37 Facts About Michel Fourniret

Michel Paul Fourniret was a French serial killer who confessed to killing 12 people in France and Belgium between 1987 and 2003.

Michel Fourniret was convicted of seven of these murders on 28 May 2008 and sentenced to life imprisonment without possibility of parole, while Olivier was given life with a minimum term of 28 years for complicity.

In February 2018, Michel Fourniret confessed to killing two more women.

Michel Fourniret was given a second life sentence and Olivier was sentenced to a further 20 years of imprisonment.

In March 2020, Michel Fourniret confessed to killing Estelle Mouzin, who disappeared from Guermantes in 2003.

Michel Fourniret was born in Sedan, France, the son of a metal worker and a homemaker.

Michel Fourniret wrote to her of his fantasies of raping and murdering virginal girls; she responded that she would "help" him fulfil those fantasies if he killed her husband, although he never committed this murder.

Michel Fourniret choked Laville with a piece of rope before Olivier sedated her with Rohypnol.

Michel Fourniret's remains were recovered from the well more than eighteen years later, on 11 July 2006.

In March 1988, Michel Fourniret was contacted by 30-year-old Farida Hammiche.

Michel Fourniret was the wife of Jean-Pierre Hellegouarch, an imprisoned bank robber with whom Fourniret had shared a cell prior to the latter's release in October 1987.

Michel Fourniret asked Fourniret to help her unearth a haul from a cemetery in Fontenay-en-Parisis, which had been stolen by members of the Gang des postiches.

Michel Fourniret ordered Olivier to look at Leroy's hymen to see if it was still intact, but Olivier refused.

In January 1989, Michel Fourniret met 21-year-old Jeanne-Marie Desramault on the evening train to Charleville-Mezieres.

Michel Fourniret saw 12-year-old Elisabeth Brichet walk to a friend's house, and waited outside for her until she left to walk the short distance home just before 7:00pm He asked her to give him directions to a doctor's surgery for his son.

Michel Fourniret agreed to do so, and the couple drove back to Floing with her.

The next day, the couple took Brichet to the chateau, where Michel Fourniret strangled her after a failed attempt to suffocate her with a plastic bag.

Michel Fourniret's body was buried in the garden of the chateau, near to that of Jeanne-Marie Desramault.

The final known murder Michel Fourniret committed with Olivier's help took place on 21 November 1990 near France's western coast.

Michel Fourniret was reported to have been unable to bear the burden of having been accused of murder.

The Michel Fourniret family moved to Sart-Custinne, Gedinne, Belgium, in the early 1990s.

Michel Fourniret admitted that he committed two more murders in France between 2000 and 2001, his first in nine-and-a-half-years.

Michel Fourniret drove alone across the Franco-Belgian border to Charleville-Mezieres on 16 May 2000 and lured 18-year-old Celine Saison, who was on her way home from school, into his van in the late afternoon.

On 5 May 2001, Michel Fourniret drove back to Sedan and met Mananya Thumpong, a 13-year-old girl of Thai origin whom he had met and given a lift home a few weeks earlier, outside the local library.

Michel Fourniret invited her to come to his house and play with his son.

Michel Fourniret was arrested at his home in Sart-Custinne, Belgium, on 26 June 2003 after a failed attempt to kidnap a 13-year-old girl.

Michel Fourniret confessed to killing eight women aged between 12 and 30, and a man who has never been identified.

Olivier was arrested, and she and Michel Fourniret were extradited to France, where they helped police find the bodies of three of the four missing victims over the next two years.

Michel Fourniret was found guilty of the murders of all seven of the victims whose bodies had been found.

Michel Fourniret was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Michel Fourniret admitted to eight murders prior to his trial in 2008.

Michel Fourniret was convicted of seven of these and sentenced to life in prison.

In February 2018, Michel Fourniret confessed to killing two more women in Auxerre: Marie-Angele Domece, an 18-year-old disabled woman, in July 1988, and Joanna Parrish, a 20-year-old British student, in May 1990.

In March 2020, Michel Fourniret confessed to killing Estelle Mouzin, who disappeared from Guermantes in January 2003.

Two French journalists have suggested that Michel Fourniret killed former Minister for Labour Robert Boulin, based on a letter Michel Fourniret wrote to Olivier.

Furthermore, Michel Fourniret denied having been in the Marseille area when the crime took place on 3 June 1974, claiming he was working in Paris.

Michel Fourniret died on 10 May 2021 at the age of 79 after being admitted to hospital with respiratory problems.