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the city of nantes is situated in the northwest of France in the heart of the Loire Valley wine region the Loire River
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curved through the city which is defined by its striking blend of heritage architecture eighteenth-century facades
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and Mediterranean inspired dwellings the layout is typical of many French cities
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the medieval town centre framed by densely packed historic suburban buildings before giving way to newer
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homes and public housing as the sixth the largest city in France not has been praised by the European Commission for
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offering a higher quality of life the six-member du Pont de lagunes family lived at 55 robert schumann boulevard
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and narrow two-story residence in a wealthy residential area west of the city their home was part of a row of
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matching terrorists buildings overlooking a busy thoroughfare interspersed with patisserie
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bars and other businesses the family lived a comfortable middle-class life 50-year old patriarch xavier dupont the
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Legionnaires had aristocratic tires and two noble ancestry he was raised in a devout Catholic household in the regal
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upper-class city of Versailles west of Paris it was there that he met an nesodden je an elegant young woman two
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years his junior Xavier and danya's dated throughout their teens and became engaged but the
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relationship ended before their marriage went ahead in the years following their
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breakup Xavier indulged his love of American culture and country music by traveling
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the famous highway route 66 in the United States the couple reunited in Versailles at
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which point and yes had a one-year-old child named Arthur from a previous relationship
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Xavier told a friend he was in love and willing to take on the responsibilities of parenting Arthur which was unusual
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for a man of his status at the time Xavier and Dan yes were married in a quiet ceremony in 1991 and went on to
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have three children Thomas in enter Benoit the family lived throughout France and spent nine months travelling
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across the United States before settling in 19 2003 zabi heir was an entrepreneur who owned
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several small online businesses including one based in Miami his main focus was a hotel and restaurant guide
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for truckers traveling salespeople and business owners titled route to commerce you or salespersons Road in English and
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yes worked part-time as a supervisor in a primary school and also taught religious studies at a local Catholic
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school by 2011 the couple's oldest child 20 year old Arthur was studying information technology at a university
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an hour away he bordered on campus but returned to the family home in non to every weekend
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where he worked at a local pizzeria his brother 18 year old Thomas had moved an hour race to the city of on J where he
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studied music though he too visited home most weekends the family's youngest 16 year old Ann
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and 13 year old Benoit still lived with their parents attending school at the esteemed poveri Sacred Heart Catholic
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College in was a dedicated and popular student who played the piano did some occasional modeling work and was
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passionate about her religion Benoit was equally popular he enjoyed rollerblading
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and singing in the church choir and was looking forward to his upcoming confirmation sacrament on the night of
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Sunday April 3 2011 - du Pont de Ligon s family - Thomas went out for dinner and
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a movie upon their return home Xavier found his sister Christine and - left a voice message relaying the pleasant
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events of their evening he ended the message by saying okay I'm going to put the kids to bed and say good night to
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everyone talk to you soon maybe [Music] [Music] over the following week neighbors of 55
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Robert Schuman Boulevard noticed the property had fallen unusually silent and still its window shutters which were
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usually kept open had been closed for some time the black Volkswagen Golf convertible belonging to a newest DuPont
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the leakiness had been parked on a nearby street for several days the family's two pet Labradors were
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heard howling and crying throughout the night a week prior but hadn't made a sound since on Wednesday April 13 a
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concerned neighbor called the non police and four officers arrived at the DuPont
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the leakiness residence to conduct a welfare check a printed sign was pinned to the letterbox that read please return
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all mail to sender thank you the officers found the family home in a relatively orderly condition with the
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kitchen and bathrooms spotlessly clean the fridge and bedroom wardrobes had been emptied into the beds had been
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stripped of their sheets photos had been removed from their picture frames into various cupboards and drawers were close
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to empty but they found no evidence of foul play police were contacted again later that afternoon
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distant by a member of an users family who had in their possession of four-page typed a letter authored by Xavier
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several other relatives and friends of the DuPont the Legion s family had been mailed at the same letter it read in
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part hi everyone huge surprise we have to leave urgently for the u.s. due to a very particular set of circumstances
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that we will explain below you're receiving this letter by conventional post because for the next
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few years we can't communicate any other way for safety reasons when you read this letter we will no longer be in
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France and won't be able to return for an as-yet undetermined period of time you must be wondering what's going on
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here's the story at least as much as we're allowed to tell you when we started our company in Miami in 2003 the
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person who helped us start put us in contact with the DEA a Drug Enforcement Administration a sort of American drug
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squad with agents on the ground in several countries who were looking for a French national to infiltrate the French
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nightclub scene to obtain information about drug trafficking and money laundering networks without drawing
