New excavations have begun in the Tarn region of southern France, just two days before a planned reconstruction of the murder of Delphine Aussaguel, the wife of Cédric Jubillar. According to La Dépêche du Midi, searches were launched on Wednesday, September 30, in the village of Mailhoc, where gendarmes are examining 200 hectares of farmland. This area belongs to a farmer whose field was where Delphine's remains were found in mid-July 2023. Three gendarmerie units are currently on site, with a command center established near the town hall of Villeneuve-sur-Vère, where the farmer owns land. These excavations are focusing on areas that had not previously been searched and are taking place in a location where Cédric Jubillar had admitted to burying his wife’s body. The searches come after the president of the High Court of the Haute-Garonne requested additional evidence to be provided to the court. The work is being conducted just before a reconstruction of the murder, which is set for Friday, October 2, in Cagnac-les-Mines. This reconstruction will help prepare for the upcoming appeal trial. Delphine’s remains were discovered in a field about ten kilometers from the village of Mailhoc, nearly six years after her disappearance. The discovery came after Cédric Jubillar, who had previously denied any involvement in her death, admitted in a letter on July 6 and later to investigators on July 15 that he had killed his wife. Cédric Jubillar was initially sentenced to thirty years in prison by the court in Albi for the murder of Delphine Aussaguel. His case is now set to be retried on appeal in Toulouse from April 30 to May 14, 2027. The new excavations are taking place as Jubillar is scheduled to be released from prison on Friday for the reconstruction of the events surrounding his wife’s death in December 2020. Approximately forty gendarmes are currently working at the site, including two mobile gendarmerie squadrons, thirty gendarmes from the Tarn, and ten military personnel from the Toulouse research section and the National Judicial Police Unit (UNPJ) of the national gendarmerie. The previous reconstruction of the murder took place in December 2022 at the couple’s home in Cagnac-les-Mines. This new reconstruction is intended to provide a clearer picture of the events leading to Delphine’s death and to support the appeal trial. The gendarmerie stated that these searches are part of the process to provide additional information to the court of assizes in Haute-Garonne. The areas being searched had not previously been examined, and the operation is focused on locations linked to Cédric Jubillar’s statements about where he buried his wife’s body.