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In the 1980s, a dozen children disappeared or were found dead. The culprit or culprits have never been identified. Thursday, March 16, the body of one of the victims has just been exhumed as part of new investigations of the Cold case pole.
Their faces regularly make the headlines and their disappearances in the 1980s moved the whole of France. These are girls and boys aged 5 to 15, nicknamed “the disappeared from Isère”. Their captors and murderers have mostly never been identified. 40 years later, the judicial center for unsolved cases is relaunching investigations, a relief for the families concerned. “It will be 40 years tomorrow (Friday March 17) that we fight to know the truth and we will not let go. I just wanna know where my brother is“, declares Jérôme Janvier, brother of Ludovic Janvier, reported missing.
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Rare fact, last Wednesday, the judge had the body of Fabrice Ladoux exhumed. In 1989, the 11-year-old boy was kidnapped, raped, and then found dead. Thanks to the progress of science, its exhumation could provide key elements. Using a drone, the crime scene was also modeled in 3D, new technologies to shed light on the boy’s murder.