News item: from the rereading of the file to the confessions in the Bonfanti affair

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E.Pelletier, J.Debraux, J.Vitaline D.Sébastien, B.Parayre, Z.Berkous, N.Bergot – France 2

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The investigation into the disappearance of Marie-Thérèse Bonfanti finally came to fruition after 36 years of research, Thursday, May 12. She had disappeared on May 22, 1986. A man who was taken into custody at the time, but later released for lack of evidence, has confessed. Her husband and two children are relieved.

How did the gendarmes obtain a confession in one of the oldest cold box of France ? Marie Therese Bonfantia 25-year-old mother, disappeared on May 22, 1986 in Pontcharra (Isere). She delivered newspapers. His car was found with the door open, keys in the ignition, near a house. At the time, investigators took into custody a young man who occupied it. He was known to have assaulted two women. The trail ended there.

The family never stopped wanting to know the truth. The file was reopened and the man from 1986 confessed on Thursday, May 12. Thierry Bonfantithe husband of the disappeared, speaks of a “tremendous relief”. At the beginning of the week, police custody resumed for Yves Dark blond. Behavioral analysts followed the debate outside the room. The man confessed to strangling the young woman and throwing the body into a ravine in the mountains. Searches have so far turned up nothing.


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