New excavations were carried out on Tuesday January 24, 2023 in Yonne to try to find the body of Marie-Angèle Domece, who disappeared on July 8, 1988 at the age of 19. Michel Fourniret had confessed to having killed her.
She will join the long list of unsolved cases. After new research carried out in Yonne, Tuesday January 24, 2023, in an attempt to find the body of Marie-Angèle Domecedisappeared on July 8, 1988 at the age of 19, the next day, the Nanterre prosecutor’s office, in charge of the “cold cases” division of unsolved cases, assured that nothing was found. The excavations which were completed on Tuesday evening “are finished and have given nothing“, said the prosecution. Since the day of the disappearance of the young woman with a mental disability, the investigators have never managed to find her body. “This is a final check to ensure that everything has been done to find the body of Marie-Angèle“, had declared Tuesday the lawyer of the family, Me Didier Seban.
The main suspect in this case was Michel Fourniret. The serial killer who died in May 2021, had admitted, before the examining magistrate Sabine Kheris, in February 2018, to have killed the murders of Marie-Angèle Domece in 1988 and Joanna Parrish in 1990, in Yonne. According to a person close to the file cited by Republican Yonnethe serial killer said he hid the body in a “damp place“These excavations were the last hope, still according to the lawyer for the family of the disappeared, before the dismissal of Monique Olivier before the Paris Assize Court.
Monique Olivier soon to be heard in the file concerning Marie-Angèle Domece
Indeed, the ex-wife of Michel Fourniret should be tried before the end of the year 2023 and will thus have to answer for his involvement in three cases, including that of Marie-Angèle Domece. The other two concern that of Estelle Mouzin, who disappeared in 2003 in Seine-et-Marne, and that of Joanna Parrish, the young Briton found dead in 1990 in Yonne.