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attention to themselves through my business route to commerce you I found myself in a different city every evening
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with a legitimate reason to make contact with nightclub bosses so I was the ideal
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candidate once I was tested and briefed I accepted my mission of working incognito for the DEA under the
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condition that I'll maintain secrecy everything has gone according to plan in the nightclubs for the last seven years
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until now with the information that I have collected in this time I have become a
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key witness in an upcoming trial involving major international drug trafficking kingpins the trial will have
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to take place in the u.s. in the next few years the date has not yet been determined what complicates matters is
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that certain tips had recently led us to believe that my cover may have been blown and unfortunately we received
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confirmation of this yesterday therefore the situation has now become potentially
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dangerous for us here and has required us to take emergency measures when I first went undercover I accepted that I
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might be placed into the federal witness protection program this is what we now have to do and we're not doing it with
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any excitement but because it's necessary and there's no way around it so we have been taken into the
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protective custody of the US government and transferred to the US and we have new identities which must of course be
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kept secret by the time you read this letter we will officially no longer exist as French citizens we will be US
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citizens living in the u.s. like any other US citizen except we will be forbidden from communicating with our
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family and friends for an undetermined period of time at least until the trial is over
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the hardest thing there is some tension with the children who couldn't tell their friends and are forbidden from
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using Facebook and other online networks we had to give up the dogs luckily someone took both of them so they won't
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be separated the children's schools are aware as Arthur's and Thomas's Atlanta Lords and Daniels's and Arthur's
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employers the official story is that we have been transferred to Australia for work without providing any specific
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details it would be good if you could spread this false story on Facebook and elsewhere we hope that doesn't drag on
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for too many years of course we send all our love and are thinking of you very much
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during this enforced separation take good care of yourselves we'll have so many stories to tell you later on Xavier
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and yes Arthur Thomas in and des Benoit the hard part is going to be getting used to our new names the letter went on
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to explain that the family had been allowed to store valuable personal items such as photos souvenirs computers
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paperwork jury and weapons into a safe but they hadn't had time to finish sorting through the rest of their
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possessions they didn't trust the Americans to do a thorough job and assigned to the task to France with the
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key to their house available in the meter box outside 70% of the household items were to be taken to the dump
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excluding several items of expensive furniture which were family heirlooms that needed to be shipped to one uses
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family some other high-value items should be sold including the family's two cars the
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Volkswagen Golf convertible and Citron's entia with the proceeds given to Xavier
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sister Christine a third car a Citroen c5 was unsellable and had already been scrapped for parts the property's
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utility services needed to be cancelled with relevant paperwork left on the dining-room table the foosball table
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entertainment equipment and musical instruments could be divided between those who helped clear out the home the
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letter specified no need to worry about the metal detector or the canoe which can stay there nor the rubble and to the
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other mess piled up on the terrace at the end of the garden and in the basement that was all there when we
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moved in through his work Xavier had been developing a loyalty system for restaurant guests and he
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encouraged a friend to pursue the project explaining it would provide his family with a comfortable income upon
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their return to France he asked his sister Christine and her husband Bertram to manage the family's bank accounts
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where payments of approximately 4000 euros would be coming in for the next few months
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Christine initially thought the letter was a joke but recognized the methodical instructions listed within were typical
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of her brother she had never quite understood what Sevilla did for work and the possibility that he was an
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undercover agent made sense to her Bertram was less convinced questioning the letters light tone and thought it
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strange that Jay Pierre took the time to detail and delegate tasks under such critical circumstances the American
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Embassy in Paris contacted the United States Drug Enforcement Administration where officials confirmed they had never
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heard of xavier dupont the lagunas and neither he nor his family were part of any witness protection scheme police
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attended the DuPont the Ligon s residence for a second time and walked through the house garden and cellar but
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once again found nothing particularly concerning it appeared as though the family had simply left in a hurry
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the timeline leading up to the family sudden departure exposed far more red flags Xavier and aeneas took three of
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their children arthur and benoit out for dinner and to see a movie on Sunday April 3 their remaining son Thomas was
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not in attendance as he spent that weekend at his college campus in on J the morning of Monday April 4 saibya
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found his wife's employer to inform them that she had fallen ill with gastro and
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wouldn't be coming in a nurse's bus later received a text message from Xavier stating her illness had worsened
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and being hospitalized when colleagues tried to reach out a text message from an us
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informs them that she was uncontacted or while in hospital at the same time Xavier found an and been while school
