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Check out this information on the cult killings in Burgundy, France (a
medievil village full of ancient castles, including some owned the
Rothschild family)

This case began with the 1991 discovery of imprisoned and tortured
slaves, led to the discovery of several buried bodies, and involved
emerging evidence of a network that had killed possibly hundreds of
people.
(It also featured a massive coverup, a deluge of closed investigations,
destroyed evidence,
compromised judges found deliberately negligent and fired, and an
investigator murdered.)

http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/predators/auxerre/index.html



Joanna


On the morning of May 17, 1990, Patrice Bardot, an unemployed dustman,
traveled from his home in the French village of Mon?teau to the
nearby Yonne River for a day of fishing. Not long after he arrived he
noticed something floating in the water. Initially, he believed it was
a bobbing barrel, but as he drew nearer he was shocked to realize it
was a nude human body.

Bardot immediately flagged down a woman jogging on a nearby path and
alerted her of the gruesome find. The jogger then ran toward a caf?,
where the police were called. The authorities soon arrived and
conducted what would later be considered a terribly bungled
investigation.

The police cornered off a small section of land close to where the body
was found and began searching for clues. However, investigators ignored
a large portion of the surrounding area, most of which had been
trampled by police, emergency personnel, onlookers and vehicles.
According to an Expatica.com article by Graham Tearse, the secured area
was "released to the public just several hours later" and the following
day it was further trampled by children on a field trip. Had there been
any evidence, it was likely lost from the contamination of the crime
scene.

The body was withdrawn from the river and taken to a nearby hospital
for identification and autopsy. The woman was identified as 20-year-old
Joanna Parrish, who was from Gloucestershire, England. Joanna was
enrolled in a modern languages work/study program at Leeds University
and took a position as an assistant English teacher at a secondary
school in the nearby town of Auxerre. She was working on a bachelor's
degree in modern languages at Leeds University. At the time of her
death she was only one week away from completing her posting.

An autopsy revealed that Joanna had been drugged, tied up, raped,
beaten and strangled before being dumped into the river. It was
suspected that her body had been in the water only several hours prior
to it being found. Even though the body was discarded in broad
daylight, police were unable to find any witnesses. They believed that
whoever murdered Joanna was probably familiar with the area and could
have even resided in the immediate vicinity. Yet, police were unable to
produce any suspects.

According to Tearse, Joanna had a friend named Janet visiting from
Canada around the time of her death. Janet claimed that Joanna placed
an advertisement in a local newspaper offering English lessons. She
planned to use the money to fund a holiday trip with her fianc?e.

Investigators learned that a local man responded to Joanna's ad by
phone and was interested in hiring her to teach his teenage son. They
made arrangements to meet at 7 p.m. on May 16 at the town's square in
Auxerre. Tearse suggested that on that day, Janet joined Joanna on her
trip into town and they walked around for a while before they separated
at about 6:30 pm.

Joanna went to meet the man at the town square. It was the last time
Janet ever saw her again. Tearse said that Joanna never told Janet the
name of the man she was planning to meet.

Several weeks after her body was discovered, Joanna was buried in
Gloucestershire. Her parents, Roger and Pauline, went to Auxerre and
hired a lawyer to assist them in their gaining access to information
concerning the case from the magistrate and the police detectives. They
wanted to closely follow the investigation, hoping that it would
eventually lead to the apprehension of their daughter's murderer. Their
expectations were quickly shattered when they realized how inadequately
the case was being handled.

At the time, Roger and Pauline didn't know that their daughter's murder
was not an isolated case. In fact, there were many unsolved murders and
disappearances in the Burgundy region, most of which were grossly
mismanaged, completely ignored and even discarded. Many suspected that
high-level officials were trying to cover-up the fact that Burgundy had
an unusually high murder rate for such a tiny province. It was
something that could not be hidden for long.

Negligence


The investigation into Joanna's death was bungled from the beginning.
The crime scene was turned into a forensic disaster. Moreover, much of
the information gathered during the investigation was kept from
Joanna's family, who desperately tried to learn what advances were
being made in the case.

Tearse suggested that during a British inquest into Joanna's murder,
critical evidence was discovered that was ignored or overlooked by
French coroners. He claimed that a second autopsy, conducted by the
British, revealed several bite marks on Joanna's body. From a forensic
standpoint, bite marks are vital clues that can reveal information
about the killer because teeth, bite and jaw formations are
individually unique and can be easily matched. The revelation shocked
Joanna's parents who couldn't comprehend how something so obvious and
important could have gone unnoticed.

During the autopsy, medical examiners were able to obtain sperm
samples. It took two years for the samples to be analyzed, but the
results led to a genetic print. The DNA evidence was one of the biggest
clues in the investigation and Roger and Pauline hoped that it would
lead investigators to the killer. However, they were not so fortunate.

