The Disappearance of The Godard Family
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What I don't understand is why the fishermen threw the first skull back into the water. To me that makes no sense. Well presented as always DC.
Reminds me of that time a Norwegian cargo ship allegedly saw a floating body near to Alcatraz after those prisoners escaped in the early 1960s.
There was also apparently wreckage from MH370 washing up on islands and just being burned by the locals. This apparently included personal effects and luggage. Not handed over to authorities, not checked or anything.
Drives me mad. My parents are the same around the house - if they don't know what it is or don't think they need it, just gets chucked out. Bonus points if they later have a tantrum trying to find it discovering it might have been useful after all.
@@halfbakedproductions7887Did they know it was from the plane when they burnt it?
@@halfbakedproductions7887 Theres a huge difference between chucking out some household item and throwing a human skull back into the sea.
He might not have realised what it was until the second part. They'll dredge stuff up and throw it back all the time as a matter of muscle memory.
Without seeing the fragment or a description it'll be hard to say
@@dfuher968 Way to miss their point entirely.
It's quite unbelievable how many unusual disappearances occur around the world. Like many of your cases I had not heard of this one. Your commentary is always objective, balanced and sensitive. It can only help to shine a light on these cases.
This case is cinematically creepy: adapting this for either the big or small screen could be a very worthwhile project.
So he killed his wife and the took the children for a boat ride, so sad. Why the children have to die as well is so tragic.
What if the wife did it. Her the boat and the son are all still missing. 🤷🏻♀️
where are you getting that he did it?
I believe he killed his wife, took the children and ended all their lives.
Your videos are so exceptionally produced, researched and presented which every other TB channel has no capacity of reaching. Your empathy, compassion and kindness are apparent with every story that you creating a sense of a personal connection to you. Thank you for delivering such intriguing, mind boggling and sensitive information about these peoples whose lives have become a platform that you share as a beautiful tribute to all.
Thank you 💙
Try Coffee House Crime, Just Thought Lounge, Well, I Never. These are also well done.
@@pocho689exactly...there are loads of channels of equal excellent quality.
Add thatchapter and gabuloisis
Agree! One of my favorites
One of the most well-known and intriguing french case from the last decades. It really, truly fascinated people here, multiple shows and documentary on it. Thank you for yours !
I love your content and voice. It's disheartening with no resolution 😢 my heart goes out to the families.
i love your videos, especially that reflect the lives of people that do not have a voice of their own
*Fishing-learned commenters:*
Please help me understand why someone would throw BACK a HUMAN SKULL that is clearly not from some ancient shipwreck (ugh, and even THEN…🙄) for being surface-accessible AND still recognizable as such despite the exposure???
Believe it or not, most people that find evidence like this, and take a pass on alerting the cops, do it because they just don't want to get involved.
@@Necron990 in a lot of countries they can't be trusted
My dad is a fisherman and he discovers skulls all the time, eventually it became very tedious to separate from other debris and trash...and any time he would turn them over, he was submitted to hours worth of interrogation. He got tired of doing it every other day so now he just throws them back in to the ocean so others can find them.
@sew_gal7340 perfectly understandable
@@sew_gal7340 Ty! Nice to find relief from frustration!
Weird case. Sounds like the doctor killed his wife and kids and ran off to start life over. However, his remains were later found.
That’s what I thought as well … but something went wrong inbetween whatever was planned.
I think the family was kidnapped, possibly for the doctor’s money.
He may have killed himself once he killed the kids. Wonder if there were financial issues we didn't know about, or abuse with the kids that the wife found out about...so he killed her and then them before it could be exposed. Some kids do talk as they get older and tell eventually.
@@DerykRonkhe was last seen on boat - so how come he was kidnapped¿
@@LadyIsTheChampThe video states that he had debts and debt collectors had been looking for him too, according to neighbours.
What a mess of a case.
most likely: familicide due to financial ruin
Idk, doctors along with uniformed professions are in the top of suicides, so could also be mental issues where in a career where they may be reluctant to ask for help (plus exposed to misery and an expectation of being stable and normal).
Financial ruin may often be something relative. In many cases where this is given as an explanation I fell it's perhaps some reset but the person have an expectation of entitlement of a certain material standard.
@@johannas.l.brushane2518 You make a really interesting point about the "expectation of entitlement of a certain standard." I think many, if not most, middle-class and upper middle-class people--me included, I'm ashamed to say, for a long time--possess this attitude without even being aware of it. And of course, if your career IS your life, how do you re-create a sense of self and value if that career collapses? (Arthur Miller's great play, "Death of a Salesman" explores this tragedy with terrifying precision.)
