seventeen years after the disappearance of Estelle Mouzin, the excavations started to try to recover the body of the little girl, whom Michel Fourniret has confessed to the murder.
The case of Fourniret is it about to unravel ? Seventeen years after the disappearance of Estelle Mouzin, the hope is there : the excavations started on Monday in the Ardennes to attempt to recover the body of the girl, who disappeared in 2003, on at least an ancient property of the serial killer Michel Fourniret, who has recently confessed to the murder.
Under the leadership of the judge of instruction paris Sabine Kheris, the investigators of the research section of Dijon travel to Ville-sur-Lumes near Charleville-Mezieres, in a house one time occupied by the sister of the criminal, who died in 2002. Regularly visited by Michel Fourniret until his arrest in 2003, the property has never been excavated.
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justice is particularly interested in the cellar, of which the soil once made of earth would have been covered with concrete by the “Ogre of the Ardennes”, according to several sources. The military shall provide, in a first time “x-ray” the soil, before you consider digging, according to these sources. According to the elements of the investigations, the investigators exploit the track of a receipt, with four cans of split peas, found in search in the Michel Fourniret. From a supermarket in the vicinity of Ville-sur-Lumes, it is dated January 11, 2003, two days after the disappearance of Estelle Mouzin.
“The serial killer of the most advanced”
Questioned by Sabine Kheris, during his last interview, on the possibility that he has now led the girl in this house had remained empty since the death of her sister, “the Ogre of the Ardennes” had answered : “It is quite relevant”. “Not at all unlikely, only it would be necessary to put images on it and it’s not obvious, I’m clueless”, added the man, now 78-year-old, who suffers from memory problems but could also be described as a “chess player”, taking pleasure in the confrontation with the judge.
ten kilometers, the police may also undertake excavations around the Castle of Sautou, to Donchéry. It is in this property of fifteen acres, surrounded by woods, that had been found in 2004 the bodies of two young women of 12 and 22 years, on indications of the killer. Research to Floing, a few kilometers away, on another field that belonged to the killer, were left unheeded in December 2018.
Described by the expert-psychiatrist Daniel Zagury as a “serial killer in French the most successful”, Michel Fourniret was jailed for the first time in 1984 for sexual assaults on a dozen young women. “Poacher” obsessed with the young virgins he was convicted in 2008 of the murders of seven young women or adolescent girls between 1987 and 2001, and sentenced to life in prison without parole, before being sentenced in 2018 for the murder heinous of Farida Hammiche.
Fourniret, several times suspected
In February 2018, he confessed to having killed two other young women in the Yonne : Marie-Angèle Domece, who disappeared in 1988 at the age of 19, and Joanna Parrish, 20, found raped and strangled two years later. After years of denials, he finally admitted at the beginning of march, the kidnapping and murder of Estelle Mouzin, 9 years old, who disappeared on January 9, 2003 as she was returning home from school at Guermantes (Seine-et-Marne).
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Disappearance of Estelle Mouzin
Michel Fourniret has admitted the murder of Estelle Mouzin, informs the public prosecutor of Paris For his ex-wife, Michel Fourniret “has killed Estelle Mouzin” the Disappearance of Estelle Mouzin : Michel Fourniret has asked to be “treated like the guilty,”
“It is possible that this image me comfortable (…) and I recognize a being that is no longer there by my own fault”, he said to Sabine Kheris, responsible for the appraisal of the three folders. But “the circumstances, the result, the unfolding, it is in the rug”, he continued, without revealing the location of the body. “Track number 1” for years, lawyers for the family Mouzin, Fourniret has several times been suspected, and then put out of the question. But his alibi was contradicted in November 2019 by his ex-wife, Monique Olivier, yet another rebound of a criminal record is not up to standard.