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excusing their absence over the coming days due to illness that evening Xavier drove to one Shea to pay Thomas a
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visit taking his son II up for a meal at a high-end restaurant the pair were courteous to staff but barely spoke to
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one another as they dined Thomason asked he wasn't feeling well and walked outside to get some fresh air and a rest
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in the car the next day Thomas was at a friend's house when he received a call from his father alerting him to his
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mother's hospitalization following a bicycle accident Thomas told his friend her injuries weren't serious but his
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father had insisted he returned home that night he sent a Facebook message to an ex-girlfriend with whom he was still
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friends to let her know before boarding a train - not at approximately 10:30 p.m. he disembarked at the city station
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a half an hour later where his father was waiting mobile phone data revealed the pair drove to the family home
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arriving at approximately 11:45 p.m. the following morning of Wednesday April 6 2
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events friends paid her a visit to see how she was doing the shudders on her bedroom window were closed there were
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lights on from inside another upstairs room suggesting someone was home a note stuck to the front door warned to
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visitors not to ring the bell as the children were sick and shouldn't be woken the girls left and to receive the
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text from man the next day explaining she was still sick and wouldn't be around for a few days that same day
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Thomas's friend texted to see how he was doing into a scent in response I'm not coming to yours a mil a second
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detects derived a later that day and read really ill I'm not coming to class their blunt and impersonal tone struck
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his friend Azad as Thomas typically wrote long warm messages peppered with jokes the same friend received a third
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and final text from Thomas the next day that read on out of battery my dad's looking for a new charger for me like
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his younger siblings Arthur had also been absent from class his college had been contacted by Xavier at the
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beginning of the week who explained to that Arthur had been hospitalized following a scooter accident Arthur's
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girlfriend went to the DuPont the Legion s home to check in but no one answered the door even though a light was on
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downstairs on Thursday April 7 a friend of Arthur's sent a text message to one yes asking if her son was ok the
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response read hi don't worry Martha has gone with his dad to the Paris region to
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help with the move he forgot his cell and my husband has forgotten his battery charger we told the school he fell off
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his scooter he'll be back on Saturday working at the pizza bar have a nice day Xavier was active over email during this
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time sending a message to a longtime friend Vincent offering him ownership of his business websites he needed a speedy
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response as he was finally fulfilling his dream of moving to the United States with his family and so they would be
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leaving the following day Vincent could assume ownership of the websites on the condition that he didn't tell anyone
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about the deal or the DuPont the lega NASA's upcoming departure Xavier's email declared if you are not
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interested the sites will disappear from the web personally I do not care I turn
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the page and go to new adventures Vincent wrote back right away agreeing to the deal and Xavier provided
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him with the relevant information and access codes immediately Vincent then sent another email asking savior for
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written authorization to manage the domain names but didn't receive her apply the following night Xavier
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responded to an email from his brother-in-law Bertram that asked how things were going with the family at
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read everything's fine bedroom you'll hear more detailed news soon through Christine bye for now for the best
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Xavier around midday on Saturday April 9 a neighbor saw Xavier out on the street
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holding a bottle of some kind by then the letters about his family's inclusion into the witness protection program were
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in circulation with the first received by Sophia's best friend and Manuel Avery read the letter multiple times unsure
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what the make of it before heading for 55 Robert Schuman Boulevard only to find no one home the house keys weren't in
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the meter box as the letter described but in their place was a handwritten post-it note informing they would be
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deposited between Sunday and Monday night that same evening Xavier arrived through
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Arthur's College where he was witnessed cleaning out his son's dorm room the next morning his metallic blue Citroen
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c5 was caught speeding by a traffic camera on the way to 1j where at nine a.m. he began clearing Thomas's room of
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its belongings a neighbor held the door open for Xavier who nonchalantly commented something along the lines of
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what you wouldn't do for your children on Monday April 11 in and benoît school received an envelope that contained a
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check covering the teenagers fees for the remainder of the academic year they also received the type 2 letter from
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Xavier advising that he was withdrawing his children as his work required the family to urgently relocate to Australia
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similar letters also arrived to one uses workplace the pizza shop where Arthur was employed as well as the colleges he
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and Tomas attended all establishing the family sudden departure overseas upon receiving the perplexing letter and uses
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boss attempted to call her that there was no response several people tried to contact the family throughout the week
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but to no avail and their Facebook accounts remained inactive two relatives who visited
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Robert Schuman Boulevard to investigate finding the house key to number 55 had since been put in the meter box upon
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entering the home they too noticed that seemingly deserted State with police examining the property soon after when
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concerns had peaked a missing-persons fall was officially opened for Xavier Aeneas Arthur Thomas and and Benoit du
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Pont de lagunes with news of their mysterious disappearance broadcast the locally investigators searching for the
