Toulouse. What if Patrice Alègre had committed other crimes?
Twenty years after his sentence to life imprisonment of Toulouse serial killer Patrice Alègre, the Nanterre prosecutor’s office is trying to find out if he has made other victims.
Arrested in 1997 in Châtenay-Malabry in Île-de-France, Toulouse serial killer Patrice Alègre was sentenced to life imprisonment on February 21, 2002. On his sadly bloody record, holding five murders in 1989, 1990 and 1997 , attempted murder and six rapes. But a question still arises: has this 54-year-old fanatic revealed all his secrets?
Twenty-one after his conviction, Le Parisien-Today in France reveals that the prosecution of Nanterre, in the Hauts-de-Seine, an open judicial investigation targeting Patrice Alègre. Two other serial killers are also designated: Nordahl Lelandais and Willy Van Coppernolle. All three have hit the headlines because of the atrocity of their crimes. The objective is to retrace their journeys, in search of other victims.
A seven-year hole in the career of Patrice Alègre
It is a new national judicial center dedicated to unsolved cases that looks at the three men. This raises hope for many families of people missing or found dead and still waiting for answers.
The investigators will reconstruct their journeys and cross them with cold cases looking for new victims. In the case of Patrice Alègre, for example, his first known victim was a schoolgirl, Valérie Tariote. She was found on February 27, 1989 near the Toulouse train station. She was gagged, wrists bound and her underwear torn. The investigators will be particularly interested in the period between 1990 and 1997. A space of time of seven years without the slightest crime.