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Oct 26, 2022 · In April 2011, police dug up the back garden of the Dupont de Ligonnès family and made a shocking discovery. Agnès Dupont de Ligonnès and her four children had been shot and their bodies buried under the back patio of their own home, and their father, Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès, had disappeared.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) - For the friends and family of 44-year-old Michelle Dresch, it’s been a nightmare of a week. Dresch was stabbed at her home off E. Oldham Ave. on Monday, while Virgil...
- The Dupont de Ligonnès Murders
- A Murder Suspect in Plain Sight
- Is Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès Still Alive?
- Sightings of Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès
Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès was a French noblemanliving in Nantes with his wife Agnès and their four children: Arthur, Thomas, Anne, and Benoît. The family was well-liked and, according to those who know them, a picture-perfect bunch. But on the evening of April 11, 2011, neighbor Estelle Chapon noticed that the family’s house seemed unusually quiet....
The shocking discovery of the Dupont de Ligonnès family murders shook the city and reverberated across the country. The details were horrifying. Each family member had been buried with religious icons. Autopsies later showed the children were drugged with sleeping pills. The wife had no drugs in her system, but she was known to use a sleep apnea ma...
The fact that Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès’ body was never recovered fed wild theories surrounding the case. Did he indeed commit suicide in a mysterious location — or was he still on the run? Some who knew the Frenchman remain convinced that he is not only dead but also innocent. They believe that the doting husband and father they knew would never h...
Since 2011, the year of the Dupont de Ligonnès murders, the French police have received over 900 possible sightings of Xavier, some of them within French borders. In 2018, investigators searched a monasteryin the village of Roquebrune-sur-Argens after receiving a tip about a monk. But after a thorough investigation, it turned out the monk was just ...
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Jun 20, 2024 · The Knoxville Police Department has identified the victim of a fatal stabbing on Oldham Avenue as 44-year-old Michelle Dresch. Authorities responded to the scene on the morning of June 17 after...
2 days ago · The mother of murdered Hexham teenager Holly Newton has said she was unable to touch her in hospital because "my daughter was a crime scene". Micala Trussler read out a powerful statement in ...
Jun 19, 2024 · When officers arrived on the scene, they reportedly found a woman, later identified as 44-year-old Michelle Dresch, who had been stabbed at least once and transported her to UT Medical Center, where she was eventually pronounced dead.
The Dupont de Ligonnès murders and disappearance also known as "la tuerie de Nantes" involved the murder of five members of the same family in Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, France, followed by the disappearance of the patriarch of the family, Xavier Pierre Marie Dupont de Ligonnès.
