FOURNIRET, MICHEL & MONIQUE OLIVIER: Ogre of the Ardennes TV - The Telegraph online - Monique Olivier: Accessory to Evil 2023
For forty years he pursued his prey. With each crime he ratcheted up the violence. His wife helped to lure his victims. Murder was his ultimate thrill. He relentlessly stalked young girls disposing of their bodies in Belgium and France. Ogre of the Ardennes, Crime Channel
Gaston finally left the family in 1954. Michel adored his mother, but their relationship may have been abnormally close. ibid.
He was sentenced to seven years in prison ... The years in prison did not rehabilitate Fourniret. ibid.
Over the past forty years he’d attacked and raped dozens of young girls. And he’d kidnapped and murdered at least seven women. ibid.
Monique [wife] had been an accomplice to most of Forniret’s crimes. ibid.
Police are still investigating the unsolved murders of Joanna Parrish and Farida Hammiche. Fourniret is suspected in the disappearances of at least nine other women. ibid.
His wife was sentenced to 28 years with no possibility of parole for helping to lure his victims.
In one of the most disturbing trials France has witnessed in recent years, prosecutors described Fourniret, 66, and Monique Olivier, 59, as ‘a devil with two faces’ and ‘inhuman and cruel criminals, the likes of which our country could have never imagined.’
Their killing spree lasted from 1987 to 2001, in which seven girls and young women between 12 and 22 were shot, strangled or stabbed to death with a screwdriver.
The pair face another trial – possibly later this year – as police investigate their alleged role in the rape and murder of three other women, including the British teaching assistant, Joanna Parrish, killed near Auxerre in 1990.
The Leeds University student’s naked body was found floating in a river. She had been raped and strangled after answering an advert placed in a newspaper by a man seeking English lessons for his son. The Telegraph online article Henry Samuel 28th May 2008, ‘Michel Fourniret jailed for life over Ardennes sex murders’
It’s a painful case and a difficult wait for one family. Monique Olivier: Accessory to Evil I: The Monster’s Wife, news, Netflix 2023
My daughter didn’t come home. She disappeared off the face of the earth. ibid. mother
Experts say he is the most prolific serial killer in France. ibid. news
It wasn’t the law that stopped him. It was a little girl. ibid. man
She had long black hair and her face was quite apathetic. ibid.
We had no reason to suspect her of anything. ibid. rozzer
Monique Olivier finally unburdened herself. ibid. news
She confessed to some absolute terrible things she did. ibid. man
The Fournirets are said to have raped and killed young girls in Belgium and France in an extremely sadistic manner. Monique Olivier: Accessory to Evil II: The Monster’s Wife II: Deal With the Devil, news
FOX, PAUL: The Prosecutors TV -
The Fox case: ‘He leaves a message saying, Warning, there are dead bodies inside’ … ‘This is a hammer [and knife] attack’ … ‘She’s 83’ … The Prosecutors s1e2: The Proof, BBC 2016
Paul Fox pleads guilty to the murder of his mother. The judge describes it as a sustained and vicious attack that deprived her of her last years in the world. ibid.
FOY, JAMES & MICHAEL: The Social Media Murders: The Murder of Mikey Rainsford TV - Killer at the Crime Scene TV -
7th April 2020 Litherland, Merseyside: A murder inquiry’s underway after a 20-year-old man was shot dead on Mersey. Police were called to a house in Litherland shortly after 11 last night … The Social Media Murders: The Murder of Mikey Rainsford s2e4, TV news, ITV 2024
‘Pip and Worm: we needed to know who they were.’ ibid. rozzer
‘They had left on this electric motorbike.’ ibid.
‘A crucial piece of evidence – that Snapchat information.’ ibid.
‘Michael [Rainsford] had been standing in the kitchen between the sink and the stove. The shooter was four metres from the window.’ Killer at the Crime Scene s3e8, forensics chap, Netflix 2023
They [rozzers] are given the same two pseudonyms again and again: Pip and Worm. ibid.
FRANK, ANTOINETTE: The Killer Within: Antoinette Frank: The Cop Killer TV -
In 2021 the only woman on Death Row in Louisiana is an ex police officer convicted of a triple homicide. What made an officer of the law turn murderer? The Killer Within: Antoinette Frank: The Killer Cop, Sky Crime 2021
FRANKLIN, BERTHA: see COOKE, SAM
FRANKLIN, GLORIA & GRETCHEN GRAHAM: Evil Twins TV -
Twin sisters Gretchen and Gloria grew up in a hostile home. Through adversity they formed an unbreakable bond. Until life send them in different directions. But an unexpected pregnancy would bring Gloria and Gretchen together again. And the twins’ reunion would ignite a firestorm. Evil Twins: Sacrificial Lamb s2e3, Crime & Investigation 2016
Sean’s [son] life was one of extremes ... It would only take the twins seconds to reach the locked door and free Sean ... ibid.
