France France - Cécile Vallin, 17, Saint Jean de Maurienne, Savoie, France, June 8, 1997

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Physical description :

Date of Birth: October 28, 1979
Age: 17 years old
Race: White
Gender: Female
Height: 5'5"-165 cm
Weight: Unknown
Hair Color: Dark brown
Eye Color: Brown-green
Nickname/Alias: Unknown
Distinguishing Marks/Features: Thin/athletic build. Diagonal 10 cm scar under right breast.

Clothing: Silver hoop on right ear. According to witnesses, she was wearing jeans and a pullover.

Circumstances of disappearance :

Cécile Vallin was last seen on June 8, 1997 in Saint Jean de Maurienne, France. The previous evening she had held a party with three friends without telling her family who were away for the weekend, nor her boyfriend.

At 14.00 she met a boy who had been at the party with, which she had had a flirt to tell him their story was over.

At 16.45, she called a friend, and was crying because she was very upset over what happened the previous evening.

At 17.18, she called her father who resided in Normandie and told him she was troubled and felt guilty about having held the party without permission. Her father told her not to worry and she seemed to have calmed down. She then left her residence between 17.30 and 18.00.

She was last seen around 18.00 by several witnesses, walking along Departmental road 906 toward Chambéry, Savoie. According to the witnesses she was crying.

At about 18.40, she called her sister and left a message on her answering machine saying she would call back.

Another witness claims to have seen Cécile at about 19.45 at a stoplight, talking to a man driving a red Peugeot, bearing Turin, Italy, license plates. She then saw the car driving off toward Italy with Cécile inside and then saw the car ten minutes later but Cécile seemed to no longer be in it.

Investigating agency(s) :

Agency Name: Gendarmerie Nationale
Agency Contact Person: N/A
Agency Phone Number: (33) 4 79 64 00 17
Agency E-Mail: sr73@gendarmerie.defense.gouv.fr
Agency Case Number: N/A

1857DFFRA - Cécile Vallin

 

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Some other pictures of Cécile Vallin

 

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Cold Case. Il y a 25 ans disparaissait Cécile Vallin, l’OCRVP lance un nouvel appel à témoins

Cold case : 25 years ago, Cecile Vallin went missing, the OCRVP launch a call for witness.

« On June 9th 1997 the police made official the disturbing disappeareance of Cécile Vallin. Twenty five years later, day for day, the mystery of the disappeareance of the young Saint-Jeannaise still isn’t solved.

Facts go back precisely to June 8th 1997. Cécile Vallin, 17 years old, who lived with her mother at Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, is reported missing. One of the last times she was seen, she was walking along the departemental road on the exit from Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, on the way to Chambéry. She was wearing a jean a t-shirt. At 17.37, she makes a call to her father, Jonathan Oliver, who lives in Normandie. It’s the last time that he heard her voice. Her disappaearance was reported by her mother to the gendarmes the next morning, the day that Cécile should have passed her first exams for the baccalauréat.

For several days, the valley was flown over and searched. No result. In 2008, the judge then in charge of the case had the shoulders of the A43 motorway surveyed (itw as being constructed when Cécile went missing) with a radar developped by the criminal research instute of the police to check if a cavity housing a body could be there. No result. Failure also on the trail leading to Michel Fourniret, whose niece lived in the region in 1997. Cécile's DNA was compared to the hundreds of hair elements recovered in the serial killer's van without any matching. »



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« Sunday, June 8th 1997, it’s more than midnight when Maryse Vallin, teacher, her second husband, principal, and two of their kids come back home, in their appartment which is located within the ground of the high school Paul-Héroult. It’s a surprise for the family’s mother, Cécile, who had told her she liked better to stay home to work for her exams rather then going with them to a baptem in the south of France, isn’t there, her bedroom is empty. The family is immediatly worried. Cecile isn’t used to sleepover withtout telling. »



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« She left with her ID and credit card »

Police officers specialized in Cold Cases in charge of the case

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"On the occasion of the missing children’s day (May 25th 2020), the Central Office for the Suppression of Violence against Persons (OCRVP) launched on their turn a call to witness. The OCRVP was created ten years after Cécile’s disappearence. Some 80 people are working in this omponent of the Sub-Directorate for the Fight against Organized Crime and Financial Delinquency (SDLCODF) of the central direction of the federal police. They are working on sequestrations and kidnapping, child *advertiser censored*, sectarian excesses, the discovery of unidentified bodies, the disappearance of minors… They are helped by psychologist from ACP, the psycho-criminologist behavior analysist unity, also called « profilers ».

