Our colleagues from BFMTV indicate on January 16, 2024 that the Grêlé case was reopened last November by the unsolved serial crimes unit in Nanterre.
Did François Verove have unidentified victims? The Nanterre cold case center has reopened the case, reveals BFMTV. As a reminder, the serial killer was found dead in Grau-du-Roi, after confessing to his murders in his suicide letter.
A murder in 1990
The case that the Nanterre center will look into dates back to the 1990s in Essonne. Then, a man was found tied to a tree in the woods of Saint-Aubin, a bullet lodged in the back of his skull.
It was this ammunition that led investigators to reopen the case. This is a PA MAC 50 bullet, those used by police officers with their service weapons. When we know that François Verove spent years committing crimes by using and abusing his law enforcement paraphernalia, the question arises.
The victims of the Hail
Between 1986 and 1994, he was blamed for the murders of Cécile Bloch, 11 years old, in 1986; Gilles Politi, 38 years old, Air France mechanic, found suffocated to death in 1987 with a poker and Irmgard Mueller, 20 years old, young German au pair discovered with her arms tied crosswise with a rope around her neck.
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“Le Grêlé”, a serial killer wanted for thirty-five years, lived in Hérault
In 2015, he was attributed with the murder of Karine Leroy, 19, who disappeared on June 9, 1994 while on her way to high school.
The investigators manage to establish a modus operandi specific to “Grêlé”. The victims all showed signs of strangulation. It is often with the help of a Spanish tourniquet, or a strangling lace, that the “Pockmarked” suffocates his victims found tied by the wrists, ankles or even arms.
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