Michel Fourniret: a dozen unknown DNA found on a mattress

A dozen unknown DNA were found on a mattress seized in 2003 in the house of the deceased sister of serial killer Michel Fourniret, in Ville-sur-Lume (Ardennes), a source told AFP on Tuesday (September 22). close to the file, confirming information from the

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On August 21, his ex-wife Monique Olivier's lawyer, Me Richard Delgenes, indicated that the partial DNA of Estelle Mouzin, a 9-year-old girl who disappeared in 2003, had been found in two places on the same mattress , seized in the house where the serial killer is suspected of having kidnapped her.

The revelation of this material evidence, although often disputed because DNA traces can be transported, was added to the confession in mid-August of Monique Olivier.

The latter had claimed that her ex-husband had kidnapped, raped and killed in this house the nine-year-old girl, who disappeared on January 9, 2003, 200 km away, in Guermantes (Seine-et-Marne).

Asked by AFP, one of the Mouzin family lawyers, Me Didier Seban, said on Tuesday that he had filed with Me Corinne Hermann seven requests to the investigating judges in charge of the case to find out if these DNA traces coincided with those of missing persons.

According to the

, the dozen unknown DNA found on the mattress of Ville-sur-Lume will be compared with the DNA of victims or missing from unsolved cases.

He ended up confessing his responsibility in the Estelle Mouzin affair

At 78, serial killer Michel Fourniret, whose convoluted statements and memory problems complicate the task of investigators, had ended up confessing in March his responsibility in the Estelle Mouzin affair: "

”he told the judge.

He had also considered "

" the fact that the body of the girl could be in one of his former properties in the Ardennes.

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Michel Fourniret was convicted in 2008 of the murders of seven young women or adolescent girls between 1987 and 2001 and sentenced to irreducible life, before being convicted again in 2018 for a heinous murder.

He is also indicted for the disappearances and death of Marie-Angèle Domece and Joanna Parrish, whom he confessed before Judge Sabine Khéris.