Widow of French serial killer who preyed on virgins admits to

The widow of a French serial killer often known as the “Ogre of the Ardennes”, who’s on trial over her function in three murders relationship again many years, mentioned on Wednesday that she admitted to “all of the information.”  

Monique Olivier’s husband, Michel Fourniret, was charged with abduction, rape and homicide within the circumstances however died in 2021 earlier than he could possibly be dropped at trial. Fournier was accused of looking for out virgins to rape and homicide over an almost two-decade span.

The trial of his spouse opened within the city of Nanterre, within the west suburbs of Paris, on Tuesday.

“I acknowledge all of the information,” Olivier mentioned on the second day of her trial. The 75-year-old, who wore the identical white sweater because the day earlier than, was briefly questioned within the afternoon.

The crimes date again to 1988 within the case of Marie-Angele Domece, who disappeared at age 18 from Auxerre, and 1990 for 20-year-old British lady Joanna Parrish, whose bare physique was discovered within the Yonne river that runs via the division of the identical identify in central France.

Olivier is charged with aiding and abetting the kidnapping and homicide of the women.

Her third cost is for complicity within the 2003 disappearance of nine-year-old Estelle Mouzin, whose physique has by no means been discovered 20 years on, regardless of intensive searches.

The physique of Domece has additionally by no means been discovered.

Exhibiting little emotion, she listened to the testimony of Francis Nachbar, who was the prosecutor on the couple’s first trial in 2008.

“This lady’s duplicity is past comprehension,” mentioned the retired Justice of the Peace, recounting how he had witnessed Olivier’s interrogations by Belgian investigators in 2004.

Fourniret was arrested in Belgium in 2003.

The day earlier than, the defendant had claimed that her ex-husband had “used” her to commit his crimes, denying any “felony pact” between them.

“I remorse every little thing that occurred,” she mentioned on Tuesday.

She has already been convicted twice of aiding and abetting a few of her husband’s crimes.

Olivier obtained a life sentence in 2008, and will face a second within the current trial.

In 2018, Olivier was given an extra 20 years’ jail for her half within the killing of Farida Hammiche, the spouse of considered one of Fourniret’s former cellmates.

First recognized sufferer killed in 1987

Olivier fled within the early Eighties from her violent first husband, with whom she had two youngsters, earlier than turning into a pen pal of Fourniret whereas he was serving a jail sentence for rape. They allegedly sealed a pact that she would discover him virgins to rape if he would kill her then-husband — which he by no means did.

The BBC reported that the couple’s first recognized sufferer was 17-year-old Isabelle Laville.

In 1987, Olivier pulled her van as much as Laville when she was strolling dwelling from college, informed the coed she was misplaced and satisfied her to het within the automobile to assist her with instructions, the BBC reported. They later stopped to select up Fourniret, who finally raped and murdered the teenager, the BBC reported.

For 16 years, the couple labored collectively within the abduction and homicide of no less than eight women and younger ladies, the BBC reported.  They have been lastly stopped in 2003, when a 13-year-old woman Fourniret was attempting to kidnap managed to flee, resulting in his and Olivier’s arrest.

The BBC reported that Fourniret’s recognized victims have been Isabelle Laville, Fabienne Leroy, Jeanne-Marie Desramault, Elisabeth Brichet, Natacha Danais, Celine Saison, Mananya Thumphong, Farida Hammiche, Marie-Angèle Domèce, Joanna Parrish and Estelle Mouzin.

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