260: Murdered His Family…Or Did He?! | The Dupont Murders
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Who is Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès and what happened to his family?
All right, so today's case, the one I wanted to talk to you about, this one is really interesting. I haven't heard a lot of people talk about it before, but I did see it on, I think it was Unsolved Mysteries, which that's always a good show, right? But they didn't really do a lot of in-depth, deep dive, nitty gritty details that, you know, I like live and die by. So I had to go a little bit further. I wanted to just research it because it's a really complex case. It's like hidden family secrets with a splash of deceit. I don't want to say family annihilator, but I just wanted, let me break it all down for you and then you can be the judge. And, you know, I'm going to stop talking.
On April 21st of 2011, five members of the Dupont de Ligonnès family were found buried under the patio of the family home in Nantes. Dupont de Ligonnès had gone to great lengths to disguise his appearance, even undergoing cosmetic surgery.
One day in October of 2011, a man named Xavier Dupont de Leonis called the private school where his two young children went. And I should say his two youngest children, because his oldest son, Arthur, was 21 years old and away in college. His next oldest, Thomas, was also 18 years old and at a different college. So Xavier didn't call either one of their schools, just for the youngest kids. And these two kids were 16-year-old Anne and 13-year-old Benoit. And he was calling the school to notify them that he just got a new job in Australia. Which, if you can tell by all of these names and how I'm pronouncing them, Thomas, Xavier, these very fancy names, which I'm going to honestly do my best not to butcher, they were from France, not from Australia.
They were from a town in France called Nata. So this was going to be a big move. So he tells the school that his kids are going to be transferring to this school in Australia. And he also was asking the school not to bill him for the following month's tuition. But mainly, the point of the call was just to say, hey, don't worry about them. They're going to stop showing up for class. Don't be alarmed. It's because we're moving. Please don't bill me. That's the situation. He was also calling some of their friends, some of their neighbors all around this same time, telling them not to worry if they didn't see his wife Anya surround either. However, he didn't tell them the same story that he told the school. It was kind of similar.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
Who is Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès and what happened to his family?
2:15–8:19
2
What suspicious activities did neighbors and police notice before the discovery?
8:19–13:52
3
How were the bodies discovered and what was found at the crime scene?
13:52–20:53
4
What is known about Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès' background and personality?
20:53–26:53
5
How did Xavier’s upbringing influence his lifestyle and family dynamics?
26:53–33:05
6
What financial and personal troubles was Xavier facing before the murders?
33:05–41:02
7
What was the state of the family’s finances after Xavier’s father passed away?
41:02–1:13:55
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