The case of "little Gregory", as it became known, has haunted the judiciary, media and the French public for four decades, with its resolution just as elusive today as it was on October 16, 1984, when he was found.
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Judge Jean-Michel Lambert (4R) and public prosecutor of Epinal Jean-Jacques Lecomte (R) speaks with gendarmes in Docelles on October 18, 1984, near the site where the body of the "little" Gregory Villemin was found dead with his hands and feet tied in the Vologne River. (AFP)