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missing family looked into their finances and realized that while the close-knit household appeared well-off
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were heavily in debt in 2003 Xavier had used the majority of Vanessa's sizable inheritance to register a series of
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businesses but none garnered much success and recorded more debt than revenue the first net surf concept was
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registered in Miami following his family's trip to the United States and was intended to be a hotel and
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restaurant guide for truckers traveling sales people and to their employers the second cell ref was registered in France
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and provided corporate clients with a hotel restaurant and Conference Centre verification service
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Xavier travelled across France staying in hotels using a fake identity to vet the establishments himself his third
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business endeavor route dekimasu referred to in his letter was the French version of the net surf concept there
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were also a couple of other businesses this ABA had registered but never activated almost all of his companies
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had laid dormant for several years and between 2004 and 2009 he was officially registered as unemployed in 2009 tax
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records indicated the DuPont the Legion s household had earned a total income of
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just over 5,000 euros followed by 4,000 euros in 2010 their house rent cost 18,000 euros per annum and - this didn't
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include living expenses bills food or school fees so Xavier sought loans from relatives and friends to make ends meet
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he had also opened to multiple bank accounts and credit cards in different names
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police searched the missing family's property again on Tuesday April 19 and found several receipts for suspicious
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items purchased in the weeks leading up to their disappearance including large garbage bags a box of adhesive plastic
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paving slabs cement a shovel a hoe and 410 kilogram bags of the line the lion which had been purchased from
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several different stores throughout not was of particular interest also known as
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calcium oxide lime is a chemical compound that prevents odor and is widely incorrectly believed to speed up
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the decomposition of human remains on Thursday April 21 Robert Schuman Boulevard was closed off as detectives
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armed with a search warrant entered number 55 the investigators responsible for carrying out this search noted the house
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was messier than their colleagues had previously led them to believe with garbage bags full of clothing in the
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bedrooms and various items scattered about documents appeared to be missing as was Xavier's desktop computer the
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family's computer cell phones hard drives and two USB sticks in a bathroom cabinet detectives found several open
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two bottles of medication to treat depression and anxiety despite the house being in slight
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disarray it was otherwise clean and contained to no rubbish several empty bottles of cleaning liquids scrubbing
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brushes a mop and a broom indicated it had recently been given a thorough clean a rear door led out to a small Terrace
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that overlooked an unkempt backyard garden consisting of a patch of dirt and some sprouting weeds in xavius letter he
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had specifically told his friends and family to ignore several bulky items stored underneath the terrace claiming
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they were there when the family moved in but an officer searching the yard noticed something out of place several
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plywood boards had been fastened to the right-hand side of the terrace blocking access to underneath the house some
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boards were also lying on the ground and soil around them appeared to be fresh the officer picked up one of the board's
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finding a dog bowl she brushed aside some of the loose soil and discovered cement that had not quite said her
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crumbled when she dug her nails into it and she began digging until her fingers came into contact with something soft
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she moved to the crumbled cement aside exposing a human leg forensic investigators conducted a thorough
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search under the terrace which shed its tallest point was only 120 centimeters high in the location where the officer
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had found to the leg they came across a layer of powdered lime they dug deeper revealing the rest of the body followed
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by three others they were identified as 48 year old and yes DuPont the Legionnaires and three of her children
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20 year old Arthur 16 year old Ian and 13 year old Benoit buried with them were the family's two Labradors anguses
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remaining son 18 year old Thomas was found buried in a separate pit to the left-hand side of the terrace each
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victim was dressed for bed and had been wrapped in a sheet or blanket along with
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a Virgin Mary figurine a crucifix necklace or a set of rosary beads they were placed inside individual garbage
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bags with their heads resting against blood-stained pillows bullet shells belonging to a 22 caliber long rifle
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were also found inside the bags autopsies revealed each victim had been shot at close range
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likely with the muzzle of the rifle pressed against their bodies Vanya's Arthur and Dan had been shot twice in
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the head so had Thomas but he had also been shot twice in the chest youngest child Benoit
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had sustained the most wounds three to the head and another two to the chest the family dogs had also been shot none
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of the victims exhibited defensive wounds indicating they had likely been asleep at the time they were killed
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toxicology tests revealed trace amounts of sleeping pills in each victim except Dainius implying the children had been
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drugged before their deaths small amounts of human and animal blood was found on a mop a bucket and on a chair
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in the kitchen no fingerprints were detected on the bodies of the victims nor the materials that were wrapped in
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it appeared as though the five murders had been committed inside the home with the perpetrator going to great lengths
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to clean the crime scene the coroner was unable to determine an exact date of death but estimated the family had died
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between 10 and 21 days prior to the discovery of their remains phone records showed in had sent a text to a friend at
