British couple, Andrew and Dawn Searle, found deceased in Les Pesquiès, south of Villefranche-de-Rouergue 6th February 2025

[Furore]

Kerr is her first husband's last name.

If she was looking to leave her current husband, she would not wait until December.

Agreed and it might be her passport, bank account or emails/saved details were from things set up years ago. It’s quite a faff officially changing everything especially if you don’t live in the country anymore.

 

[Furore]

From this article:

One investigator said: ‘What is very likely is that the victim was killed inside the house, with doors and windows shut on a winter’s night, and then her body dumped in the garden.’

It is believed that the killing was a ‘staged burglary gone wrong’.

This fits the ‘murder-suicide’ theory in the investigation that apparently saw Mr Searle kill his wife before hanging himself.

Nicolas Rigot-Muller, the Rodez prosecutor leading the investigation, told The Sunday Post that ‘a marital crime followed by a suicide’ was probable.

I wonder what makes them think she was killed inside!

 

[BrianJohnson]

Technically my dog is a hunting breed (like a greyhound would be, or a foxhound also!) but mostly he hunts cheese and the softest bed!

Tbf I’m not sure they are confirmed hunting dogs or just hunting breeds like technically a pointer or greyhound would be (but are pets in every day reality!)

Same, I have had 2 Lurcher’s in the last 20 years and they are classed as hunting dogs, if someone robbed my house though they were more likely to lick the burglars to death not bite them to death, hunting dogs term very vague

Hope the dogs in this incident are ok

 

[Sarahlou]

I wonder what makes them think she was killed inside!

Evidence of severe blood loss from her injuries maybe?

 

[BrianJohnson]

From this article:

One investigator said: ‘What is very likely is that the victim was killed inside the house, with doors and windows shut on a winter’s night, and then her body dumped in the garden.’

It is believed that the killing was a ‘staged burglary gone wrong’.

This fits the ‘murder-suicide’ theory in the investigation that apparently saw Mr Searle kill his wife before hanging himself.

Nicolas Rigot-Muller, the Rodez prosecutor leading the investigation, told The Sunday Post that ‘a marital crime followed by a suicide’ was probable.

Indeed but where is the weapon? I would imagine the police have searched every inch of the grounds, swimming pool etc looking for a weapon, not convinced it was him

 

[Furore]

Evidence of severe blood loss from her injuries maybe?

You’d think so with scalp wounds. In the article Dotta linked - thank you - it just speaks about the absence of neighbours hearing anything. I don’t know how reliable or otherwise that would be!

 

[Dotta]

Evidence of severe blood loss from her injuries maybe?

Honestly,
It must have been obvious from the start.
I doubt the perp was busy cleaning with Lysol.
And it does not exactly mean the husband.

It seems to me this LE speaking was the former Prosecutor
(Yep, I recall this name)

In fact, I don't see any new updates here.

But sure,
I'm not going to argue.

JMO

 

[Furore]

Honestly,
It must have been obvious from the start.
I doubt the perp was busy cleaning with Lysol.
And it does not exactly mean the husband.

It seems to me this LE speaking was the former Prosecutor
(Yep, I recall this name)

In fact, I don't see any new updates here.

But sure,
I'm not going to argue.

JMO

True nothing has ever mentioned absence or presence of blood splatter outside either

 

[Sarahlou]

Honestly,
It must have been obvious from the start.
I doubt the perp was busy cleaning with Lysol.
And it does not exactly mean the husband.

It seems to me this LE speaking was the former Prosecutor
(Yep, I recall this name)

In fact, I don't see any new updates here.

But sure,
I'm not going to argue.

JMO

Of course the evidence was there from the start but the police have never revealed much, which is understandable.

It seems highly likely they will come back with the verdict of staged robbery murder/suicide.

 

[bringmeacupoft]

It feels more in a fit of fury, as opposed to well thought out and planned. What was the straw that broke the camels back?

 

[Furore]

It feels more in a fit of fury, as opposed to well thought out and planned. What was the straw that broke the camels back?

Murder suicide would fit with sudden fit of rage. I wonder if she told him she was leaving him, that often seems to be a trigger in these cases.

 

[saztina]

Why bother to stage it like a robbery? He was found hanged which is surely going to suggest murder-suicide.

 

[Dotta]

It feels more in a fit of fury, as opposed to well thought out and planned. What was the straw that broke the camels back?

Money.
Serious financial problems IMO.
It might also have been some paranoid episode (open garage door strange incident)

It is so sick.
So, so sick.
This poor woman
If true, she was "sleeping with the enemy".

I pity the families

But, the Prosecutor still is not 100% certain.

JMO

 

[Furore]

Why bother to stage it like a robbery? He was found hanged which is surely going to suggest murder-suicide.

It feels like one possibility is he killed her, planned initially to cover it up by staging an attack, then becoming overwhelmed and killing himself?

 

[Furore]

Money.
Serious financial problems IMO.
It might also have been some paranoid episode (open garage door strange incident)

It is so sick.
So, so sick.
This poor woman
If true, she was "sleeping with the enemy".

I pity the families

But, the Prosecutor still is not 100% certain.

JMO

Agreed particularly horrific for the pairs children - bound by the same tragic day - potentially now at odds, though of course none would be responsible for their father’s actions, if it indeed were murder suicide.

 

[bringmeacupoft]

Why bother to stage it like a robbery? He was found hanged which is surely going to suggest murder-suicide.

Perhaps that came later at the realisation at what he had done? Like bargaining for time, ‘I’ll stage it like a burglary’ then a realisation of the ridiculousness, a last ditch attempt to save face even though he wouldn’t be around to see it?

 

[Dotta]

Agreed particularly horrific for the pairs children - bound by the same tragic day - potentially now at odds, though of course none would be responsible for their father’s actions, if it indeed were murder suicide.

If it is murder suicide

Then his MH must have been in tatters.
Maybe this early retirement was the first symptom?
Leaving everything behind,
going to a foreign country, isolated village.

As if starting anew.
But problems followed.
Because they were in his head

JMO

 

[BrianJohnson]

Until a weapon found on or near the premises am sceptical, hardcore criminals/mafia gangs would love nothing more than a staged murder suicide to take the heat off themselves and what really happened

 

[saztina]

It feels like one possibility is he killed her, planned initially to cover it up by staging an attack, then becoming overwhelmed and killing himself?

That’s true, I keep thinking of it as a planned murder-suicide but this is starting to seem probable.

 

[Dotta]

Until a weapon found on or near the premises am sceptical, hardcore criminals/mafia gangs would love nothing more than a staged murder suicide to take the heat off themselves and what really happened

Yep.

The murder weapon.
Nowhere to be found

Not to mention heated arguments by phone.

Sudden mood change noticed by neighbours.

Hmmm.....

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