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"Devil with Two Faces" Killer, Michel Fourniret, and His Wife Sentenced to Life

By David Lohr

On Wednesday, May 28, 2008, Michel Fourniret, 66, also known as "the Ogre of the Ardennes," who, along with his wife and accomplice, Monique Olivier, 59, were sentenced to life in prison by a French criminal court for carrying out a horrific series of sex murders between 1987 and 2001, ending a two-month trial in Charleville-Mezieres in northeastern France.  Together the couple was described in court as the "devil with two faces" for the rapes and murders of seven girls and women in Fourniret's demented and perverted quest for virgins as victims. According to details revealed at Fourniret's and Olivier's trial, Fourniret harbored a sick and unnatural lust for virgins and was actually in prison serving a sentence for sexual assault when he and Olivier made a pact with each other in which he would kill Olivier's former husband if she assisted him in finding virgins that he could victimize...continue to full post

Full post as published by Bizarre Crimes of the Week on May 29, 2008 (boomark / email).