Bus driver turned notorious serial killer dies, 79

Emile Louis, an ostensibly harmless bus driver who became one of the most notorious serial killers in French history, has died at the age of 79.

Louis, who was convicted in 2004 of killing seven mentally impaired young women in the 1970s, died on Sunday in a secure hospital in Nancy in eastern France, his lawyer Alain Fraitag said.

He was serving parallel life sentences for the murders and for the rape and torture of his second wife, and the sexual assault of her daughter.