Mr. Ballin

So it seemed like this was probably a popular party spot for young people.

As they moved deeper, the cave split off into a maze of all these different narrow tunnels.

And just as Verrier was about to direct his team to spread out and begin searching all of them, he passed by one of these tunnels that absolutely reeked.

And so Verrier stopped what he was doing and just aimed his flashlight down this particular tunnel.

And he saw there was a shallow pit dug into the floor.

And lying at the bottom of this pit was what looked like a ragged lump of black fabric.

until Verrier stepped closer.

The smell was overpowering now, and Verrier knew he was standing over the charred remains of a human body.

Verrier bent down to examine it, and he saw right away there was what appeared to be a bullet hole in the skull and a bullet hole to the torso.

And those details, one to the head, one to the stomach, and then, you know, the body being burnt afterwards, likely to get rid of evidence, felt very familiar to Verrier.

It felt like this could have been a mob hit.

A year and a half later, so just before Christmas of 2015, Detective Verriere was in his office in Montpellier when his phone rang.

It was Patrick's older brother, Mark, calling to ask for updates on his brother's case, again.

And Verriere sighed because the truth was, he had nothing new to report.

The body in the cave had been confirmed to be Patrique, and so Verriere had hoped that that discovery would lead to all these new leads.

But after scouring the cave for clues and testing the cigarettes from the scene for DNA and speaking to the teenagers who reported the body, the case just hit a dead end.

Now, the mob-like execution style did line up with a theory that Verriere had that, you know, maybe Patryk had been killed over a gambling debt, you know, by the mob basically, or someone who was affiliated with, you know, organized crime.

But Verriere had never been able to actually uncover any trace of Patryk having any sort of debt that would get him killed.

Also, he still had not been able to identify that mysterious man in the tunnel that Patryk's daughter had mentioned.

And so that left Remy and also Audrey as his only suspects.