The relatives of three girls and young women now hope for justice when Monique Olivier (75) must appear in court in Paris. She is charged with complicity in three further serial murders committed by her ex-husband Michel Fourniret, known in the media as the “Monster from the Ardenne”. Olivier is already serving a life sentence for his role in the murders. Fourniret was sentenced to life in prison twice, for a total of nine murders committed in the 80s and 90s. The victims were young women and girls. In 2018, however, he confessed to three new murders – for which Olivier is now charged with complicity. But because he died in 2021, he never got to stand trial for these. Fourniet thus managed to confess to a total of 12 murders committed in the 80s, 90s and early 2000s. Picked up victims by car It is the murders of Joanna Parrish (20), Marie-Angèle Domèce (19) and Estelle Mouzin (9) who will appear in court at the end of November. Fourniret confessed to the three murders after his ex-wife Olivier had also explained about these cases. Olivier’s defender, Richard Delgenes, has said that “she will take the witness stand and explain herself during the trial”, according to The Guardian. The police are searching for victims at Donchery in the north of France in connection with an investigation in 2003. Photo: PASCAL ROSSIGNOL / REUTERS Through the investigation, it has been concluded that Olivier and Fourniret must have found victims in the following way: Olivier must have been driving a car, and stopped at potential victims to ask them for help finding their way somewhere. She is said to have then suggested that they could jump into the car to show the way more easily. Fourniret is then said to have either hidden in the car, or waited along the road to be picked up. Fourniet and Olivier were caught after a failed kidnapping attempt in 2003. A 17-year-old girl then managed to escape in Ciney in Belgium. Michel Fourniret pictured in connection with the trial in 2008. Photo: BENOIT DOPPAGNE / AFP – The fault of the French legal system The parents of 20-year-old Joanna Parrish in particular have kept the case alive over the years, writes The Guardian. She was killed in 1990. Parrish left the University of Leeds in England to work as an assistant teacher at a high school in Auxerre in Burgundy. Parrish had placed advertisements in local newspapers offering English classes. On the evening of May 16, 1990, she told friends that she was going out to meet a man who wanted to have lessons with her. Monique Olivier (grey sweater) out with the police to search for the remains of 9-year-old Estelle Mouzin in 2021. She disappeared in 2003. Photo: THOMAS BERNARDI / AFP The next morning, Parrish was found naked and tied up. Parrish had been raped and killed. While Fourniret and Olivier were still at large, her parents often went to Burgundy to look for clues and talk to potential witnesses, writes The Guardian. They believe the French police and courts have failed them. – Fourniret will never be convicted for the murder of our daughter, and that is the fault of the French legal system, her father Roger Parrish has said, according to the newspaper.
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