Court, cruel, monstrueux. With no evidence as to Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès' current whereabouts, alive or dead, the reason behind the five gruesome murders largely remains a mystery. Burning down the house after giving everyone sleeping pills, or killing myself so that Agnès gets €600,000. Thank you.". [1] He then presented permanently the evening news replacing Claire Barsacq. For a home with four active children, this was unusual. By then, almost a full three weeks had passed since Agnès and three of the children had last been seen. Le petit chat est mort Xavier de Moulins-« Le petit chat est mort. According to Le Parisien, on April 21st, during the police's final visit to 55 boulevard Robert-Schuman, the bodies of Agnes and the four Dupont de Ligonnès children were finally found. In the early 2000s, they attempted to emigrate to Florida, but were unsuccessful. Financial problems exacerbated their marital stress. Most of the time I am not in a dream but in a nightmare and I can't escape except, of course, by doing something radical and final," via The Local. Xavier had mired himself in debt and was becoming increasingly desperate. Despite his aristocratic pedigree, Xavier had failed to create a steady career for himself. Xavier de Moulins, Ce parfait ciel bleu, Au diable vauvert, 2012 (ISBN 978-2-84626-400-6) Xavier de Moulins, Que ton règne vienne, Éditions Jean-Claude Lattès, 2014 (ISBN 978-2709645744) Xavier de Moulins, Charles Draper, éd. Born in Versailles, Xavier was raised in a strict, upper-class Catholic society that was well-to-do but also conservative and stuffy. In more recent years, there have been false sightings of Xavier. In July 2015, police thought they may have gotten a break when a photo, assumed to be from Xavier, was sent to a journalist in Nantes. Police were easily able to track Xavier's last moves. Join Facebook to connect with Xavier De Moulins and others you may know. Xavier de Moulins, born Xavier de Moulins-Beaufort July 5, 1971 in Boulogne-Billancourt (birth time source: Paddy de Jabrun, Astrodatabank, BC), is a French journalist, TV host and radio host. Although his fingerprints at first appeared to be a match, DNA testing proved it was another case of mistaken identity, according to France24. As of today, investigators have no new leads on the whereabouts of Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès. Police were easily able to track his travels through southern France, following security cameras and his use of credit cards at hotels and restaurants along the way. He stayed for one night before continuing his journey, moving east to Vaucluse and staying the night of April 12th in the Auberge de Cassagne, according to Le Figaro. Thomas, because he had presumably been killed a day or two after his mother and siblings, had been buried in a separate grave, per Le Figaro. The case of the Dupont de Ligonnès family murders and disappearance of the father, Xavier, remains one of France's most shocking and disturbing crimes. Police found Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès' car on April 22nd, just one day after discovering the bodies. In January of 2011, just three months prior to the murders, Xavier's father, the count Bernard-Hubert Dupont de Ligonnès, passed away. They continued to insist something was strange about the family's disappearance, and police returned to investigate the home. When he was 20-years-old, he met Agnès Hodanger, another young member of the Versailles bourgeois, and although they claimed to be in love, he was not ready to settle down. » Des petites choses et des plus grandes pour mieux vivre sous les orages à la saison des hécatombes. After his death, Xavier went through the belongings left in his apartment, presumably looking for things of value. In the weeks leading up to the Dupont de Ligonnès murders, Xavier also purchased cement, chalk lime, bullets, cleaning supplies, garbage bags, a spade, and a trolley, according to the BBC. The bodies were buried with small religious icons next to them, almost as though there had been some sort of ceremony, per O Magazine. Records show he bought a silencer for the rifle in March, and he followed that purchase with an even more ominous shopping spree. In the strange, rambling, four-page letter, Xavier explained that he had been a covert agent, secretly working as a member of the United States' Drug Enforcement Administration.