IS THIS WHAT YOU'RE THINKING:

That description… big, muscular, bald… makes me think of someone…

I know! It sounds like Raphael, Yvonne’s husband.

​I must tell Capitaine Adinian!
Congratulations! You just cracked the case, and saved the Beldoc Gendarmerie time and resources.

FOLLOWING JULIE CAVALLO'S TIPOFF...

The gendarmes went through CCTV footage and spotted Raphael talking to Marc outside of Marc's salon two weeks before the murder.

Another camera had caught Raphael driving out of town on the night of the murder, with Marc in the passenger seat.

Marc's corpse was found, buried in the forest. The Medical Examiner was able to isolate foreign DNA on the body. It turned out to be Raphael's.

The lab also found traces of the soil and plants from the site of the murder on the soles of Raphael's shoes. 

Raphael was arrested and confessed to the murder.

He had found out Yvonne was cheating on him.

Because of how vocal Yvonne had been about hating Marc, Raphael became convinced Marc was her lover. Over the last month, anger and jealousy had clouded his mind so much that he lured the man into his car under false pretenses, and then sedated and killed him.

end of game

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