A body found in a bag in a garage in Mulhouse: the victim’s ex and her two children indicted for murder

Macabre discovery on Christmas Day. On December 24, 2024, the police services of the Mulhouse police station (Haut-Rhin) were informed of the presence, in a garage, of a corpse in an advanced state of putrefaction which was hidden in a cupboard.

In a very short time, the investigators made a connection with the tenant of the garage who no longer resided there. This man, aged 38, had been the subject of a report for a worrying disappearance since October 2021 from his new owner. Immediately, suspicion fell on the victim’s ex-partner and her two children who had never reported this disappearance and who had access to this garage.

The mother initially arrested

A few days after the discovery of the body, the victim’s partner was taken into police custody. Faced with investigators, she admitted having “with the help of his children, he nourishes a criminal project” while questioning them “for having deliberately killed the victim by suffocating him”details the Mulhouse floor.

The detainee justified this action by the behavior of her companion whom she described as“alcoholic and violent”, without ever having filed a complaint against him. Presented to the investigating judge, she was indicted for murder by spouse and placed in pre-trial detention.

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The children committed the acts when they were minors

The victim’s children were taken into custody last Tuesday. “The son, who was minor at the time of the facts and now aged 19, and the daughter, aged 21, admitted their active participation with their father’s partner in the facts and in the concealment of the body,” adds the parquet. The two were indicted for murder of their ascendant and placed in detention

provisional Thursday January 16, 2025.

Medico-legal investigations are still underway given the age of the facts to determine the precise causes of death.