Michel Fourniret aka The Ogre of the ArdennesClassification: Serial killerCharacteristics: Kidnappin
Michel Fourniret aka The Ogre of the Ardennes
Classification: Serial killer
Characteristics: Kidnapping - Rape
Number of victims: 10 +
Date of murders: 1987 - 2001
Date of arrest: June 2003
Date of birth: April 4, 1942
Victims profile: An unidentified man / Isabelle Laville, 17 / Fabienne Leroy, 20 / Jeanne-Marie Desramault, 22 / Elisabeth Brichet, 12 / Natacha Danais, 13 / Farida Hellegouarch / Céline Saison, 18 / Manyana Thumpong, 18 / A 16-year old girl
Method of murder: Strangulation
Location: France / Belgium
Status: Sentenced to life in prison on May 28, 2008
Michel Fourniret confessed, in June and July 2004, to kidnapping, raping and murdering 9 girls in the span of 14 years during the 1980s and the 1990s. He is also suspected of 10 additional murders, 9 in France and 1 in Belgium.
His wife, Monique Olivier, denounced him just after Marc Dutroux’s ex-wife Michelle Martin was sentenced to 30 years in prison during Dutroux’s trial. Fourniret has been charged with the abduction of minors and sexual misconduct, and has been in detention since June 2003 for the attempted kidnapping of a 14-year-old girl in 2000.
Fourniret buried at least two of his victims at his Sautou chateau in the late 1980s. On 3 July 2004, a team of French and Belgian police recovered the bodies of two of Fourniret’s victims near the castle.
Fourniret’s wife has also said that Fourniret killed a 16-year old girl who had worked as a au pair at their house. Fourniret allegedly killed her in 1993, but has not confessed. Her identity has not discovered.
Fourniret himself says he did not commit any crimes between 1990 and 2000.
Police in at least five countries (France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and Denmark) have taken a fresh look at old rapes, disappearances and murders, however. In Denmark, police noticed that a police sketch of a rape suspect looked a lot like Fourniret. In the Netherlands, investigators in the disappearances of Tanja Groen and Nicky Verstappen have investigated Fourniret.
Sun, 26 Jul 2015 08:02:09
