Hi, park enthusiasts. I'm your host, Delia Diambra. And today's episode is part two of a story I started

to tell you last week about the 2012 Lake Anisee murders in France. If you haven't already, go back and

listen to part one. Like I mentioned before, there was no way I could cover this investigation in a

single episode. So splitting it into two

parts seemed like the best way to go as deep as I could on each detail without missing any

ground I needed to cover. To briefly recap, it was Wednesday, September 5, 2012, when an

unknown shooter gunned down 50-year-old British citizen, Sad al-Hilly,

his 47-year-old wife, Iqbal, and Iqbal's mother, Zahela.

The family had left their campsite near Lake Anisee and gone sightseeing that afternoon.

Saad had just parked the family's car in a small remote mountain parking lot when shots rang out.

A cyclist, 45-year-old French native, Silvan Molié, was also killed in the attack.

French police initially believed he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time,

and it was Saad who'd been intentionally targeted.

The only survivors were the Alhili's two daughters, four-year-old Zena and seven-year-old Zena.

Because the family was from England, French authorities had to work closely with British investigators to try and figure out what exactly happened.

The French zeroed in pretty quickly on Saad's older brother, Zaid Al-Hili, as a suspect because of an ongoing inheritance dispute

between the two men. However, the physical evidence in the case and witness testimony didn't

point to Zaid as the trigger man. Despite that, though, nine months after the shootings,

British authorities arrested him for conspiracy to commit murder. But those detectives working the case alongside the team from France

weren't totally sold on that theory.

They believed that the elder Al-Hilly brother was most likely innocent.

In fact, they pondered whether everyone had been looking in the wrong direction

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