Criminal Investigations: The Heavy Weight of a Lie, The Case of Sylvain Schrutt

The sleepy town of Voslevres is about to be rocked by a horrific crime…Ghislaine Leclerc, a mother of three, hadn’t been seen or heard from in several days. Two of her daughters went to her house to check on her. They found their mother in the bedroom lying dead in a pool of her own blood. The 50-year-old had been murdered, shot at close range with 4 bullets to the head. An execution-style killing for a mother of three – but who did it, and why? Several suspects for the crime created a tangled web for the investigators to unravel.

A gripping investigation followed. For 4 years, false leads multiplied, plunging the investigators into an extraordinary family drama. Ghislaine Leclerc had a very turbulent private life. One of her ex-husbands was 25 years younger than her- and they had recently divorced. Another one of her ex-husband’s had already been convicted of murder! And then there was her strange son-in-law, the last person to have seen her alive. As the investigation twisted and turned, through lies and family betrayals, it seemed that no secret is safe…