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Cold case: a new lead more than 30 years after the disappearance of Marie-Hélène Audoye
Cold case: a new lead more than 30 years after the disappearance of Marie-Hélène Audoye
(France 2)
On May 21, 1991, Marie-Hélène Audoye mysteriously disappeared on the Côte-d’Azur. More than thirty years later, the case was reopened by the Nanterre cold case unit, which is examining the trail of a skull found in 2012.
Marie-Hélène Audoye disappeared in 1991. Since the disappearance of the pharmaceutical salesperson, then aged 22, her parents have tried everything to find her, in vain. Due to lack of evidence, the investigation ended in a dismissal of the case in 2013. But the Nanterre cold case center (Hauts-de-Seine), which recently opened the investigation, made a major discovery.
A skull on the heights of Vence
In a gendarmerie in the Nice hinterland (Alpes-Maritimes), there is a seal containing a female skull, found in 2012 on the heights of Vence. “It would be the most terrible news to know that your child has died, but at the same time, it would be a completely different path that you would take.“, confides Annie Audoye, Marie-Hélène’s mother. However, it is difficult to compare the remains of bones found with Marie-Hélène’s DNA, since it was not preserved at the time. But thanks to a milk tooth kept by Annie Audoye, a lead could perhaps be explored.
