His face "
says something
" to the serial killer when presented with a photograph of Lydie Logé, 29, mysteriously disappeared on December 18, 1993. On December 22, Michel Fourniret was indicted in this case for "
kidnapping and sequestration followed by death
”.
His ex-wife, Monique Olivier, was also indicted on Friday January 8 for "complicity".
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While two investigations from 1994 to 1998, then from 2004 to 2009, where the investigators had privileged the very close family circle, had both been concluded by a dismissal, the research was restarted in May 2018.
After reconciliations made in 2018 between DNA traces from organic compounds found in Michel Fourniret's van and the DNA of Lydie Logé's mother, the Argentan prosecutor's office reopened an investigation in 2019, declaring that there was that a "
small probability
" that the serial killer Fourniret is at the origin of the disappearance of the young woman.
In 2019, Michel Fourniret and his former wife Monique Olivier will be placed in custody as part of the investigation: the ex-spouses are questioned for the first time on the disappearance of Lydie Logé.
Me Didier Seban, who defends several relatives of his victims, including those of Lydie Logé, speaks of a real "
battle
" with the suspect and his wife "
to find out more
".
“
One crime echoes another.
But they admit them and confuse them among themselves,
”he laments to AFP.
“
What is surprising is the absolute ego of this character, the pride he takes in his criminal work.
It is the killer who takes you in his crimes.
He is absolutely perverse, absolutely unbearable,
”commented the lawyer.
The public prosecutor of Caen Carole Étienne, for her part, declared that, during this police custody, there had been no "
frank recognition of the facts
" on the part of Fourniret but "
more or less vague answers which call for verifications, investigations
", and in particular, at the material time,"
a possible path in the Orne
", requiring an"
analysis of the movements of the person concerned
".
Volatilized
Lydie Logé is almost in her thirties when she suddenly disappears.
She has just divorced and lives alone in Saint-Christophe-le-Jajolet, a small village in Orne.
The day of her kidnapping, Lydie spends the day doing her Christmas shopping in Argentan with one of her friends, tell the sisters of the disappeared interviewed by
Liberation
.
She returned home around 7 p.m. and made several phone calls: she started by calling her owner, then her aunt, and finally her in-laws, to speak with her son.
She has just bought a tree that she plans to decorate with it.
Later that evening, one of her sisters tries to reach her, without success.
When, the next morning, Lydie's ex-husband goes to her home to bring her their son, the door is locked.
The car of his former wife is parked in front of the garage, with the keys on the ignition, reports
Liberation
.
Two days later, Tuesday, December 21, the family decides to go there with the owner.
Inside, the bed is not undone, laundry is waiting to be taken out of the washing machine and the heaters are on.
No trace of Lydia, who seems to have vanished.
Two consecutive non-places
In March 1994, an examining magistrate was appointed, and when the gendarmes found a body cut into pieces in a river in the region, everyone expected to learn the truth about the Lydie Logé case.
But the young woman's body is linked to another case.
A first dismissal in the Logé case was rendered on August 12, 1998.
In 1999, according to
Liberation
, one of Lydie's sisters made an astonishing discovery: following the instructions of a dowser, she unearthed bones and jewelry.
In 2004, the instruction was relaunched, but the bones turned out to be much too old to be those of Lydie Logé: they date from the Second World War.
Without tangible elements to be pursued, the investigation stopped in 2009: a new dismissal was made.
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In 2016, the Central Office for the Repression of Violence against Persons (OCRVP) recorded some twenty unidentified genetic fingerprints on seals that belonged to Michel Fourniret, including his Citroën van.
In 2018, the Argentan public prosecutor's office requested a comparison with the DNA of Lydie Logé's mother.
Expertise reveals that an organic element found in Michel Fourniret's vehicle would correspond to the genetic code of Lydia's mother.
But the date of Lydie Logé's disappearance is intriguing: it would be part of the decade, between 1990 and 2000, where no victim of Michel Fourniret was listed.
However, according to a source close to the file cited by AFP, at that time, the son of the "Ogre des Ardennes" lived in the region where Lydie Logé also lived.
