Mont-Saint-Sulpice Jane Doe was a woman whose nude body was found in a ditch in Mont-Saint-Sulpice, France. In 2020, it was announced that she is suspected to have been a victim of serial killer Michel Fourniret and that her body would be exhumed for DNA testing.
Case[]
On October 5th, 1997, a resident of Mont-Saint-Sulpice, a town near Auxerre, France, discovered a woman's nude body lying in a ditch and covered in tree branches. A brief investigation was conducted and the decedent was buried under a gravestone marked as "X". Over 20 years later, in 2020, Sabine Kheris, a magistrate overseeing the case of serial killer and rapist Michel Fourniret, ordered that several bodies in the Yonne area be exhumed to test if they may have been killed by Fourniert due to a break in the case in the form of a mattress Fourniert once owned.
Between 1987 and 2003, Fourniret, otherwise known as the "Ogre of the Ardennes", would rape and murder an estimated 12 people in France and Belgium with occasional help from his ex-wife. The couple was arrested in 2003 after the attempted kidnapping of a young girl in Ciney, Belgium, and were linked to 9 of the estimated 12 deaths. They both were convicted for 8 of the 9 confirmed murders with Fourniret confessing to 3 more during the time he spent in prison. Fourniret would die due to respiratory complications on May 10th, 2021, leaving authorities to contact his ex-wife for information about the possible additional murders he committed and the missing bodies of deaths he confessed to.
Characteristics[]
- Brown hair.
Sources[]
- Michel Fourniret on Wikipedia
- La Voix du Nord (French)
- Midi Libre (French)
- Elle (French)
- Le Dauphiné (French)
- RTBF (French)