Another family goes missing in Nantes
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FORENSICS officers locked down a neighborhood in western France yesterday, searching for traces of a family that disappeared, leaving behind a bloody cell phone, stripped beds and a home where “time froze.”
Down to the missing computers and the hasty attempts to scrub away DNA evidence, the disappearance of the Troadec family had eerie echoes from the past. For six years, investigators in the city of Nantes have been haunted by the deaths of another local family — and have been searching for the father suspected of killing his wife and four children.
Nantes prosecutor Pierre Sennes told Europe 1 radio yesterday that the hope is to “intensify the assessment of what could have happened in the house.” A nationwide police bulletin on the family said initial suspicion had fallen on the couple’s 21-year-old son, “suspected of having a deadly plan to kill the members of his family and perhaps himself.”
Sebastien Troadec’s Peugeot is the only car missing, and his bloody cell phone was found in the house, where the beds were stripped. There were no toothbrushes in the bathrooms.
Traces of blood from the parents, Pascal and Brigitte, and from Sebastien, were found during an initial search on February 23 in the parents’ home in suburban Orvault. No trace was found of the 18-year-old daughter, Charlotte.
Sennes opened a homicide investigation in the case this week after investigators spend the weekend searching for clues. “It’s like time froze in the house,” he said on Sunday.
Dishes cluttered the sink; a load of wet laundry filled the washing machine.
According to Ouest France daily, the family’s electronic devices were missing, but the person who took them left behind their charging cords. This was also the case in the killings blamed on Xavier Dupont de Lignonnes, whose wife and four children were found buried beneath their porch in 2011, less than 4 kilometers from the Troadec home.
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