“As for where the body of Lydie Logé may be located, we do not have the location as such (…) but Ms. Olivier gave details,” added Me Delgenes. “Given the location described, I think we can find the victim’s body.”
Monique Olivier admits her involvement in the disappearance of Lydie Logé, a young woman of 29 years old
“This morning is the third day of travel here in Orne to try to find the body of Lydie Logé and the objective of this morning was to put in the reports (…) all the statements of Monique Olivier and the results of the investigations which had been carried out so far”, explained Me Delgenes.
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).
Monique Olivier has, according to her lawyer, “a fairly precise memory” of what happened more than 30 years ago.
“She was very voluntary, in any case she answered all the questions, the sincerity was there,” added Me Delgenes, about her client, sentenced twice, in 2008 and in 2023, to life imprisonment in particular for complicity in a total of seven murders of young girls, including that of Estelle Mouzin.
Lydie Logé, mother of a seven-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. .
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-“The name of Fourniret”
While two investigations from 1994 to 1998 then from 2004 to 2009 resulted in dismissals, the investigations were relaunched in 2018 after connections were made between the DNA traces from organic compounds found in Michel Fourniret’s van and the DNA of Lydie Logé’s mother.
In January 2021, Monique Olivier was indicted for complicity in arrest, kidnapping, detention or arbitrary confinement in this investigation.
Her ex-husband, nicknamed The Ogre of the Ardennes, had been indicted for kidnapping and sequestration followed by death. He died a few months later, in May 2021.
Michel Fourniret was sentenced in 2008 to life imprisonment, notably for seven murders of young girls committed between 1987 and 2001. In 2018, he was again sentenced to life imprisonment for the assassination of Farida Hammiche.
According to Michel Lerat, the mayor of Boischampré, of which Saint-Christophe-le-Jajolet has become a delegated municipality, Lydie Logé and her family had been living in their house for “a few months” then the mother had disappeared.
He had worked with the young woman, who had asked him for a “three or four week” secretarial internship within the community of communes. Mr. Lerat described Lydie Logé as “really serious”, punctual and “completely pleasant”.
“When Fourniret’s name appeared, people became aware of what must have happened,” the elected official told AFP.