@@maxalberts2003 I recall a case "I'm just saying" discussed. It was a police chief in England who of course with his position was well paid but had got himself in serious debt by fancy cars, residence at a fancy address, luxury renovation of the house etc. At one stage his wife's parents had bailed the family out, but he soon started with this reckless spending on buying status in way. But when his wife found out the second time he killed her. And as described in various media it was called "financial problems" which I'm not so sure is an accurate view.
Thank you for sharing another case with us. It’s strange that people would report seeing the children and they they needed saving, when Camille’s dna confirmed it was her. Camille’s skull was found and dna confirmed partial remains of Yves. Very puzzling!
I hate that there’s no closure here as people just don’t disappear!
people 'just' disappear all the time...
I find the missing or murdered families sad an interesting .Such a sad case.😥
Sure, we'll just toss this HUMAN SKULL back in the water.
What blockheads!
If you wanted to kill yourself, why would you take your innocent children with you? Let them have their lives.
Sadly, it's happening all the more, I wonder also what must go through someone's head that they decide to kill others as well as themselves,
Possession,narcissism and a big dollop of 'if i go,we all go' so the thought that the family will go on and probably thrive without them.
I truly enjoy your work❤
Thank you 💙
@@DarkCuriosities no worries.
Money. It’s ALWAYS about money. Sick.
I love these. Please keep doing them.
I was JUST reminded of this case after watching a very good video about the DuPont de Lignonnès murders. But I could only remember the vaguest details. What luck to have comes across this video purely because I’m a fan of yours! Thank you!
Why's it weird the mom didn't go out on the boat? The ocean is scary lol
And considering the fact that she was deceased, she wouldn't have enjoyed the jaunt anyway.
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What a puzzling story. I think Eve killed his wife and the kids and then himself with the help of someone, i think that person was the one who went on to place the cards at the beach. I bet he or she wrote those letters. Someone knows something. I hope that one day the case gets solved. Rip Marie and the kids.
Wasn't his name Yves 😅
@@madeleine9907 😂😂 oh dear, I heard Eve and I was wondering why he had a woman's name. Thanks for correcting me 😂😂. Stay blessed ☺️
lol, i was wondering too! i got so confused early on and googled it. haha.
Thank you DC. This one is literally mind boggling. Idk how you keep it all together but it's a very fine and caring job.🙏🏼💔🕊️🦌
Yeah it definitely sounds like he killed his wife and took the children around for one last time, bought them waffles and treats etc ....then dosed them with the morphine found in the van , and then killed them. But why???? Was there mentions of financial issues that I missed?
Cases from France are always the most baffling and intriguing.
These videos make me cry especially when the people just disappear into thin air , just knowing they where once shopping in grocery stores and living normal lives and suddenly they just went poof 💨, I always think about especially how things went for the children and if somone took there lives and hid the bodies , so sad and unfortunate.
That’s always stuck with me … someone can just vanish as if they never existed. It’s so sad and scary.
One crazy case. One I have never heard.
Always a great video 😊
Thanks!
Wow what a mystery! Thanks for a great video. Australia 🇦🇺🦘
We get quite a few bodies and often debris from nefarious circumstances washed up in Guernsey. It must be quite a consistent current 🌊. Very sad story 💔
Quite a maze of a case 🤔
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This case definitely needs to be reopened imo
9 minutes...Im guessing they met while both were still Married...that's why the X's had their Teens...so between Paying Alimony and Child Support to his X, he was also Paying Child Support for her 2 Teens to her X! Than he had 2 more kids and a Stay at Home Marie...the Pressures at Home and his Flailing Practice pushed him to the Breaking Point! He didn't want or "Plan" to Murder Marie or it wouldn't have been so Messy! He wanted her to Run Away with him...but she Refused! She may have even wanted a Divorce! SNAP! It was nice of him to take his 2 youngest out for One Last Adventure before Throwing them Overboard! 😳😞
This is not how alimony and child support work in France.
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I believe someone helped him, he killed his wife and then his children and himself but someone helped to mingle the case up after so he wouldn’t be called a murderer.
Right so cleaned up the crime scene then took his own life
@@JulieRushworth that’s what I was thinking… it had to have involved another person especially with the stuff they found on the shore later
It gets more bizarre, the more it's looked into.