In december 2019, the OCRVP received an evaluation request of the Cécile Vallin by the instruction judge of Albertville. A team, working full time on minor’s disappearances, went through the 1500 references in the investigation file, all the minutes of the Cécile Vallin affair. It’s in regards to those elements that the OCRVP so decided to launch a call for witness on the occasion of the missing children’s day. « We are working, we are going on. What has to be understood in this case, as complicated as it is, is there are always new elements to explore again, investigations to complete, witness that we have to hear once again, some leads for different investigations to take. We have completely new look on this case. » was explaining Eric Bérot, chief of the OCRVP. « The disappearance of Cécile is a scar, a wound that will never close for as long as I won’t know what has happened to here » emphasizes her father."


If you have any information about the disappearance of Cécile Vallin, you can contact the OCRVP at 01 40 97 80 16

 

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Monique Olivier (former wife of Michel Fourniret), has been questioned about Cécile Vallin on tuesday. They started tuesday morning & let her go tuesday evening.

“Monique Olivier, the former wife of French serial killer Michel Fourniret, has not been in pre-trial detention since Tuesday evening in the investigation into the disappearance of Cécile Vallin in 1997, the Nanterre public prosecutor's office announced on Wednesday. She is serving a life sentence for complicity in Fourniret's murders.”

“Olivier was taken from her cell in Fleury-Merogis prison on Tuesday so that investigators could question her. According to her lawyer, she did not speak to the police in his absence. He himself only learned on Tuesday morning that she could be questioned and could not travel to Nanterre to assist her.”

Monique Olivier niet langer in voorlopige hechtenis in onderzoek naar verdwijningszaak uit 1997
Monique Olivier niet langer in voorlopige hechtenis in onderzoek naar verdwijningszaak uit 1997

 

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Hope it will lead to some new developpements in Cecile's case!
But honestly I don't think MO will say anything, she'll probably be like "no I dont know... I don't remember" blablabla

 

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Pourquoi Monique Olivier est soupçonnée dans la disparition de Cécile Vallin

Disappearance of Cécile Vallin: Why is Monique Olivier suspected, twenty-seven years after the events?

It was twenty-seven years ago, on June 8, 1997. Cécile Vallin, a 17-year-old teenager, disappeared late in the afternoon while walking along a departmental road in Savoie, in Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne. Investigators initially thought it was an accident, especially since the area is quite steep, and considered suicide, but never ruled out criminal activity. Despite the significant resources deployed, her body was never found. No one was taken into custody. Until Tuesday morning. Monique Olivier, the ex-wife and accomplice of serial killer Michel Fourniret, was taken from her cell in Fleury-Mérogis to be taken into custody, 20 Minutes learned from concordant sources, confirming information from Le Parisien.

“This hearing follows statements that Monique Olivier made to Belgian investigators in 2005, but the hearing report was only sent to us very recently,” said a source close to the case. In it, the wife of the “ogre” mentions the murder of a young girl, a “babysitter,” at the end of the 1997 school year. In her memories, the victim was between 16 and 18 years old, with light hair. Monique Olivier explains that she met the victim in their house in Sart-Custinne, Belgium. That evening, she said, she slept in the car with their son, Sélim, who was 8 at the time. “If Fourniret brought this young girl home, it was to sexually abuse her. If he abused her, he wasn’t going to let her leave alive,” she told Belgian investigators.

But this PV, as precise as it may be, remained unknown to the French authorities for a long time. It was exhumed last winter, during the trial of Monique Olivier for the kidnappings and murders of Estelle Mouzin, Joanna Parrish and Marie-Angèle Domèce. One of the lawyers for the civil parties, Me Didier Seban, then read large extracts from it during her first hearing. "In June 1997, a 17-year-old girl, Cécile Valin, disappeared in Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne," he insisted. Monique Olivier, looking annoyed, simply denied it weakly, assuring that she had not gone to Savoie. But the judicial machine was set in motion: shortly after the verdict of the trial, the lawyer for Cécile Vallin's father, Me Cathy Richard, expressly requested a hearing. So it was done.