His name is closely linked to several major criminal cases, such as that of the Huos killings in July 1988 where the analysis of blood traces made it possible to exonerate Henri-Jean Jacomet, wrongly accused of the murder of two young girls. The intervention of Philippe Esperança had resolved the investigation which had been dragging on for twelve years.
The name of Esperança also remains associated with a case that hit the headlines, that of “Grand Bornand” in 2003, where five people were murdered. It was he who, by carefully inspecting the Flactif family’s chalet and vehicles, managed to detect traces of blood.
Serving the FBI and CIA
More recently, it was thanks to “Bluestar”, a product revealing traces of blood that he himself developed, that the presence of little Maëlys was confirmed in Nordahl Lelandais’ car. The identification of Sophie Le Tan’s traces of blood on a saw, as part of the Reiser affair in Strasbourg, is also his work.
The expert is the first French morphoanalyst, a discipline born in the 1950s in the United States which interprets traces of blood at crime, suicide or accident scenes, when the facts are uncertain or suspicious. And he was in Aix on Thursday October 3, invited by the judicial court which organized the 2nd edition of the Night of Law on “science in the service of judicial truthaire”.
