So far, the couple Michel Fourniet and Monique Olivier have already been convicted of eleven murders in France and Belgium. Could there be more?
Monique Olivier was taken into custody this Tuesday morning, having already been sentenced to life imprisonment for complicity in several murders and rapes, and for criminal association with her ex-husband Michel Fourniret.
It is for the murder of Cécile Vallin that Monique Olivier was heard today. The 17-year-old girl was last seen on June 8, 1997 at 6 p.m. along a departmental road at the exit of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, in the direction of Chambéry. The Michel Fourniret trail was reopened after statements from his ex-wife at his trial in December 2023.
Cécile Vallin may therefore be Michel Fourniret’s twelfth target, but suspicions about other victims persist.
In Michel Fourniret’s career, there is a 10-year gap without a murder. However, many criminologists, police officers, and psychologists agree on one point: it is not possible that the serial killer remained inactive for such a long period.
For Jacques Fagnart, who is the police officer from Dinant, who obtained the confessions of Michel Fourniret and Monique Olivier, the number of victims, he says, is probably “double the number of those known”.
Moreover, Michel Fourniret, who liked to express himself through riddles, once wrote a letter to a fellow prisoner in which he implied that he had 35 victims. But how do we know? Michel Fourniret died in May 2021, and took his secrets with him. It took Monique Olivier years to start revealing her own secrets. She is 75 years old.
