She had disappeared six years ago in the Ardennes. The body of Anaïs Guillaume has been found on land owned by his former lover, Philippe Gillet, sentenced for his murder last April.

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Six years after its opening, the Anaïs Guillaume affair has just taken a decisive turn. The body of the young woman, missing in 2013, has been found this week on the grounds of his former lover, sentenced last April. And it is the research initiated by the daughter of this farmer that helped to move the issue forward.

Bones under a pile of manure

This is an anonymous letter, stating that Anais' body was buried under a pile of manure, on the property of Philippe Gillet, who had pushed the farmer's daughter to dig the place herself in the backhoe. At the sight of the first bones, the gendarmerie is alerted, and after several hours of careful sampling on the crime scene, analyzes in the laboratory of the Criminal Investigation Institute of the National Gendarmerie (IRCGN), the presentiment of investigators is confirmed. This is the body of Anaïs who was buried on the ground of his former lover, sentenced for his murder to 22 years imprisonment, and yet has always denied being involved in the death of the girl.

New questions

For the investigating judge, in charge of a supplementary information, the investigation is starting to sort of zero, with necessarily a forthcoming hearing of Philippe Gillet. But also new questions that are added to the file: who is the author of the anonymous letter? How did he know that Anais's body was buried there? Why did the convict's daughter begin these wild searches? Did she want to clear her father?

Investigations that may allow Anaïs parents to get answers to questions they have been asking for six and a half years now, while the appeal on appeal of the alleged murderer of their daughter is scheduled for next year .