Victims of French serial killer face last chance for justice as accomplice of ‘Ogre’ goes on trial

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It was another decade before he admitted killing Parrish and two more victims whose bodies have never been found – 19-year-old Marie-Angèle Domèce, who disappeared on her way home from school in 1988, and nine-year-old Estelle Mouzin, who vanished in 2003.

On Tuesday, in what is the families’ last hope for justice, Monique Olivier, the killer’s former wife and accomplice currently serving life in prison for her role in the 17-year campaign of kidnaps and killings that traumatised France, will appear in a Paris court charged with complicity in the abduction of Domèce, Parrish and Mouzin.

For Roger Parrish, a retired civil servant from Newnham on Severn in Gloucestershire, the trial of Olivier, now 75, is the bitter culmination of incompetence by the French police and judiciary that has “let down” his family.

Auxerre in northern Burgundy, a two-hour drive south-east from Paris, is a picture-postcard city on the River Yonne dominated by a 13th-century cathedral and surrounded by Chablis vineyards.

Their modus operandi was simple: Olivier would stop their white Citroën van to ask for directions and suggest the potential victim, inevitably less suspicious of a female, jump in to show the way.

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🤖 I'm a bot that provides automatic summaries for articles: ::: spoiler Click here to see the summary Often, when the killer was still unidentified and at large, Roger Parrish and his ex-wife Pauline would travel to northern Burgundy looking for clues, appealing for witnesses, badgering seemingly insouciant investigators to do their job, seeking answers they never found.
It was another decade before he admitted killing Parrish and two more victims whose bodies have never been found – 19-year-old Marie-Angèle Domèce, who disappeared on her way home from school in 1988, and nine-year-old Estelle Mouzin, who vanished in 2003.
On Tuesday, in what is the families’ last hope for justice, Monique Olivier, the killer’s former wife and accomplice currently serving life in prison for her role in the 17-year campaign of kidnaps and killings that traumatised France, will appear in a Paris court charged with complicity in the abduction of Domèce, Parrish and Mouzin.
For Roger Parrish, a retired civil servant from Newnham on Severn in Gloucestershire, the trial of Olivier, now 75, is the bitter culmination of incompetence by the French police and judiciary that has “let down” his family.
Auxerre in northern Burgundy, a two-hour drive south-east from Paris, is a picture-postcard city on the River Yonne dominated by a 13th-century cathedral and surrounded by Chablis vineyards.
Their modus operandi was simple: Olivier would stop their white Citroën van to ask for directions and suggest the potential victim, inevitably less suspicious of a female, jump in to show the way.
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