Dominique Pelicot and serial killer ‘Le Grêlé’ possibly linked to French cold cases

Dominique Pelicot, who drugged and ‘lent’ his wife, is looking for a publisher for poetry he wrote in prison

It concerns a rape followed by a murder in Paris in 1991 and an attempted rape in a suburb of Paris in 1999. Pelicot partially acknowledges the facts in the second case after DNA traces pointed in his direction, but he denies any involvement in the rape and murder in 1991. No DNA traces were found there, but according to the researchers, the method in both cases is similar.

Florence Rault, the lawyer for the civil parties in both cases, says she is very satisfied with this new investigation. “But I’m surprised it hasn’t happened much sooner,” she says about the cases that have been going on for decades.

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‘The Pockmarked’

In addition to Pelicot, the investigation into François Vérove, better known as ‘Le Grêlé’ (‘the pockmarked one’), is also being reopened. Vérove, a former police officer in Paris, was suspected of four murders and six rapes. He confessed to the facts in a suicide letter, which he wrote when he was invited by the police for questioning.