To understand the work of scientists from the National Gendarmerie Criminal Research Institute, a similar crime scene was recreated: an area in Picardy where a young girl was found murdered in 2002. At the time, scientific research had taken three years. and included all disciplines of the criminal sciences. A true textbook case where the gendarmes took over for the needs of the movie. They reproduced things we had never seen before: the technical stages of the investigation and the laboratory analysis that made it possible to confuse the criminal.
scary discovery
On August 21, 2002, a public works company employee discovered a bloodstained white van parked on a road near Villers-Bretonneux in the Somme. The gendarmerie’s criminal identification technicians then take action and seal the evidence… After moving the vehicle, they find a woman’s body.
many tips
About 80 seals were made on the van that day. There will be more than 1,500 people by the end of the training.” “We tended to buy everything years ago,” explains Patrick Chilliard, an expert on the Dubuisson case. Today, if an object is 3 meters high and obviously no one has touched it, it will not be a priority. »
new way
The arrest of Jean-Paul Leconte in another case on November 25, 2002 rekindled the experts who had been skating for three months. However, the fingerprint found on the van’s belt does not belong to him and there is no trace of his DNA. Until investigators confiscate her wardrobe to identify textile fibers potentially found at the crime scene.
Crime experts: When science leads the investigation, Thursday 22 June at 9 pm on France 5
THOMAS GAETNER
Source: Programme Television
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