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The “ogre of the Ardennes” Michel Fourniret died at 79: he had killed 8 women

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Michel Fourniret, one of the major French serial killers, known as the “ogre of the Ardennes”, died in hospital. The man, 79, was serving two life sentences for the murder of eight young women, but was to be tried for two more murders for which he admitted responsibility.

Fourniret’s health had long since deteriorated, he suffered from Alzheimer’s and had heart problems.

With death one takes many secrets to the grave. Between 1987 and 2003, Fourniret kidnapped, raped and killed at least eight young girls in France and Belgium with the help of his partner Monique Olivier, who was also sentenced to life imprisonment.

The couple were arrested in Belgium in June 2003 when one of their victims, a 13-year-old girl, managed to escape from the pickup truck where she had been locked up and alert the police.

Fourniret, Le Parisien recalls today, had been convicted twice in the past for sexual harassment. It was during his second incarceration, in 1984, that he began to correspond with Olivier, a separated woman mother of two children.

The two began living together in 1987, when he was released from prison. The following year, Forniret’s cellmate asked him for help in retrieving a gold ingot loot buried in a cemetery in Fontenay-en-Parisis, near Paris. Fourniret kept all the money, killing his friend’s companion, and bought a mansion in Satou in the Ardennes, which served as a base for his crimes.

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