Luger pistol found in French lake reignites 14-year-old family murder investigation

Four people were killed including a passing cyclist; two young daughters survived, with the older child sustaining head injuries from a pistol butt.

Fourteen years after four people were shot dead on an Alpine road near Chevaline, France, the lake beside their campsite has yielded what may be the murder weapon — a corroded Luger P06 pistol pulled from the shallows by tourists who first mistook it for a toy. The al-Hilli family killings of September 2012 have resisted every theory investigators have brought to bear, and the case endures as a reminder that some acts of violence leave their logic buried as deeply as the evidence. Now, in a forensic laboratory, rust and time will be asked to speak where witnesses and motives have long fallen s

Luger pistol found in French lake reignites 14-year-old family murder investigation

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