Another cold case about to be resolved? Monique Olivier, ex-wife of Michel Fourniret, confessed to her involvement in the disappearance in Orne in December 1993 of Lydie Logé, a 29-year-old young woman whom the serial killer, who died in 2021, is suspected of having killed , the family’s lawyer said this Monday, January 20, confirming information from RTL.
The ex-wife of the “Ogre des Ardennes”, indicted since January 2021 for complicity in the investigation concerning this disappearance, “acknowledged that she was on the scene, which is a form of confession for me”specified Me Corinne Herrmann. Lydie Logé’s body was never found.
According to the Parisian, Monique Olivier, 78, must be taken this week from Fleury-Mérogis prison, where she is serving two prison sentences, in order to be taken to Orne for research which should last “at least three days”. Several sites were listed by judge Sabine Khéris, in charge of the case.
Confessions “in several stages”
These confessions took place “in several stages” before the investigating judge of the serial and unsolved crimes center of Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine), detailed Me Herrmann, without giving further details on the content of Monique Olivier’s remarks. According to RTL, the latter admitted that the couple had kidnapped the young woman and that Michel Fourniret had tried to rape Lydie Logé before strangling her. The serial killer’s ex-wife confirmed the murder and her participation in hiding the body, again according to RTL.
-Lydie Logé, mother of a 7-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. While two investigations from 1994 to 1998 then from 2004 to 2009 had 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 in this case for kidnapping and forcible confinement 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. The family is now waiting for Monique Olivier “that it provides more details and allows Lydie’s body to be located”concludes Me Corinne Herrmann. Monique Olivier’s lawyer, Me Richard Delgenes, did not react immediately.
