A father vanishes. Five lives are found beneath stone. In April 2011, investigators uncovered a grave under a suburban patio in Nantes-Agnès Dupont de Ligonnès and her four children, each killed with a silenced .22 and buried with religious tokens. The sixth bed in the house was empty, the shutters closed, the photographs removed, and a paper trail of calm deception already in motion.This is a landmark of modern true crime, tracing the days between a family's last dinner and a man's last confirmed steps across a hotel parking lot on the French Riviera. Why did the phones keep replying after the victims were already gone? What story was the house designed to tell?From a CPAP timestamp at 03:02 to receipts for quicklime, from range sessions with a newly licensed rifle to letters invoking witness protection, the record points in one direction-and still leaves a single, unmovable question: where did he go? The case remains charged, international, and unresolved. This book contains no images-only cinematic narrative written in the style of a detective-investigator.Guided by forensic evidence and courtroom filings, the narrative keeps the lens on the victims-their routines, their faith, their futures-while following the official hunt for a suspect still listed under an Interpol Red Notice. Is this a cold case, or a wound that refuses to scar?The middle chapters map the method: sedatives administered to four children; two rounds to each head; funerary relics arranged with care; a patio dismantled and rebuilt at night. Then comes the farewell drive south-Toulouse, Avignon, La Seyne, Roquebrune-and the silence that followed.You'll walk the timeline, test the claims, and step into the archives that still shape a national manhunt-not to sensationalize, but to understand. Could evidence of a family annihilator hide in plain sight? Or does the absence mean something else entirely?What you'll find is not conspiracy but coherence: an unsolved mystery held together by receipts, autopsies, and the lives that deserve to be remembered first. Read the opening chapter and decide what you believe.This Book Is For Readers Who...Want a meticulous, compassionate reconstruction anchored to the official record.Gravitate to investigations that privilege victims over spectacle.Follow European cases involving fugitives under international notice.Appreciate procedural detail-toxicology, ballistics, timelines, and burial forensics.Wonder how ordinary routines become evidence-and how a home becomes a scene.Seek narratives that balance empathy with accountability.Perfect For Fans Of...Gregg Olsen; Ann Rule; Michelle McNamara; Kate Winkler Dawson; Robert Kolker.