Op-Ed: Casanova Jailed After 30 Years

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In 1977 Agnes Le Roux who happened to be a 29-year-old heiress disappeared. The man she was involved with was the main suspect. Why? Because that year, at a board room meeting, he convinced her that she should vote against her mother so that a particular casino could be sold
The heiress received three million francs from the sale of the casino. She then transferred that money into a joint account, which she shared with Agnelet.

When police were investigating the case they questioned another woman whom Agnelet had an affair with. She lied and told them that she and her boyfriend Agnelet were vacationing together in Switzerland.

Twenty-two years later she felt that she had to confide to Roux’s aging mother that she lied to the police.

In 2000 another women whom was known of having an affair with Agnelet also decided to come forth and admit that she too originally lied to protect Agnelet against being charged and possibly convicted. This new confession resulted in the police reopening the case and charging Agnelet with murder.

The case was held in a courtroom in the southern town of Aix-en-Provence, France. Agnelet was branded by the prosecutors as being "solitary, villainous, lying vulture."

It is unclear whether either of his mistresses confessed to being witness to the murder and if so, wouldn’t they be charged with being an accessory to the fact? And also, considering they both admitted that they created an alibi in order to save his butt, then can they be trusted to tell the truth?

Another thing I can't help but to wonder, is why did these women decide to come forward? Were they being revengtul? Were they acting out of hurt feelings, perhaps? Maybe they felt that he had done them both wrong and that it was now time to face the music. You've heard the old saying, "there's no fury like that of a woman scorned" and it this case, it was two of them!

And the last thing I find confusing about the case is, that it seems he was charged with evidence based solely on circumstance.

Agnelet was convicted of murder and was sentenced to 20 years in jail. But here’ the interesting thing; the body was never found. And doesn’t one need to produce a body in order for there to be a murder? .