A series of hearings of the ex-wife of Michel Fourniret, Monique Olivier, began Tuesday in the office of the investigating judge in Paris responsible for investigations into the disappearance of Estelle Mouzin in 2003, we have learned from a source close to the case.
Monique Olivier, 71, was extracted Tuesday morning from her prison in Fleury-Mérogis and taken to judge Sabine Khéris, who planned to conduct several interrogations until Friday of the former accomplice of "the ogre of the Ardennes" .
The hearings could sweep away the four cases entrusted to the judge in which Michel Fourniret is involved, starting with the murder of Estelle Mouzin, whose body is still wanted.
The Estelle Mouzin file returned to the fore after confessions from Monique Olivier
This case returned to the fore at the end of November, when Monique Olivier contradicted before the judge the alibi provided until then by her ex-husband for January 9, 2003, the day of the disappearance of the girl in Guermantes (Seine-et- Marl).
This confession had led a few days later to the indictment of Fourniret for "kidnapping and forcible confinement followed by death".
On January 24, the date of her last hearing, Monique Olivier reiterated her accusations against her ex-husband by assuring that he had “killed” Estelle Mouzin, evoking possible “spotting” a few days before her disappearance.
Fourniret considered it "relevant" that the body, never found, could be in one of its former properties.
In early March, the 78-year-old serial killer, who suffers from memory impairment, finally made a confession. "I recognize there a being who is no longer there by my fault", he had declared to the judge, considering "relevant" that the body, never found, can be in one of its old properties of the Ardennes.
However, the excavations, carried out over four days at the end of June in a house that belonged to Michel Fourniret's sister, in Ville-sur-Lumes, as well as in the Château du Sautou, did not allow the corpse to be found.
The questioning could also relate to the disappearances of Marie-Angèle Domece and Joanna Parrish
The questioning of Monique Olivier, sentenced to life imprisonment as an accomplice in the crimes of her ex-husband, could also relate to the disappearances of Marie-Angèle Domece and Joanna Parrish, admitted by the serial killer.
A fourth, unresolved case was recently added to the Fourniret case, that of the disappearance in 1993 in Orne of Lydie Logé, a young woman of 29 years. On June 9, the investigation was disoriented in Paris and in turn entrusted to Sabine Khéris.
Michel Fourniret was convicted in 2008 of the murders of seven young women or adolescent girls between 1987 and 2001 and sentenced to irreducible life, before being convicted again in 2018 for a heinous murder.
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