“Regret everything I did”: ex-wife of serial killer Fourniret gets another life sentence | Abroad

Olivier was previously sentenced to life in prison in 2008 for her complicity in five other murders and a gang rape by Fourniret. During this trial, she confirmed that Fourniret often traveled to Auxerre in 1987 and 1988 to find prey to kidnap and rape.

“Sometimes he would be away alone for a whole day, on foot or by car,” she said. “At other times I accompanied him and served purely as bait. For example, when I was pregnant, he convinced the girls that we needed a certain medicine.”

Fourniret also lured Domèce into a trap in 1988. “I don’t remember exactly where we picked her up. He tried to gain her trust, together we drove to a deserted place. Yes, I knew what awaited her. Fourniret did not want any living witnesses.”

Olivier described himself as a passive and obedient accomplice. “I did everything Fourniret wanted. On a dirt road he asked me to get out and take a walk. I wasn’t allowed to see what he did to her.”

After a while Fourniret came to pick up his wife. “He said he had strangled her, her body was in the suitcase. That’s how we drove home. In the evening he left on his own. I never knew what he did with her body. If there had been a victim, I was never allowed to talk about it again.” Domèce’s remains have still not been found to this day.

Things were different with the murder of British Parrish in 1990. Olivier then remained in the car, while Fourniret beat the victim unconscious and raped him in the backseat. “I heard her shout a little, but I didn’t dare intervene out of fear. I was a coward, yes. I was never anything other than the dog that had to obey,” he said.

When a lawyer showed her the photos of Parrish’s swollen face, she struggled emotionally. “Because of me she is no longer here. That is unforgivable,” he said. After a long silence, she pushed the confrontational memories in front of her with a trembling hand.

Parrish’s body was spotted naked in the Yonne River a day after her disappearance. New elements – such as the place where Domèce was dumped – have not yet come to light. “I no longer manage to remember all the details, I confuse different things. Why would I remain silent if I knew what he had done to her? Out of malice? Oh no.”

In her final words, Olivier asked forgiveness from the families of the victims. “I regret everything I did,” he said. The court of assizes deliberated for more than ten hours to reach this verdict.

Fourniret was sentenced to life in prison in 2008, even though all the facts were not yet known. Just before his death in 2021, he confessed that he had also killed Domèce, Parrish and Mouzin. That confession now led to a new trial for Olivier. The ‘monster of the Ardennes’ has at least eleven murders on his conscience.