FRANKLIN, JOSEPH PAUL: Crazy, Not Insane TV - fbi online -
Examining Mr Franklin was as close as I would ever come to examining Hitler. Alex Gibney, ‘Crazy, Not Insane’, Dr Dorothy Otnow Lewis, psychiatrist, Sky Documentaries 2021
It was a deadly mix: a mentally troubled man from an abusive, broken home turned radical racist and then serial killer.
His name was Joseph Paul Franklin, and he went on a horrific killing spree beginning in 1977 at the age of 27. Before his reign of murder ended in 1980, he took the lives of at least 15 men, women, and children in some 11 states. He also admitted shooting civil rights leader Vernon Jordan and paralyzing pornography publisher Larry Flynt.
Franklin – born James Clayton Vaughn junior before changing his name to reflect his admiration for Benjamin Franklin and Nazi Joseph Goebbels – was drawn to white supremacist ideologies as a teen. Dropping out of high school following a severe eye injury, he got married, became an abusive husband, and began racking up minor legal violations.
As his association with white supremacist groups grew, Franklin became increasingly confrontational toward minorities. By the mid-1970s, he had rejected even the most radical hate groups because he didn’t think they took their hatred far enough. He wanted to attack, not just sit around complaining. His self-directed mission, he later suggested, was to incite his fellow supremacists to action.
The summer of 1976 marked a turning point. On Labor Day weekend in Atlanta, Franklin followed an interracial couple and sprayed them with mace. This was his first known physical attack … it escalated from there. On July 29 1977 he bombed a Tennessee synagogue; a few days later in Wisconsin, he killed two men – one black and one white – after encountering them in a parking lot.
For the next three years, Franklin drifted across the country, robbing banks (with some proficiency, according to law enforcement investigators) and using a sniper rifle to target his victims. He killed possibly more than 20 people and seriously injured six more.
By 1980, the FBI and its partners were closing in on Franklin. The often vast miles and lack of evidentiary connections between his crimes – as well as his skill at living the life of an anonymous drifter – kept Franklin under the radar for a time. This changed in September 1980, when an observant police officer in Kentucky noticed a gun in the back of a car Franklin was driving. A records check showed an outstanding warrant, and Franklin was brought in for questioning. He escaped while being detained, but the Bureau was on his trail.
Evidence from the car suggested multiple connections to the racially motivated sniper attacks across the country. The Bureau’s behavioral analysts contributed their insights, and the FBI shared its growing knowledge of Franklin’s characteristics and tactics with law enforcement and the public. Two details were crucial – Franklin’s racist tattoos and his reliance on blood bank donations for cash while between bank robberies.
Within weeks, a blood-bank operator in Florida contacted the Bureau about a man matching Franklin’s description. FBI agents immediately tracked him to Lakeland, Florida and arrested him on October 28 1980.
Franklin faced legal action across the US for the next two decades, eventually being convicted of multiple murders, attacks, and other crimes at both the state and federal levels. He was sentenced to life in prison and received the death penalty in several states. On November 11, 2013 he was executed in Missouri for the 1977 murder of a man standing in front of a synagogue in St Louis. fbi online: Serial Killers article 2014
FRANKLIN, LONNIE DAVID: Nick Broomfield TV – People Magazine Investigates TV - The Face of Evil TV - World’s Most Evil Killers TV - True Crime Recaps 2022 -
Everyone knew Lonnie. He was a good neighbour. Someone to turn to for help. Nick Broomfield, Tales of the Grim Sleeper, 2014
Then on July 7th 2010 police raided Lonnie’s house and arrested him. Lonnie Franklin is charged with ten counts of murder and one case of attempted murder … He is also a suspect in multiple other murders. It is thought Lonnie might have killed more than a hundred women over a twenty-five year period. ibid.
The pictures were released by the LAPD and found at Lonnie Franklin’s home. Many of the women are homeless. ibid.
Everyone we met seemed to like him. ibid.
‘Imagine if they would have treated Victim No 3 as if she was a student over at UCLA with blonde hair and blue eyes. How many other people might still be living?’ ibid. Nana Gyamfi, Black Coalition Fighting Back Serial Murders
Didn’t even make it into the local news. ibid.
‘Two decades of exhaustive detective work.’ ibid. rozzers’ and governor’s press conference
When Lonnie Franklin was finally arrested it was by accident. ibid.