The families of the victims will finally be able to have some explanations in the event of a trial. The investigations into the three “cold cases” concerning the serial killer Michel Fourniret were closed in early February, source close to the file, confirmed by the prosecution. These are the kidnapping of Marie-Angèle Domèce in 1988, that of Estelle Mouzin in 2003 and the murder of Joanna Parrish in 1990.
These three files closed, Monique Olivier, ex-wife of the “organ of the Ardennes”, can now make her observations, then the prosecution take her requisitions. It will then be up to the Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine) investigating judge Sabine Kheris to decide whether or not to hold a trial.
Towards a trial in 2023
If there is a trial, it could be held in November 2023, according to sources familiar with the matter. Monique Olivier would be the only one to appear, since Michel Fourniret died in 2021. His ex-wife is the only person implicated in these three files. Contacted by AFP, his lawyer Richard Delgenes, did not wish to comment on the end of the investigations.
“Forensic truth is important for the families of victims. They fought so hard to get it, ”reacted to AFP Me Didier Seban, the lawyer for the Domece, Parrish and Mouzin families. “There will naturally be a before and after trial, even if the absence of Michel Fourniret at this trial will highlight the faults of our judicial system”, he anticipated.
Estelle Mouzin’s body never found
Monique Olivier has already been sentenced to life imprisonment for complicity in four murders and gang rape committed by Michel Fourniret, then to twenty years in prison for a fifth murder. She had settled in 1987 with the killer when he was released from prison. They had a son together, then she divorced in 2010.
On April 1, 2021, Monique Olivier had recognized for the first time a role in the kidnapping of Estelle Mouzin, specifying that she had accompanied Michel Fourniret to the edge of the wood of Issancourt-et-Rumel so that he buried the body of the girl. Since June 2020, around ten excavation campaigns have been organized in the Ardennes, sometimes in the presence of the killer and/or his ex-wife, in an attempt to find the girl’s body. Without success.
These files appear as the first closed judicial information from the national center installed in Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine) since March 2022 and reserved for serial or unsolved crimes, of which Sabine Kheris is the first vice-president.