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12:30 a.m. on Monday April 4 and an analysis of Angela's sleep apnea machine used to help her breathe that night
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showed it stopped working a few hours later about 3:30 a.m. Annius was likely killed around 2:00 this time before the
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perpetrator went into the bedrooms of Arthur in and Benoit and executed them one at a time followed by the dogs they
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were then buried together under the terrace before the perpetrator went about meticulously cleaning the crime
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scene thomas wasn't home at the time his mother and siblings were slaughtered though he was summoned to the house the
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following evening of Tuesday April 5 by his father and was likely murdered than buried that night he's bout of illness
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while dining with Xavier the evening before might have been a reaction to sleeping pills that were planted in his
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meal though his murder didn't go ahead until the following night for reasons unknown
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the whereabouts of the deceased family's patriarch Xavier DuPont the leakiness remained unknown despite ample sightings
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of the man and continued communications from him up until he mailed out his written send-off emerging as the prime
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suspect it appeared that in the days following the murders Xavier contacted his family
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schools and workplaces and to use to their phones the texts concerned friends to evade suspicions over their absence
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he then fabricated a story about being placed into witness protection in an effort to justify their permanent
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disappearance a press conference was held immediately during which a public prosecutor described the murders as a
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methodical execution and called the content of Xavier's farewell letter delusional and contradictory an
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investigation was already underway to find him with police utilizing an automatic number plate recognition
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system that enabled them to track down Xavier Citroen c5 that was located in a hotel car park in the coastal town of
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Raqqa burned sera John's just over 1,000 kilometers southeast of Anant the car was abandoned and Xavier himself
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was nowhere to be seen news of the slangs had made national headlines a majority of the media
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stories disputed the possibility that Xavier had been working as a covert DEA agent although some entertained the idea
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members of Xavier as extended family told reporters they believed he was innocent and being held hostage
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somewhere against his will his sister Christine made an appearance on national radio station RTL urging her brother to
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come forward to police if this was not the case she acknowledged there were many signs pointing towards her
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brother's guilt but described him as a doting and affectionate father incapable of committing the crimes
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and yeses family also spoke publicly declaring they would not pass judgment until Xavier was found and could explain
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himself meanwhile a woman named Catherine had come forward to police declaring that she and Jair had recently
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ended a two-year long affair her claims were substantiated by text and email communication between the pair who had
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dated as teenagers and reconnected online in 2008 Xavier was going through a difficult period at the time as his
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father had suffered an embolism and - the affair began soon after in late 2009 and Zambia's request Catherine provided
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him with a loan of 50,000 euros with the savvy heir promising to leave his family
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for her he failed to do so and in January of 2010 he emailed Catherine explaining he was quote at the bottom of
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the hole and asked her to save him by providing another loan she refused requesting he repaid the money she had
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already lent him Xavier replied that he was three months behind on rent and only
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had 500 euros for the family's food that month with the government chasing him for tax payments in further emails you
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say Pierre said he suffered from insomnia anxiety attacks and was plagued by morbid ideas he claimed he was no
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longer in love with his wife and entertained to the idea of drugging his family with sleeping pills before
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setting their house on fire he also suggested throwing himself in front of a truck so that Annius would benefit from
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his 600,000 euro life-insurance policy Catherine broke things off with Xavier later that year and in early 2011 she
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began legal proceedings to recover the money she had loaned him Catherines legal counsel ordered a
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bailiff to attend the du Pont de Ligon s home to provide a valuation of their possessions when the bailiff visited the
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property on the morning of Tuesday April 5 no one answered the door four days later on Saturday April 9 catherine
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received a letter from xavier which included the line we had a good time together but now you will know
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00:39:10
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00:39:18
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00:39:27
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00:39:52
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00:40:00
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00:40:08
held hands and gave the impression of being perfectly happy one close friend and confidante maintained annuus were
00:40:18
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00:40:36
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00:40:45
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00:40:55
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00:41:01
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00:41:37
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00:41:45
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00:41:54
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00:42:02
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00:42:10
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00:47:35
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00:47:43
dust that had gathered on it you had no right we miss you a funeral service was held days later with the streets around
00:47:54
to the church closed to traffic to facilitate the crowds of mourners loudspeakers broadcast the service to
00:48:01
the hundreds outside who couldn't fit inside the building as individual black hearses transported the five wooden
00:48:07
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00:48:15
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00:48:27
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00:48:36
surviving member of the family xavier dupont the Legionnaires had become the number one priority
00:48:43
authorities were able to piece together his movements in the days following the murders through credit card records
00:48:49
witness reports CCTV footage and highway monitoring systems by the early afternoon of Sunday April 10 you Savior
