Serial killer leads police to bodies of woman and 12-year-old girl

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.

The two are among nine people, including eight women and girls, that Michel Fourniret has confessed to having killed between 1987 and 2001.

“We have found the second body, and thus 15 years of investigation have just come to their conclusion,” prosecutor Yves Charpenel announced on the site of the chateau, in the Ardennes forest region bordering Belgium and France. “It is with quite some emotion that I announce the discovery of (the remains of) Elisabeth Brichet,” a 12-year-old Belgian girl whom Michel Fourniret has admitted to killing in 1989, said another prosecutor, Cedric Visart de Bocarme.