[Resolved] Frenchman admits killing girl who vanished from Alps wedding
First time creating a post but since the only other thread about it is a month old and things have changed I thought I should probably bring it up.
Here is the old post created by u/94sleuth:
Estelle Mouzin, the 9-year-old french girl who disappeared on her way home from school 15 years ago.
In that thread it says the suspect, Nordahl Lelandais, had been cleared -Edit- of Estelle's disappearance. However, he is the French man referred to in the title who has now admitted killing the 9 year old Maelys De Araujo (after they found traces of her blood in his trunk) and has led LE to where he dumped the girl, where they found her skull and some other remains.
From the article:
PARIS (AP) — A former military dog trainer confessed Wednesday to “unintentionally” killing a 9-year-old girl whose disappearance from a wedding party in the Alps last year prompted nationwide concern and months of fruitless searching.
Investigators at last found Maelys De Araujo’s skull and some other remains Wednesday in a snow-covered ravine six months after she went missing, according to Grenoble Prosecutor Jean-Yves Coquillat.
Police were led to the remote site by chief suspect Nordahl Lelandais, who was arrested and charged after her disappearance but repeatedly had denied wrongdoing. He was a guest at the same wedding in Pont-de-Beauvoisin, near the French mountain city of Chambery.
Lelandais decided to come clean Wednesday after investigators found traces of the girl’s blood in the trunk of Lelandais’ car, the prosecutor told reporters.
Lelandais told investigators that he killed her accidentally, hid the body near his house and then returned to the wedding party. He later dumped the child’s body in the remote ravine.
His lawyer said Lelandais had let children at the wedding party look at dogs he had in his car.
After Maelys went missing, police questioned more than 200 potential witnesses, and hundreds of volunteers helped search the area for days. Police dogs found the girl’s scent but lost it in the wedding hall parking lot, suggesting she may have been forced into a vehicle or gotten into one voluntarily.
In his confession, Lelandais did not explain the circumstances of the girl’s death, the prosecutor said.
“Lelandais asked investigation judges to question him today, because he had revelations to make,” the prosecutor said. Afterward, the prosecutor said, Lelandais apologized to the girl and her parents.
His lawyer Alain Jakubowicz described surprise at hearing Lelandais’ confession of Maelys’ “accidental death,” but did not give further details about what happened. The lawyer said he was dropping his request for Lelandais’ release.
“I’m a father. Nothing worse can happen to you as a parent,” he said, choking up.
Lelandais is also now suspected of killing a soldier months before in the same region.
https://apnews.com/5dcddf67eebf4cdcae32420eb0081a12
Do you believe he "accidentally" killed her? Do you believe it was sexually motivated? Do you think he could be responsible for the Annecy murders?
I notice from the other thread that it crossed their minds he may have had something to do with the Annecy killings (Saad al-Hilli, his wife, her mother, and a cyclist), a case I followed intensely from the get-go, at least until it seemed as if there was a dead end.
Posted Feb 26, 2018, 12:58 AM UTC · edited
How do you accidentally kill a girl, then hide her body, then go back to a wedding?
If you accidentally kill someone, you either call the cops or at least tell your friends/family immediately.
The moment you immediately go back to what you were doing I think we can knock accident off the list.
You got that right, you'd think that would be a no brainer!
Don´t forget he had his mobile phone set on flight mode, too, making sure he could not be tracked.
I'm pretty sure that my phone keeps some record of my location, even when it's on airplane mode. My Google Maps Timeline has a pretty good representation of where I went in Italy even though I had airplane mode on pretty much the whole time.
It does. The GPS is a passive chip that keeps receiving satellite data even in flight mode. You can check in Settings > Privacy > Location Services > System Settings > Significant Locations. If it’s on, your iOS device keeps tracking your movements, even in flight mode, and makes those locations available again as needed when you exit flight mode. Only way to avoid that is to switch off the phone entirely.
My GPS works on airplane mode.
Mine sort of worked while I was in Amsterdam, I had the phone on Airplane mode but I could see where I was on Google Maps whenever I opened it which was helpful in finding some places without stopping for Wifi.
... fuck. I do this when I'm not using my phone. Never thought it could be seen as suspicious.
Flight mode or off. I hate phones.
Then why do you have one
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