What was a thirty-year-old disappearance turned into femicide. A man admitted to having killed his ex-partner and mother of his two children in 1989, in Orne at La Chapelle-Souëf. Excavations are now underway in the area, following the indications of the man to the authorities, indicted for “kidnapping and forcible confinement” and released under judicial supervision. For the moment, they have been interrupted for technical reasons, reports Le Parisien-Today in France. Many questions emerge following this confession, among which: why the family of the young mother never asked questions about her disappearance?
Pascal, 62, was taken into custody at the end of May 2022, nearly thirty-three years after Marlaine’s disappearance. He confessed to having killed his former companion, then 22 or 23 years old, by strangulation using the wire of the telephone device of the family home of La Chapelle-Souëf. These revelations were triggered in the first place by the questions of his daughter Victoria. Growing up, she questioned the official version according to which their mother had abandoned her with her brother to start a new life with another. It was then that she confronted her father with her doubts and questioned his evasive and contradictory answers.
But what about Marlaine Marquis’ family at the time? At first, Pascal had not informed them, since he had no contact with the relatives of his companion at the time. Today, they say they have accepted the thesis presented according to which she had suddenly left to start a new life with another man, without ever giving any news. “We were told that any adult person was free to disappear if they wanted to and everyone in the family had accepted this idea.“, indicates one of them.
A theory that was not enough for Victoria, her daughter. She then reported the disappearance of her mother in 2021 and the gendarmes then noticed that there had been no administrative or other trace of Marlaine for more than thirty years, enough to cast doubt on a voluntary disappearance. “On April 27, 2022, a judicial investigation was opened for kidnapping and forcible confinement. A way to circumvent the problem of prescription of the facts in the event of homicide fixed at thirty years“, precise Le Parisien-Today in France.