Toulouse: Death of an octogenarian, the criminal thesis dismissed
An 84-year-old woman was found dead by her son on Sunday morning in Toulouse. The conclusions of the forensic doctors exclude the intervention of a third party in the death of the victim.
Open for “murder” Sunday morning by the Toulouse prosecutor’s office, the investigations accessible after the discovery of the lifeless body of an 84-year-old woman, Sunday morning in the La Terrasse district of Toulouse, will be closed. “The intervention of a third party in the death of this woman is ruled out by the conclusions of the autopsy”, underlines Samuel Vuelta-Simon, the prosecutor of Toulouse.
Discovered dead in his garage on Sunday morning by his son, the victim is revealed in a pool of blood. Particular circumstances which led to the intervention of the police and the referral of the investigators of the judicial police by the prosecution.
No trace of violence
If the significant presence of blood around the victim intrigued the investigators, the continuation of their findings seemed to rule out a burglary that would have gone wrong. Indeed, no window or door had been forced in this beautiful house and the police also discovered the cash which would not have escaped a thief.
The villainous hypothesis a priori removed, the investigators of the territorial direction of the judicial police of Toulouse awaited the conclusions of the autopsy while continuing their checks. During their examination carried out on Tuesday afternoon at the forensic institute of Rangueil, the forensic experts ruled out violence suffered by a visitor. Anne-Marie, who had lived in this house for more than 30 years according to her neighbors, therefore died a few months after her husband due to a medical problem. A surprise for her neighbors who said on Sunday that this woman, always smiling, walked regularly and seemed perfectly healthy.
The “natural” causes of her death were to reassure her neighbors, who feared that she had been the victim of a burglar or a prowler.