The Annecy “Alps Murders” back in the news

The “Alps Murders” story was back in the news again yesterday. The Mirror Group has a new book on the subject coming out next week entitled The Perfect Crime and has an interview with Zaid Al-Hilli whose brother Saad along with his wife and her mother plus a local cyclist were murdered nearly 3 years ago.

When news of this horror surfaced in September 2012 it came as a real shock not least as La Tania friends live very nearby and drove a BMW X5 (however news quickly emerged that the vehicle had English number plates so we knew it wasn’t them). We’ve kept a close watch on the story ever since – the conspiracy theories are endless…

The brothers argument over a £1m house inheritance was one line of enquiry but other theories include:

Work connections to Iran satellite and nuclear industry, Mossad involvement, the French cyclist relationships and wife’s rich family with a string of Chemists in the area, a random robbery gone wrong, a random crazed gunman, a professional assassin, Saddam Hussein money links and also that the wife or mother were the targets relating to their past in the Middle East and USA.

Now add in the Swiss Bank accounts being frozen, a local ex dodgy policeman with an illegal gun collection being investigated, other distinct vehicles in the area, no pictures of the cyclist and his quick funeral, the very old gun used but fired rapidly and accurately according to some but not others, comments recorded on right wing websites, a visit to a private Geneva bank on the morning of the killing, the children surviving the attack and the strange story of the wife’s first husband being killed on the same day possibly by a poison dart…

The book by Mirror reporter Tom Parry is available from 29 May 2015.