Deep investigation, the end of the perfect crime?

In November 2017, a man and his 18-year-old daughter mysteriously disappear in a car while they are on their way to the train station. This takes place in Mirepoix, a rural town in the southwest, between Toulouse and Perpignan. Road accident? Family tragedy? Bad encounter? The meticulous work of the police will gradually uncover a terrible scheme.

1999, a year of terror on the trains. A young woman is savagely thrown out of a window during a Limoges-Paris journey. Then, a mother is murdered just a few meters away from her child on the Calais-Ventimiglia night train. A suspect with a particularly disturbing profile, three different police services mobilized, an international manhunt, and an investigation that will eventually lead to Portugal.

Nicknamed 'the killer of eastern Paris,' Guy Georges, born Guy Rampillon, was found guilty of the murder and rape of seven young women between 1991 and 1997. Arrested in 1998, he was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2001, with a minimum term of 22 years. His arrest was made possible through the use of his DNA, which led to the creation of the National Automated Genetic Fingerprint Database (FNAEG) in France.

Nicknamed 'the killer of eastern Paris,' Guy Georges, born Guy Rampillon, was found guilty of the murder and rape of seven young women between 1991 and 1997. Arrested in 1998, he was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2001, with a minimum term of 22 years. His arrest was made possible through the use of his DNA, which led to the creation of the National Automated Genetic Fingerprint Database (FNAEG) in France.

Between 1985 and 1999, Denis Waxin raped and murdered three girls and raped two boys and another girl in the Lille region. Arrested in January 1999 and sentenced to life imprisonment with a term of 29 years' security in November 2003.

In the Val-d'Oise department, on the night of April 7 to 8, 2012, Maëva Rousseau, 23 years old, was murdered with a baseball bat by Alain Berruet.

A look back at one of France's most famous and complex criminal cases. It concerns the disappearance and murder of Grégory Villemin, a 4-year-old boy found drowned in the Vologne River on October 16, 1984. The case was marked by numerous twists and turns, accusations and counter-accusations within the Villemin family, and the involvement of anonymous letters sent by a mysterious “corbeau”.

A look back at one of France's most famous and complex criminal cases. It concerns the disappearance and murder of Grégory Villemin, a 4-year-old boy found drowned in the Vologne River on October 16, 1984. The case was marked by numerous twists and turns, accusations and counter-accusations within the Villemin family, and the involvement of anonymous letters sent by a mysterious “corbeau”.

A young father disappears in Toulouse in the heart of summer 2014. Was he the victim of a lover's revenge? Was this cannabis user involved in drug trafficking? The investigation will reveal an unsuspected character who showed extraordinary determination. Even walled up his victim in his own home.

On December 3, 2004, Muriel Reigada, an ordinary mother, was abducted in La Chapelle-Saint-Mesmin, Loiret. Her body was found less than a month later, buried in the garden of a former work colleague.

In July 2006, Adeline Piet, a mother of seven living in La Gouesnière, near Saint-Malo, disappeared. Her husband, Benoît Piet, reported her missing, claiming she might have run away. However, the investigation revealed a much darker reality. After two years of fruitless searching, Benoît Piet finally confessed to having hidden his wife's body in their garden before burning it.

The Estelle Mouzin affair began on January 9, 2003, with the disappearance of Estelle Mouzin, a 9-year-old girl returning from school in Guermantes, Seine-et-Marne. For fifteen years, no serious clues to her disappearance were found. Since 2018, the investigation has focused on serial killer Michel Fourniret, already sentenced to life imprisonment in other cases, who died in May 2021, and his partner, Monique Olivier. At the end of 2023, the latter was sentenced to life imprisonment for her involvement in three murders, including that of Estelle Mouzin, whose body was never found.

In October 1972, Marie-Claire Chevalier was put on trial in Bobigny for having chosen to have an abortion. The Bobigny “trials” followed, demonstrating the injustice of the legislation in force. Three years later, in 1975, the law legalizing voluntary interruption of pregnancy was promulgated in France.

