Last Chance Investigations. The authorities have been carrying out since Tuesday a campaign to search for the body of Marie-Angèle Domece, in Yonne. In February 2018, the serial killer Michel Fourniret, now deceased, confessed to the murder in 1988 of this young woman, then aged 19 and mentally handicapped.
Disappeared on July 8, 1988, her body was never found. “This is a final check to ensure that everything has been done to find Marie Angèle’s body,” said family lawyer Didier Seban, confirming information from the Center Journal.
Contacted by AFP, the Nanterre prosecutor’s office confirmed in the evening that searches had taken place on Tuesday. Investigations to find the body of Marie-Angèle Domece had already been carried out in Yonne, in particular in October 2018.
Fourniret confessed to the murder of Estelle Mouzin
In February 2018 before the examining magistrate Sabine Kheris, Michel Fourniret had also confessed to the murder of Joanna Parrish in 1990, in Yonne.
Before that, the Ogre des Ardennes had been indicted on March 11, 2008 for the kidnappings and murders of these two young women before benefiting, in this case later out of place from Charleville-Mézières to Paris, from a no -place on September 14, 2011.
But the case was relaunched in June 2012 when the Paris Court of Appeal canceled this dismissal and asked the judges to reopen the investigation.
At the beginning of January, excavations were also carried out in the Ardennes in the case of the disappearance of Estelle Mouzin, according to a source familiar with the matter.
Sentenced to life imprisonment for the murders of seven young women or adolescent girls between 1987 and 2001, Michel Fourniret ended up also confessing in March 2020 to Sabine Kheris his responsibility in the Mouzin affair.