After Monique Olivier's confession about her involvement in the disappearance of Lydie Logé in 1993, the ex-wife of criminal Michel Fourniret arrived at the Argentan gendarmerie in Orne. The search is expected to begin in the afternoon, with the aim of locating the body.
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Monique Olivier, who admitted her involvement in the disappearance of Lydie Logé, whom her ex-husband, the criminal Michel Fourniret, is suspected of having killed, arrived this Tuesday, January 21, 2025 in Orne, at the Argentan gendarmerie, taken by investigators in order to locate the body.
>> Monique Olivier admits her role in the kidnapping and death of Lydie Logé, Fourniret's accomplice is transported to Orne
First of all, the morning must be devoted “to the establishment of the research system“, with the mobilization of gendarmes and police officers, indicates a source close to the matter.
Around thirty gendarmes must be mobilized, particularly in the area of Saint-Christophe-le-Jajolet, where Lydie Logé lived, a village of 240 inhabitants, south of Argentan.
-In addition to this area, research could take place in Tinchebray-Bocage, northwest of Orne. During a search of Michel Fourniret's cell, documents referring to the old quarries were indeed found. According to this same source, the search should begin Tuesday afternoon.
Monique Olivier has been indicted since January 2021 for complicity in arrest, kidnapping, detention or arbitrary confinement in the investigation concerning the disappearance of this 29-year-old woman in December 1993.
Me Corinne Herrmann, lawyer for the victim's family, declared on France Info this Tuesday morning the importance of these searches. According to the lawyer, the fact that Monique Olivier, already indicted for complicity in this investigation, admits “be present on site“of the disappearance of Lydie Logé, it is “a form of confession”. “If Monique Olivier provides indications” during this reconstruction, 32 years after the disappearance of Lydie Logé, near Argentan, in Orne, “the places that will be indicated will be checked”continues Maître Corinne Herrmann.
Lydie Logé, mother of a seven-year-old boy, disappeared on December 18, 1993 in the village of Saint-Christophe-le-Jajolet, in Orne, where she lived. After doing her Christmas shopping with a friend, the last person to see her alive, she returned home.
Lydie Logé was 29 years old when she disappeared.
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While two investigations from 1994 to 1998 then from 2004 to 2009 resulted in dismissals, the investigations were relaunched in 2018 after connections established between the DNA traces from organic compounds found in Michel Fourniret's van and the DNA of Lydie Logé's mother.
On December 22, 2020, the serial killer was indicted for kidnapping and sequestration followed by death. His ex-wife, Monique Olivier, is being prosecuted for complicity. The “Ogre of the Ardennes” died a few months later, in May 2021.
Almost thirty years after the events, in June 2023, the young woman's sisters launched a call for witnesses on RTL to try to obtain information on this disappearance.