00:48:59
had cleared out both Arthur and Thomas's dorm rooms with the latter's belongings
00:49:03
found in dumpsters nearby after traveling 90 kilometers south he stopped to eat lunch at a restaurant where he's
00:49:11
mixed demeanor was noted as both seemingly relaxed yet in a hurry by that evening here checked into a
00:49:20
hotel in the town of cou wheel bajo where he dined on steak and a red wine the next day he drove 420 kilometers
00:49:30
southeast to the town of blonde yak where he stayed in a hotel overnight he then drove 350 kilometers east to the
00:49:39
town of la Ponte and checked into a five-star Rim registering under the alias mr. Lujan Xavier with his
00:49:47
profession listed as businessman he chatted openly and confidently with staff and tried flirting with the hotel
00:49:56
manager telling them he was in the area looking for professional contacts he ate
00:50:02
dinner at the hotel restaurant and used the computer at their in-house internet cafe to search for information about a
00:50:09
controversial Catholic institution called Opus Dei the next morning Xavier continued 160 kilometers
00:50:18
southeast to the Mediterranean coastal town of lust sense of Amer where he had lived briefly before his marriage to
00:50:25
Anne yes he spent the night in a low budget hotel before traveling onwards 91 kilometers
00:50:33
the town of rocket Bruin Suraj owns an hour from the Italian border he was familiar with the area having lived
00:50:42
there with his family for two years in the 90s there Xavier dressed in a dark long-sleeved sweater
00:50:50
light-colored pants and dark glasses was captured on CCTV using an ATM to withdraw 30 euros the maximum remaining
00:50:59
on his monthly withdrawal limit he checked into another budget hotel and at 8:40 p.m. emailed his friend Vincent
00:51:09
whom he had given ownership of his business websites a week earlier he claimed to the route to commerce shoe
00:51:16
business website had been infiltrated by a virus and the site had subsequently been deleted on Friday April 15 Xavier
00:51:27
checked out of the hotel and abandoned his Citroen c5 in the car as he exited the establishment wearing a
00:51:35
backpack into carrying a duffel bag he turned him to looked directly towards a CCTV camera located at the front of the
00:51:43
building investigators interpreted this look as one of defiance or some sort of a
00:51:49
goodbye that evening the theft of a license plate from the parking lot where Xavier had to left his car was reported
00:51:58
to police from that point onwards the trail went cold the town itself was home to several small chapels leading to the
00:52:10
possibility that Xavier had chosen the area for a religious pilgrimage police searched the wooded location 500
00:52:19
meters from the hotel covering an area of 25 square kilometers but no trace of Xavier was found unsubstantiated
00:52:29
sightings placed him in the coastal city of nice near the Italian border driving
00:52:34
a sedan with Paris license plates some witnesses claimed he was alone while others put him in the company of a
00:52:42
blonde woman media speculated over the identity of Xavier's alleged female companion and drew a connection to a
00:52:51
missing woman named Colette the Rome the 50 year-old disappeared from her home in
00:52:57
the town of log 30 kilometers west of Raqqa burn Siraj owns the same day Xavier was last sighted Xavier and
00:53:06
aeneas had lived in log for a while in the early nineties and their home had been just 500 meters from Colette's
00:53:15
reporters wondered if Xavier and Colette had known each other previously and were
00:53:21
hiding together but investigators were certain there was no connection and were proven correct when Colette was aunt
00:53:28
deceased and her sister-in-law and sister and lost son were charged with her murder
00:53:37
Serbia's motive to kill his entire family was theorized to have been a blend of personal and professional
00:53:43
issues in his life with his father's death in January 2011 acting as the catalyst yet such crimes were usually
00:53:53
triggered by upcoming events rather than ones that occurred in the past psychiatrists concluded savvier was a
00:54:01
narcissist who couldn't bear to sully the DuPont Allegan s name with financial or marital failures the crime appeared
00:54:09
to be a classic case of family annihilation also known as familicide according to criminologist professor
00:54:17
David Wilson male family annihilators act for one of four reasons to enact revenge on the mother to punish the
00:54:25
family for not living up to his ideals to protect the family from what he perceives to be an external threat or
00:54:32
because he fused the family as a status symbol that no longer serves this function upon his own economic failure
00:54:40
speaking about his research to Wired magazine professor Wilson said what's interesting and different about this
00:54:49
category of murderer his family annihilators were overwhelmingly not known to criminal justice or mental
00:54:56
health services for all intents and purposes these were loving husbands and good fathers often holding down
00:55:04
high-profile jobs and seen publicly as being very very successful they were simply not on the radar
00:55:13
on Tuesday May 10 an international arrest warrant was issued meaning French officials would have the right to indict
00:55:21
up the air and put him on trial even in absentia by May 12 approximately 330 calls had come in from the public
00:55:31
reporting possible sightings of zappy air throughout France Italy and as far away as Austria though none proved
00:55:39
credible there were deliberations the fugitive was being harbored by a family member
00:55:45
yet search warrants came up empty as did inquiries into a former business associate of xavius who helped his
00:55:54
clients obtain anonymous bank cards that could be used worldwide without leaving
00:55:58
a trace it was speculated that Xavier may have employed these services to create a new identity and disappear but
00:56:07
investigators uncovered no evidence to support this theory Serbia has links to a prayer group his
00:56:15
mother founded called Philadelphia were also explored zapier had reportedly been
00:56:21
involved with the group which had been accused of being sectarian and cult-like in the past and some suspected the group
00:56:29
who may be assisting him investigators visited group members seizing computers hard drives and mobile phone records but
00:56:38
failed to uncover any direct links to their suspect as Xavier remained completely hidden over the following
00:56:46
months speculation arose that he may have entered his own life shortly after carrying out the murders the public
00:56:54
prosecutors believed this was the most likely outcome but many disagreed arguing that he wouldn't have gone to
00:57:01
such extreme lengths to plot his escape if he intended to take his own life Xavier's computer had been wiped clean
00:57:13
but the French cyber police were able to retrieve data stored on an external server hosted by the family's internet
00:57:20
provider they recovered hundreds of emails photos and texts dated between 2006 and 2010 there were emails
00:57:30
addressed to Catherine xavius former lover and several other women indicating he had participated in other
00:57:38
Affairs he maintained his habit of borrowing money from them while making false promises about the future at one
00:57:47
stage he wrote about his wife's affair quote I was lucky to offend a woman emotionally and sexually faithful I was
00:57:57
naive and confident gullible realizing after 15 years of marriage that it was not so that she had physical desires of
00:58:07
other men was the greatest personal disappointment imaginable throughout 2010 Xavier made hundreds of posts under
00:58:19
multiple usernames to an online forum titled seat catholique org in which he questioned God and his faith around a
00:58:29
year before the murders he started a thread titled necessity of sacrifices and participated in a heated debate with
00:58:37
other users he said the concept of sacrifice bloody or not human or animal is intrinsically
00:58:46
linked to all religions and especially ours in May that year he wrote 99% of the people who killed another human
00:58:58
being did it but finding it perfectly normal and justified investigators contacted the site's forum moderator who
00:59:09
revealed that Xavier had been banned several times for quote systematically deflecting all the topics he was
00:59:18
involved in whenever Xavier was banned he would create a new account and re-engage the
00:59:25
community in another recovered file user Pierre had written I think I've got a superiority complex you could call it
