Three years after Augustine disappeared, her partner fired for murder

Tahiti, August 24, 2024 – More than three years after the mysterious disappearance of a 27-year-old young woman, Augustine Tetuaura, the investigating judge in charge of judicial information ordered on April 15 that her lover be referred to the Assize Court. The man, a 34-year-old father, will stand trial for murder in 2025.

In 2021, a 27-year-old woman named Augustine Tetuaura disappeared, and the examining magistrate in charge of the judicial investigation issued an indictment order (OMA) at the Sessions Court on April 15. After three years of investigation, the examining magistrate ordered the dismissal of the victim’s spouse, a 34-year-old father, so that he will be tried for aggravated murder.
 
The peculiarity of this case, in that the body of the young woman has never been found, began on May 16, 2021, when a woman reported to the gendarmerie the disappearance of her daughter, which had occurred three weeks earlier. She then explained that her daughter had been in a relationship for many years with a man who was also married to a woman and had three children. The last time she was seen, her daughter had just left with her lover. During the investigation launched into the “disturbing disappearance”, Augustine was questioned and he first confirmed that he had an argument with Augustine on the night of the incident because she had had sex with another man. Then they went to bed and when he woke up around three in the morning, he discovered that the young woman had disappeared.
 
Conflicting statements
 
However, during the investigation, the military police of the Research Section discovered that her phone calls had not been made since the evening of April 26 and that, unlike Augustin’s family, her lover had stopped trying to contact her. Testimonies collected from people close to the couple also revealed that the man had made contradictory statements.
 
The defendant’s wife also stated that on the night of his disappearance, her husband called her and told her that he “Did something stupid.” As the examining magistrate stated in his OMA, the 30-year-old also questioned the mother of his children about “Surfers or bodies missing at Papenoo estuary and bodies possibly lost to sharks”. Additionally, the defendant’s mother stated that she thought she saw a dead body in the back seat of her son’s car.
 
The lover of the missing woman was detained by the police on June 30, 2021. He initially denied any involvement, but faced with the objective factors of the case, he recounted the scenario described by the pre-trial judge: “An almost accidental minimalist version of the truth.” He then ensured that they both went to Papenou to see where Augustine’s new companion lived. According to his father, there was an argument on a promontory on the east coast, which ended with him accidentally pushing his partner into the sea. “Fear”, Then he would leave.
 
Intentional homicide
 
After some time, the thirty-year-old man finally confessed to the murder, indicating that he had committed the murder. “Big Fist” To Augustine, she had fallen “unconscious” So he got “Pier to the sea” According to her statement, she didn’t know if she was still breathing. The man didn’t want this young woman “Go see the police” Because he has “There is already a problem.”
 
In view of the reconstruction carried out in the present case, the content of the telephone calls and the testimony of seeing the body in the back of the defendant’s vehicle on the night of the incident, the preliminary hearing judge considered that the various versions provided did not accurately describe this fateful night.
 
‘Fear of being exposed’
 
So, in a murder trial scheduled for 2025, Circuit Court jurors will have to examine the character of the defendant, a warehouse worker who has ‘Drinking problem’had an extramarital relationship with the victim since 2013, concurrent with the victim’s marriage, and possibly violent behavior. For experts who examined the relationship between the thirty-year-old psychologist and Augustine, “No matter how tired you are”, He is “It’s a big deal, and he probably can’t imagine her leaving him.” For him, “Summarizing the facts in a simplistic gesture is a way to deny any intent to harm and to give a person’s actions a casual character.”
 
But according to experts, it is impossible to talk about his posture and the process of tonight first proved ‘Fear of being exposed’ and what “Facts can be told about him, his feelings, his temperament, and his anxieties”.
 
At the end of the trial, the defendant will be defended by M.^Egypt Isabel Nugaro faces thirty years in prison.
 

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