The murderer of Nadège Desnoix, 17, finally found, 27 years after the facts. A man was arrested Tuesday in Rennes after police discovered that his DNA, found in a domestic violence case, also matched that found at the scene of the murder of a high school student in 1994 in Château-Thierry, in France. Aisne.
“Arrested on November 30 in Ille-et-Vilaine where he works, the individual admitted during his police custody that he was the author of this fact” reported the public prosecutor of Soissons, Julien Morino -Ros, in a press release. “Presented before the investigating magistrate, the individual made spontaneous statements by which he maintained his words”, adds the prosecutor. The 55-year-old man was indicted and remanded in custody.
Already convicted of sexual assault on a minor
In May 1994, Nadège’s stabbed body was discovered on the side of a path near the technical high school where she was a student in first class. The teenager had not suffered sexual violence, according to the autopsy carried out after the fact. Living about fifteen kilometers from her school, she had taken a bus very early in the morning to go to class.
At the material time, the indicted resided in Seine-et-Marne, about thirty kilometers from Château-Thierry, underlines Julien Morino-Ros. His genetic profile, recently added to the national DNA file following a domestic violence procedure, corresponds to a male DNA profile taken at the crime scene.
New investigations have followed one another in the investigation of this “cold case” since the beginning of the year, new requisitions being taken to compare this DNA with those of the persons on file. This man was convicted in 1997 in Meaux for acts of sexual assault on a minor and then in 2002, at the assizes, for acts of rape committed in 2000, indicates the press release of the prosecutor.