Monique Olivier's lawyer “thinks we can find the victim's body”

The ex-wife of Michel Fourniret, who admitted to having witnessed the attempted rape and then the murder of the young mother, is participating in the research in Orne.

The “fairly precise memory” by Monique Olivier will it make it possible to find the body of Lydie Logé, as her lawyer hopes? Thirty-one years after the disappearance of the mother, whom Michel Fourniret is suspected of having killed, his ex-wife was in Orne on Thursday January 23 for a third day of research.

“We have elements that allow us to be optimistic”her lawyer Richard Delgenes told journalists, outside the Argentan gendarmerie, where his client was questioned in the morning. “As to where the body of Lydie Logé may be located, we do not have the location as such, (…) but Ms. Olivier gave detailshe added. Given the location described, I think we can find the victim's body.”

Monique Olivier admitted on Monday to having witnessed the attempted rape and then the murder of Lydie Logé by Michel Fourniret. The DNA found on a hair element in the latter's van corresponds with the DNA of Lydie Logé, announced the lawyer for the victim's family. “The ogre of the Ardennes”, who died in 2021, was indicted in 2020 for this disappearance.

Since Tuesday, Monique Olivier, 76, has been taken to different locations in Calvados and Orne, as well as to the home of Lydie Logé at the time of the events, in Saint-Christophe-le-Jajolet (Orne). “She was very willing, in any case she answered all the questions, the sincerity was there”assured Richard Delgenes about his client, sentenced twice, in 2008 and in 2023, to life imprisonment, notably for complicity in a total of seven murders of young girls, including that of Estelle Mouzin.

Lydie Logé, mother of a 7-year-old boy, disappeared on December 18, 1993 at the age of 29 in Saint-Christophe-le-Jajolet, a small village of 240 inhabitants, shortly after doing Christmas shopping with a friend.