Tearse said, "investigators refused to call for voluntary DNA tests of
the local male population and continued to refuse to make a media
appeal for witnesses." It was another blow to the investigation and a
major disappointment for Roger and Pauline. Frustrated at the
incompetence of police, Joanna's family decided to take measures into
their own hands.

They family offered a reward for information into Joanna's death and
handed out leaflets in and around Auxerre and Mon?teau. They even
appealed to the British government for assistance. Even though they
were unsuccessful in getting help from the British government they did
manage to get some interesting responses to their leaflets.

Several people called offering some information directly concerning
Joanna's death. Roger and Pauline eagerly presented the new leads to
the French authorities. However, for some unknown reason the
investigators failed to pursue the tips.

Isabelle Laville, victim
Isabelle Laville, victim
The family members of other murdered victims in Burgundy responded to
the leaflets. Roger and Pauline learned that three other young women,
Isabelle Laville, 17, Danielle Bernard, 39, Sylvie Baton, 24, were
murdered near or in Auxerre between 1987 and 1990. Their families were
angered because they also felt as if the investigators were mishandling
the cases of their deceased loved ones.

Eventually, Roger and Pauline discovered that there were approximately
13 more unsolved murders and disappearances of women in the Auxerre
area over the last 30 years. Interestingly, investigators working on
Joanna's case never told them about the spate of murders, two of which
occurred within months of their daughter's death.

Roger and Pauline tried to obtain Joanna's case files so they could
bring in outside help to assist in the investigation. However,
investigators continued to deny them access to the documents. Even
though it seemed as if they were battling a lost cause, they refused to
give up in their search for evidence.

Among the 17 girls missing or found murdered were seven pupils from the
Medical-Educational Institute, a special needs school for handicapped
young women in Auxerre. The girls, 16 to 22 years old, were accounted
for in December 2000, when a former bus driver of the school made a
startling confession. Emile Louis, 68, admitted to police that he had
sex with the seven pupils and then murdered them sometime between 1977
and 1979.

When the girls first began to disappear, the police interviewed Louis
because he was known to have a history of sex offenses. However, they
did not pursue him for long and eventually he was disregarded as a
potential suspect. Eventually, the cases were dropped and the girls
were listed as runaways.

Emile Louis, mugshot
Emile Louis, mugshot
Louis continued to drive female pupils to and from school. It is also
believed that he continued to rape and kill them indiscriminately. He
would not be looked at as a suspect for almost another two decades.

Hugh Schofield's article Mystery of France's Missing Girls suggested
that there were similarities between many of the cases. He quoted
Corinne Herrmann, a French lawyer and author of the book The
Disappeared of the Yonne, stating that the girls were either mentally
handicapped, "or like Joanna far from home." Moreover, according to
Stuart Jeffries 2000 article for The Observer, witnesses were able to
place Louis near the spots where many of the victims were last seen.

Scene where bodies found
Scene where bodies found
Louis was caught almost two decades later when his daughter found items
in his house belonging to several of the victims. During his
confession, Louis told authorities that he buried the girls near the
Yonne River. Only the skeletal remains of two girls were ever
recovered.

Not long after his admission of guilt, Louis changed his story. He
claimed that he was pressured into giving false testimony and that he
actually didn't commit the murders. In a January 2002 article in The
Guardian by Jon Henley, Louis insisted that "the girls were routinely
abused and finally abducted and killed by a nebulous ring of men 'of
some standing, locally and in the region." Not surprisingly, Louis'
story was met with skepticism by local investigators.

Louis could not be charged with the murders anyway because under French
law it was considered unlawful to convict anyone of a murder 10 years
after a crime was committed. According to Jeffries, Louis was instead
"convicted for kidnapping, for which there is no statue of
limitations." The authorities believed Louis could have been involved
in some of the other murder cases, yet there was not enough evidence to
convict him.

One thing was for certain: Louis could not have been directly
responsible for Joanna's death. At the time of her murder, he was
serving a prison sentence for sexually assaulting a minor.
Nevertheless, Schofield suggested that a private investigation
conducted for 13 years by French police agent Christian Jambert, 56,
"clearly established that Louis was linked to all the women." It was
believed that he was affiliated with a sex ring operation that
prostituted, abused and even murdered many girls in the region,
possibly including Joanna.

Christian Jambert, victim
Christian Jambert, victim
Initially the authorities ignored Jambert's theories, but an incident
in 1984 led them to reconsider the idea that there was indeed a sex
ring in the area. That January, a 19-year-old girl was found wandering
the streets of Auxerre in a confused state. When the police picked her
up and questioned her she claimed that she was held captive in the
basement of a nearby house, where she was sexually abused and tortured.