Ooooooh. What a bizarre story!
so sad.
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Gendarme is french police .Jondarm is a closer pronunciation
It’s bizarre…. And while things look bad for Yves, he’s not here and without some evidence of a concrete nature, we can’t say he did it all.
Why would he clean up the blood if he was going to never come back and commit suicide?
Very sad. Famly may have had many financial problems.
The cards could have been floating in a sealed bag or container for years and were only unsealed by the elements in 2001. The idea they were planted is hardly water tight...
What if the wife murdered her family? … plot twist . She could have met up with her family later. Planted evidence.
Too many fishy things going on here
Have you sent this information to the police?
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waffles mmm i dont think i ever saw a waffle vendor in person lol
I would've expected him to be slingin' french toast.
@@HarryLime-ge6dc its kinda hard to eat either outside lol......i cant walk and eat eat waffle with melted butter and syrup.....i could eat a hot dog walking though
@MikeHunt-fo3ow You wouldn't happen to be American would you?
@@MikeHunt-fo3ow- we're talking Liège waffles here though probably, not American waffles.
Usually much firmer with caramelised pearl sugar in/on them, and often eaten plain (so no syrup).
It's common to find these sold by waffle vendors in parts of Europe, or at least it was back in the late 90's/early 00's when I was a kid.
So, was the wife’s body ever found?
I don't understand what was the reason to have fake patients and then cancel the appointments along with the other patients. Eh?
The husband killed his family
This case needs a task force.
Fascinating case! (BTW - 'Gendarme' is pronounced 'Johndahm')
Yeeeeah…but the r isn’t silent
The j is more of a zh sound as in "Jean" in French.
Yves = john list
He was another john list
Thank you for your stories and how well you speak and give a detailed report in a few minutes . You have kept me company during horrid nights of pain , following am Amputation of my right foot and part of my leg. I'll survive . I'm made of tough old stuff.
Thanks for reading this..
Joe ..all way from Ireland .❤
He offed his family then himself.
He killed his wife and kids to start a new life but couldnt handle the guilt so he killed himself for real
Hello from Louisville ❤❤😢😢
Extremely curious but probably a psychopathic father.
I’ve never been first !! Thanks Dark Curiosities ❤
Let me know if you hear any more news as they were my aunt's family
Pirates?
Still choosing the bear.
Fashionable slogan.
@@eadweard. They always are when they're based in truth.
@@mylifeasasociopath Interesting perspective.
@@eadweard.Indeed.
Were the sightings of him sans a femur? This is interesting, but not particularly mysterious.
🇬🇧 I suspect the trawler who netted up the human skull, threw it back into the sea because to report it, could see their boat thoroughly searched.
If they were doing anything illegal, traces of their activities could have been found.
Not to mention they would have been closely questioned & thus maybe having their boat impounded, curtailing their fishing business & losing money.
They probably thought about all of this & decided to throw the skull back.
Without that evidence, the authorities would have no proof.
Who reported them finding the skull?
How did authorities know about it?
Did one of the fishermen tell the police?
It's not made clear
( Not blaming this channel of course, her investigations are immaculate)
Also I fail to understand why people think Dr Godard is still alive, faking his death!
If remains found were positively identified as the Doctors, how could he have faked his death?
Unless some adult close to him in familial DNA were substituted, then did he have a brother, uncle or cousin which could have accounted for it?
Surely he wouldn't have dug up the grave of a close male relative to dispose of where the supposed remains were found?
It wouldn't be the first time such elaborate methods were used to fake a death!
A dreadful case, no matter how you view it.
Especially 2 very young children losing their lives.
Someone or some group, got rid of the family because of nefarious activity of the Doctor.
Also how much money did the doctor have stashed away in offshore accounts?
Couldn't he have paid off what he owed with that?
Why risk the safety of his family & himself ?
A strange case with too many twists & fabrications.
Someone muddied the waters very well.
Thank you, DC,
Love your cases,
Peace
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This content would be measurably improved if the narrator would look up the pronunciation of certain words and not just in this video
A simple sailing accident maybe it was but that just sounds like a lazy conclusion to get the case closed there's too many missing pieces in this case to come to that sort of conclusion imo
Nobody came to that conclusion. As mentioned in the video, the only firm conclusion they reached was that it wasn’t a simple boating accident
I watched 2 true crime videos in a row and now the algorithm thinks im a 50 year old woman.
I mix mine up with funny animals, serial killers and move reviews.
