When an entire family is nearly annihilated while camping in the French Alps, it takes a team of international detectives to search for an elusive killer. Questions about the victims’ backgrounds swirl and rumors about who the gunman could be abound. This is Part One of a two-part series detailing the 2012 Lake Annecy murders in France.
Episode Source Material
- Channel 4: Murder in the Alps. Episodes 1-3 via channel4.com under private registration.
- HuffPost: French Alps Shooting: Cyclist Killed In British Car Shooting Named As Father-Of-Three Sylvain Mollier. By Jessica Elgot.
- Evening Standard: French Alps killings ‘may have been perfect crime.’ By Peter Allen via newspapers.com
- HuffPost: French Alps Shooting: Police Should Have Checked For Survivors At Crime Scene, Say Forensic Experts.By The Huffington Post UK.
- Ledauphine Libere: Prosecutor describes “murder of unheard-of savagery. By Stéphane Bouchet.
- Evening Standard: Orphaned by Alps Assassin. By Peter Allen and Kiran Randhawa Via newspapers.com. (1)
- Evening Standard: Orphaned by Alps Assassin. By Peter Allen and Kiran Randhawa Via newspapers.com. (2)
- The Daily Telegraph: Hunt for motorcyclist and driver of green 4X4 seen speeding towards scene. By Victoria Ward and Martin Evans Via newspapers.com
- Independent: The massacre in the Alps. By John Lichfield.
- The Akron Beacon Journal: Police Search UK home of couple slain in France via newspapers.com
- Sunday Telegraph: Alps family killed with gun used by Swiss army. By Harriet Alexander and Jason Lewis Via newspapers.com.
- Sunday Telegraph: We will never know why they died. By staff Via newspapers.com.
- The Independent: How the Lay-By Murder Inquiry Hit A Dead End. By John Litchfield Via newspapers.com
- Evening Standard: Alps massacre family ‘shot dead by Balkan mercenary for £1,680’. By Peter Allen via newspapers.com
- National Post: Paid hit probed in murder of family via newspapers.com
- Evening Standard: Voice tapes studied in hunt for Alps killer. By Peter Allen Via newspapers.com.
- The Ottawa Citizen: Alpine Massacre victim, brother torn by hatred. By Henry Samuel via newspapers.com
- Evening Standard: Aunt to raise Alps shooting orphans via newspapers.com
- Evening Standard: No charges for brother in Alps murder. By Kiran Randhawa via newspapers.com
- The Independent: As his brother is freed without charge, will we ever know who killed Saad al-Hilli. By John Lichfield via newspapers.com
- Evening Standard: Man arrested in Alps murder case. By Justin Davenport and Peter Allen via newspapers.com (1)
- Evening Standard: Man arrested in Alps murder case. By Justin Davenport and Peter Allen via newspapers.com (2)
- The Independent: Breakthrough in Alps murder case as former policeman is arrested near scene via newspapers.com
- Evening Standard: Alps murders: Police prepare to make more arrests within days via newspapers.com
- The Independent: Alps murders are ‘not solved,” says prosecutors as second man is held via newspapers.com
- The Independent: Murder mystery’s unwelcome twist. By John Lichfield via newspapers.com (1)
- The Independent: Murder mystery’s unwelcome twist. By John Lichfield via newspapers.com (2)
- Sunday Telegraph: DNA clue in hunt for Alps killer. By Peter Allen Via newspapers.com.
- Evening Standard: Ex-soldier who said he was Alps murder suspect is found dead. By Peter Allen via newspapers.com.
- Independent: DNA find gives French Police new lead into Britons’ murders. By John Lichfield via newspapers.com.
- BBC: Alps murder victims’ children to be re-interviewed. By The BBC.
- Sky News: French businessman is alleged leader of hit squad investigated over shooting of British family in the Alps
- Radio Times: Murder in the Alps revisits true crime 10 years later. By Kathryn Knight.
- Daily Mail: Orphaned British schoolgirl whose parents were shot dead in the Alps 10 years ago reveals new details about killer as detectives ‘investigate THREE new suspects. By Peter Allen.
- Mirror: Murder in the Alps chilling theory of what really happened in Brit family’s unsolved massacre. By Tom Parry and Saffron Otter.
- Mirror: Alps massacre suspect is mystery biker seen riding away after Brit family killed. By Peter Allen.
- The Guardian: French cold case unit orders DNA tests in unsolved alps murders via newspapers.com
- The Sun: Brother of Brit shot dead with family in Alps accuses French cops of ‘cover up’ as new DNA evidence could crack case. By Sayan Bose.
- ITV News: Reconstruction to be staged 12 years after murder of British family in the Alps. By Zahra Manji.
- Tom Parry – Journalist: Books (website).
- Claygate Village in Surrey (website).
- PBS: Saddam Hussein | The Dictator’s Playbook (website).
- Le Parisien: The French entrepreneur, the English mountain biker and Mr. X: the last secrets of the Chevaline Massacre. By Ronan Folgoas, Jeremie Pham-Le and Jean-Michel Decugis.
- Le Parisien: Chevaline massacre: September 5, 2012, the last hours of the Al-hilli family. By Ronan Folgoas and Jean-Michel Decugis.
- Le Parisien: Chevaline’s Killing: in the wheel of witness number 1. By Ronan Folgoas and Jean-Michel Decugis.
- Le Parisien: Chevaline’s Killing: anatomy of a crime scene. By Ronan Folgoas and Jean-Michel Decugis.
- Le Parisien: Chevaline’s Killing: the murder weapon, the investigator’s common thread. By Ronan Folgoas and Jean-Michel Decugis.
- Le Parisien: Chevaline’s Killing: the shadow of Brother Al-Hilli. By Ronan Folgoas and Marie Boeda.
- Le Parisien: Chevaline’s Killing: Sylvain Mollier, the forgotten victim. By Ronan Folgoas and Jean-Michel Decugis.
- Le Parisien: Chevaline’s Killing: the man with the white motorcycle, suspended suspect. By Ronan Folgoas and Jean-Michel Decugis.
- Le Parisien: Chevaline’s massacre: a British profiler drew a psychological robot portrait of the killer. By Jeremie Pham-Le, Ronan Folgoas, and Jean-Michel Decugis.
- Le Parisien: Chevaline case: the trail of the weapon of crime relaunched by the “cold case” pole. By Ronan Folgoas and Vincent Gautronneau.
- Le Parisien: Chevaline’s killing: twelve years after the quadruple murder, where is the investigation? By Manon Aublanc.
- Le Parisien: Chevaline massacre: why justice organizes a “resentment in situation”, 12 years later. By Ronan Folgoas and Vincent Gautronneau.
- Le Parisien: Chevaline’s massacre: the trail of a special forces soldier who would have “swrung” By Ronan Rolgoas and Damien Delseny.
- Le Parisien: Chevaline killing: did the murderer also shot Xavier Baligant on the A31 a year earlier? By Ronan Rolgoas and Damien Delseny.
- Le Parisien: Chevalin’s Killing: “The surviving girls could not give a precise physical description of the shooter” By Damien Delseny.
- Daily Observer: Benedict Cumberbatch to executive produce limited series on unsolved Annecy murders. By staff.
