France FRANCE - Tatiana Andujar, 17, Perpignan, April 1995

[Lwieckowicz]

Tatiana Andujar disappeared in the proximity of Perpignan railway station. She had just taken a train from Toulouse and was planning to hitchhike to her family house located in a nearby small town.

During the following years three other young women disappeared in the area of the Perpignan station, all three were then located murdered. It was at first believed that a serial killer was responsible for the four disappearances, detectives are now considering that the three murders and Tatiana's disappearance are unrelated. The first murder victim's body was mutilated with the precision of a surgeon, the second's grossly mutilated and hidden under branches while the first was in plain sight. The third victim's body had undergone no mutilation and was buried.

Detectives quickly identified a suspect in the third case. Marc Delpech, a local bartender, who was then arrested and indicted in the homicide he confessed to as well as to the rape of the victim before. Mr. Delpech recanted once he learned an autopsy couldn't show any evidence of rape. He didn't confess to any other murder but detectives found several articles concerning the Perpignan railway station disappearances at his residence. They also found the beginning of a novel inspired by the disappearances that Mr. Delpech had started writing in which he was describing in a troubling manner how the main character met Tatiana hitchhiking in front of a bar. Tatiana's mother also discovered an advertisement for an event at Marc Delpech's bar that was planned on the evening she disappeared.

In March 2006, the skull of a person aged between 15 to 20, who died approximately ten years before, was discovered not far from Perpignan. The skull's cap had been cut. The DNA tests were inconclusive as to whether it belonged to Tatiana.

1389DFFRA - Tatiana Andujar

 

[Lwieckowicz]

Salvador Dali connection? I was wondering prior to finding this article what was drawing different perpetrators to this area to do similar acts of violence against women

The Dali murder mystery | Salvador Dalí | The Guardian

Salvador Dali certainly found Perpignan station a turn-on. On August 27 1965, he declared it the centre of the universe, a fact which would probably be reduced to a mere footnote in the art history books by now were it not that, in the past five years, three young women have gone missing in...

amp.theguardian.com

 

[annpats]

I think it's the same person doing the murders, and mutilating the bodies in different ways for his own sick experimentation.

 

[Lwieckowicz]

I think it's the same person doing the murders, and mutilating the bodies in different ways for his own sick experimentation.

It could be, but it’s also possible that somebody as influential as Dali, could have inspired other people to do sick things to women and after he called this town the center of the universe and says his “penis sprang to attention with joy and ecstasy” and coupled with his sexually graphic and violent imagery, it’s very possible it’s the work of more than one individual. MOO

 

[annpats]

It could be, but it’s also possible that somebody as influential as Dali, could have inspired other people to do sick things to women and after he called this town the center of the universe and says his “penis sprang to attention with joy and ecstasy” and coupled with his sexually graphic and violent imagery, it’s very possible it’s the work of more than one individual. MOO

Yes ,it could be. But my mind just cannot comprehend so many killers in one small town doing this thing.
It's like a secret underground mutilation club or something.
Just awful.

 

[Lwieckowicz]

Yes ,it could be. But my mind just cannot comprehend so many killers in one small town doing this thing.
It's like a secret underground mutilation club or something.
Just awful.

I imagined they weren’t all residents but rather like Dali maybe came from elsewhere specifically to do this to women in this area after Dali cited that, for whatever reason this is a significant location.