The enigma of the Molene’s cadavers

Part one : Caché derrière

This story could have inspired Arthur Conan Doyle. An almost deserted island with violent sea streams and mortal reefs, 4 skeletons buried under the sand, of which we ignore the origin, a private boarding school handled by a priest and closed for bad treatments, a local population with a hard life and incredible stories to tell. A mystery. The story starts in March. A storm of a rare violence is on the costs of Brittany. In the archipelago of Molène, the water is infiltrated everywhere, enters homes, root up rock blocks of many tons, threaten the boats. "The storm", reports secretary of the townhouse, "It's been 20 to 30 years that It wasn’t that strong". On one of the islands of the neighbourhood, Quémérès, the sand dune is going back, devoured by waves, and humans rests are discovered. This island, one kilometer and a half long, was time to time inhabited. Some fields protected from the salted wind with stonewalls, seaweeds to produce saltwort and nourish the stoned soil, allowed families to survive on this rock. Since 2003, this land belongs to the conservatory for the littoral. A couple is renting the place, sowing bio products and runs a bed&breakfast (full booked until 2009) for city guys who want to play the Robinson Crusoe.“It’s me who found them. South east of the island. A human skull and a pelvis. I called the police”, says the guy living there. Nothing exceptional for the region. “We found a lot of bodies in Molène” remembers a previous inhabitant. “When there was cholera epidemics, in the end of the XIXth century, we buried the cadavers”. Besides, the wreck is common around here. « It’s violent, here » says the son. If you go to the local cemetery, It confirms, people saying those words, are right. But this is not it. Exhumed, sent for dating to the criminal research institute of the national police, the results, back in public last Thursday, deny all suppositions. The cadavers were there buried 37 years ago, with a mistake possibility of more or less 5 years. Between 1966 and 1976. There is also prescription. Three men, one woman. Young, between 20 and 25 years old. Buried under one meter of sand. No trace of apparent violence. No clothes fibers (they were naked). Faces facing the sea, legs crossed.