A search campaign for the body of Marie-Angèle Domece, alleged victim of serial killer Michel Fourniret in 1988, has been underway since Tuesday January 24 in Yonne, family lawyer Me Didier told AFP. Seban.
Marie-Angèle Domece, mentally handicapped, disappeared on July 8, 1988, at the age of 19.
His body has never been found.
Make sure everything has been done
“
This is a final check to ensure that everything has been done to find the body of Marie Angèle
,” said the family lawyer, confirming information from the Journal du Center.
Contacted by AFP, the Nanterre prosecutor's office in charge of the cold case division did not respond immediately.
The confessions of Michel Fourniret
Investigations to find the body of Marie-Angèle Domece had already been carried out in Yonne, in particular in October 2018. In February 2018 before the examining magistrate Sabine Kheris, Michel Fourniret, now deceased, had confessed to the murders of Marie-Angèle Domece in 1988 and Joanna Parrish in 1990, in Yonne.
Before that, Michel Fourniret had been indicted on March 11, 2008 for the kidnappings and murders of these two young women before benefiting in this case, subsequently out of place from Charleville-Mézières to Paris, of a dismissal 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.
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At the beginning of January, excavations were also carried out in the Ardennes as part of 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 judge Sabine Kheris his responsibility in this case.
Estelle Mouzin had disappeared at the age of nine in Guermantes (Seine-et-Marne), on her return from school on January 9, 2003.
The killer's wife
Succeeding in this case to seven other magistrates, Judge Kheris - now at the head of the new national pole dedicated to "
cold cases
" within the court of Nanterre - had also succeeded in making Monique Olivier confess that she had accompanied her ex-husband on January 11, 2003 in Issancourt-et-Rumel (Ardennes) so that he could bury the body.
Only Monique Olivier, ex-wife of the serial killer, remains implicated in these three cases and could soon be the subject of an indictment order before the Assizes of Hauts-de-Seine.
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