Ludovic Janvier is a six-year-old French boy who went missing on 17 March 1983 from Saint-Martin-d'Hères, a suburb of Grenoble, in the Isère département of south-eastern France.
[1] Several witnesses testified that a man wearing a construction-style hard hat, blue work overalls and black heavy-duty zip-up shoes approached the boys and said to them: "I've lost my wolf-dog.
[2] Later that year, the clerk of a court judge in Grenoble received a phone call informing her that the child had been adopted by a new family.
[3] Around 2010, Virginie – Ludovic's sister – received a phone call from a nurse at a hospital near Reims, a French city 600 km (370 miles) to the north.
[2] In 2011, the Grenoble authorities announced that they were reopening Ludovic Janvier's case, as well as that of another girl in the "Disparus de l'Isère" investigation.