The Groom's Wedding Dress

On May 28, the servants of the Gervais couple discovered the body of six-year-old Leo. The child had been strangled in his bed with the laces from his shoes. Almost immediately suspicion fell on his 28-year-old nanny, Sophie Dauge, who had been in charge of the child, and who then disappeared without a trace. The criminal police hoped that the arrest would take the shortest possible time, since the crime sparked a wave of outrage. The extensive press coverage was also due to the fact that the young victim was the son of a foreign minister’s official.