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Tanay Emilie Biography

French homicide victim, nine-years-old when she inadvertently took poison intended for another. On 6/11/1994, 4:00 PM, Sylvie Tocqueville, a family friend, picked up Emilie to spend the day and go to a medieval festival, for which Emilie was dressed in costume. At about 8:00 PM, before leaving for the supper, Sylvie gave one teaspoon of Josacine [antibiotic syrup] to Emilie, a medicine the girl had been taking for a couple of days. A few minutes after, Émilie started to have gnawing pains in the stomach and fell into a coma in about a half hour. She died from cyanide poisoning at 10:30 PM, Gruchet, France. Sylvie had been having an affair with a local businessman, Jean-Marc Deperrois, and he had put cyanide into the antibiotic, thinking that it would be taken by Sylvies husband. On 7/27/1994 police arrested Jean-Marc Deperrois, based on their findings about the affair and that his business used cyanide. He had gotten rid of the poison when he learned of Emilie’s death, but he was convicted and sentenced on 5/27/1997 to 20 years prison for the murder of Emilie Tanay. Read less