She set about a relentless, sixteen-year-pursuit of Chanal. What about her son, Eroline O'Keeffe wanted to know, and those other sons who had disappeared? Although everything pointed to Chanal as the perpetrator, the French justice system and the military seemed uninterested in pursuing the cases. In 1990 Chanal was convicted of abduction and rape. A year after Trevor's murder, chief adjutant Pierre Chanal was stopped by police, who found a Hungarian hitchhiker bound and gagged in the back of his van. Since 1980, seven young men had disappeared in the 'Triangle of Death' around Mourmelon military camp. The young hitchhiker had unwittingly strayed into the hunting ground of a serial killer. On 8 August 1987, the body of nineteen-year old Trevor O'Keeffe was discovered in France. A mother's story of her extraordinary efforts to get justice for her murdered son.
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