00:59:35
that but it's based on a simple observation I belong to a group of people who are intelligent determined
00:59:43
balanced and in good moral and physical health such people are rare compared to the masses his wife was also active on
00:59:54
online forums and in 2004 and yes regularly participated in one based around a psychology in one post she
01:00:04
wrote I already put many messages on this forum but I changed my nickname for fear that my husband recognizes me I
01:00:13
have worries about my relationship because I have a husband who is very old-fashioned in his way of being in the
01:00:20
family the father is the leader he gives an order we execute with our seeing to question or understand he plays his role
01:00:30
of head of the family of a husband who must bring back his Christ but he's neither tender nor huggable nor
01:00:38
attentive add to that big money worries and you will imagine the atmosphere several days later she wrote of lacking
01:00:49
everything including tenderness love mutual friends and sex quote he hates being made to understand that his
01:00:59
behavior does not please he feels attacked and humiliated belittled and yes also confessed to feeling attracted
01:01:09
to other men and having virtual affairs she noted that her husband had once told
01:01:15
her quote if we all die at once then everything would be over in the months leading up to the murders
01:01:30
Xavier had been in contact with several ex-girlfriends including one from Germany named Claudia the pair had
01:01:38
originally met in Paris in the early 1980s and were close to getting married until xàbia broke things off due to
01:01:46
religious differences as they had stayed in touch over the years investigators questioned whether she might have
01:01:54
information regarding his whereabouts Claudia became one of their strongest bleeds
01:01:59
however efforts to track her down were difficult as authorities didn't know her surname a friend who had accompanied
01:02:08
Xavier on a trip to Germany in 1983 said Claudia's apartment was located in the city of Hannover and police aimed to
01:02:16
launch a public appeal in February 2013 to identify and locate her but abandoned
01:02:23
the plan last-minute amid privacy concerns in April 2013 exam Pierre's brother-in-law Bertram tracked
01:02:33
down a vital email exchange between Sofia and Claudia that enabled two German officials to successfully locate
01:02:40
her nan to police traveled to Munich to question her though the result was anticlimactic she hadn't spoken to
01:02:48
Zambia recently and couldn't provide any information to further assist with the search on April 9 2013
01:02:58
as the two-year anniversary of the murders approached investigators conducted a large-scale search of
01:03:05
mountain ranges located 61 km/h stub the town where Xavier was last seen the area
01:03:13
featured old steep and difficult to access led mines that had been used to conceal the bodies
01:03:19
of murder victims in the past acting on the possibility that Xavier had taken his life in this remote area cave divers
01:03:28
searched to the old mines but found no sign of him they returned several weeks later on May 2
01:03:36
focusing on a two hectare area of woodlands that contained mines cavities wells and caves but once again uncovered
01:03:45
nothing of value close to two months later the body of a heavily decomposed man was found hanging from a tree in a
01:03:54
wooded area 20 kilometres from exactly as last known whereabouts anticipation that the body was that of Xavier du Pont
01:04:03
de la jeunesse was quickly dismissed by DNA testing despite the overwhelming evidence to suggest otherwise he's
01:04:15
Abby's mother Genevieve and sister Christine refused to believe he was guilty and were convinced of his story
01:04:22
about working undercover for the DEA they believed that the murders were part of a conspiracy who orchestrated by
01:04:29
United States officials to cover-up the family's admission into witness protection they based their theory on
01:04:37
the belief that the bodies found under the DuPont the Legion s home were not those of æneas Arthur
01:04:43
Thomas n and Benoit but decoys neither woman was given the opportunity to view the bodies which they believed had been
01:04:53
released for burial suspiciously quickly however in cases where heavy decomposition has occurred DNA testing
01:05:02
and dental records are used to save families from the trauma of viewing their loved ones disfigured remains is
01:05:10
Jahnavi event Christine also noted the heights and weights of the victims were out by a few centimeters on their
01:05:16
autopsy reports yet the bodies were buried more than two weeks before they were discovered meaning some level of
01:05:25
shrinkage was to be expected they pointed out xavius behavior was not akin to someone who had just carried out
01:05:33
a violent crime and was on the run from the police he made no attempt to hide his purchase of garbage bags lime cement
01:05:41
bullets or the silencer for his rifle following his escape Musa Pierre used his credit cards to pay
01:05:50
for hotels and allowed himself to be recorded on CCTV actions his family believed the murderer fleeing
01:05:57
authorities would never do they referred to the arthritis in his shoulder and his
01:06:03
recurring back problem to prove he wouldn't have been able to dig the mass grave under the terrace which required
01:06:09
moving two and a half cubic meters of solid earth in April 2012 one year after the murders Christine created a blog
01:06:21
titled another point of view on the DuPont the Legion s case in which she shared aspects of the case she found
01:06:29
questionable details about Xavier's character and what she regarded as evidence that supported her theory she
01:06:38
acknowledged that her family's findings were shocking but that they needed to be highlighted
01:06:43
to ensure exactly--i benefitted from the presumption of innocence in her blog Christine claimed that
01:06:51
Sevilla had sent an email to two of his friends less than a year before the murders saying that if an accident were
01:06:57
ever to befall his family quote I hope that even after a police investigation my parents brothers and sisters will
01:07:07
never be led to believe that I intentionally caused these accidents even if the evidence is strong he
01:07:17
reportedly asked his friends to store the email in a special folder in case it could help him out in the future
01:07:24
Christine also reported that around at the end of March 2011 an anxious and scared and yes told two friends from her
01:07:33
prayer group that someone had been making threats against her and Xavier Annius had allegedly changed her email
01:07:41
address and phone number with one friend claiming quote it seemed like she wanted
01:07:48
to cut the bridges with something or someone Christine was certain nanny s was complicit in the plan to leave and
01:07:57
that the text messages purportedly sent to friends from Thomas and Dan's mobile phones afterwards were written in a way
01:08:04
that was characteristic of their mother the blog also alleged that Annius sent friends an email post departure that
01:08:13
simply contained a photo of the Statue of Liberty xavius family retained a lawyer named Steven Goldstein to
01:08:22
represent their interests in a 2013 interview with Lapua magazine he said my position as a lawyer is not easy this
01:08:34
file is out of the ordinary and even if I do not share that this is alleged by my clients I can not dismiss any
01:08:41
hypothesis because in this file errors were made huge flaws remain we do not even know when the victims were killed
01:08:52
in reality there is no certainty in this case it that bodies were discovered at 55 Robert
01:09:01
Schuman Boulevard despite reports stating otherwise Goldstein claimed to the DNA tests had only established a
01:09:10
familial relationship between the victims but did not confirm there were members of the DuPont the leonesse
01:09:16
family he described the autopsy reports as negligent and said there was no way jabya could have dug the hole under the
01:09:25
terrace alone quote there is enough evidence in this file to tip the balance in favor of my clients assumptions I
01:09:34
searched the truth without assuming xavier dupont the Ligon SS guilt in this case it was assumed that zapier had
01:09:43
murdered his family before disappearing no other trail was explored [Music] the case remained open and as the months
01:09:56
and years passed with Xavier still missing armchairs Lutz gathered online to discuss the ongoing investigation and
01:10:04
the prime suspects possible whereabouts or outcome some speculated that Xavier had gone on the run not from law
