Alps murder: Was it a serial killer?
Cops quiz ex-soldier
DETECTIVES investigating a suspected serial killer in France are probing links to the mystery murder of a British family.
Nordahl Lelandais is in the frame for the shooting of four people at Lake Annecy, in the Alps, in 2012.
Saad al-Hilli, 50, from Claygate, Surrey, his wife Iqbal, 47, and her mum Suhaila, 74, were shot in their car by an assassin at close-range.
The couple’s two daughters, then aged four and seven, survived by hiding under their mum’s skirt, but a French cyclist was also shot dead.
Ex-soldier Lelandais, 34, last week admitted “accidentally” killing Maëlys de Araujo, eight, on the other side of the Bauges mountains.
It came after the ex-army dog handler, of Chambery, was arrested over the murder of a French soldier.
He is now being linked to 14 other unexplained disappearances.
A former friend said: “Everyone here knows that Lelandais fits the profile of the Annecy assassin.
“There have been an extraordinary number of strange murders and disappearances in this area in recent years. Now everything is clicking into place.”