Reconstruction of the murder of Delphine Jubillar: Cédric Jubillar describes his act and the concealment of the body

What did Cédric Jubillar do after killing his wife Delphine? How did he hide his body? So many questions that investigators will look into on Friday October 2 during a reconstruction organized in Tarn. In particular, they will have to confront the plasterer painter with his latest statements.

Found guilty of the murder of Delphine Aussaguel, despite his denials, and sentenced in October 2025 to thirty years of criminal imprisonment, Cédric Jubillar changed his line of defense at the beginning of July, admitting to having strangled his wife during an argument. “I wanted her to shut up. I grabbed her by the neck and squeezed,” he said at the time.

He said he carried her on his back and placed her in the trunk of his car. On July 16, bones belonging to the 33-year-old nurse were exhumed in a field in the town of Mailhoc (Tarn), on the instructions of the accused.

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The reconstruction of the night of the murder will take place in Cagnac-les-Mines and Mailhoc, to verify whether the confessions made in July correspond to the findings made during the investigation. This is the reason why Cédric Jubillar was questioned at length about his actions after the death of Delphine Aussaguel, according to our information, in front of a Toulouse magistrate during a new interrogation, which took place on September 18.

“I dug a hole big enough to put her in”

As to what happened in the evening, Cédric Jubillar reiterated his statements, explaining that he had "wrapped [his] hands around his neck" and had "squeezed with [his] two hands". “I was in a daze, I didn’t feel my strength,” he said, adding shortly after: “I strangled her so she didn’t scream.” Then, according to his account, he took "a moment to think" about what he had done: "I stand in front of her, I look at her." According to him, it was the only moment when Cédric Jubillar took the time to think about his actions. The rest of his behavior is guided by "rush", because he "panics", which explains that he forgot certain details, according to his assertions.

“I decide to go and hide the body. I take her, I put her on my shoulder and I’m going to put her in the trunk of the car,” he then explained. He gets dressed and 15 to 30 minutes later he leaves in the car. “I drive, I drive, I look for a place where I could hide his body,” declared Cédric Jubillar, who therefore assures that he did not premeditate his action. If he chose this Mailhoc field, it is not because he “spotted” it before, he insists, it is because there are “mounds of soil”, so he selects it without thinking.

“I dug a hole big enough to put it in”, “I put it in the hole and I hid it”, continues Cédric Jubillar, who still claims to have carried it on his right shoulder, as when he left their home. He also said he pushed the soil "by hand", without difficulty and without "tools", because "it was crumbly". According to our information, Cédric Jubillar once again assured, during this interrogation, that he was “sincere” and not “lying”. “That night I shattered the lives of several families, Delphine and mine, the children and everything that goes with it,” he concluded.