France: Serial Killer and Wife Will Spend Life in Prison
By Charlie Brett
13:17, May 29th 2008
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“Until prison do us part” fits perfectly with the French couple who was sentenced to life in prison because they were found guilty of killing seven women and girls aged between 12 and 22.

According to Reuters, Michel Fourniret, 66, and his wife Monique Olivier, 59, have to spend at least 30 years in prison before they can ask for a sentence reduction. Given their age, it is not very likely they will be free again.

It’s not like they don’t deserve it.

Apparently Fourniret had a thing for virgins. The couple would drug the girls and tie them up. Then, the “Ogre of the Ardennes,” like the media called him, would rape them.

It all started in 1987 in the Ardennes region of northern France and continued in Belgium also and it stopped in 2003 when a 13-year-old-girl managed to escape and announce the police who arrested the man.

When his wife was accused, she tried to defend herself by saying that her husband made her do those things but she wasn’t very credible.

She was accused of helping her husband select the victims and get rid of the bodies.

After they found out the verdict, some of the parents of the victims started crying and said that they felt relieved.

“We will start a new life. It is a relief but there can never be an end,” said Jean-Pierre Saison, a father of one of the victims, according to Reuters.

Apparently the killer-couple met after Fourniret placed an advertisement in which he was looking to correspond with someone while he was serving a prison sentence for sex crimes in the 1980s.



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