😂😂😂 LoL you have made my day.
Rude! 😂😂😂
I do that and more, and I’m only 34! 😂
oops. i should not comment until the end of video.
mafia that's original ?
Cannot tell what you are trying to say.
Maybe the wife collected her blood and distributed it throughout the house. I think I have read too many far fetched murder mysteries.
Not to take away from the tragic case but gendarme is pronounced like “j” for Julia not “g” for the name of the missing family.
They are all dead.
It's hilarious how these stupid murderers Don't even try to not get caught. Lmfao. Just leave bread crumbs why Dont chaah. Love your channel. RIP to the victims ❤😢
Not trying to be a cleverdick, but you should know that gendarme is pronounced with a zh- sound like in "pleasure". So "zhen-darme". In French, "g" is only hard in front of a, o and u. ;-)
She's not french, she's speaking English pronouncing french words, you sound like a cleverdick.
For non french it sounds almost like a j so I commented to pronounce it jondarm which is close . My Mom always called the police this .She was anglophone from Quebec .
Personally...
The most obvious murderer here is...
Marie!
She's the only one whose body was never found! I reckon she watched GONE GIRL one too many times and got planning!
+Firstly taking her own blood, a little every day and bagging it up.
+With her husband a doctor she had access to equipment or to ordering supplies in his name.
+No one at his practice would think it weird if his wife popped in occasionally to drop him in lunch etc.
+Maybe she was the one who made up fake patients in his appointment book, then crossed them out to make it look like he had a different "plan" to carry out.
+With proper needles and bags she could harvest her own blood and store it in the fridge disguised as something else, tucked away at the back.
+It makes no sense for him to buy cleaning supplies that morning then leave them in the parked car as he boarded the boat. The blood in the house had already been cleaned anyway, and the amount of blood over numerous rooms in the house would have been impossible for the children not to have heard their Mother enduring such a crazed attack the night before their boat trip!
+I think she told him to grab cleaning supplies that morning on the way to the boat, and said she was happy to wait until his return in a couple of days to make use of them. She may have suggested he didn't buy them on the way home cos they'd be tired after their trip.
+How the hell would he have managed such a stabbing without waking his children, had time to clean up pints of blood, in silence, again without waking his children, hide the body, and get the kids out the door in the morning without them missing their Mother at breakfast or wanting to kiss her goodbye?
+ Bearing in mind he not only hid her body, but disposed of her body *SO EFFICIENTLY* that no trace of her has ever been found since!
+Despite his mastery at hiding his dead wife all these years.... he then chose to make such a shit job of getting rid of bank cards and ID cards, going so far as to deposit them months or years later...despite his own carcass having been dredged up with the tide long before! 😂 I mean there's mastery....and then there's defying nature!
+She didn't mention the boat trip to her teenager because she wanted it to look like her husband had planned it without her knowledge, planting the seed that he was the one who planned it all.
+She could have rented the boat as a "treat" for her husband but reserved the booking in his name.
+She could be in cahoots with the boat owner, hence him commenting to police "I thought it weird a wife didn't accompany him and the children" - because WHY ON EARTH would that be WEIRD anyway? I would think MOST children go sailing or fishing with their Fathers, far more often than they do their Mothers.
I personally would find it weird, that the boat owner found that "weird". Guarantee checking back through his previous customers, the majority of them would be men. Even more so, divorced or separated Fathers that only see their children at weekends, because they tend to organise weekend activities with their kids to make their time together more meaningful.
Now this doctor wasn't a divorced man, and I'm not saying the dates coincide with the weekend in this particular incidence, I'm just saying, that the boat owner's most REGULAR customers to hire his boats, would no doubt statistically be men - meaning, why on Earth would he state a woman not joining the outing to be so "unusual" that he felt it necessary to point that out to police?
+If she was in cahoots, having an affair with or paying the boat owner, he would be the perfect person to drop off all the clues on various beaches following the cover up.
+Besides we only have his word that the Father boarded the boat with the children, how do we know the Father wasn't dead already, and that it was Marie boarding the boat with her hair tucked under a cap so onlookers would believe him saying it was one man and two children?
+Perhaps he drove the boat, removed the dinghy airlock, him and the Mother suggested the kids try the dinghy, then sped up and left them in the middle of the ocean. Then further away, tipped the Father's body overboard. Then continued to scatter more evidence over time.
