Case 272: The Annecy Shootings
Added 2024-02-10 08:11:32 +0000 UTCOn September 5 2012, a cyclist driving through the French Alps came upon a shocking scene. Married couple Saad and Iqbal al-Hilli, along with Iqbal’s elderly mother Suhaila al-Allaf were shot execution style while sitting in their BMW in a secluded parking spot in the woods surrounding Chevaline. 7-year-old Zainab al-Hilli clung to life on the ground nearby, while 4-year-old Zeena al-Hilli was nowhere to be seen. A local cyclist, Sylvain Mollier, was also fatally shot in the brutal killing spree.
An international investigation quickly raised more questions than it did answers. What were the victims doing in this isolated area? Had they been targeted as part of some sinister activity or were they killed at random by a lone psychopath?
Team:
Anonymous Host - narration
Elsha McGill - research, writing
Milly Raso - creative direction
Mike Migas - production, music
Andrew D.B. Joslyn - music
Comments
AR I wasn't making a negative comment about Americans. I am just asking that they use the correct pronunciation for the location of the case. But ... there is one Americanism I have to complain about ... WTH is "I COULD care less"?
Bob Trenwith
2024-03-23 11:25:27 +0000 UTCFantastic episode. An excellent delivery of intriguing and frustrating case. May the victims rest in peace and hopefully receive justice one day.
Matt Hudson
2024-03-02 21:53:26 +0000 UTCLove this podcast❤️. Please cover South African case Thabo Bester🙏
Nompilo Ngcobo
2024-02-22 09:45:38 +0000 UTCSays someone who wishes to be identified entirely by an arm.
Paulette
2024-02-17 17:29:02 +0000 UTCYeah seriously: we all know what they meant and equally know Casefile aren't being derogatory in any way at all - so what's the problem? Most people don't work in mental health, while an increasing number of us are so over the PC Police whining endlessly about every kind of wording that doesn't fit the latest 'language' decided on by social workers obsessed with never offending anyone - ever. Harden up Buttercup: outside your workshops is a whole *planet* who couldn't give a sh!t which words are used -- only the intent behind them -- and none of the Casefile writers are being offensive at all.
Jason Barber
2024-02-16 03:23:28 +0000 UTCIt’s a kind and respectful approach to avoid labelling someone based upon one (ableist) characteristic that they may have. It allows us to see a person as more than their diagnosis…. This has been a lovely strength-based trend in healthcare for some time now ❤️
Stacey Carson
2024-02-15 21:49:40 +0000 UTCWhy?
David Rogosaroff
2024-02-15 21:45:07 +0000 UTCDon't tarnish all Americans with this mispronunciation. Before George Bush Sr took office, we as a culture pronounced the word "ih-rock" and my experience is that it's only been since the 90s that everyone just started pronouncing it in the laziest most disrespectful way possible. I still say "Ih-rock" though. We exist!
AR
2024-02-15 05:44:42 +0000 UTCYep. It's like the Jon Benet case - we will never know thanks to police botching it early on
Carolyn Barry
2024-02-14 12:51:30 +0000 UTCLive 10 minutes from claygate and somehow hadn’t heard this case before! Great episode
Benjamin
2024-02-13 10:10:21 +0000 UTCHi team! Love this episode. Can I please ask that you use person-first language in future episodes? The term ‘schizophrenic’ could be replaced by ‘X was living with schizophrenia’, for example. Useful link for more info: https://pwd.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/PWDA_LanguageGuide_A5_WEB.pdf
Stacey Carson
2024-02-13 03:59:50 +0000 UTCPerfect crime? Sounds like a poorly executed investigation.
Ally Jakubicka
2024-02-12 20:40:58 +0000 UTCUnsolved murders like this case really keep me up at night! 😰
J. Chips
2024-02-12 20:40:35 +0000 UTCYou appear to be whining about something.
Bob Trenwith
2024-02-12 19:33:58 +0000 UTCBob is always in the comments whining about something
Byron Ridenour
2024-02-12 15:39:26 +0000 UTCYou replied much kinder than I would have 🥰
Megan Brennan
2024-02-12 13:55:39 +0000 UTCHi Jamie. You should have heard the opening theme. Did it not play?
Casefile True Crime
2024-02-11 19:23:31 +0000 UTCHappy new year Bob
Casefile True Crime
2024-02-11 19:20:16 +0000 UTCAnother fascinating story, going to it again!
Connie Archibald
2024-02-11 14:39:18 +0000 UTCIf it was him the gun would have to have been very close to the scene, and none was found.
Bob Trenwith
2024-02-11 08:07:59 +0000 UTCHow did they rule out the initial cyclist who found the bodies? Seems potential to claim to have found the bodies but was actually involved. Incredibly hard to believe and surreal case all round
Sam Gorrie
2024-02-11 05:39:06 +0000 UTCEven major coincidences happen more often than you would think. Like the well-known story of a couple who had met as adults going through one of the wife's family photo albums, and the husband recognising himself and his family in the background of one of those photos which was taken as a 5 year old. Unless we have more evidence I think we have to trust that this avenue was properly explored. Doesn't mean there is nothing in it either, but I just like to pull up people who jump to absolute conclusions ... after all, we have attacked police here before for doing the same thing to the exclusion of all other avenues of investigation.
Bob Trenwith
2024-02-11 02:48:25 +0000 UTCAh, misremembered who had the passports in the pocket! And yeah, coincidences happen but it's a major coincidence that both her husbands died on the same day surely!
Marc Surlis
2024-02-11 02:05:23 +0000 UTCHow is the victim having the his own and his family's passports in his pocket a red flag? And ... coincidences happen.
Bob Trenwith
2024-02-11 01:52:53 +0000 UTCIt's entirely possible I missed it when listening, it would not be the first time! But two questions: - the wife's og American husband dying the same day, coincidence?! Hardly? - someone's jacket had their passports in the pocket? How is that not a case closed revelation?
Marc Surlis
2024-02-11 00:17:06 +0000 UTCDo Brits or the French pronounce Iraq as Eye-rark? If not, could you please save American pronunciations for American cases. It feels like you're leaving your origins behind.
Bob Trenwith
2024-02-10 23:14:21 +0000 UTCDid you forget the opening bells or did I miss them somehow?
Jamie Thomas
2024-02-10 16:41:57 +0000 UTCThis story is unreal.
SalBee
2024-02-10 13:28:47 +0000 UTCThis case!!! So excited to hear your rundown of this complex mystery
AR
2024-02-10 10:07:30 +0000 UTCNew Casefile makes my life better.
Eileen
2024-02-10 08:38:56 +0000 UTCLiterally where the truth is stranger than fiction.
Paddy Murphy
2024-02-10 08:17:50 +0000 UTC