On February 28, 1985, on a road in the Meudon forest, 62-year-old Évelyne Laborde died when her car caught fire. Her husband Bruno Joushomme, who escaped unhurt from the accident, was sentenced in 1998 to life imprisonment for the murder of his wife. Now free, he still proclaims his innocence, and testifies on the show for the first time on television.

On December 27, 1985, lawyer Jacques Perrot, best friend of then Prime Minister Laurent Fabius, was murdered in the stairwell of his apartment building in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. Political settling of scores, marital revenge, professional vendetta? Investigators soon suspect his mother-in-law, Marie-Elisabeth Cons-Boutboul.

A look at the personality and career of Belgian Willy Van Coppernolle, sentenced in 1995 to life imprisonment with a 22-year security period for the rape of two hitchhikers, aged 15 and 16, and the murder of 11-year-old Abdel Dkhissi.

Between 1978 and 1984, the local population was terrorized by a dozen assaults in the Dordogne region. Francis Leroy committed not only robberies, but also two rapes and a murder. A look back at the career of the man nicknamed “The Full Moon Killer”.

In 2008, a retired couple from Montigny-lès-Metz in the Aude region of France were horribly murdered by the masons they employed.

In 2016, accused of murdering her partner Frédéric Butanowicz, 45-year-old Véronique Lardé committed suicide on the evening of the 1st day of her assizes trial.

Jean-Paul Leconte, nicknamed the “Somme Killer”, was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2005 for the 2002 murders of Patricia Leclercq and Christelle Dubuisson.

Dino Scala, known as the “Sambre Rapist”, was arrested in February 2018 after a failed assault. He was charged with 17 rapes, 12 attempted rapes, and 27 sexual assaults or attempts, totaling 56 victims. He operated for almost 30 years, from 1988 to 2018, mainly in the Hauts-de-France and Wallonia regions of Belgium.

Dino Scala, known as the “Sambre Rapist”, was arrested in February 2018 after a failed assault. He was charged with 17 rapes, 12 attempted rapes, and 27 sexual assaults or attempts, totaling 56 victims. He operated for almost 30 years, from 1988 to 2018, mainly in the Hauts-de-France and Wallonia regions of Belgium.

The story of Luc Tangorre, ex-symbol of the “miscarriage of justice” in the 80s, who has since been convicted several times for rape and sexual assault.

The story of Luc Tangorre, ex-symbol of the “miscarriage of justice” in the 80s, who has since been convicted several times for rape and sexual assault.

On September 7, 2018, Sophie Le Tan, a 20-year-old student, disappeared after visiting an apartment in Schiltigheim, near Strasbourg. Ten days later, Jean-Marc Reiser, the author of the rental ad, was arrested. In January 2021, he admitted to her killing after her dismembered body was found in a forest. On June 29, 2023, his life sentence for her murder was upheld on appeal.

On May 17, 1995, 37-year-old Carole Prin, about to give birth, was shot dead by her companion, Roland Moog, a projectionist at Strasbourg's “Star” cinema.

Susanna Zetterberg, a 19-year-old Swedish student, was abducted and killed in Paris in 2008 by Bruno Cholet, a multi-recidivist criminal posing as a cab driver, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2012.

Albert Millet, nicknamed “le sanglier des Maures” (the Maures' wild boar), a multi-recidivist French criminal, killed three people between 1954 and 2007, including his ex-girlfriend's aunt and two other victims. Convicted several times, he committed suicide in 2007 at the age of 78.

In August 1988, 10-year-old Delphine Boulay disappeared while attending a scout camp in Calvados. Her body was found some twenty kilometers from the camp on September 6. Gérard Lebourg, aged 29, was taken into custody and eventually made a full confession. On May 20, 1992, he was sentenced to life imprisonment for the abduction, rape and murder of Delphine Boulay.