Case 246
Grégory Villemin
*** Content Warning: child victim ***
[Part 1 of 2]
The extended Villemin family lived in the Vosges region of north-eastern France. From 1981, several members of the family started to receive anonymous, threatening phone calls from a mysterious caller they eventually labelled The Crow.
Young couple Jean-Marie and Christine Villemin lived in the small village of Lépanges with their four year old son Grégory. They became The Crow’s main target. Then on October 16 1984, after several years of harassment, The Crow finally delivered on one of their threats.
CREDITS
EPISODE:
Research & writing – Elsha McGill
Creative direction – Milly Raso
Narration – Anonymous Host
MUSIC:
‘Flatline intro’ and ‘Come play with me’ intro and outro – www.dl-sounds.com
Audio production – Mike Migas
Scoring – Mike Migas
OTHER:
Logo and website design – Paulina Szymanska
RESOURCES
COURT DOCUMENTS
Dismissal of Christine Villemin
VIDEOS
Who Killed Little Grégory? – Netflix
ONLINE ARTICLES
The full timeline of the case – L’est Republican
All of France is asking: Who killed petit Gregory? – New York Times
The long shadow of the Crow – LA Times
Case of Little Gregory: Murielle Bolle tells her truth in a book confession – Charente Libre
July 5, 1985: Christine Villemin is charged and imprisoned – Le Figaro
The Gregory Mystery – The Washington Post
Grégory case: the incredible secret that slowed down the investigation – Le Journal du Dimanche
33 years after the start of the Grégory case, one of the first in custody remembers – France Info
Brief analysis of the Grégory affair according to Netflix – Le Club de Mediapart
Judge Lambert rules out Laroche’s guilt – L’Humanité
Grégory: the day the case rebounded – Libération
Grégory case: a strange entry in the register of a church – Le Figaro
Grégory affair: in the church, the word which accuses “Bernard L.“ – Le Bien Public
Gregory case: When Monique Villemin begged for forgiveness from her son – Paris Match
Grégory case: the last keepers of the secret – Paris Match
Grégory case: For experts in “stylometry”, the main crow is Jacqueline Jacob – 20 Minutes
WEBSITES
The Grégory Affair – Scientific Police
Gregory Case: Calls from the Crow
The Grégory Villemin affair – French Wikipedia
Le Parisien interview with Murielle Bolle (translation)
Sublime, Necessarily Sublime, Christine V (translation)
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