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loss of the samples: "It is not completely the end of the line but the biggest chance has slipped through our grasp." In May 2010, it was confirmed that examining magistrates had completed their evaluation of evidence, and decided there was not enough to put
Fourniret on trial. The case was formally closed the following year, after prosecutors ruled there was "no case to answer" against Fourniret.
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undergraduate who was studying French, disappeared on the night of 16–17 May after placing an advertisement in a local
Burgundy newspaper offering private English lessons, and arranging to meet a man who it is believed contacted her with details of a potential student. Her naked body was found in the
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decided to reopen the investigation after the emergence of fresh evidence identifying a new suspect described as "a man with a serious criminal record". A former girlfriend of the individual, known as "TV", told police of an evening on which she recalled seeing the suspect return home "with scratch
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and another woman named Marie-Angele Domece. She stood trial for the crimes in
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