Jean-Maurice Agnelet had only been charged in 2000 after another of his girlfriends withdrew the alibi she had provided in the past.
The court was told how Jean-Maurice Agnelet had convinced Agnes Le Roux to vote against her mother at a board meeting in June 1977 to allow the sale of a casino to go through.
Heiress Agnes Le Roux was paid three million francs and she transferred the money into a joint account also in Jean-Maurice Agnelet 's name, however, when she vanished later that year, the main suspect Jean-Maurice Agnelet came up with an alibi from another girlfriend, who told police she was with him in Switzerland so he couldn’t have been involved with her disappearance.
Years later in 1999, the girlfriend admitted to Agnes Le Roux's aging mother that she had lied, and from that admission the case became reopened.
