THE AMANDINE ESTRABAUD CASE: COULD THE BUILDER BE THE IDEAL GUILTY PARTY? | Enquêtes criminelles | W9

June 18 2013. Monique Sire is unable to contact Amandine, her 30-year-old daughter. This silence is most unlike her. So, the next day, she decides to visit Roquecourbe, a small village in the Tarn, where her only daughter’s quiet house is located. Outside the home, Monique notices that the entry gate is wide open. In the garden, she finds flat shoes and an earring in the grass. And Amandine has disappeared. Anxiety mounts. The only clue available to the gendarmes in charge of the investigation: the neighbor states that she glimpsed the young woman through her window on the day she disappeared. She is said to have arrived accompanied by a young man in construction working clothes driving a white van. The missing woman, a teaching assistant in a high school, hitch-hiked home from work that day. Who is the mystery suspect? Did Amandine have a disastrous encounter along the road? The investigation drags on, to the despair of the family. But, in April 2016, there’s a dramatic twist! A 60-year-old mother, Irma Jehanno, arrives at the gendarmerie. Apparently, Guerric, her 28-year-old son, told her he saw some strange things relating to the disappearance of the young woman. And, even stranger, he endlessly repeats that he did not murder Amandine. Troubling… especially as the man is a perfect match for the description given by the neighbor. So, is the young builder the ideal guilty party? Or was he smitten with the young woman, whom he’s known since childhood? And why?