01:10:12
enforcement but from another unknown threat relatives of the DuPont the Legionnaires family joined in on the
01:10:19
debates offering further insight into exactly as background some were willing to believe his sister's theory that the
01:10:27
family was still alive on Wednesday July 15 2015 just over four years after the murders
01:10:37
her paris-based to journalists working for the International News Agency our Jean's france-presse received an
01:10:44
envelope by post it contained a candid photograph of brothers arthur and benoit du Pont the leakiness sitting side by
01:10:53
side at a dining room table Arthur appeared to be mid conversation with someone on the other side of the
01:11:00
table while Benoit was eating a meal and looking down at his plate handwritten in
01:11:06
French on the back of the photo whether capitalized the words I am still alive underneath in smaller writing her read
01:11:17
from then until this time not July 11 2015 and was signed with the name Javier du Pont de la jeunesse debate
01:11:32
soared over whether the message was genuine or not the photo had never been published before yet Arthur and Benoit
01:11:40
appeared to be the same age in the image as they were at the time of their murder
01:11:45
members of Xavier's family dismissed it as a fake adamant that Xavier would reach out to them long before he
01:11:52
contacted the press additionally had seemed almost impossible that he would still be in not
01:11:59
a photojournalist from not thought he recognized the photo and went digging through his archives
01:12:06
he discovered that in 2011 he had seen the image during the silent march held in the wake of the murders and taken a
01:12:14
photo of it which he still had on file confirming that was not recent the photo and envelope were tested for DNA and
01:12:24
fingerprints while the handwriting was analyzed with police ultimately dismissing it as a
01:12:29
hoax over the years alleged sightings of xavier dupont the lagunas continued to be reported from far and wide including
01:12:42
one in central france on Monday October 17 2016 a man bearing a strong resemblance to Xavier caught the
01:12:51
attention of bystanders after fleeing a casino without claiming his winnings after reviewing CCTV footage
01:12:59
investigators deemed to the resemblance to be so remarkable that the sighting seemed too reliable a spokesperson told
01:13:07
the media this is a highly sensitive affair and we are doing all we can to verify the likeness we fully intend to
01:13:17
bring this man to justice a manhunt was launched and the individual was located who turned out to
01:13:25
be no more than a look-alike 14 months later police received the tip-off that Xavier was seeking refuge in an isolated
01:13:35
monastery in Raqqa Brune sera Jones that served as a place of worship for a reclusive Order of Catholic monks given
01:13:43
its proximity to the location where Xavier was last seen it had already been searched in 2011 but no sign of the
01:13:51
fugitive was uncovered in 2018 two worshipers recognized one of the monks who regularly served Mass as bearing a
01:14:01
resemblance to Xavier during morning Mass on Tuesday January 9 2008 een two plain clothes detectives entered the
01:14:11
chapel where four monks including the one suspected to be Xavier were giving the Holy Sacrament to four worshippers
01:14:19
the one purported to be Xavier was identified as 53 year old brother who's younger a Joseph who was oblivious to
01:14:27
the fact he'd been pinned as the wanted mass murderer brother Joseph had been living at the monastery for many years
01:14:35
including when the murders took place he later told a French News Network that while he could accept that his age and
01:14:43
higher correspondent with Xavier's the two born no other resemblances he found it hard to conceive that a monastery
01:14:52
could be suspected of hiding a mass murderer and said that if Xavier had approached he would have told him to
01:14:58
surrender the DuPont the Ligon s house on Robert Schuman Boulevard remained under the
01:15:08
seal of the judicial police until 2012 in 2014 it was renovated repainted and put on the market
01:15:17
where it's at for over a year in January of 2015 have finally sold to a couple for less than half of the original
01:15:26
asking price as of late 2019 the case is still open and will remain so as long as
01:15:34
the examining magistrate deems necessary over the years there have been over 900
01:15:41
reported sightings of the suspect but none have ever been confirmed 58 year-old xavier dupont Iligan s is said
01:15:50
to be one of the most wanted men in france however as Kristine highlighted on her
01:15:55
blog her brother does not appear on Interpol's list of wanted persons Christine's blog is no longer active
01:16:04
she made her final post on May 13 2013 saying she had shared all the available information and it had served its
01:16:13
purpose she explained to those who knew Savior and yes Arthur Thomas and aunt Benoit
01:16:21
DuPont the Liga ness personally would inevitably always share a different perspective from the public reiterating
01:16:28
her belief that the family's disappearance was not criminal but part of a classified case the blog refers to
01:16:37
a famous quote from Mahatma Gandhi which says an era does not become truth by a reason of multiplied propagation
01:16:46
nor does truth become error because nobody sees it the theory that Xavier took his own life following the murders
01:16:57
remains prevalent some argue this would have gone against his religious beliefs her suicide is considered a mortal sin
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in Catholicism but according to the book the DuPont the lagunes case by journalist guy hoon yet Xavier had
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become disillusioned with his faith and had debated with family members in the past about the moral issues surrounding
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suicide it didn't pose a problem to Xavier who argued that everyone has the right to end their own life some believe
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he had been planning the murder suicide for several months to escape his mounting financial problems and had gone
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to great lengths to cover it up because he didn't want to be identified as someone who would kill his own family in
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2016 his Janvrin a person ik the former head of non judicial police said we work
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on facts not impressions without proof of death the only method that is worth considering is living
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if zabi s corpse is discovered authorities have confirmed he will be presumed guilty and the case will be
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closed on Friday October 11 2009 teen as the case ball team was preparing this episode the following news made
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headlines across the world airport staff had the Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris contacted authorities after a man
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boarded a flight to Scotland using a stolen French passport the passenger was arrested without incident upon his
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arrival to the city of Glasgow hours later news reports announced that fingerprint analysis had confirmed the
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man to be Xavier du Pont de Legionnaires who had undergone drastic plastic surgery to change his facial features
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news of the arrests quickly made worldwide headlines but in the early hours of Sunday October 13 it was
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announced that UK authorities had made a mistake the man was actually 69 year old
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Portuguese national guys o el who board no physical resemblance to Zambia and was not connected to the case in any way
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God was released after spending a night in custody with reports stating he and his family were very distressed by the
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incident French officials have placed the blame for the error on Scottish police who claimed they were simply
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acting under instructions from the French authorities the true whereabouts of Xavier DuPont the Legionnaires remain
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