The body of an 81-year-old woman was found in Blois Friday. It is Odile Malfray, the Blais police had issued a wanted notice last week, her relatives had not heard from her since November 18. The tragic outcome of this disappearance took place in a forest, “only three kilometers from the victim’s home”indicates the public prosecutor of Blois. It was a walker who made this macabre discovery. The remains of the octogenarian were in a travel bag. His face “wrapped in a towel, was disfigured by significant traces of violence, probably committed with a sharp object”specifies the prosecution. An autopsy must be carried out this Monday in Tours.
His neighbor indicted
At the same time, his 35-year-old neighbor was being questioned by investigators. “Additional technical police findings carried out at the victim's home revealed that large pools of blood had been cleaned from the floor of her apartment, traces of blood also being discovered on the staircase between the victim's home and that of his neighbor”we can read in Charlotte Beluet’s press release. In police custody, the thirty-year-old said he found his neighbor dead at her home, before cleaning up the traces of blood and transport your body “during the night of November 18 to 19“. He denies any involvement in the murder. This Sunday, the Blaisois was indicted and placed in pre-trial detention
A dispute following water damage
The first elements of the investigation reveal a dispute between the victim and his neighbor, against a backdrop of water damage. Concerning the profile of the thirty-year-old, he has no criminal record. In 2009, he stayed in a psychiatric hospital and according to a member of his family “he was currently out of care”specifies the Blois prosecutor. On this subject, additional verifications are underway. The Blois public prosecutor's office has opened a judicial investigation for murder of a vulnerable person.
