20 years ago, on August 9, 2004, the village of Vernou-sur-Brenne woke up stunned. Two quiet octogenarians were found dead. The investigation into this double murder, never solved, was reopened in September 2022. A call for testimony was recently broadcast.
We don’t come to Vernou-sur-Brenne by chance. Although the vines flourish there in a graceful cavalcade that descends the hillside to the Loire, it is Vouvray, the neighboring commune that attracts attention and makes visitors’ palates salivate. “I gladden hearts”launches the motto of this wine region, renowned for its grape variety. Vernou-sur-Brenne nevertheless has assets to offer to tourists on the prowl in the land of castles and Balzac. Notably its church of the Holy Trinity and its western facade, pierced by a 12th century Romanesque portal.e century, decorated with interlacing and bird motifs and classified in 1862.
But now, we don’t come to Vernou-sur-Brenne by chance and it is undoubtedly this discretion which attracted Robert Drouvin and Marianne Kubala, probably sensitive to the tranquility of the Loire region. Here, in fact, the climate is relatively mild, the white stone silent: it keeps whispers and other rumors respectfully at bay. This was at least the case until Monday morning of August 9, 2004, while the cry of this couple’s cleaning lady resonated through the woods surrounding the house set back from the Vernadiens, instead of said du Bois Pavillon. Robert Drouvin is found on his stomach, his skull shattered. “A massacre”we describe. Marianne Kubala is in the garden, lifeless. Her heart, already fragile, could not bear the terror of seeing Robert be murdered.
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