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This Is Monsters

UNSOLVED: Dupont de Ligonnes

This Is Monsters

Jiles

True Crime

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In the middle of April of 2011, Emmanual Teneur was worried about his best friend. Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès had been struggling with money for several years, and recently his family had vanished from their rented home. It wouldn’t be long before the family was found and it was clear that they had had an encounter with a monster.

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0:00.0

In the middle of April of 2011, Emmanuel Tenier was worried about his best friend.

0:06.5

Xavier de Pond de Ligoniz had been struggling with money for several years,

0:11.5

and recently his family had vanished from their rented home.

0:15.8

It wouldn't be long before the family was found and it was clear that they had an encounter

0:20.5

with someone's sinister. You're going to be. On April 8, 2011, a manual had received some strange letters from Xavier that had tried to explain why he'd been acting so odd.

0:56.0

There were two letters dropped in Emmanuel's mailbox, one that was a copied typed letter with general greetings,

1:02.0

and one that was personalized just for him.

1:05.0

The letter that was not addressed to him had actually been sent out to

1:09.0

aid of Xavier's other close personal friends and family members and

1:12.0

contains some shocking revelations.

1:15.3

The letter read, quote,

1:16.3

Hi everyone, mega surprise, we've left suddenly for the USA and special circumstances that will explain below.

1:24.8

The letter went on to explain that Xavier and his family would not be able to return to their

1:29.1

home country of France or be contacted for quite some time.

1:33.4

He said that he'd been secretly working as a spy for the U.S. government, specifically the DEA,

1:39.4

and that his assignment was up.

1:41.4

He had to testify in a trial in the U.S. about international drug trafficking.

1:46.4

Because of that, the American government was going to hide him and his family during the

1:50.9

trial and give them new identities afterward.

1:54.3

Xavier explained that as far as anyone else knew, he was moving to Australia as his job

1:59.7

urgently needed him there.

2:01.8

The revelation that Xavier was a spy for the US government

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