Little Gregory: Key Twists In Heartbreaking French Murder Case
01/27/21 AT 12:52 PM
A French court is looking at new DNA evidence in the notorious murder of four-year-old Gregory Villemin, whose death has transfixed France for 36 years.
Few cases beyond the disappearance of British three-year-old Madeleine McCann have aroused so much media interest, including a hit Netflix documentary series.
Here are key twists in the affair:
Police discover Gregory s body in a river in October 1984, his hands and feet bound, hours after he disappeared from the yard of his home in rural Lepanges-sur-Vologne in the Vosges region of eastern France.
For years his parents Jean-Marie and Christine Villemin had received threatening letters and phone calls.