A self-confessed serial killer whose wife helped him select young girl victims goes on trial tomorrow for the rape and murder of seven of them.

Belgium is expected to extradite the wife of confessed serial killer Michel Fourniret to France today, where she is wanted for her role in the suspected killings of 19 people who police believe were murdered by her husband.

The wife of confessed serial killer Michel Fourniret has alleged that her husband killed six more young women, bringing the total number of murders police are investigating to 19.

The Fourniret case has sparked calls to bring down the police and legal barriers between EU countries, says Ann Cahill.

French police began digging for clues today in the garden of a former home of a confessed serial killer who claimed last week to have murdered nine people and buried several of the bodies.

A confessed serial killer is willing to cooperate with Belgian and French investigators to find more bodies of his victims.

A FRENCH avowed serial killer has led police to the bodies of a 12-year-old girl and 22-year-old woman he admitted having killed and buried on the grounds of his former home 15 years earlier, prosecutors said.

HOT on the heels of a paedophile murder trial that revived ugly memories for Belgium, a French forestry worker has confessed to the murder of six girls over a 14-year period and has been accused of killing several other people.