It's entirely plausible to me, since the ONLY body missing from all this is HERS. Considering how miraculous it is that both children's and Father's bodies happened to float ashore from their watery graves AT ALL. It took them decades to figure out how to dredge up the Titanic and they knew where it was! Let alone recover all the people who drowned. The boat made it out the ocean eventually, but not every dead body did!
Bodies dumped in the middle of the ocean - especially The English Channel which is treacherous even alive on a boat, let alone dead - rarely just happen to float ashore again. The children's skulls weren't even found on the beaches...they were randomly hooked up by fisherman! What's the chances of that? You couldn't find a dead body in an enclosed lake with no tide, just by using fishermen! Talk about needle in a haystack! 😳
He made such a lousy job of hiding his kid's bodies and his own apparently...yet managed to hide his wife's body so successfully, in silence, in a timeframe tighter than an arsehole, that she's not been seen since! 😂
Either the bones of his they found are able to be lived without, so he's out there somewhere living his best life in a wheelchair...🙄
Or she's cut her hair short, dyed it blonde, and sunning herself on a beach somewhere with a new identity. It's this theory that works best with the evidence found, IMO. Instead of cashing in on life insurance for her husband which is a huge red flag, she's probably shacked up somewhere with her fisherman boyfriend! The boat they found no trace of, has probably been repainted and renamed and sold on, and instead they're living off the insurance claim for his missing boat, as backed up for the insurance policy, by the police case.
There ya go! Mystery solved!
You're Welcome!
Tami, Armchair Detective, England. 🤣
@tammi please write fiction, that was an awesome interpretation!
@@lucsmith2092 awww thank you! I keep being told I should write a book...but I'm not very confident about putting myself out there. But thank you for that sweet comment. 😘 xxxxx
First off gone girl came out way after this happened the movie anyways, Secondly titanic is still on the bottom of the ocean. Other than those two things your theory is plausible and it would explain the cards showing up on the beach.
This was fascinating to read! I think a weakness is that her body being the only one never found might not be that strange since the odds of finding the other three were astronomical, as you pointed out. If perhaps her body went into the water, too, she was just the one body that *didn’t* beat the insane odds.
But you make an excellent case. You should share it elsewhere too! And yes, even consider writing a book. You write in a very engaging way.
I do have to geek out and address your Titanic comments. It hasn’t been dredged up; only a relatively small section of the hull has been brought up (even though it’s called The Big Piece; at 20’x26’ and 15 tons, it’s the largest part recovered) along with artifacts from the debris field. As for the bodies of the victims, less than a 3rd were recovered, and only those who were floating on the water, none from the ocean floor. Also, we *didn’t* know where it was. The coordinates they sent out with their SOS were wrong. It took multiple tries scanning a very large search area to finally pinpoint the wreck.
As a kid, when offered the chance to pick out a treat at the mall with my grandparents, I chose a big picture book about the Titanic by Bob Ballard just a few years after the Titanic wreck was found. I was only 8 and my grandparents weren’t too sure about my selection being appropriate, but my brother and I read that thing over and over and over and I’ve been a history fan my whole life.
True crime is a unique form of history. Much like disasters (such as Titanic) infamous murders offer a window into what life was like at a given time and place, and even gives a snapshot of the social mores of the time based on how the crime, and especially the victim/s, were covered in contemporary reports. Look at how the husband in this case has been assumed to be the killer, and the wife the victim. That’s because statistically that’s more common with family annihilators, but also because of how society sees men and women. Yet you spotted a completely different way to view the case. That’s a great skill, in addition to your writing. *Please* go to the Unresolved Mysteries subreddit! R/UnresolvedMysteries. (Notice, not “Unsolved” but rather “Unresolved”, they are very distinct subreddits.) Your contributions would be valuable and much appreciated! 🎉
😂😂😂😂😂😂Doctor of acupuncture?
I hate that Gavin & Stacey means I can never take the phrase 'fishing trip' seriously again
May be Yves Godard is still alive. He killed his wife, took his children and staged drawning.
A few of Ives bones were found so he is not alive.
@@KohalaLover a few bones off a leg doesn't mean he couldn't have had a leg amputated and disposed of it near where the bones were found. I'm thinking he's alive
@@cynhiacations9879 If you were a one legged Frenchman, where would you hide? I think it's a bit implausible.
@@cynhiacations9879Cannot tell if this is supposed to be a joke or not.
Bones of his were found, including his spine,
another Chris Watts
sorry. i spoke to soon.
Blaming all on the man who himself died. Gotta leave men alone, huh?