She was nicknamed “Ma Dalton”, like the mother of the four robbers of lucky Luke. Marie-Thérèse Garcia is now in pre-trial detention and indicted for the murder of Corinne Di Dio, a woman found dismembered and beheaded in 1995 in Eure.
But this 76-year-old woman is also the great aunt of Leslie, this young woman who disappeared at the end of 2022 at the same time as her companion Kevin and her dog Onyx, reports The Parisian. According to the daily, it is precisely a telephone conversation with Leslie’s father which would have triggered the suspicions of the investigators. Back on this improbable affair crossed between two miscellaneous facts.
A compromising sentence
A little over a month after the disappearance of her great-niece, Marie-Thérèse Garcia seems distraught. On the telephone with the victim’s father, who was tapped for the purposes of the investigation, she then uttered this sentence which would arouse the suspicions of the investigators: “It is better that they [les gendarmes] catch them before we know who it is… Because I’m going to take them, but in pieces, in a suitcase. So. “Difficult to know if it is a sentence pronounced under the influence of anger or a real threat, underlines The Parisian. However, it echoes another news item. In particular the passage which refers to “pieces, in a suitcase”.
An unsolved crime
Since 1995, the death of Corinne Di Dio has still not been elucidated, and Marie-Thérèse Garcia, or “Mamie Garcia” is one of the suspects. The body of the victim had been found dismembered and decapitated in a trunk on the Seine, in Eure. The gendarmes had been called by a resident who had brought the trunk floating near his neighbour’s pontoon to the edge of the river. They were the ones who broke the padlock and inventoried its macabre contents, AFP reported at the time.
A main suspect
The track of the love rivalry, without being certain, is studied by the investigators. The two women knew each other since they each dated two brothers known to organized crime networks, specifies The Parisian. It is in this band that Marie-Thérèse Garcia will be nicknamed “Ma Dalton”. The latter would have learned that Corinne Di Dio would have flirted with her spouse. She would then not have supported the idea and would have taken revenge. At the end of May, the 77-year-old woman was indicted and placed in pre-trial detention, suspected of having ordered the murder. She made no confession.
Leslie and Kevin found dead
The bodies of Kevin Trompat and Leslie Hoorelbeke were found last March. The couple was killed by blows with a “blunt object”, according to the Poitiers prosecutor’s office, which mentioned a “sentimental disappointment and / or financial debts” as possible motives for the suspects. In this case, five young men were indicted, in particular for “murders”, and placed in pre-trial detention.