French may handle most of
Chauvire murder investigation
St. Maarten--The investigation of the murder of French national Angelique Chauvire will probably be handled primarily by the French authorities, but that will have to be decided between authorities on both sides of the island, according to Prosecutor Johan de Vrieze.
De Vrieze told The Daily Herald Tuesday that the fact that the victim, who was found dead on Dawn Beach Hill on Friday, had been coming from the French side before the murder occurred leads the authorities in Dutch St. Maarten to believe that much of what happened could be learnt from an investigation on the French side.
Chauvire was reported missing a week before her body was discovered and the autopsy report suggests that she had been dead already for two days prior to Friday’s find.
The couple who stumbled on the dead woman had been roaming the area in search of plants for bush tea. They called police and directed them to the dead end road through the bushes on Dawn Beach Hill, where there had been at least three other murders in the past.
Chauvire’s body was mutilated in such a way that the Prosecutor’s Office has declined to comment on the pathologist’s report on the cause of her death. The autopsy was completed on Sunday.
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