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8 unusual facts about Michel Fourniret


Michel Fourniret

He was named as a suspect in connection with the murder of 21-year-old Englishwoman Joanna Parrish, whose body was found in an Auxerre river on 17 May 1990.

She disappeared in Auxerre, on 11 December 1987 on her way home from school.

New evidence showed that Fourniret was taking a holiday in Marseille at the same time and place Rambla was murdered.

She disappeared in 1988 in Mourmelon, and her body was later found in the nearby woods.

She disappeared in 1989 from the railway station of Charleville-Mézières, and her body was recovered from the estate of Fourniret with his assistance.

Fourniret buried at least two of his victims at his Sautou chateau near Donchery in the French Ardennes in the late 1980s.

Murder of Joanna Parrish

A key suspect in the investigation was Michel Fourniret, convicted in 2008 of the murders of seven girls and young women in France and Belgium between 1987 and 2001 – crimes that earned him the nickname "The Beast of Ardennes" – and he was declared an official suspect.

A major suspect in the case was Michel Fourniret, a convicted serial killer known as "The Beast of Ardennes", who detectives suspected because the murder had similarities to crimes he was convicted of in 2008.



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