The girl's testimony led the police to the home of Claude and Monique
Dunand, known friends of Emile Louis. Stuart said that when they
searched the house, they found another girl in the cellar, "naked and
suspended from a ladder by her wrists." He further claimed that for
approximately 15 years, local handicapped girls were lured to the
house, locked up, fed dog food and repeatedly raped and tortured by
invited guests. However, there was no indication that any of the girls
were murdered.

Claude Dunand was eventually convicted of kidnapping and given a life
sentence in 1991. His wife Monique received two years for accessory to
the crimes. According to Andrew Alderson and Kim Willsher's article 'I
Want Justice for Joanna,' Yonne crime reporter Ludovic Berger stated,
"Claude Dunand has always said that politicians, industrialists and
magistrates were involved but he has refused to name them." The article
further suggested that a list of at least 50 clients "rumored to
include several French 'notables' who paid to torture and abuse"
captive girls was discovered by police and handed over to the Auxerre
Courthouse. However, the list mysteriously disappeared from a courtroom
and has never been found.

It was not the only document that went missing. In fact, there were
more than 100 murder and missing person case files from between 1958
and 1982 that vanished from the courthouse. Moreover, the court ledger
documenting the investigations also vanished. It became increasingly
clear that someone was either trying to cover up the crimes or the
Auxerre Courthouse had a serious management problem.

Christian Jambert was almost certain he knew who was behind Burgundy's
rash of murders and missing person cases, and he was convinced that
Louis was one of the primary culprits. However, he also believed that
Louis was only one of many involved in the crimes. Jambert kept
meticulous notes and diaries concerning the cases, along with the
evidence he collected over the years. In 1997, he made preparations to
present his findings during a new inquiry. Yet, he never got the chance
to reveal what he worked so hard to acquire.

In August of that year, just several days before the inquiries were
scheduled to begin, Jambert was found dead in the basement of his
Auxerre home. An autopsy revealed that he died from a single gunshot
wound to the head. Medical investigators claimed that Jambert had a
history of depression. It was believed that his poor mental state
prompted him to end his life. His death was listed as a suicide.

Marylise Lebranchu
Marylise Lebranchu
By the late 1990s, the mounting scandal in Auxerre gained international
attention. People were shocked by the negligence exhibited in the
investigations and the fact that more than 100 files, mostly of missing
women, had gone missing from Auxerre's Courthouse. According to Harry
de Quetteville's January 2002 article in The Telegraph, the scandal was
"taken so seriously in Paris that Marylise Lebranchu, the French
justice minister, ordered a series of internal investigations."
Joanna's murder case was one of those selected for re-examination and
it was further linked with the inquiry into the seven girls Louis once
claimed to have murdered.

Not surprisingly, Joanna's parents welcomed the decision of a new
inquiry. They waited more than a decade for her investigation to be
reopened. BBC News Online stated that Roger, "was hopeful there would
be progress in the investigation and the potential capture of the
killer."

Investigators working on the case quickly realized that there was a
possibility someone tampered with Joanna's murder file. Witness
statements, which were obtained at the time of her murder, were missing
from her dossier. Moreover, important DNA evidence taken during the
autopsy also disappeared from the file for more than a decade before it
was found again.

Madeline Dejust, victim
Madeline Dejust, victim
During the investigation, it was suggested that Joanne and many of the
other girls that were murdered or missing were likely the victims of an
organized sex gang operating around Auxerre. Yet, because so many of
the facts were missing, there was not enough evidence available to
convict anyone.

The only exception was the case of the seven missing girls Louis
initially claimed to have murdered before retracting his confession.
Investigators continued to believe he was involved in their
disappearances and murders. A re-examination of his case was ordered,
with the hope of uncovering more evidence linking Louis or anyone else
to the girls.

Seven missing girls, victims
Seven missing girls, victims

Many in the community believed that the murder cases were deliberately
ignored and the files stolen or destroyed because they implicated
high-level officials. Investigators re-examining the cases determined
that it was more likely that gross negligence on behalf of local
magistrates was to blame for the mishandling of the cases. In all
likelihood, it was probably a combination of both theories that
prevented anyone from being apprehended for the crimes.

In March 2002, four magistrates from Burgundy faced accusations of
gross negligence in the cases of missing and murdered women in their
region. The judges included former chief prosecutors Rene Meyer and
Jacques Cazals and former deputy prosecutors Daniel Stilinovic and
Bertrand Daillie. The men were ordered to appear before a panel of six
senior judges, who would review the cases over a three-day period.

