French Aristocrat Suspected Of Murdering Family Eludes Authorities Yet Again
But a DNA test quickly confirmed that man detained in Glasgow on Friday evening was not, in fact, Dupont de Ligonnès, adding yet another ripple to the eight-year mystery surrounding the aristocrat’s disappearance. Though France officially banned social classes in the late 1700s during the French Revolution, many families still trace their ancestry back to “noble” beginnings. De Ligonnès was one of them. He would have been a count in France’s bygone aristocracy, a fact he reportedly alluded to in an email in which he called himself part of the country’s elite and wrote: “I think I’ve got a superiority complex, you could call it that....