Disappearance of Estelle Mouzin: new excavations begin Monday – franceinfo

This is the seventh and final research campaign. A new series of searches to find the body of Estelle Mouzin, alleged victim in 2003 of serial killer Michel Fourniret, is to be held on Monday, August 30 in the Ardennes. These excavations are scheduled to last a week, in the presence of Monique Olivier, the ex-wife of the killer, who died on May 10, 2021 at the age of 79.

This research must take place in a communal wood of Issancourt-et-Rumel, which has already been explored, in particular in June and April by the investigators and the examining magistrate Sabine Kheris, from “indications” delivered by Monique Olivier. Research has so far been unsuccessful.

On April 1, Monique Olivier had for the first time recognized a role in the sequestration of Estelle Mouzin, kidnapped at the age of 9, on January 9, 2003, in Guermantes (Seine-et-Marne). She had specified that she had accompanied Michel Fourniret to the edge of the wood of Issancourt-et-Rumel to let him go and bury the girl’s body.

The village of Issancourt-et-Rumel is located some 4 km from Ville-sur-Lumes, where, still according to Monique Olivier, Michel Fourniret kidnapped, raped and killed Estelle, in a house belonging to his sister. Sentenced to life imprisonment for the murders of seven young women between 1987 and 2001, Michel Fourniret finally confessed in March 2020 his responsibility in the disappearance of Estelle Mouzin.