Michel Fourniret is hospitalized in intensive care at Henri-Mondor hospital in Créteil (Val-de-Marne), franceinfo learned this Friday from concordant sources. The 78-year-old serial killer has been admitted with heart problems. He was found on the floor of his cell in Fresnes prison on Friday morning. He also has Alzheimer’s disease.
Michel Fourniret was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2008 for the murders of seven young women or teenage girls between 1987 and 2001, and confessed in 2018 to having killed two other young women in the Yonne. He was indicted in November 2019 for the death of Estelle Mouzin, whom he confessed to having killed.
Also according to franceinfo, Michel Fourniret gave a precise place where he says he buried the body of Estelle Mouzin, during excavations in the Ardennes at the end of October. This is a “place that makes sense and that is corroborated by a testimony“Says a source close to the investigation. Judge Sabine Khéris, in charge of the investigations, has planned to go to this place on December 7.
For five days, the examining magistrate tried to revive the memories of the serial killer through a scenario to find the body of Estelle, who disappeared at the age of nine in January 2003 in Guermantes (Seine et Marne) and that he admitted to having killed.
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