Marie Édith Jeanne Vuarnet (née Bonlieu, 18 April 1934 – 16 December 1995) was a French alpine skier.
She had joined the group in 1990, after being invited by another member to see leader Luc Jouret in a conference on healthy living.
[2] Patrick was said to have had trouble living up to his very successful father and desired recognition which the OTS gave him.
[7][8] According to a later testimony from Alain, recalling her behavior, she repeated every gesture seven times, would wash the handles of doors in alcohol, and leave during dinner to see "friends".
[7][8] Their family had not known of any connection to the group prior to the mass suicides, when the names of both Edith and Patrick were mentioned in a police report; they were told of this when a journalist from the L'Express showed up at their house.
[2] As both leaders Luc Jouret and Joseph Di Mambro had died in these suicides, the family was in some way relieved.
[11][7] They both died in a mass murder-suicide near Saint-Pierre-de-Chérennes in the Vercors in France on 16 December 1995, alongside other OTS members;[12] the group believed that they would be "transiting" to the star Sirius.
[10] Following her death, Jean Vuarnet wrote a book about the case, Ils ont tué ma femme et mon fils, lit.