According to a 2002 article by Susan Bell in The Scotsman, accused
magistrate Stilinovic admitted that "there were people who allowed
information to be stifled." He was further quoted saying "magistrates
tampered with procedures on behalf of people they wanted to protect. It
is a conspiracy at the very top." However, he maintained his innocence,
suggesting that he did not stifle any of the investigations. His peers
thought otherwise.

The panel returned a verdict in late March and found Stilinovic guilty
of negligence. He received the severest penalty and was dismissed from
his position. Cazals was also found guilty and transferred from his
prestigious post in Paris. Meyer, who was retired at the time of the
inquiry, was stripped of his honorary title after he too was found
guilty. Daillie received no punishment.

New Evidence


In August 2002, investigators found new clues during their inquiry into
Joanna's murder. They revealed that recently recovered DNA evidence
pointed to two men being involved in the rape and murder of Joanna. The
BBC News further stated in their article "Fresh Clues in Joanna Murder
Hunt" that new documents were found which indicated that police
arrested a suspect in connection with Joanna's murder early in the
investigation. Yet, he was released because of lack of evidence.

Investigators are continuing to follow up on the new leads, hoping that
it might result in the arrest of her killers. However, a great deal of
time has passed since her death and the chances of solving the crime
have significantly decreased over the years. Regardless, Joanna's
family and law enforcement officials re-examining the case have not
given up hope.

In April 2004, more new evidence arose concerning the suicide of
Jambert. According to Alderson and Willsher's article, Corinne Herrmann
received access to Jambert's files while she was conducting research
into the case of the Burgundy's missing and murdered girls. She became
suspicious of his death and believed he might have been murdered. She
just had to prove her theory.

Herrmann, author of Les Disparues D'Auxerre, convinced Jambert's
children to exhume their father's body so that another autopsy could be
conducted. After several days of examining the remains, the medical
investigators made a startling discovery. Alderson and Willsher claimed
that Jambert had been shot not once, but twice in the head making it
almost impossible for him to have committed suicide.

Herrmann's suspicions were proven correct and she persuaded area
magistrates to begin a murder inquiry. It was believed that his murder
was directly linked with the investigation on which he was working.
Even though investigators interviewed several possible suspects, no one
has yet been convicted for the crime.

Jambert's case, like Joanna's, is being pursued with more vigor than
ever before. Moreover, investigators continue to review the Louis case.
They are hoping to put an end to the disappearances and murders that
have plagued Burgundy for so many years. Moreover, they hope to restore
the reputation of the beautiful, medieval town that has attracted
visitors from around the world for centuries.

Emile Louis Trial


Emile Louis
Emile Louis

On November 2, 2004, Emile Louis' murder trial finally began in
Auxerre, France despite repeated attempts to throw out the case.
According to a November 3, 2004 AP Worldstream article, Louis' lawyers
requested that the case be delayed until after the European Court of
Human Rights ruled "on their bid to dismiss the case" because they
believed "the crimes took place too long ago for the case to be legally
valid." However, the court rejected the defense request and ordered the
resumption of Louis' trial.

The 70-year-old retired bus driver, convicted of the murders of seven
mentally handicapped women, continued to deny he was responsible for
the murders even though he confessed to them years earlier. It is hoped
that the trial will finally reveal the truth as to how the girls died.
The trial is expected to last four weeks. If convicted, Louis could
face life imprisonment.

The case is considered one of France's most controversial scandals
because the investigation was bungled and many of the case files
dealing with the girls' disappearances, as well as other cases of
murdered and missing women went missing from the Auxerre Courthouse. It
is believed that the files were destroyed in order to cover up a
high-level sex ring, which allegedly involved some prominent French
officials.

Auxerre Courthouse
Auxerre Courthouse

AP Worldstream reported that, "more than 90 witnesses including
magistrates, social workers, police officers and family members of the
victims are to testify at the trial." Many other family members of the
victims are expected to fill the courthouse, in the hopes of seeing
Louis brought to justice after escaping prosecution for the murders for
approximately twenty-five years. The father of British student Joanna
Parrish, who was murdered in Auxerre in 1990, is also expected to be in
attendance.

Inside court, security measures
Inside court, security measures

Since the onset of the trial there has been an upsurge of media and
public interest, which has led to security concerns. Moreover, there is
concern for Louis' personal safety and the authorities want to prevent
the possibility of someone taking justice into their own hands. In
response, safety measures were taken to secure the perimeter around the
courthouse, Mie Kohiyama reported for Agence France-Presse. There is no
doubt that Louis is considered by many to be one of France's most
reviled citizens.

Rachael Bell


Rachael Bell has completed master's degrees in clinical and health
psychology and is currently working on her PhD in the field of
psychology. On a part-time basis, she instructs bachelor and master's
level courses in psychology. She lives in Europe with her husband and
two children.
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