"Devil with Two Faces" Killer, Michel Fourniret, and His Wife Sentenced to Life
May 29, 2008
On Wednesday, May 28, 2008, Michel Fourniret, 66, also known as "the Ogre of the Ardennes," who, along with his wife and accomplice, Monique Olivier, 59, were sentenced to life in prison by a French criminal court for carrying out a horrific series of sex murders between 1987 and 2001, ending a two-month trial in Charleville-Mezieres in northeastern France. Together the couple was described in court as the "devil with two faces" for the rapes and murders of seven girls and women in Fourniret's demented and perverted quest for virgins as victims.
According to details revealed at Fourniret's and Olivier's trial, Fourniret harbored a sick and unnatural lust for virgins and was actually in prison serving a sentence for sexual assault when he and Olivier made a pact with each other in which he would kill Olivier's former husband if she assisted him in finding virgins that he could victimize. When Fourniret got out of prison, he did not kill Olivier's husband as promised—but she did help him find virgins. Their method of operation was fairly simple: Fourniret would pick out his desired victims, ages 12 to 21, and Olivier would gain their trust and confidence. Afterwards the girls and young women would be drugged, and then sexually assaulted until Fourniret's depravity was satisfied. When he was finished with his victims, they would be shot, stabbed with a screwdriver or strangled by Fourniret. Olivier, meanwhile, stood by and watched as her husband carried out his inhuman acts of evil.
In addition to the seven victims for which they were convicted of murdering, the couple also faces charges in at least two other cases including one involving a 20-year-old teaching assistant who disappeared from the city of Auxerre during the early evening of May 16, 1990. Her nude body was...
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Umm.........wow. Almost too unreal to be true.
Posted by: SD Mittelsteadt | June 04, 2008 at 09:41 PM