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Fortunately, for a country the size of France, there are few murders.
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And there are even fewer murders of such children to terrorize the hearts of parents around the world.
But just after noon on May 5, 1986, Cécile Bloch’s mother called home to make sure her daughter was home for lunch. As she did not answer the phone, the worried mother called the girls’ school.
Cécile never went to school that day.
The frantic mother called her husband and he got a guard check around the Paris apartment building where they lived.
The body of the 11-year-old was found under an old carpet in the basement of the building.
A witness said he saw a man with a pockmarked face nearby. That face would appear again and again.
For nearly four decades, the mystery of the pockmarked killer – or “Le Grele” – has vexed French homicide detectives. There have been more murders.
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On June 9, 1994, the high school student Karine Leroy disappeared on the way to school. His body was discovered three days later.
Air France mechanic Gilles Politi, 38, and his German au pair Irmgard Muller were murdered in May 1987 in Paris.
In all three murders, the victims were strangled.
And until this week, they weren’t any closer to catching the monster in four gruesome murders and six rapes since he started his madness in 1986.
Now the cops say the manhunt ended with the discovery of the body of a man that detectives believe to be the killer.
According to AFP, the body of the alleged serial killer – a former police officer – was discovered Wednesday in the southern town of Grau-du-Roi.
The French news magazine Le Point and the newspaper Le Parisien identified the deceased only as François V, 59 years old.
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It is believed that investigators were starting to get closer to François V. when he committed suicide.
The deceased left a suicide note and identified himself as the notorious monster who began killing in 1986 with the rape and murder of Cécile Bloch. He identified himself as Le Grele and the police performed DNA tests to confirm his identity.
Le Parisien reported that detectives were focusing on François V. and ordered him to appear before an investigating judge. He never showed up and instead committed suicide.
The suspect reportedly said in his suicide note that at the time of the rapes and murders he was not in a stable state of mind. But since that time, he wrote, he had “come together.”
OLD SCHOOL: NABS COLD CASE KILLER LEATHER SHOE
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Patricia Moreno was just a child with her whole life ahead of her when she was murdered in Malden, Massachusetts.
In many long and cold cases, it’s DNA and other modern wonders that bring the killers to justice. In Moreno’s case, it was old-fashioned shoe leather.
“This is a case which was not resolved by a new development in forensic science, but as a result of hard investigative work and a change of circumstances for some parties involved. Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan told reporters.
According to the cops, on July 20, 1991, officers responded just after 3 a.m. to an apartment in Malden where they found Moreno lying on the landing of the fire escape. The 17-year-old had a single gunshot wound to the head but was still alive.
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Tragically, doctors determined that she suffered irreversible brain damage and died later that day. At the time, she was living with a foster family.
Enter Rodney Daniels, 48. He had been in a relationship with one of Moreno’s adoptive mother’s teenage daughters and was at the scene when the teenager was shot, but told cops he was sleeping in a chair when he heard two shots of fire.
There was no sign of the break-in and detectives did not retrieve the cartridge cases or cartridge cases from the crime scene. But the cops found out Daniels had guns – lots of them. Moreover, they also learned that he had threatened Moreno.
Last year, the Cold Affairs Unit looked into the case again. A witness who had left the country a long time ago said he saw a man come back from the fire escape into the apartment and close the door. The description matched Daniels.
He was arrested in Georgia without incident and charged with murder.
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