French cold case: Ex-police officer linked to rapes, murders
ABC News
One of France’s biggest unsolved criminal cases appears to have been cracked
PARIS -- One of France’s biggest unsolved criminal cases appears to have been cracked – and the decades-long hunt for a suspect in multiple rapes and killings during the 1980s and 1990s led to a former police officer.
Prosecutors announced late Thursday that DNA from a 59-year-old retired officer corresponded to genetic traces found at the scene of multiple crimes in the 1980s and 1990s.
The horrors began with the rape of an 8-year-old girl in 1986 and continued with five other rapes, a kidnapping and four slayings, mostly of underage girls.
After 35 years of digging, investigators determined that the suspect had worked as a gendarme in the Paris region between 1986 and 1994, and summoned 750 current or former officers for questioning this week.