Crime Scene Solvers

The lifeless body of Audrey Jouannet, 24, is found hidden under the bed in her small apartment in Soisy-sur-Seine. It soon becomes apparent that the young woman has been tortured at length before being strangled. But surprisingly, though the highly meticulous murderer has taken care to leave no sign of his passage, the autopsy reveals traces of sperm on the victim.

Sylvain Dromard finds the body of his wife Laurence lying in a pool of blood in the kitchen. The crime was particularly violent and the theory of a burglary that went wrong is soon excluded. But investigators don't understand who could want the adorable hairdresser of Saint-Martin-d'Ablois dead.

After an ordinary dinner, Pierre and Gabrielle Labrell suffer severe abdominal pains. Taken to hospital, the couple of quiet retirees die several days apart, after awful suffering. The food poisoning theory is quickly ruled out and forensic tests show the Labrells were poisoned with arsenic. The investigators finally see that the murderer tried to entrap them.

Nelly Crémel, 39, leaves her home to go jogging, never to return. Eight days later, after a vast search campaign, her body is found. There's no doubt that it's murder. The case soon ignites public opinion, even inflaming passions at the highest level of the state.

Willy Pomonti, a retired architect, is found savagely murdered in his opulent villa in La Celle-Saint-Cloud, near Paris. It soon becomes clear that the man has been tortured prior to death. At several points during this extraordinary inquiry, police will feel they're holding the culprit. It will take them ten years to finally shed light on this particularly violent crime.

The lifeless body of Christophe Lejard is found by his son just meters from their home. The man was shot in the head as he was getting into his car to go to work. A veritable execution, which at first glance doesn't square with the profile of the quiet family man. Yet behind the appearances, the investigation gradually reveals all the hate and resentment that revolved around the victim.

A man walks into a gendarmerie near Saint-Malo to report that his wife has been missing since the previous day. The couple are going through a divorce, but this mother would never have left her seven children alone! An extensive search is undertaken but the woman cannot be found. What has happened to Adeline Piet? The investigation spans several years and experiences many twists.

The corpse of Priscillia Ciatti, 14, is discovered by the side of a field, a few hundred metres from her family home. The teenager has been stabbed sixty times with a knife and -an extra sordid detail - a devil mask is found next to her body. Was Priscillia the victim of a prowler? A serial killer?

In the early hours of the morning, Mathilde Croguennec, 18, attending "Teknival" in Brittany, is found at the foot of a tree with her throat cut. Investigators face the task of finding the killer from among the 43,000 participants of this huge open-air festival of electronic music, where drink and drugs are consumed in abundance.

Arriving at her work, the secretary of a small firm in the suburbs of Geneva finds the body of Jean-Raymond Blatti, the company's new accountant. The man is lying in a pool of blood and, on his belly, the murderer has written "Dirty Rapist". Yet Jean-Raymond Blatti was never charged with sexual assault.