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Serial killer gets life CHARLEVILLE-MEZIERES - Self- confessed killer Michel Fourniret and his wife Monique Olivier were sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday in one of the worst serial murder cases in recent French history. The couple showed no reaction after the court in northern France found Fourniret, dubbed the "Ogre of the Ardennes," guilty of killing and raping or attempting to rape seven women and girls aged between 12 and 22 from 1987. (Reuters) MORE: Serial killer, wife jailed over French murders Fourniret jailed for life

'Serial killer' on trial CHARLEVILLE-MEZIERES - Michel Fourniret, 65, is charged with murdering seven girls and women in France and Belgium. He is also charged with raping some of them. His wife, Monique Olivier, accused of helping lure women into a car, is separately charged with complicity in murder and kidnapping. (BBC)	'Virgin-hunter' refuses to speak at trial Wife 'lured virgins for Orge of the Ardennes' Killer says he's devoid of emotion Killer forced into court

Belgian serial killer to be extradited to France BRUSSELS - Justice Minister Laurette Onkelinx on Friday approved the extradition of confessed serial killer Michel Fourniret to France where he is to stand trial for the suspected killings of 19 people. (AP)	Charges for French killer's wife The wife of self-confessed French serial killer Michel Fourniret has been charged with the murder of three women. Belgian investigators said Monique Olivier had also retracted a number of accusations against her husband. (BBC)

French killer faces more claims The wife of self-confessed French serial killer Michel Fourniret has accused him of eight more murders, prosecutors say. It raises the number of murders Monique Olivier alleges her 63-year-old husband to have committed to 20, mainly girls. Fourniret has confessed to two killings in Belgium and eight in France, but denies the latest allegations. (BBC -Mar. 2, 2005) MORE: Fourniret's wife says killer murdered eight more girls	Serial killer linked to Briton Monique Olivier said her husband Michel Fourniret, 62, who is in custody after admitting to a string of murders, killed Joanna Parrish, from Newnham-on-Severn, Gloucestershire, almost 15 years ago. (Huddersfield Examiner - Feb. 17, 2005) MORE: Wife says Belgian paedophile killed UK student PREVIOUS: Fourniret charged with more French murders Child killer 'murdered two more'

French quiz 'serial killer' Fourniret in Belgium DINANT - French justice officials arrived Monday in southern Belgium to place self-confessed serial killer Michel Fourniret under judicial investigation for six murders, a key step before charges are laid. (AFP – Jan. 31, 2005) MORE: French child killing case widens	Fourniret in kidnap reconstruction BRUSSELS - French serial killer Michel Fourniret has taken part in a reconstruction of the kidnapping of one of his victims. Fourniret, who has so far admitted to murdering nine people in Belgium and France, on Sunday retraced the steps that led to the abduction of 12 year-old Elisabeth Brichet. (Expatica – Oct. 18, 2004) RELATED: Fourniret diaries published

Confessed French serial killer claims new rape Alleged serial killer Michel Fourniret, has admitted another crime to investigators, the kidnapping and rape of a young French woman of African origin. French police are re-examining 30 unsolved murders in France while Belgian police were trying to find out if Fourniret was linked to the disappearances of at least 15 other girls over the past 20 years whose bodies have never been found. (Expatica -July 15, 2004)	Confessed French serial killer and wife charged over abduction, rape murder of 12-year-old NAMUR, Belgium - Frenchman Michel Fourniret was charged, in the southern Belgian town of Namur, with the rape and murder in 1989 of a 12-year-old Belgian girl, one of nine murders which the alleged serial killer has admitted to. (Expatica –July 13, 2004) MORE: Fourniret victim may be buried on Saturday British student may have been victim of serial killer

