The exact circumstances of their death remain unknown at this time.
Two bodies, probably those of a mother and her eight-year-old son, missing since New Year's Evewere discovered on Friday in the Drôme, said the Valence prosecutor's office.
Police officers have found the two bodies at the end of the morning in the town of Chabeuil, and it seems to be “the child and his mother wanted, subject to future findings”, specified the prosecutor Laurent de Caigny in a press release. The exact circumstances of their death remain unknown at this time, he added.
The mother had left her home unexplained with her son in her car
The Romans-sur-Isère police officers opened an investigation on Thursday following the disturbing disappearance of a 45-year-old woman and her eight-year-old son. She had left her home in Romans-sur-Isère (a few kilometers from Chabeuil) in an unexplained manner with her son in her car, according to the account of relatives cited by Mr. de Caigny.
The first telephone, bank and video surveillance searches having yielded nothing, a search notice was published on Thursday. Photos of the child, a young boy 1.25 m tall and his blonde-haired mother, had been broadcast in the local media, as well as the description of the mother's car, a yellow Peugeot.
The two bodies were discovered near the vehicle sought, said Mr. de Caigny. The investigation was reclassified as deprivation of care for a minor by ascendant leading to death, a charge likely to evolve after the autopsies, underlines the prosecutor.
