Criminal Investigations: The Husband, the Ex-Wife and the Mother, The Colette Deromme Case

Séverine, 18, waits for her mother to pick her up from school… But there is no sign of Colette Deromme, a 50-year-old mother of 4. Very worried, she calls the police. They quickly section off the area around the missing woman’s home. Colette’s wallet, money and mobile phone have all been left behind. Two days later, a formal criminal investigation begins.

At the same time, the whole country is following the case of Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès. Suspected of having killed his 4 children in Nantes, he is on the run. He may be in the area, and could possibly know Colette as he lived in the area twenty years earlier. What does her disappearance and his have to do with each other?

A month later Colette Deromme’s body is found in state of decomposition, hidden under a pile of stones roughly 20km away from her home. Why was this woman in her fifties killed? And more importantly, by who? We dive into the heart of an unbelievable crime where money, rivalry, grudges and jealousy come to play…