Guest of Europe 1 this Sunday, the deputy director of the judicial police of the national gendarmerie, General Philippe Lecouffe, returned to scientific progress which allows the resolution of "cold cases", when a suspect has just be confused for a murder committed in 2001.

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It is a new "cold case" which has just been resolved 19 years after the close of the investigation. This is the case of the murder of a 55-year-old woman, Chantal de Chillou de Saint Albert, whose lifeless body was discovered on August 2, 2001 on a path by the river in the Drôme. Only eight months after the resumption of the investigation by the investigation board "cold case" (PICC) of the judicial pole of the national gendarmerie of Pontoise, it is thanks to the DNA left on a cigarette butt that the alleged murderer of 36-year-old could have been confused, charged and placed in pre-trial detention on Saturday. 

A big step forward in the resolution of this case that we owe to "the tenacity of the gendarmes", but also to "the evolution of techniques", explains this Sunday in the "Big evening newspaper" of Europe 1 the deputy director of the judicial police of the national gendarmerie, General Philippe Lecouffe. 

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