival was presented as the main suspect without his guilt being able to be proven. Intrigued, the magistrate dusts off this old case and, thanks to the in-depth analysis of the seals, manages to identify a new potential murderer twenty-six years later. On June 28, 2022, it is at the door of the apartment of the widow, now 58 years old, that the gendarmes knock to arrest her.

Indicted for murder and placed under judicial supervision, Maria Morra – formerly of Doire – categorically denies the accusations. She had until now kept away from the media hype but decided to speak out for the very first time in the columns of the Figaro : « If I agree to do it, it’s not to put on a show, It’s because I’m innocent