Ex-wife defends playboy lawyer in French missing heiress case The ex-wife of a playboy lawyer accused of killing a French heiress 36 years ago on Wednesday denied their son's claim that the father had murdered the young woman, as the son stood his ground. Maurice Agnelet, 76, this week faces his third trial for the killing of Agnes Le Roux, a glamorous 29-year-old whose body was never found after she disappeared in October 1977. IMAGES.