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during a game. According to his statement, the game was intended to play out as follows: Françoise would be standing up, with
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anxious and tired. Françoise confided in a colleague: "Now it will never be like it was before." On 26 February 2005, Françoise's husband, Ludovic, said that he discovered her body upon returning home from a 48-hour firefighting shift. He found Françoise lying face down on the living-room floor, strangled with a scarf. Françoise was still wearing her
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the theory of a prowler, and
Ludovic became their prime suspect. A neighbour reported seeing Françoise alive through her window between 9 and 9.30 a.m. on 26 February. The same neighbour stated that she then saw Ludovic arrive at the property at 9.30 a.m. Ludovic had been browsing
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