Search for bones of Delphine Aussaguel in the Tarn: end of excavations this Thursday

The search undertaken on Wednesday October 1 in Tarn to find the bones of Delphine Aussaguel, whom her husband Cédric Jubillar admitted to having killed in 2020, must end on Thursday morning, the gendarmerie said, without indicating whether new elements had been discovered.

“The searches will end this (Thursday) morning, we will have inspected the entire area” which had been designated by the investigators near the village of Mailhoc, declared Lieutenant-Colonel Stéphane Meyblum, second in command of the Tarn gendarmerie company, on the eve of a new reconstruction of the night of the disappearance of the young mother.

Nearly 150 gendarmes had been mobilized as of Wednesday morning under the direction of the Toulouse research section, according to the commander of the Tarn group, Colonel Diane Beuclier. The resumption of the excavations was eagerly awaited by the family and loved ones of Delphine Aussaguel. This is the 2nd phase of research carried out after Cédric Jubillar's confession of guilt at the beginning of the summer. On July 16, investigators, on the instructions of the plaster painter, exhumed bones in a field in the town of Mailhoc, belonging to the 33-year-old nurse.

A reconstruction to verify the confessions

Delphine Aussaguel disappeared on the night of December 15 to 16, 2020 from the couple's house in Cagnac-les-Mines, another village in Tarn located about ten kilometers from Mailhoc. Found guilty despite his denials and sentenced in October 2025 to 30 years of criminal imprisonment, Cédric Jubillar changed his line of defense in July, admitting to having strangled his wife during an argument.