Overview

• The Tarn assize court plans to hear a mother and daughter on October 6 about “cries of fear” they say they heard the night Delphine Jubillar vanished, a pillar of the prosecution’s narrative.
• The defense attacks the reliability of these accounts, citing timing gaps with phone messages at 22:55, doubts about a TV ad break the daughter recalled, and the plausibility of ten minutes of cries without other reports.
• Investigators point to a 2022 judicial reenactment showing such cries would be audible from 130 meters and to Delphine’s broken glasses in the living room as supporting an altercation theory.
• Recent hearings introduced an audio recorded 33 hours after the disappearance in which Cédric Jubillar spoke about his wife in the past and described his actions that night, while an assistant childminder recounted a remark she attributes to him referencing the Daval case, which he denies.
• The court is set to question Jean M., identified as Delphine’s lover, and to present the prior hearing of the couple’s son Louis describing a dispute that evening, with proceedings scheduled to run through October 17.