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and returned to France, where she was imprisoned on 22 January 1890. First she disclaimed any participation in Gouffé's murder, but she ended up cracking and started to tell everything in detail. Meanwhile, Eyraud continued his living by engaging in fraudulent activities between the US, Canada and
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on 14 August. He reported that the naked body was bound with seven meters of rope; that the head was enveloped in a black oilskin cloth and that the victim had died by strangulation three to five weeks previously. Three months later, on 13 November 1889, the body was again examined by doctor
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Après cette affaire, on aura coutume d'appeler « malles sanglantes » d'autres affaires de meurtres, où le corps de la victime a été dissimulé dans une malle. Par exemple, l'affaire de la malle sanglante du Puits d'Enfer, ayant eu lieu en Vendée en février
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in a procedure which lasted a week. The body was identified as that of
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Commissioner Marie-François Goron retired in 1933 after forty-eight years of service, and his memoirs became a precursor for the work of
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in criminal investigations, and the trial of Gouffé's accused killers, Michel Eyraud and
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bag under a bush. Inside was a human body, which the local authorities took in for forensic investigation – a novel practice for the time.
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The Gouffé Case. The trunk in which the body was transported. - View of
Millery - Gabrielle Bompard, Eyraud's lover, and suspected murderer
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