First double murder Near the end of 1997, Stranieri responded to an ad published by a couple of restaurateurs, Frédéric Adman and his companion Nathalie Girard, who wanted to sell a nightclub in
Viry-Châtillon called the
New Love. On 7 November 1997, the sale was signed, and six days later, the couple disappeared.
Attempted murder On 4 January 1999, Stranieri, under the
pseudonym of his first murder victim Frédéric Adman, contacted Simon Cohen through an advertisement for his car. Curiously, without seeing the vehicle or negotiating about its price, Stranieri offered Cohen to finalize the transaction in his restaurant/nightclub
New Lover in Viry-Châtillon. When Cohen arrived, Stranieri told him that a friend would come and bring him the check certified by the bank to pay for the car. He then coaxed his victim by offering to visit the premises while waiting for the check, to which Cohen reluctantly agreed. Stranieri then pulled out a .
22 LR Carbine and, in the dim light, fired 5 times at Cohen, but the man managed to escape to the neighbour's house by climbing the fence. The neighbor then called the police, while Stranieri fled. Simon Cohen was transported to the emergency room, where after 4 hours of surgery he managed to survive. The police opened an investigation into the nightclub's owner and discovered that Alfredo Stranieri already had a criminal record for scams and car trafficking. They then went to his home in
Soisy-sur-Seine, where his wife Anne-Marie expected that her husband would arrive early, but never did, and the police lost his trail. The Cohen case, told in just a few lines in a local newspaper, drew the attention of the Girard couple, whose daughter Nathaliem and her companion Frédéric Adman had disappeared suddenly on 10 November 1997. They were running a restaurant called
Oasis in Viry-Châtillon, which had since become
New Love.
Second double murder In March 1999, in
Aveyron, he selected a classified ad for an inn in
Naussac called
La Bouriatte. The place was to his taste: luxurious and isolated, and the bill was signed on 10 April 1999. Two days later, Nicole Rousseau and Claude Mouly, the two owners who were in the process of a divorce, disappeared. Alfredo, who introduced himself under the name of Mario Stranieri (thanks to the identity card of his brother, which he had borrowed) and claimed to be the manager of a large nightclub in the
Paris area, accepted the purchase for 4 million francs without negotiating and moved to Bouriatte, while Rousseau and Mouly mysteriously disappeared. == Arrest and incarceration ==