Overview
- Daubon, 53, faces the Cour d’assises des Landes on charges tied to the fatal drugging of her elder daughter and alleged poisoning of the younger, with prosecutors also presenting an alleged plot to have the father killed from prison.
- Medical experts reported 1,882 milligrams of propranolol in the deceased’s system—described as the equivalent of 50 to 75 tablets—and attributed her death to acute toxic cardiorespiratory decompensation, alongside 22 detected molecules.
- Investigators documented extensive psychotropic prescribing and consultations with nearly 30 doctors for the elder daughter, as a 2018 child-protection psychologist raised a Munchausen-by-proxy hypothesis that the defense says no psychiatrist formally endorsed.
- Hair analyses of the surviving daughter found traces of codeine, a sedative anxiolytic, a sleeping pill, and an antidepressant without prescriptions, prompting a new indictment; she is expected to testify at the trial.
- Judges flagged major inconsistencies in Daubon’s timeline and phone activity on November 13, 2019, and the disappearance of the victim’s phone, while Daubon maintains the death was a suicide; proceedings are scheduled through December 3 and carry a possible 30-year sentence.