Case 71
Elodie Morel
On May 2 2005, an officer at the Aigues-Mortes police station in Southern France received a phone call from a panicked man who warned, “A guy who just left my place is about to kidnap a girl. He’s armed, and I think he’s about to do something horrific.” The caller directed police to a nearby cafe and told them to be on the lookout for a man accompanied by an attractive young woman.
Investigators rushed to the scene but found no one fitting that description. Three days later, when aspiring model Elodie Morel was reported missing, police questioned whether she could be the woman the caller was warning about. If so, who was the man she was with and how did the caller know what lay in store?
CREDITS
EPISODE:
Research & writing – Milly Raso
Special thanks to Nicolas Deliez for his assistance
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 and Andrew Joslyn
OTHER:
Logo and website design – Paulina Szymanska
RESOURCES
VIDEO:
Trapped by the Internet: The Elodie Morel Case – Real Stories
ARTICLES:
The long and horrible agony of Elodie – La Depeche
Perpetuity for the murderer of a young woman trapped by an internet ad – Le Parisien
30 years in prison for sequestering, torturing and raping a woman trapped on the internet – Faits Divers
30 years on appeal for the murder of a woman trapped by the internet – Le Point
The trial of the murder of a Marseillaise – La Provence