Episode 299 - La Maison de L'Horreur: The Dupont de Ligonnès Family Murder

When five members of the cheery, churchgoing Dupont de Ligonnès family were found dead at their home in Nantes – buried in the garden with small Catholic relics – a million questions erupted from neighbours, family and friends.

But for the police, only one question mattered: where was the sixth? Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès was nowhere to be found. And as they dug into his past, they uncovered a story that’s obsessed the nation of France for years: one of an ancient aristocratic dynasty, of international espionage, and a crime scene that, decades later, still refuses to add up…

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Sources:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuvyvON_UDA

https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a33249023/xavier-dupont-de-ligonnes-netflix-unsolved-mysteries-sightings-today/

https://xavierdupontdeligonnes-blogspot.com

‘Unsolved Mysteries’, Netflix

https://www.france24.com/en/20150724-france-photo-man-suspected-killing-family-nantes-murder-dupont-de-ligonnes

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