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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.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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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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