Michel Fourniret
- Category : 1942-births
- Type : MGE
- Profile : 5/1 - Heretical / Investigator
- Definition : Single
- Incarnation Cross : LAX Endeavor 1
Biography
French serial killer who confessed in June and July 2004 to kidnapping, raping and murdering nine girls in a span of 14 years from the 1980s to the 2000s. He was also accused of 10 additional murders, nine in France and one in Belgium, and was found guilty of seven of these charges. The trials started on 27 March 2008 and ended on 28 May. He is sometimes referred to as the "Ogre/Beast of the Ardennes".
Fourniret was 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. His wife, Monique Olivier, was charged with one murder and for helping him with a further six. Fourniret was sentenced to life in prison; Olivier was sentenced to life with no possibility of parole for 28 years. In jail (2020), he confessed his 11th murder, Estelle Mouzin's one, but he could have commited the double..