Montrealer's daughter likely victim of serial killer MONTREAL - Police in Europe think the daughter of a Montreal-area woman was the victim of a French serial killer. Elisabeth Bouzet, 12, disappeared in 1989 when her family lived in Namur, Belgium. French serial killer Michel Fourniret has confessed to nine killings, mostly girls and women, between 1987 to 2001. (CBC - July 12, 2004)	French serial killer investigation widens across Europe WIESBADEN, Germany - A probe into confessed French serial killer Michel Fourniret has been expanded into Germany, turning the spotlight on a number of unsolved murders, the federal crime office (BKA) said Friday. (Expatica –July 9, 2004) MORE: German and Austrian police join Fourniret investigation

Sex killer butchered virgins as wife watched PARIS - Michel Fourniret is a skillful chess player, a man who talks in complex, formal French, who looks like a priest or a university professor - and kills young women. By his own admission a "hunter of virgins", a man who "needed" to kill young women twice a year, who persuaded his wife to help him and then to watch in a mirror while he raped and murdered them. (IOL – July 8, 2004) MORE: How Fourniret slipped through the net Victim's mother visits French 'serial killer' burial ground	French police dig up serial killer homes for clues The shock in France over the separate probes has deepened with the realisation that both suspects - Michel Fourniret, dubbed the "Monster of the Ardennes" after his admission that he killed nine people, and Pierre "Crazy Pierrot" Bodein, held over the killing of a 14-year-old girl in the east of the country - were ex-convicts supposedly under psychiatric supervision at the times the crimes were committed. (Expatica – July 6, 2004) MORE: Police look for Fourniret links in 45 unsolved murders

Suspect arrested in missing Alsace teenager case STRASBOURG, France - Police in eastern France have arrested Pierre Bodein a 57-year-old repeat offender who was recently freed from jail in connection with last week's disappearance of a teenage girl, prosecutors said Thursday. (Expatica - July 1, 2004) MORE: Child sex cases put law on trial	France hunts serial killer clues in 30 unsolved cases French investigators will re-examine 30 unsolved disappearances and murders in order to determine whether there are any links to a Frenchman who has confessed to killing nine people, police said Monday. (Expatica - July 5, 2004) MORE: French widen 'serial killer' case

"Serial killer' helps find bodies Police investigating several murders on France's border with Belgium have found two bodies in the grounds of a chateau. Former chateau owner Michel Fourniret, who has admitted to nine murders - including those of seven girls - was helping police in their search. (BBC – July 3, 2004) MORE: French serial killer locates two bodies Serial killer to help hunt for more bodies Belgium braced for more Fourniret horrors	Belgian police 'left French killer on prowl' DINANT, Belgium - A Frenchman who has admitted to killing eight girls and young women had been reported to Belgian police as long ago as 2001, a report said Friday, as his wife was formally arrested for failing to help his victims. (Exapica – July 2, 2004) MORE: Belgian police 'knew of Fourniret in 2001'

Murder confession opens pandora's box Authorities in several European countries reopened unsolved murder and disappearance cases going back 30 years on Thursday after a French forest warden confessed to raping and killing six girls in Belgium and France. (TVNZ - July 2, 2004) PREVIOUS: Murder police to dig woodland French hunt for child rapist's victims French 'killer' admits two more	'Horrific' French paedophile confesses eight killings DINANT, Belgium - A 62-year-old Frenchman who has already admitted this week to killing six young women in France and Belgium confessed during questioning late on Thursday to the murder of two other teenage girls, a French investigator said. (Expatica – July 1, 2004) MORE: Wife of French 'serial killer' tells where au pair is buried

Frenchman 'admits child murders' French forestry worker has admitted killing six girls in France and Belgium. The suspect, Michel Fourniret, 62, has been in custody since being arrested on kidnapping and abuse charges last June. (BBC – June 30, 2004) MORE: French paedophile confesses Belgium serial child murders	Recluse kidnapped and killed at least six girls Belgian police and judicial authorities said today that a French recluse who worked as a forest ranger was responsible for kidnapping and murdering at least six young girls. (Scotsman.com -June 30-2004)

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