On a Monday morning in February of 2003, a man in suburban France got a phone call from a number that he recognized, so he answered it.

But instead of the familiar voice he expected, all he heard on the other end was static and muffled voices somewhere in the background.

He put his phone on speaker mode so his wife could listen, and the two of them listened closely to figure out like, who's calling me, what is this?

And as they listened, they were able to barely make out a conversation happening between two

women, who they didn't know. And these two women were clearly talking about a murder. And one of the

women said they needed to come up with an alibi.

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of our weekly uploads. Okay, let's get into today's story. On the afternoon of Friday, on the afternoon of Friday, February 7, 2003, a 52-year-old woman named Monique Lejeune cleared the table after lunch at her house in Colunia, France.

Her husband, Claude, and two of her adult sons, Frank and Pascal, were at the table. And while Monique cleaned up,

the men talked over what they needed to pack for the overnight trip they were about to take.

They were heading to a family gathering near Paris, about three and a half hours away,

to celebrate Claude's sister-in-law's retirement. Monique was not going to go. And she had told her

family, it was because somebody had to stay home with their four dogs.

And that was true, but there also was another real reason why Monique did not want to be there.

And it was because she just didn't get along very well with Claude's family.

So Monique and Claude had gotten married almost 20 years earlier, but at the time they both already

had multiple kids from previous marriages. Monique had three boys and Claude had five girls.

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