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.
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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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Joanna "Jo" Parrish (30 July 1969 – 17 May 1990) was a 20-year-old language student from Newnham on Severn, Gloucestershire, England, who was murdered in the Burgundy region of France while working at a local school as part of her degree course in 1990.
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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.